Sound of Music

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I remember it playing on/around Easter.

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The 10 Commandments was Easter in our area. Maybe Wizard of Oz sometimes.

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It always aired on Easter when I was a kid. It’s my mom’s favorite movie and we would watch while we were cleaning up after Easter dinner which she always hosted. I also remember the Ten Commandments at Easter, probably same time on a different channel.

However, ABC has been airing it right before Christmas for 20 years, which is how it became a Christmas movie out of nowhere. I’m actually annoyed that My Favorite Things is a Christmas song now.
https://www.tvinsider.com/964949/sound-of-music-christmas-movie/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It always aired on Easter when I was a kid. It’s my mom’s favorite movie and we would watch while we were cleaning up after Easter dinner which she always hosted. I also remember the Ten Commandments at Easter, probably same time on a different channel.

However, ABC has been airing it right before Christmas for 20 years, which is how it became a Christmas movie out of nowhere. I’m actually annoyed that My Favorite Things is a Christmas song now.
https://www.tvinsider.com/964949/sound-of-music-christmas-movie/

^^^ Me again, forgot to add that I’m 50.

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My father was Julie Andrews limo driver back in 1961 when she was in the play Camelot. He drove her tons of times. She was super nice.

On show days she often get to theater early. My father took her hotel to play and back.

Sometimes she would want to eat by theater before the play but can’t eat alone as even back then she was a pretty big star. If by herself my father would eat lunch with her. My father was like six foot 190 pounds and in normally in a black business suit.

She was so nice. One of his nicest customers. Very classy. I am happy she is still alive would love to meet her. I wonder if she remembered my dad.

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Anonymous wrote:My father was Julie Andrews limo driver back in 1961 when she was in the play Camelot. He drove her tons of times. She was super nice.

On show days she often get to theater early. My father took her hotel to play and back.

Sometimes she would want to eat by theater before the play but can’t eat alone as even back then she was a pretty big star. If by herself my father would eat lunch with her. My father was like six foot 190 pounds and in normally in a black business suit.

She was so nice. One of his nicest customers. Very classy. I am happy she is still alive would love to meet her. I wonder if she remembered my dad.

So cool!

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Anonymous wrote:I thought it always played on TV around Thanksgiving.

+1

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I love the scene when the Mother Superior calls Maria a C#nt Face.

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Anonymous wrote:It always aired on Easter when I was a kid. It’s my mom’s favorite movie and we would watch while we were cleaning up after Easter dinner which she always hosted. I also remember the Ten Commandments at Easter, probably same time on a different channel.

However, ABC has been airing it right before Christmas for 20 years, which is how it became a Christmas movie out of nowhere. I’m actually annoyed that My Favorite Things is a Christmas song now.
https://www.tvinsider.com/964949/sound-of-music-christmas-movie/

"My Favorite Things" has been included on Christmas albums since the '60s. It was released as a single from Barbra Streisand's A Christmas Album in 1967.

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Anonymous wrote:I never thought of it as a seasonal movie. I just loved it and watched it every time it came on. Now I could probably watch it any time I want and never do.

Same... I could watch Christopher Plummer any time of year. He's so devastatingly handsome in that movie. Especially the Laendler scene... sigh.

OMG. That scenic is one of the best ever.

One of the most touching scenes to me is him struggling to sing Edelweiss and her coming to join him.

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Gen X and I remember it being on tv around Christmas/New Year's.

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Per Wikipedia, "Since 2002, the film has aired on ABC on a Sunday night prior to Christmas and has been broadcast on its sister cable network, Freeform, periodically around Easter and other holidays."

It says that, from 1979 to 1999, NBC held the rights and broadcast it annually, but the entry doesn't say what time of year. I seem to recall it as something that aired around Christmas, but those memories aren't firm.

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Anonymous wrote:Per Wikipedia, "Since 2002, the film has aired on ABC on a Sunday night prior to Christmas and has been broadcast on its sister cable network, Freeform, periodically around Easter and other holidays."

It says that, from 1979 to 1999, NBC held the rights and broadcast it annually, but the entry doesn't say what time of year. I seem to recall it as something that aired around Christmas, but those memories aren't firm.

I had a vhs my mom taped from about 1988 of the movie - for years the only version I’d ever seen and it was seriously edited to fit the air time - that had holiday commercials so I’m pretty sure it was aired around Christmas back then too. It’s definitely been on around Christmas recently.

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Anonymous wrote:I honestly didn't think of this as a seasonal movie as a kid.

I still don't. It's just a good movie.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It always aired on Easter when I was a kid. It’s my mom’s favorite movie and we would watch while we were cleaning up after Easter dinner which she always hosted. I also remember the Ten Commandments at Easter, probably same time on a different channel.

However, ABC has been airing it right before Christmas for 20 years, which is how it became a Christmas movie out of nowhere. I’m actually annoyed that My Favorite Things is a Christmas song now.
https://www.tvinsider.com/964949/sound-of-music-christmas-movie/

"My Favorite Things" has been included on Christmas albums since the '60s. It was released as a single from Barbra Streisand's A Christmas Album in 1967.

But why, when it’s not a Christmas song? Argh.