The one that keeps cropping up to introduce scenes, which I remembered before the film was even on, is I've Heard That Song Before by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne - actually a vocal (Harry & Helen) comes in after 1:15.
You Made Me Love You - Harry James on trumpet, with Helen Forrest singing (1941).
Lloyd Nolan plays some songs on the piano, one of which 'Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered' becomes part of the soundtrack.
Count Basie performs Back to the Apple and The Trot.
You Are Too Beautiful - Rogers and Hart played on the piano by Derek Smith.
Some great jazz - Roy Eldridge - If I Had You and Dave Brubeck I Remember You
And of course that great Bach F Minor, played by Yehudi Menuhin.
Also, Madam Butterfly is on the soundtrack and Manon Lescaut is shown from a live production in Turin.
Max von Sydow on TV 'But the worst are the fundamentalist preachers. Third grade con men telling the poor suckers that watch them that they speak with Jesus, and to please send in money. Money, money, money! If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.'
And Woody's dad: 'How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can opener works!'
Richard Jenkins and Fred Melamed appear fleetingly
It's superb, especially in the way that the body (the heart) keeps ignoring the rational brain, and it's proof to me that as an observer of the human condition, Woody is every bit as good as his idol Bergman, and a hell of a lot funnier.
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