Best Original Song - 1945

"I Fall in Love Too Easily" from Anchors Aweigh sung by Frank Sinatra 


Movie Synopsis: Two sailors, one naive, the other experienced in the ways of the world, on liberty in Los Angeles, is the setting for this movie musical. 


Does it appear in the movie (i.e. other than the end credits)? Yes. 
Is it important to the plot? Frank Sinatra falls in love too fast.
Is it pleasing to the ear? B.

"Sleighride in July" from Belle of the Yukon sung by Dinah Shore 


Movie Synopsis: Set in the days of the great Canadian Gold Rush,  a "reformed" con artist-turned-dance hall owner's girlfriend tries to keep him on the straight and narrow. 


Does it appear in the movie (i.e. other than the end credits)?N/A. 
Is it important to the plot? N/A. 
Is it pleasing to the ear? N/A.

"Aren't You Glad You're You" from The Bells of St. Mary's


Movie Synopsis: At a big city Catholic school, Father O'Malley and Sister Benedict indulge in friendly rivalry, and succeed in extending the school through the gift of a building. 


Does it appear in the movie (i.e. other than the end credits)?N/A. 
Is it important to the plot? N/A. 
Is it pleasing to the ear? C.

"More and More" from Going My Way sung Bing Crosby

Movie Synopsis: A senator's daughter (who can't help singing) follows her boyfriend West in the days of the California gold rush.

Does it appear in the movie (i.e. other than the end credits)? Yes.

Is it important to the plot? Love song.

Is it pleasing to the ear? C.

"Endlessly" from Earl Carroll Vanities sung by Constance Moore

Movie Synopsis: Royalty from a small European principality come to New York City to arrange for a loan to prop up their country's troubled finances.


Does it appear in the movie (i.e. other than the end credits)? N/A.

Is it important to the plot? N/A.

Is it pleasing to the ear? N/A.

"Accentuate the Positive" from Here Come the Waves sung by Bing Crosby and Sonny Tufts

Movie Synopsis: Twin sister nightclub performers join the Navy.


Does it appear in the movie (i.e. other than the end credits)? N/A.

Is it important to the plot? N/A.

Is it pleasing to the ear? B+.

"Love Letters" from Love Letters

Movie Synopsis: During WWII, a British soldier who wrote love letters for a friend, finds himself falling in love with the woman.

Does it appear in the movie (i.e. other than the end credits)? N/A.

Is it important to the plot? N/A.

Is it pleasing to the ear? C.

"Some Sunday Morning" from San Antonio sung by Bonnie Canvin

Movie Synopsis: Tough dance hall girl working for the local villain falls for a cowboy trying to clean up the town.

Does it appear in the movie (i.e. other than the end credits)? N/A.

Is it important to the plot? N/A.

Is it pleasing to the ear? B.

"I'll Buy That Dream" from Sing Your Way Home sung by Anne Jeffreys

Movie Synopsis: A conceited war correspondent, desperate to get back to the USA from occupied Paris, reluctantly agrees to chaperone a troupe of stranded, teenaged hepcat entertainers.


Does it appear in the movie (i.e. other than the end credits)? N/A.

Is it important to the plot? N/A.

Is it pleasing to the ear? N/A. 

"It Might As Well Be Spring" from State Fair sung by Jeanne Crain


Movie Synopsis: A brother and sister fall in love with respective parties at the Iowa State Fair

Does it appear in the movie (i.e. other than the end credits)?Yes.

Is it important to the plot?Falling in love.

Is it pleasing to the ear? C.

"Linda" from The Story of G.I. Joe


Movie Synopsis: A war correspondent fights across North Africa in World War II and learns of the loneliness of command, and from the individual G.I.'s of the human capacity to survive drudgery, discomfort, and the terror of combat.

Does it appear in the movie (i.e. other than the end credits)? N/A.

Is it important to the plot? N/A.

Is it pleasing to the ear? N/A.

"Anywhere" from Tonight and Every Night sung by Martha Mears


Movie Synopsis: A theater troupe refuses to be deterred by the blitz during World War II.

Does it appear in the movie (i.e. other than the end credits)?Yes.

Is it important to the plot?Falling in love.

Is it pleasing to the ear? B.

"The Cat and the Canary" from Why Girls Leave Home sung by Pamela Blake


Movie Synopsis: A reporter's life is complicated when he saves a young woman from an attempted suicide.

Does it appear in the movie (i.e. other than the end credits)? N/A.

Is it important to the plot? N/A.

Is it pleasing to the ear? N/A.

"So in Love" from Wonder Man sung by Vera Ellen




Movie Synopsis: A boisterous nightclub entertainer is killed for witnessing a murder and returns as a ghost and summons his twin brother to solve the mystery

Does it appear in the movie (i.e. other than the end credits)? Yes.

Is it important to the plot? Nightclub act.

Is it pleasing to the ear? C.
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 So what won?
"It Might As Well Be Spring" from State Fair

What would I have voted for?
"I Fall in Love Too Easily" from Anchors Aweigh

Wow...another default.

Analysis
You would think with a staggering 14 nominations that at least one of these songs would be worth an Oscar. But out of the nine I actually heard, none of them shine. Perhaps the Academy was sick of crappy songs so they decided to narrow the competition. It's for the best. It would take forever to see all these films...let alone search for Youtube clips.