50 Greatest Musical Numbers In Film History

16. Out Here On My Own - Fame

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4mkRwkQRoQ Coco, playing hauntingly by Irene Cara, doesn't exactly have an easy road in Fame. There's the memorable scene in which a shady man convinces her that he's a director, lures her up to his apartment for an "audition", and ends up manipulating her into taking pornographic photos. So it's only right that she would be the one to sing Out Here on My Own, which is basically the anthem for feeling isolated and alone. Cara's vocals are pristine, and she pours everything she has into the performance. So it's sort of funny that she sings the song, is told by a friend how good it is, but totally waves the praise away, calling it, "sentimental sh--". Just goes to show, everyone's always their own toughest critic.

15. I Believe in You - How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLEXE3oT3KA Nowadays, when people think of Robert Morse, his performance as Bert Cooper on Mad Men is usually the first thing that came to mind. But that's because they probably weren't alive for his amazing performance as J. Pierpont Finch in the criminally underrated How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, a satirical look at 1960s corporate America that deserves a lot more credit that it gets. In this scene, he's trying to psych himself up for a big meeting, and in the process becomes the only lead character in a movie musical narcissistic enough to sing an entire love song into a mirror to himself.