MacFarlane Brings the Sound of Music to the Oscars

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Oscar night was filled with the sound of music as Seth MacFarlane entertained the crowd with a coupe of song numbers and great performances from some of the biggest stars. As the host of the 85th Academy Awards, MacFarlane greatly delivered the show's musical aspect of the ceremony.



Singing in the opening and closing acts, MacFarlane graces the stage with his vocals to a couple of show tunes alongside a few actors including Kristin Chenoweth, Daniel Radcliffe and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. MacFarlane's singing abilities does justice to his jazz filled performances since he has his very own album  under his belt of accomplishments.

During the show's segments of The Celebration of Musicals of the Last Decade, the performance started off with Catherine Zeta Jones singing "All That Jazz" from the hit movie, Chicago. Jennifer Hudson came afterwards with the song "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" from Dreamgirls. The segment ended with the whole cast of Les Miserables with two of their songs "Suddenly" and "One Day More".

As the Oscars made a tribute to 50 years of James Bond movies, the awards had pop singer Adele perform her latest hit, "SkyFall" and Dame Shirley Bassey sang "Gold Finger" during The Music of James Bond. Both singers did an impressive job singing their James Bond theme songs.

The Memoriam Segment of the Oscars filled the atmosphere with a sad tone as the music plays while they showed who had passed away during the year. Barbra Streisand came out towards the end and sang "The Way We Were" as a tribute to Marvin Hamlisch, composer and conductor to numerous movies including The Spy Who Loved Me and The Informant.

Jazz singer Norah Jones performed "Everybody Needs a Best Friend" which is on the soundtrack to MacFarlane's latest movie, Ted. Jones, who sometimes uses a piano during her performances decided to simply go solo without her instrument and sang against a music track. Even though it was a short number, Jones did a terrific job with her vocals.

Over all, the Oscars had a lot of interesting performances which kept the crowd going. It seemed like there was a lot of energy in the air within the show. On top of that, some of the song choices for the performances played a big role introducing the musicals that were nominated for the awards. All in all, the musical aspect of the Academy Awards was successful.