To be fair this is musical theater which tends to sound different from whatever's playing on the radio and pretty much always has been at least somewhat different. Since musicals don't get as famous as often now we don't hear songs like this very often

Gage Stermensky This is my favorite of their work along with State Fair and the original Cinderella

Much as I love Porgy and Bess, I have to say that Oklahoma is the best and most authentic American Folk Opera.

When I first heard this I was ten years old. This is when I fell in love with musicals!!

Bull Honky!!! It’s garbage and you know it!

it is a snapshot of everything that is GREAT about REAL America and REAL Americans

I'm at work and it just put a huge smile on my face

Amen

LPD15ponce I’ve also seen him in those two movies he did with Doris Day

Miss this kind of music. Beautiful.

Well welcome!

I could swear than in one interview the queen said her absolute favorite song was Cop Killer.

@@davejones5747 he said film not song

Rick Astley yes, film, and a bloody brilliant film that I loved watching with my mum, Calamity Jane and the rest that I watched with my own children who are are still in there 20’s but still love those films.

God save the Queen!

Hhahah my music teacher like that as welll！

I can’t stop doing it myself! XD

Me tooo

Yes- it is thrilling! 🌬💨🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🏡🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌦🌧🌧

SAME

Ain't that the truth!

Yes, the harmonies are fabulous! I have a sister named Maia, a rare but beautiful name!

Perfection

I know I love it!

I didn't notice it the first many times I heard it but yes the part with the ladies singing the high harmony is amazing.

Preach!! Feel the same way even here in the Tulsa metro ...

those voices are beautiful

I am from Oklahoma and when I was in glee club back in school we would end our performances with this song!

@@terryklaus8533 THank you for the comment. I have not been even out of India. My father and his disciple were guitarists who would play all English songs like "Come September" , "Berlin melodies: "Do re Me fa " from The sound of music and this one. THey would play almost all the melodies of the sixties on their Guitars. Having listened to such music in what was once a small village in a remote corner of India and now speaking about it to someone who is from that place itself is a good feeling. I wonder if Oklahama is still full of "barley and plenty of room for the June bugs to roam". Hope to visit it one day. Thank you for the memories.

@@suresh8966 it is I live there too, just lots of tornadoes

i am glad you have happy memories of your father and his funny friend....and you are right....a good song about happy people is pleasant whatever country we are from!

@@suresh8966 Suresh, my Great Great Uncle lived in Barielly, India for more than 40 years......this was more than 100 years ago. he started a religious school there, and had many happy memories of India and the people he knew there.

Me too

me too

ME

Me

Same

Was that before or after we took it from the real natives?

I always thought our state was the most boring compared to others, bit I've realized now I'm so wrong. This is one of the best states in the US!

O. H. I. O Only. Happens In Oklahoma

​@@obi-donkenobi1703 shut up

Really? That is AWESOME!!!!

That's cool

liamations that's neat to know

Your comment probably took longer to write out than it took to look this up on the internet...

old tamil movie

fuck the queen she is a paracite living off the poor of england wales scotland

This was actually filmed in Arizona. Maybe you should cheer for the Suns!

Hell yessssss, brother you are an automatic Oklahoman now Okie pride

Lol, the reason for me being a Canadian fan of the OKC Thunder is that I'm originally from Vancouver, and grew up watching the Seattle Supersonics on TV, and just followed the team after it moved.

The very best musical in the history of everything

Thank you!

There used to be a production of this at Discoveryland. good performance

I performed this song in school 12 years ago

I'm 24 I just found this while picking at Amazon, dear jeziz

This was played on the movie twister. He was listening while driving to the tornado. Lol

I'm 35 and new this since I was probably 1 lol it's one of my mom's favorite movies.

Aww I'm so sorry

Sorry about your loss I sure your mom was smiling happy when she heard this song.

My condolences, sweetie! Hope you're doing well!

Leave it to the power of music to bring Texans and Okies together.

Thanks. even though I talk trash to Texans especially me being a big Oklahoma Fan don’t worry it’s almost like a brotherly rilvary Just to me I think of Oklahoma and Texas as frenemies.

Thanks, we love you Texans, a great state!!!!!

Well I'm a Coloradan, and as the your Northern neighbor, this song is awsome

Let me say sorry to people from Colorado for clogging up your ski slopes, we aren’t all shit at skiing, at least I’m not and my dad isn’t, we follow the law of the mountain

Marchant2 I’m a much bigger fan of stage musicals than film musicals

If you haven't graduated yet you should use that line as your high school yearbook quote. Lol!

Jackson Gray my school is doing Oklahoma... tomorrow is opening night

Really. I played that very same part at my local theater back in '07. I also sang "plenty of room to swing a rope".

I also play Fred! In a high school production, too. My first production, I'm having so much fun

My school is doing it right now

Yep Caroline me too!

It makes me want to visit too. I’ve been a fan of Rogers and Hammerstein since Brandy was Cinderella. I also love State Fair and Cinderella. But the Sound of Music movie I make a semi holiday tradition to watch.

Me

Me I still live here !

+Nathan M Me.

+Nathan M Born and raised

+Nathan M Born and raised

my kids could sing it at age 5

And Boomer Sooner

Yes.

it really is a good song

Your home will always be there!

+bunny lover My family came from Oklahoma. My grandfather was a mining engineer working for the oil companies back in the early 1900's in Oklahoma and my Father is a Oklahoma native. I am damn proud of my family heritage! Oklahoma is one of the few remaining free states left in America.

+newalm is Texas a free state? Please reply.

bunny lover I am from broken arrow oklahoma! (Close to tulsa)

R L Dahl I do tend to have my own balance of appreciation for musical works both classic and contemporary.

Nope. This is my favorite R&H musical. Seen it on stage many times. I do prefer Gordon as Billy in Carousel. In the 1980s I saw John Raitt one year in this the following year in Carousel. The best two performances ever. Made me love musicals. I still recall The Solilquey to this day,

No kidding.

Dandylion I was still stuck on the potaters and tomaters line.

Swingin' a rope put me in mind of a lynchin'... not a pretty thought!

Lmao

@@scowell Do you get triggered whenever "rope" is mentioned at all?

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the film was made in 1955

Natalee Riggins reminds me of my childhood, I've lived my whole in OK and honestly, everything considered, I wouldn't want to ever live anywhere else in any other time. This song encapsulates my love for my home state.

That is What I also think

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Thanks for clarifying! I live in Australia I didn’t know this!

Same broski

We did this musical in my Junior high school choir way back in the 60's and I was proud to do it.

SAME!!! :-}

I live in Michigan. But this song isn't just about Oklahoma. It's about America! The U.S. , that is. Thanks, Oklahoma! O. K.!

I'm an Australian, I'm in love with this. Respect to our allies.

I guess the New Jersey one didn't quite cut the mustard, huh?

John Updike New Jersey one?

The New Jersey state song.

سكسي

@@johnu1100 " Eve of Destruction"

Hello

I showed it annually in my speech and drama classes

Worldwide, huh? Did you know people outside US have their own culture?

@@somethingcreativeprobably5160Ooh someone's triggered. i didn't just say only THESE American films! I watch quite a variety of things from around the world. Even though I don't know the languages it's the Content that count

My favorite bad movie was made in Oklahoma. It's called either Party Crasher or Happy Birthday to Me, and it was filmed in East Tulsa on no budget (apparently). It's one of the best worst movies ever.

Wow. I had the same experience with this song when I was forced to learn it but even now as a middle schooler, I can appreciate this song and so can my friends. I hope I can be able to reconnect with my crew soon.

@@thewafflrman5326 amen, good luck and hope you succeed, too

@@davejones5747 lol that’s also a classic, I just looked it up, it’s goofy

Isaac the PSI Tactician it is Rodgers and Hammerstein after all

Isaac the PSI Tactician My other favorites are Grease, Memphis, Mama Mia, A Chorus Line, Motown, Newsies, and White Christmas

Did you go to Plainview? I lived in Ardmore too and remember doing exactly this. We called it Rise&Shine.

I also grew up in ardmore

Not much to do in Ardmore apparently.

Agreed one of the most beautiful state songs ever

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What an interesting piece of trivia regarding this particular scene, which I thought was such a romantic gesture between two newlyweds, not realizing it was real-life emotions between Shirley Jones and Gordon MaRrae. Their beautiful chemistry was later reunited in "Carousel".

Brilliant fact, fantastic.

For what it’s worth (I know this comment is two years old, but…) it is not entirely true. Shirley didn’t marry her first husband until 1956, and this movie was made in 1955. Gordon was married to his wife, Sheila, but Shirley was not married. Doesn’t mean the rest of the comment isn’t true-they could very well have been in love and she was upset about it all ending, just that she was not married at the time. That all being said, I have literally wondered my whole life about that little moment, because it did not look scripted and that little nod her gives her seemed like such a private moment between them, so I would not be at all shocked to learn that their unrequited love was the reason for such a moment happening in the film.

+Joey Jamison A song written on the Upper West Side of Manhattan by two Jewish guys who would probably be lynched by the hillbillies in Oklahoma. Just like the Bible thumpers would be shocked to find out that two of their favorite Christian songs (White Christmas and Easter Parade) were written by a Jewish guy from the Lower East Side of Manhattan. lol

+itsjust me The funniest part is that it's true! (actually Oscar Hammerstein was a Christian, but I think he converted. It's still great music, no matter who wrote it.)

He was raised Episcopalian. I don't think he converted, but his father was Jewish.

itsjust me Oscar Greely Clendenning Hammerstein II was an Episcopalian and he raised his kids in that religion. Richard Rodgers was an atheist. But in any case, it's pretty fucking narrow minded to just assume that everyone in Oklahoma was a raging anti-Semite dying to lynch every Jew they could get their hands on. In fact Jews have been part of Oklahoma history from the beginning of its territorial days. A number of early Jewish settlers married Native American women. Jew have been active in local and state politics, and many of the oldest oil fortunes in Oklahoma were made by Jews. They also have a long history of philanthropy in the state. Anti-Semitism is everywhere, so I don't doubt that there were Jews who weren't always welcomed with open arms, but there is not a single recorded case of a Jew being lynched in Oklahoma. Blacks, Indians & white people accused of crimes? Yes. Jews ? No.

Joey Jamison And only state song originated from a Broadway show

What's Ohio State song lol

Actually, its R-O-D-G-E-R-S.

@@Juliaflo. Yes, it’s Rodgers.