Welcome dear reader to a new Banzai Retro Club crossover collaboration. This month we are looking at our top 5 retro soundtrack songs. I am lucky enough to provide 10 this month as I had an entirely different set of picks on our podcast and you will just need to check that out to hear about those choices.
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971)
Pure Imagination sung by Gene Wilder
For a young kid of the 1970s this song signals when this movie actually got really good. Charlie had a tough life and the movie sets that up really well, but the movie wasn't fun until Gene Wilder, playing Mr. Willy Wonka appears on screen. The movie gets fun and goofy from that point on. "Pure Imagination" is sung by Gene Wilder as the kids and their guardians explore the first actual candy room in which everything is edible. "If you want to view paradise. Simply look around and view it." Sage advice Mr. Wonka and thank you for the scrumdillyumptious bars of chocolate.