'Mothers' is actually a surprisingly difficult theme when looking for musical numbers. I can find a dozen about fathers, but films very rarely focus on mothers. Which is odd, what with mothers being such a major thing in the real world. Literally everyone had a mother at one point and everyone must have an opinion on theirs, so why are they considered so much less interesting than fathers by Hollywood? Well, I already know the answer to that one.
I can think of one musical though in which a character is absolutely obsessed with his mother. Too obsessed, in fact.
Blue Skies from The Jazz Singer
Performed by Al Jolson
Written by Irving Berlin
I still think it's a big cheat that this is referred to as the first 'talkie'. More like the most noisy silent movie.
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