One of the many classic scenes in Singin’ in the Rain (1952), the brilliant Donald O’Connor performs Make ‘Em Laugh.

Follow it up with these two: Gene Kelly singin’ and dancin’ in the rain, and Life Has Its Funny Little Ups And Downs, featuring O’Connor skate-dancing.

Thanks, Rae.

Read, click, watch, learn, sing along! It’s Schoolhouse Rock's Verb: That’s What’s Happening (1974). 

Follow this up by unpacking your adjectives.

Multimedia artist Andy Fillebrown creates visualizations of classical, public domain musical compositions. His YouTube channel, audiosculptures, is filled with 100+ spellbinding journeys through a tunnel of glowing, pulsing notes.

Bonus: some really lovely music. Above, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee. 

Related: Flight of the Bumblebee played on piano, more classical music vids, or these three favorites: Geometry of Circles, Bach’s Minuet in G, and Oskar Fischinger’s Optical Poem.

via Doobybrain.

Kermit the Frog and Steve Martin are in a heated rivalry as they perform Dueling Banjos. (And if/when this video link stops working, you can find the official Funny or Die vid here.)

We always like seeing our favorite people (and animals) playing instruments. There are more instruments, and some Sesame Street clips, in the archives.

via AV Club.

Fred Astaire plays (and dances to) Nice Work If You Can Get It in an iconic scene from 1937’s A Damsel in Distress. This was shot in one continuous take.

There are more classics and dancing in the archives.

Thanks, Laura & Thuy.