The Mikado (1939)

In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he must successfully perform before the appearance of the Mikado in a month's time, Ko-Ko finds a suitable victim in Nanki-Poo, who is distraught over his unrequited love for the maiden Yum-Yum. Nanki-Poo agrees to sacrifice his life if he is allowed to spend his remaining days with Yum-Yum, who is betrothed to Ko-Ko.

The movie The Mikado, released in 1939, features 18 songs from artists like chorus, Kenny Baker, Performed by Kenny Baker and Male Chorus and Gregory Stroud and Male Chorus. What is your favorite song from The Mikado?

Songs from The Mikado

If You Wonder Who We Are (1885)

chorus

The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze (1885)

Kenny Baker

A Wand'ring Minstrel I (1885)

Performed by Kenny Baker and Male Chorus

Our Great Mikado (1885)

Gregory Stroud and Male Chorus

Behold the Lord High Executioner (1885)

Martyn Green and Male Chorus

Three Little Maids from School Are We (1885)

Jean Colin , Kathleen Naylor , Elizabeth Paynter and Female Chorus

Were You Not to Ko-Ko Plighted (1885)

Jean Colin and Kenny Baker

I Am So Proud (1885)

Sydney Granville , Martyn Green and Gregory Stroud

The Threatened Cloud Has Passed Away (1885)

Jean Colin and Kenny Baker

Your Revels Cease! (1885)

Constance Willis

For He's Going to Marry Yum-Yum (1885)

Elizabeth Paynter

Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day (1885)

Jean Colin , Elizabeth Paynter , Kenny Baker and Gregory Stroud

Here's a How-de-do (1885)

Jean Colin , Kenny Baker and Martyn Green

From Every Kind of Man Obedience I Expect (1885)

John Barclay , Constance Willis and Chorus

A More Humane Mikado (1885)

John Barclay and chorus

The Criminal Cried as He Dropped Him Down (1885)

Martyn Green , Elizabeth Paynter , Sydney Granville and Chorus

The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring (1885)

Kenny Baker , Martyn Green , Jean Colin , Elizabeth Paynter and Sydney Granville

Willow, Tit-willow (On a Tree By a River) (1885)

Martyn Green