Joe Gould's Secret (2000)

Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 conversations he's overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad and writes a 1942 piece about him, "Professor Seagull," bringing Gould some celebrity and an invitation to join the Greenwich Village Ravens, a poetry club he's often crashed. Gould's touchy, querulous personality and his frequent dropping in on Mitchell for hours of chat lead to a breakup, but the two Joes stay in touch until Gould's death and Mitchell's unveiling of the secret.

The movie Joe Gould's Secret, released in 2000, features 14 songs from artists like Bunny Berigan, Dinah Washington with Count Basie and His Orchestra (as Count Basie & His Orchestra), Josephine Baker and Don Byas. What is your favorite song from Joe Gould's Secret?

Songs from Joe Gould's Secret

Wearing of the Green

Bunny Berigan

Am I Asking Too Much

Dinah Washington with Count Basie and His Orchestra (as Count Basie & His Orchestra)

Sans Amour

Josephine Baker

They Say It's Wonderful

Don Byas

Tiny's Blues

Woody Herman w/Terry Gibbs

Tenor Bop

Joe Gould and His Quartet

The Nearness of You

Charlie Parker and Woody Herman and His Orchestra (as Woody Herman & His Orchestra)

Nobody Knows When You're Down

Ian Holm

Dreamer's Holiday

Perry Como

Hats Off

Geoffrey Menin and Conrad Korsch

Muskrat Ramble

Louis Armstrong

I'll Never Be the Same

Coleman Hawkins

Adeste Fideles

Marco Ribaldi

Fragments of 'Anna's Magdalen's Notebook'

J?nos Sebesty?n (as Janos Sebestyen)