The first of Dennis Potter's television dramas to be shown  in the United States was "Pennies From Heaven." Few will have forgotten where they were, and with whom they were watching, that first episode, and the first song in that episode, when Arthur (played by Bob Hoskins), hapless and hopeless but full of hopeful schemes and dreams, gets out of bed, where his uncomprehending wife (played by Gemma Craven) stonily remains, goes over to the window, pulls the curtain, looks out, and suddenly starts to sing a song.

Here is that song:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=R_AQvsPB9n8&feature=related