Dick Van Dyke’s Top 10 Music Moments as He Turns 100

Happy birthday to Dick Van Dyke, who turns 100 on Saturday (Dec. 13).

Van Dyke is best-known as the star of The Dick Van Dyke Show, the 1961-66 sitcom that forever raised the bar for situation comedy, proving that a sitcom could be smart, sophisticated and sexy. But Van Dyke has also had many notable music moments throughout his long career (including some on that very show).

We saw evidence of that in 2021, when Van Dyke received the Kennedy Center Honors. Julie Andrews, his co-star in Mary Poppins; Chita Rivera, his co-star in Bye Bye Birdie; and Lin-Manuel Miranda, his co-star in Mary Poppins Returns, paid tribute to him — as did Steve Martin, a co-writer of his 1975 TV pilot, Van Dyke and Company, and Bryan Cranston. Laura Osnes sang “Jolly Holiday” and Derek Hough performed “Step in Time,” both from Mary Poppins. Hough and Osnes teamed on “Put on a Happy Face” from Bye Bye Birdie. Aaron Tveit, joined by Pentatonix, sang “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” from the movie of the same name.

Van Dyke has won four Primetime Emmy Awards, a Daytime Emmy, a Tony and a Grammy. In 1993, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1998, he was honored by the Walt Disney Company with their Disney Legends award. In 2013, he received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.

In 1995, he was inducted into the TV Academy Hall of Fame in the same class as Betty White (who died just before her 100th birthday; it seems there’s something to be said for bringing laughter and joy in people’s lives).

Here are Van Dyke’s top 10 music moments: