Movies and signature songs

[Fearless Freep]

"Take My Breath Away" and "Danger Zone*" -> Top Gun   (* or whataver that Kenny Loggins song was)

"Footloose" -> Footloose

[John]

I'm All Right --> Caddyshack

[BoyScoutKevin]

Original: signature songs written for the movie.
"Born Free" for "Born Free"
"Georgy Girl" for "Georgy Girl"
"Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte" for "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte"
"The Longest Day" for "The Longest Day"
"Never Forsake Me" for "High Noon"
"Never on Sunday" for "Never on Sunday"
"Old Yeller" for "Old Yeller"
"Que Sera Sera" for "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (the remake)
"The Sweetheart Tree" for "The Great Race"
"The Ballad of Thunder Road" for "Thunder Road"
"The Hanging Tree" for "The Hanging Tree"
"High Hopes" for "Hole in the Head"
"Love Is a Many Splendid Thing" for "Love Is a Many Splendid Thing"
"North to Alaska" for "North to Alaska"
"Teach Your Children" for Melody"

Unoriginal: songs previously written, but used as a signature song for a movie.
"The Ballad of the Green Berets" for "The Green Berets"
Big Bad John" for "Big Bad John"
"Captain Buffalo" for "Sergeant Rutledge"
"I Walk the Line" for "I Walk the Line"
"Iko, Iko" for "Rain Man"
"Rambling Rose" for the Japanese anime "Metropolis"
"Red River Valley" for "The Grapes of Wrath"
"She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" for "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon"
"Shenadoah" for "Across the Wide Missouri"
"We Are the Champions" for "The Mighty Ducks"

Enjoy!

[Mofo Rising]

BoyScoutKevin wrote:
>
> Unoriginal: songs previously written, but used as a signature
> song for a movie.
> "Rambling Rose" for the Japanese anime "Metropolis"
>
> Enjoy!

Are you sure?  I know Ray Charles' "I Can't Stop Loving You" was used for the climactic scene.  The only "Rambling Rose" I know was by MC5, and that certainly wasn't in the movie.

Here are some more:

"Bohemian Rhapsody"  WAYNE'S WORLD
"Partytime" RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD

[BoyScoutKevin]

Mea culpa. You're right. It was "I Can't Stop Loving You." What was I thinking. Now back to our sponsor.

[Chadzilla]

It's A Long Road from "First Blood"

That Kenny Loggins song from Stallone's "Over the Top"
"Meet me half way, across the sky!"

Blue Oyster Cult's Don't Fear The Reaper - used to good effect in John Carpenter's Halloween and Stephen King's The Stand.

Bandstand Boogie in John Carpenter's Escape from New York

Alice Cooper's The Man Behind the Mask from Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part 6.

Benson, Arizona from Dark Star.

Jerry Reed's East Bound and Down - Smokey and the Bandit.

Peggy Sue Got Married used in Peggy Sue Got Married!  :-)

"Showdown" in William Lustig's Maniac.

Tubular Bells in The Exorcist

[BoyScoutKevin]

What was I thinking? It is worst then I thought. It was Nat King Cole who had a hit with "Rambling Rose" in '62, not Ray Charles. Though, that was the same year that Ray Charles had his hit with "I Can't Stop Loving You." Thanks again for Mofo Rising for pointing out my error. Now, back to our sponsor.

[Chadzilla]

'Strange Things Happen' in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2

[Molly]

Opening theme from Star Wars

I've Had the Time of My Life >> Dirty Dancing

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang >> Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Somewhere Over the Rainbow >> Wizard of OZ

the Inspector Gadget Theme from the cartoon, not the movie

[Brian Ringler]

"Blue Oyster Cult's Don't Fear The Reaper - used to good effect in John Carpenter's Halloween and Stephen King's The Stand."

It was also used as the main song in The Stoned Age

[Lee]

Feel The Heat- Cobra

Do You Believe In Magic- Second Sight

Hell's Bells- Maximum Overdrive

Queen's We Will Rock You was done awesomely in the opening of A Knight's Tale.

[Dano]

Dont You Forget About Me - - Breakfast Club

[Fearless Freep]

Didn't "Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark" do a theme song for one of those similar 80's brat pack  (Molly Ringwald) movies like "Pretty In Pink" or "Sixteen Candles"?

[Andrew]

OMD sure did.  "If You Leave" was pretty much the theme for "Pretty in Pink."

I have the OMD greatest hits CD, have for years.  Good stuff when taken in moderation.

[Fearless Freep]

Yeah, that was the song I was thinking of..couldn't remember the title (but that makes sense) and outside of "The Breakfast Club" I didn't see many of those movies so I coudln't place it accurately

I have a OMD tape around somewhere.  Can't remember the title but it has some kinda strange stuff (like Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech done to music)