Songs that were bigger than the movies they came from...
#1Songs that were bigger than the movies they came from...
Posted: 7/5/08 at 7:03pm
I know this is extremely trivial, however-
I was thinking of "More"- the theme from "Mondo Cane", and when I'm feeling particularly trashy- "Looking through the eyes of Love" the theme from "Ice Castles". "All the way" came from a Sinatra/Mitzi Gaynor film "The Joker is Wild", and even Madonna's "Live to Tell" has lasted longer than "Shanghai Surprise", the movie it came from. I know there are dozens, can anyone think of any more?
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#2re: Songs that were bigger than the movies they came from...
Posted: 7/5/08 at 7:12pmNO, Live to Tell was from At Close Range. Forgotten also, but not nearly as dismal as Shanghai Surprise.
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#2re: Songs that were bigger than the movies they came from...
Posted: 7/5/08 at 7:17pmOn topic, Last Dance by Donna Summer from Thank God it's Friday. New York New York. Kiss from Under the Cherry Moon.
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#3re: Songs that were bigger than the movies they came from...
Posted: 7/5/08 at 7:18pm
Car Wash from Car Wash
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#4re: Songs that were bigger than the movies they came from...
Posted: 7/5/08 at 8:10pmThe owner of this thread is "You Light Up My Life"
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#5re: Songs that were bigger than the movies they came from...
Posted: 7/5/08 at 8:16pmYou beat me to it, Gotham!
#6re: Songs that were bigger than the movies they came from...
Posted: 7/5/08 at 8:30pmReally? What movie? Debbie Boone,right?
#7re: Songs that were bigger than the movies they came from...
Posted: 7/5/08 at 8:32pm
I might have a couple. Let me know if I am wrong.
What A Feeling-Flashdance
Fame-Fame
Personally, I love the theme song from Flashdance, but the movie was awful. And with Fame, I really like it, but I don't know too many other people who do, but of course the theme song is well known, and won an Academy Award.
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#8re: Songs that were bigger than the movies they came from...
Posted: 7/5/08 at 8:54pm
"Really? What movie? Debbie Boone,right?"
Picture it: 1977, feathered hair and designer jeans. Producers are all vying for publicity for their summer blockbusters. The producers of a low budget film called "You Light Up My Life" starring quirky, loveable Didi Conn, are looking for a way to push their movie. Kasey Cisyk, who has recorded the theme song for the movie, doesn't want her version released as a single. So the producers hire Debbie Boone to record a version to be released for radio play. They then get the song played every half hour round the clock until every man, woman and child knows the song by heart. Mothers all over America are filmed singing it to their new born babies. The movie opens, people realize that while the film has some good points, they would rather spend their $3.50 seeing Star Wars for the 20th time. The movie ends up on the trash heap of Hollywood while anyone who was alive in 1977 still has that song stuck in their head.
#9re: Songs that were bigger than the movies they came from...
Posted: 7/5/08 at 9:14pmMy Heart Will Go On - Titanic
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#10re: Songs that were bigger than the movies they came from...
Posted: 7/5/08 at 9:29pmWell, Titanic was (is) the biggest grossing film of all time and a multi-oscar winner so it's probably not dwarfed by it's theme song which was indeed, quite popular also.
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#11re: Songs that were bigger than the movies they came from...
Posted: 7/5/08 at 9:41pm
Even though written before being put in any movies, Whitney Houston's version of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" has been bigger than "The Bodyguard". The song (whether sung by Parton or Houston) has been in at least five movies.
Several of Bette Midler's songs have been bigger than the movies. "The Rose" from the same titled movie and "Wind Beneath My Wings" from "Beaches".
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#12re: Songs that were bigger than the movies they came from...
Posted: 7/5/08 at 10:04pmHmmmm. The Bodyguard soundtrack sold 17 million copies and spawned 5 other #1 hits. The biggest of which was indeed "I will...." but I'd hesitate to say it was only that song that did it. It's like Purple Rain- which spawned a handful of hit singles, too. We can agree- the Soundtrack was better than the film.
#13re: Songs that were bigger than the movies they came from...
Posted: 7/5/08 at 10:19pmThe one that always pops into my head is the "Wild Wild West" song Will Smith did for the movie of the same name.
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#14re: Songs that were bigger than the movies they came from...
Posted: 7/5/08 at 11:15pmI was thinking you could add "White Christmas" to the list seeing as how it's the biggest song of all time- both of it's films together can't top that.
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#15A song that was bigger than the movie...
Posted: 7/5/08 at 11:16pm
It was bigger than the film Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus) because it was heard around the world by people who had never seen the film, but the film itself was a masterpiece and I hope it comes out soon on Blu-ray!
Manha, tao bonita manha
De um dia feliz que chegou
O sol neceu surgiu
E em cada cor brilhou
Voltou o sonho entao
Ao coracao
Depois deste dia feliz
Nao sei se outro dia havera
E' nossa amanha
Tao bela afinal manha
De carnaval
Manha, tao bonita manha
Na vida uma nova cancao
Cantando sou teus olhos
Teu riso suas maos
Pois ha de haver um dia
Em que viras
As condas do meu violao
Que so teu amor procurou
Nem uma voz fala
Dos beijos perdidos
Nos bracos teus
Canta-o-meu-coracao
Alegria-voltou-tao-feliz
Amanha-deste-amor...
MANHA DO CARNAVAL - Luiz Bonfa & Antonio Maria
Manha de Carnaval ~ Orfeu Negro
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#16A song that was bigger than the movie...
Posted: 7/5/08 at 11:18pmWell then, how about "Unchained Melody" - the theme to the long forgotten movie "Unchained."
#17A song that was bigger than the movie...
Posted: 7/5/08 at 11:20pm
"The Happening" from THE HAPPENING (1967).
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
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