"The Way You Look Tonight," from Swing Time. Famous movie, but the song is way more famous
― neva missa lost, wednesday nights on abc (voodoo chili), Saturday, 11 March 2017 06:37 (seven years ago) link
not sure despicable me has receded in collective memory any more than "happy" has tbh
― dyl, Saturday, 11 March 2017 07:11 (seven years ago) link
Justin Timberlake Can't Stop The Feeling is destined for this.
― Siegbran, Saturday, 11 March 2017 07:32 (seven years ago) link
this probably says more about my ignorance than the extent to which top hat has (or hasn't) faded from public consciousness but i didn't know that "cheek to cheek" was introduced in a film lol
― dyl, Saturday, 11 March 2017 07:37 (seven years ago) link
"My Funny Valentine" from Babes in Arms
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 March 2017 07:39 (seven years ago) link
thanks to Nina Simone and Buble's wannabe Simone rendition..."Feeling Good" from The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd (ok ok not a movie, a play, sorry)
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 March 2017 07:41 (seven years ago) link
"Puttin on the Ritz" from...Puttin on the Ritz
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 March 2017 07:43 (seven years ago) link
"I Can Dream About You" from <i>Streets of Fire</i>
― SlimAndSlam, Friday, 17 March 2017 11:09 (seven years ago) link
Sorry, wrong brackets.
"I can Dream About You" from Streets of Fire
― SlimAndSlam, Friday, 17 March 2017 11:10 (seven years ago) link
"Lydia, the Tattooed Lady" from At the Circus
Dylan's "Things Have Changed" from Wonder Boys
― neva missa lost, wednesday nights on abc (voodoo chili), Friday, 17 March 2017 13:28 (seven years ago) link
Roger Daltrey: Quicksilver Lightning
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 17 March 2017 13:51 (seven years ago) link
I'm kidding about Roger Daltrey song, but not about this:
Lisa Loeb: Stay
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 17 March 2017 13:53 (seven years ago) link
"All Star" from Shrek and Mystery Men ?????
― frogbs, Friday, 17 March 2017 13:56 (seven years ago) link
So I guess this is going to be another thread where 90% of the answers range between unconvincing and wrong? Lots of these songs were released before the movie mentioned, and lots of other are inextricably linked to the movie.
You know on Amazon where people answer questions about a product ("Does it support bluetooth?") with things like "Sorry, I haven't received mine yet, so I don't know". Whelp, if you don't have an answer, you don't have to enter one.
― enochroot, Friday, 17 March 2017 14:13 (seven years ago) link
I think Que Sera, Sera has been the best answer so far, that scene actually felt really incongruous when I eventually saw The Man Who Knew Too Much.
― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 17 March 2017 14:17 (seven years ago) link
Lots of these songs were released before the movie mentioned, and lots of other are inextricably linked to the movie.
was gonna say. and to note that a famous film song is no longer so linked does not prove that it has "eclipsed" the movie's fame.
― The sandwiches looked quite dank. (contenderizer), Friday, 17 March 2017 14:22 (seven years ago) link
I feel like All Star's connection to Mystery Men is often forgotten, but it's connection to Shrek is very strong in its meme-ification.
― MarkoP, Friday, 17 March 2017 14:23 (seven years ago) link
Yeah imo there's a lot of rong here mostly in the category of claiming films are forgotten when they're wildly popular, but maybe the other problem is ppl interpreting it as 'songs where the public has forgotten the song and movie were linked,' which might be where we're getting all the arbitrarily-tacked-on hits that aren't in any sense the film theme or whatever. In practice most folks rarely know that a song comes from a particular film in the first place unless it's super obvious like Men in Black or the video makes a big big deal out of it. Thread is most interesting when it's films that have completely vanished from people's miinds, and songs that have never fallen out of favor, imo.
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Friday, 17 March 2017 14:31 (seven years ago) link
can't imagine anyone anywhere has rescreened buddy's song any time in the last decade or so but chesney hawkes' 'one and only' still haunts the airwaves of uk commercial radio
― not even my mate ross king sniffed out this hot gossip (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 17 March 2017 14:34 (seven years ago) link
yea probably should've mentioned, Mystery Men is what I think fits the thread
people don't really remember this but the video was a tie-in to the movie, hell Ben Stiller is front and center in the first scene, and it's not just clips from the film either. then it got picked up in another, much more popular film, and seems to have even outlived that
― frogbs, Friday, 17 March 2017 14:36 (seven years ago) link
David Essex, "Silver Dream Machine"
― heaven parker (anagram), Friday, 17 March 2017 14:40 (seven years ago) link