songs whose fame has long since eclipsed that of the movie they originally appeared in

Watership Down is still well known, but the fame of "Bright Eyes" eclipses it.

Are You That Somebody (Nutty Professor)
Try Again (Romeo Must Die)
Soul To Squeeze (Coneheads)
Gangsta's Paradise (Dangerous Minds)
Stay (Reality Bites)
Because I Got High (Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back)
Regulate (About The Rim)
Ghetto Superstar (Bullworth)
Iris (City Of Angels)
Steal My Sunshine (Go)
New (Go)
Deep Cover (Deep Cover)

I mean Dr Doolittle

and Above The Rim, not About The Rim

Dr Dre - Keep Their Heads Ringin'
― Siegbran, Sunday, July 17, 2011 9:34 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

This is questionable.. I hear a lot more people talk about Friday than this song.

iris & deep cover are good ones

http://www.impawards.com/1980/posters/honeysuckle_rose.jpg

Featured a little ditty called "On the Road Again".

They were no doubt aggrieved that the Percy sessions spilled over into January, 1971.

Not much of a fan of the "Lola Vs. Powerman" album either. They made a mistake by applying a new "harder" and more "rock" oriented sound. Should have stayed with their brilliant 1966-68 style.

"Independent Woman" from Charlie's Angels. You hear the line "Charlie how your angels get down like that" and you're like, "What does that mean?"

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, July 17, 2011 8:07 PM

Not to mention the opening: "Lucy Liu, with my girl Drew, Cameron D. and Destiny... Charlie's Angels 'cmon."

Don't know how famous it is on ILX, but Johnny Mandel's "Emily" from The Americanization of Emily gets played at every jazz guitar gig ever.

Candy Dulfer and David A. Stewart - "Lily Was Here"

Sixpence None the Richer - Kiss Me
from "She's All That".

Though whenever I hear the line "Strike up the band and make the fireflies dance" I keep envisioning Usher dancing with that silly grin on his face.

"She's All That" is a timeless classic for some of us

I'm not really sure all of these songs are FROM the films they're attached to, so much as slapped on (esp in the last 30 years).

I like that John Ford nixed having the song "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" heard in the film, cuz well, it would have ruined it.

I'm not really sure all of these songs are FROM the films they're attached to, so much as slapped on (esp in the last 30 years).

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My fave example of a wisely discarded theme song is Billy Eckstine's "Vertigo" which you can hear here.

Yeah, like the Sixpence song appeared on one of their albums a full year before it was in "She's All That." That's a far cry from "originally."

Phil Collins, Against All Odds.

the most duh answer is somehow not on here, which is Houston's version of I Will Always Love You. i have never seen The Bodyguard, nor do i understand what it's supposed to be about, nor do i think i'll ever care.

A whole lot of Pink Floyd songs...

Bobby Brown's "On Our Own"

Dusty Springfield "The Look Of Love"

(originally written for the Casino Royale spoof)

― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet

Yeah, "The look of love"..

Also, "Happy"from DesMe2, yep that's a big film but "Happy" got way bigger.

"I Want Your Sex" was apparently the 3rd hit from the Beverly Hills Cop II soundtrack, before being the first single from Faith. I would say it has eclipsed that movie and those first two hits ("Cross My Broken Heart" by The Jets and "Shakedown" by Bob Seger).

Can't believe no one has said 'Fame' yet. It's right in the title!

Too many of these have fuckall to do with the movie itself. They're just kinda thrown on to the soundtrack to sell more records. Was "Cross My Broken Heart" even in the film Beverly Hills Cop II?

"The Shadow of Your Smile" from The Sandpiper seems like one of these, although some people still enjoy The Sandpiper

"To Sir With Love"

"Don't Let Go (Love)" - En Vogue. Recorded for the Set It Off soundtrack.

"i have never seen The Bodyguard, nor do i understand what it's supposed to be about"

I believe it's about a Bodyguard.

Well, it's about a Body. And a Guard. Two very different and conflicting personalities who are forced to work together to solve a crime and/or defeat criminals, learning from each other in the process.

That's What Friends Are For (from Night Shift)
The Girl Can't Help It
Across 110th Street

'Turtle Power' by Partners in Kryme

Got a perfect candidate -- the jazz standard "Stella by Starlight." Originally introduced as an instrumental piece in the (truly great, still underrated) Ray Milland supernatural thriller The Uninvited. The title is what it is due to a character being called Stella, Milland's character writes the piece with reference to her, etc. etc. A modified still from the scene in question:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7DInmoJ5JDE/hqdefault.jpg

"the end is the beginning is the end" by the smashing pumpkins from Batman & Robin

maybe even "eye" from Lost Highway?

"drown" from Singles, surely?

Everybody's Talkin' from Midnight Cowboy?

Pharrell - Happy from Despicable Me

Two.

happy otm

"The Way You Look Tonight," from Swing Time. Famous movie, but the song is way more famous

not sure despicable me has receded in collective memory any more than "happy" has tbh

Justin Timberlake Can't Stop The Feeling is destined for this.

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

"My Funny Valentine" from Babes in Arms

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)

"Puttin on the Ritz" from...Puttin on the Ritz

"I Can Dream About You" from <i>Streets of Fire</i>

Sorry, wrong brackets.

"I can Dream About You" from Streets of Fire

"Lydia, the Tattooed Lady" from At the Circus

Dylan's "Things Have Changed" from Wonder Boys