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

"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

Roger Daltrey: Quicksilver Lightning

I'm kidding about Roger Daltrey song, but not about this:

Lisa Loeb: Stay

"All Star" from Shrek and Mystery Men ?????

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

David Essex, "Silver Dream Machine"