Popular music borrowing from TV/Movie themes

Cafe Society
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A lot of TV shows and movies borrow popular music in their soundtracks, but what musicians do the reverse? I can think of two examples off the top of my head:

Venus Hum - Fighting for Love uses thematic material from Alias (this entire EP was a collaboration with JJ Abrams, natch)
Bliss N Eso - The Dark Tower liberal use of thematic material from Dexter throughout (to great effect, IMHO)

I’m sure there’s at least a half dozen borrowing the X-Files theme, but for the life of me I can’t think of any right now.

2

The Doors “Touch Me” quotes from an Ajax Laundry Detergent jingle (“Stronger Than Dirt”).

3

There has been at least two novelty songs about “The Twilight Zone” both of which prominently use the theme from the show.

4

Didn’t Husker Du do a cover of Paul Williams’ Love is All Around? (Mary Tyler Moore Show)

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Frank Zappa quoted TV themes here and there, including a full-length cover of “The Untouchables.” Among other quotes, he used the “Tonight Show” theme as a leitmotif for New York on "Billy the Mountain; “Twilight Zone” popped up occasionally, notably on “Jesus Thinks You’re a Jerk”; and the version of “The Torture Never Stops” on The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life incorporates “My Three Sons,” “I Love Lucy,” “Bonanza,” and “The Addams Family.”

Eric Burdon and the Animals opened “San Franciscan Nights” with the “Dragnet” theme.

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Emerson, Lake & Palmer often opened shows with the “Peter Gunn” theme.

Ozzy Osbourne had a song called “Perry Mason,” which used the “Perry Mason” TV theme at the beginning.

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Moby’s first hit Go used parts of Laura Palmer’s Theme from Twin Peaks.

8

Just listened to it; I forgot that “Mission Impossible” was in there too.

9

Oh man, that just brought back a memory. When I was in a band decades back, we had a medley we would play in bars. It started with Leave it to Beaver, then go into The Addams Family, then The Munsters, Batman, then… I forget the rest. It actually ended with a real song.

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At different times, both the Kinks and the Who recorded versions of the “Batman” theme song.

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The Radio Birdman song Aloha Steve and Danno has a guitar solo that’s basically a cover of the theme to Hawaii 5-0. The whole song is great. There’s a good live version on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kuvg1TD6CU

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Yes, and it’s really good. I didn’t know about it until someone here linked to a live version of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYxFD9YyknI&fmt=18
There’s also the studio version, which I don’t like as much but I love the video for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFyy3XB_3Y4&fmt=18