# Songs forever associated with movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 27, 2003, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-associated-with-movies/215637 "2003-11-27T23:29:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-associated-with-movies/215637/21 "2003-11-28T05:55:24Z")
“Unchained Melody” always makes me think of the movie _Ghost_. ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-associated-with-movies/215637/22 "2003-11-28T06:35:07Z")
“One tin soldier” by COVEN from the movie “Billy Jack” ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-associated-with-movies/215637/23 "2003-11-28T07:23:31Z")
“Surfin’ Bird”—_Full Metal Jacket_ And was Queen’s “Who Wants to Live Forever” written just for _Highlander_? ---
**Author:** ![Rainbowthief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4bbf92/32.png) [@Rainbowthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rainbowthief)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-associated-with-movies/215637/24 "2003-11-28T07:28:11Z")
“In Dreams”– **Blue Velvet** when Dean Stockwell sings in the living room and later when Dennis Hopper and his goons beat up Kyle McClachlan. “Old Time Rock n’Roll”– **Risky Business** during Tom Cruise’s much parodied underwear dancing scene. This is probably just me, but I can’t listen to Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” without thinking of the scene in **The Game** where Michael Douglas comes home to find that his house has been totally f\*cked up. “Sweet Jane” forever reminds me of **Natural Born Killers** –the damn song is played throughout the entire movie. Whenever I hear the piano riff in “Layla,” it reminds me of the scene in **Goodfellas** where all those people start turning up dead. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-associated-with-movies/215637/25 "2003-11-28T07:41:49Z")
**Everybody’s Talkin’** by **Nilsson** can not be listened to without thinking of _Midnight Cowboy_ ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-associated-with-movies/215637/26 "2003-11-28T07:55:07Z")
> [@](#): > > Whenever I hear the piano riff in “Layla,” it reminds me of the scene in Goodfellas where all those people start turning up dead. Also, from the same movie, I now associate Donovan’s “Atlantis” with Pesci’s and DeNiro’s characters viciously beating up Billy Bats in the bar. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-associated-with-movies/215637/27 "2003-11-28T13:09:09Z")
“The Entertainer” from **The Sting**. And how can this thread be so long with no mention of \*\* The Graduate\*\*? “And here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson” was written before the film. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-associated-with-movies/215637/28 "2003-11-28T13:51:33Z")
“Dueling Banjos” brings **Deliverance** to mind, and “Goodnight Sweetheart” reminds me of **American Graffiti**. ---
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-associated-with-movies/215637/29 "2003-11-28T14:20:00Z")
Saw ‘Love Actually’ last night - it has a brilliant use of Joni Mitchell’s recent version of ‘Both Sides Now’ ‘Ain’t Too Proud to Beg’ in The Big Chill ‘Pinhead’ by the Ramones in Freaks - the song wouldn’t be written for another 45 years! Yet they knew the words! That is freaky. ---
**Author:** ![Phnord\_Prephect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df705f/32.png) [@Phnord\_Prephect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phnord_Prephect)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-associated-with-movies/215637/30 "2003-11-28T17:45:24Z")
“What condition my condition was in” will always summon visions of leggy nordic blondes and bowling balls to my mind. Don’t ask why. ---
**Author:** ![Helena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-associated-with-movies/215637/31 "2003-11-28T18:00:48Z")
“The Glory of Love”– **Karate Kid II** (unless it was written for the movie…) ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-associated-with-movies/215637/32 "2003-11-28T19:08:32Z")
That god damned Dion song and that god damned boat movie. ---
**Author:** ![Ghostwind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce73a5/32.png) [@Ghostwind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghostwind)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-associated-with-movies/215637/33 "2003-11-28T20:41:27Z")
One Vision by Queen (Iron Eagle) Who Wants to Live Forever by Queen (Highlander) Secret Garden by Bruce Springstein (Jerry Maguire) Don’t Want to Miss A Thing by Aerosmith (Armageddon) These are television and don’t really count, but… In the Air Tonite by Phil Collins (Miami Vice) You Belong to the City by Glenn Frey (Miami Vice) Smuggler’s Blues by Glenn Frey (Miami Vice) ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-associated-with-movies/215637/34 "2003-11-28T23:03:55Z")
Day-O (Harry Belafonte) in _Beetlejuice_ Kokomo (Beach Boys) in _Cocktail_ If You Leave (OMD) in _Pretty In Pink_ I Melt With You (Modern English) in _Valley Girl_ Bad to the Bone (George Thorogood) in _Christine_ Blue Moon (various versions) in _An American Werewolf in London_ Oh Yeah (Yello), Twist and Shout (Beatles), and Danke Shoen (Wayne Newton) in _Ferris Bueller’s Day Off_ When I’m 64 (Beatles) in _The World According to Garp_ ---
**Author:** ![kmg365](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ec9cab/32.png) [@kmg365](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kmg365)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-associated-with-movies/215637/35 "2003-11-29T03:21:19Z")
“Somewhere Over the Rainbow” by Judy Garland in **Wizard of Oz** & **The Abominable Dr. Phibes** (starring Vincent Price) “Here Comes Santa Claus Right down Santa Claus Lane” played during the SWAT invasion scene in National Lampoon’s **Christmas Vacation** starring Chevy Chase “My Sharona” by the Knack during the Circle K gas station dance scene in **Reality Bites** “Stay” by Lisa Loeb from the credits titletrack for **Reality Bites** “Somewhere Out There” sung by Linda Ronstadt & James Ingram in **An American Tail** “You’re Where I belong” sung by Trisha Yearwood in **Stuart Little** ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-associated-with-movies/215637/36 "2003-11-29T04:20:48Z")
48 hrs… **Roxanne** …sung by Eddie Murphy. ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-associated-with-movies/215637/37 "2003-11-29T04:30:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Troy McClure SF \* > \*\*That god damned Dion song and that god damned boat movie. \*\* That’s precisely what I was going to say! It’s…um…Celine someone and it goes…I dunno, but she hit those high notes as the boat went down, the band played on, and he sank beneath the icy water …sob… No, really, I’m OK. ---
**Author:** ![Rainbowthief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4bbf92/32.png) [@Rainbowthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rainbowthief)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-associated-with-movies/215637/38 "2003-11-29T05:11:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by John Carter of Mars \* > \*\*“Dueling Banjos” brings **Deliverance** to mind \*\*. \*\* That one is tops. Everyone I knew calls it “the banjo tune from Deliverance”. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-associated-with-movies/215637/39 "2003-11-29T05:30:51Z")
Of course, the Celine Dion song was written for Titanic so it doesn’t fit the OP. Not that that matters. 😉 My vote: The second movement to Mozarts 21st Piano Concerto (in C), now known as “Elvira Madigan” after the movie in which it was featured. ---
**Author:** ![eli\_the\_fanatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ccd318/32.png) [@eli\_the\_fanatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eli_the_fanatic)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-associated-with-movies/215637/40 "2003-11-29T05:46:07Z")
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