“Soul Man”, from The Blues Brothers. (Yes, the song predates the movie, being from the late '60s.)
(For that matter, whenever I hear the theme to Rawhide I think of the scene in that movie where they poach the gig from “The Good Ol’ Boys” band, and skip without paying their bar tab… Though in fairness to the OP, I never saw the TV show, so didn’t have an original context for it to begin with.)
And I hate to admit it, but “God Gave Rock ‘n’ Roll To You”, the song by Argent and covered by Kiss (or was it the other way around?), is now linked in my mind to Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey.
I had never heard of the Divinyls “I Touch Myself” until I saw Mike Myers do his funky, fembot-destroying striptease to it in “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery”. Now I always think of that scene when I hear the song, which, frankly, isn’t often enough.
The Hunger - Bauhaus: Bela Lugosi’s Dead, playing during the entire beginning sequence of Catherine DeNeuve and David Bowie seducing a couple in a disco, taking them home and killing them.
Something About Mary - don’t know the name: “Why do you build me up (build me up), buttercup baby just to let me down, and mess me around and then worst of all (worst of all), you never call baby when you say you will, but I love you still…”
On that note, *“Also Sprach Zarathustra” * from 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s the first song I think of when someone mentions the movie, and I can’t hear the music without thinking of the movie.
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Something About Mary - don’t know the name: “Why do you build me up (build me up), buttercup baby just to let me down, and mess me around and then worst of all (worst of all), you never call baby when you say you will, but I love you still…”
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It’s called, oddly enough, **Build Me Up, Buttercup **