Fictional hits (Songs that are supposed to be big hits in a movie, tv show, mockumentary or whatever universe, but were made specifically for the story)
Let’s Go To The Mall - Robin Sparkles (from How I Met Your Mother)
“Beautiful Maria of My Soul”, from “The Mambo Kings”
Fictional hits (Songs that are supposed to be big hits in a movie, tv show, mockumentary or whatever universe, but were made specifically for the story)
Let’s Go To The Mall - Robin Sparkles (from How I Met Your Mother)
“Beautiful Maria of My Soul”, from “The Mambo Kings”
A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow, from “A Mighty Wind”
Fictional hits (Songs that are supposed to be big hits in a movie, tv show, mockumentary or whatever universe, but were made specifically for the story)
Let’s Go To The Mall - Robin Sparkles (from How I Met Your Mother)
“Beautiful Maria of My Soul”, from “The Mambo Kings”
A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow, from “A Mighty Wind”
That Thing You Do, from “That Thing You Do!”
The song did pretty well when it was later released, but it was written and performed for the movie so I think it counts.
Fictional hits (Songs that are supposed to be big hits in a movie, tv show, mockumentary or whatever universe, but were made specifically for the story)
Let’s Go To The Mall - Robin Sparkles (from How I Met Your Mother)
“Beautiful Maria of My Soul”, from “The Mambo Kings”
A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow, from “A Mighty Wind”
That Thing You Do, from “That Thing You Do!”
Baby, Can You Dig Your Man by Larry Underwood - from Stephen King’s “The Stand”
Underwood had the bad timing to become a rock star just as civilization was collapsing.
Fictional hits (Songs that are supposed to be big hits in a movie, tv show, mockumentary or whatever universe, but were made specifically for the story)
Let’s Go To The Mall - Robin Sparkles (from How I Met Your Mother)
“Beautiful Maria of My Soul”, from “The Mambo Kings”
A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow, from “A Mighty Wind”
That Thing You Do, from “That Thing You Do!”
Baby, Can You Dig Your Man by Larry Underwood - from Stephen King’s “The Stand”
Fictional hits (Songs that are supposed to be big hits in a movie, tv show, mockumentary or whatever universe, but were made specifically for the story)
Let’s Go To The Mall - Robin Sparkles (from How I Met Your Mother)
“Beautiful Maria of My Soul”, from “The Mambo Kings”
A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow, from “A Mighty Wind”
That Thing You Do, from “That Thing You Do!”
Baby, Can You Dig Your Man by Larry Underwood - from Stephen King’s “The Stand”
Fictional hits (Songs that are supposed to be big hits in a movie, tv show, mockumentary or whatever universe, but were made specifically for the story)
Let’s Go To The Mall - Robin Sparkles (from How I Met Your Mother)
“Beautiful Maria of My Soul”, from “The Mambo Kings”
A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow, from “A Mighty Wind”
That Thing You Do, from “That Thing You Do!”
Baby, Can You Dig Your Man by Larry Underwood - from Stephen King’s “The Stand”
Fictional hits (Songs that are supposed to be big hits in a movie, tv show, mockumentary or whatever universe, but were made specifically for the story)
Let’s Go To The Mall - Robin Sparkles (from How I Met Your Mother)
“Beautiful Maria of My Soul”, from “The Mambo Kings”
A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow, from “A Mighty Wind”
That Thing You Do, from “That Thing You Do!”
Baby, Can You Dig Your Man by Larry Underwood - from Stephen King’s “The Stand”
Fictional hits (Songs that are supposed to be big hits in a movie, tv show, mockumentary or whatever universe, but were made specifically for the story)
Let’s Go To The Mall - Robin Sparkles (from How I Met Your Mother)
“Beautiful Maria of My Soul”, from “The Mambo Kings”
A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow, from “A Mighty Wind”
That Thing You Do, from “That Thing You Do!”
Baby, Can You Dig Your Man by Larry Underwood - from Stephen King’s “The Stand”
Baby on Board, from The Simpsons
Wrapped Up from “Vox Lux”
“I Must Be In Love” - The Rutles
You All Everybody - Drive Shaft (from “Lost”)
Smelly Cat - from Friends
Next up: Musicians who guest starred on a TV series
The Beach Boys - Full House
No doubt John Stamos had something to do with that one.
Songs by singers who were better-known for being TV actors
Heartbeat - Don Johnson
Party All the Time - Eddie Murphy
(Rick James wrote and produced the song and sings backup.)
ETA: And yeah, I noticed after the fact it says TV actors, but Murphy was on SNL, so I’m sticking with it (even if he’s really better known for his stand-up and movies).
