# Which long forgotten 70's song will pop up next in a mainstream movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 5, 2017, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-long-forgotten-70s-song-will-pop-up-next-in-a-mainstream-movie/783783 "2017-04-05T00:23:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-long-forgotten-70s-song-will-pop-up-next-in-a-mainstream-movie/783783/41 "2017-04-06T01:32:57Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > I nominate [It’s a Shame](https://youtu.be/WoZP18U5VyY), by The Spinners Ooh that reminds me, [Rubberband Man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tvvQQmi7HY). ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-long-forgotten-70s-song-will-pop-up-next-in-a-mainstream-movie/783783/42 "2017-04-19T21:06:58Z")
Rubberband Man always reminds me of: [Born to Be Alive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UaJAnnipkY) by Patrick Hernandez Was used – maybe debuted – in some Roller Disco movie in the early '80’s. I think. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-long-forgotten-70s-song-will-pop-up-next-in-a-mainstream-movie/783783/43 "2017-04-19T23:10:36Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Hard to think of a scene involving Chris Pratt that wouldn’t be better with **The Gap Band’s You Dropped a Bomb on Me** : [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=17lkdqoLt44](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=17lkdqoLt44) Steve Carr certainly blew a perfect opportunity to do that in _Movie 43_. Mind you, I thought _The Proposition_ was great as it was, but including that song would have been, ahem, the bomb. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-long-forgotten-70s-song-will-pop-up-next-in-a-mainstream-movie/783783/44 "2017-04-20T02:16:51Z")
The [soundtrack for _Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2_](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/inside-the-guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-2-soundtrack-w477515) was announced today. It includes “[Wham Bam Shang-a-Lang](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB5dsglj25o)”, by Silver, which I don’t think I’ve heard in close to 40 years. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-long-forgotten-70s-song-will-pop-up-next-in-a-mainstream-movie/783783/45 "2017-04-20T10:15:24Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > The [soundtrack for _Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2_](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/inside-the-guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-2-soundtrack-w477515) was announced today. It includes “[Wham Bam Shang-a-Lang](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB5dsglj25o)”, by Silver, which I don’t think I’ve heard in close to 40 years. I don’t recall ever hearing that. What a truly awful song. No guilty pleasure love like with Hooked on a Feeling, just a cheesy-ass lyric over a chorus that’s a variant of Cher’s Dark Lady, but even stupider. I didn’t know that was possible. ;). ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-long-forgotten-70s-song-will-pop-up-next-in-a-mainstream-movie/783783/46 "2017-04-20T13:03:27Z")
The soundtrack to **Trolls** includes Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September” and Diana Ross’s “I’m Coming Out” (with some remixing), as well as covers of Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors” and Lionel Ritchie’s “Hello”. ---
**Author:** ![Marlonius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Marlonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlonius)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-long-forgotten-70s-song-will-pop-up-next-in-a-mainstream-movie/783783/47 "2017-04-20T13:40:52Z")
I’m seeing in my mind’s eye: [https://www.youtube.com/results?search\_query=love+is+the+answer](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=love+is+the+answer) “Love is the Answer” by England Dan and John Ford Coley, playing over the last scene of some drama in which the protagonists come to a new peace with mutual respect and understanding. The music volume gradually ramps up as the song gets kicking and the characters look at each other sheepishly. Oh my, they’re both thinking the same thing: we can make this work. A twinkle in his eye and a smirk at the corner of her mouth. They fall into each other’s arms and the chorus takes the song away as we fade to black. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-long-forgotten-70s-song-will-pop-up-next-in-a-mainstream-movie/783783/48 "2017-04-20T14:58:57Z")
Various KC and the Sunshine Band songs have been used recently (“Give it Up” in Kingsman, “Boogie Shoes” in The Intern, “That’s the Way” in too many to count), but there are still plenty of songs ripe for the picking. I’m sure most have been in a movie at some point, but more is better. [Keep it Comin’ Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibvYxe43cCQ) [I’m Your Boogie Man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKoZMke594A) [Get Down Tonight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHEsE9yN2CY) ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-long-forgotten-70s-song-will-pop-up-next-in-a-mainstream-movie/783783/49 "2017-04-21T14:01:30Z")
[Welcome Back My Friends to the Show that Never Ends](https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=yfp-t-s&p=welcome+back+my+friends+to+the+show+that+never+ends+video#id=2&vid=810b184696d2d13eb5ab3cc59e9f3e62&action=click) [Let the Sideshow Begin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NJXVXbO6oI) [Please Come to Boston](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDRLZFgEoGw) [Gypsies Tramps and Thieves](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLTETaWswCY) The entire oeuvre of Jim Stafford ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-long-forgotten-70s-song-will-pop-up-next-in-a-mainstream-movie/783783/50 "2017-04-21T14:37:43Z")
I’ve always said (well, maybe not always) if I made a movie, I’d include ELO’s [Sweet Talking Woman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNjrBUzXDJk) on the sooundtrack. ---
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I had forgotten about Badfinger’s “Baby Blue” when it appeared in the _Breaking Bad_ finale. [So did a lot of people](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Blue_(Badfinger_song)), apparently: > [@](#): > > The song later achieved fame when it played during the closing scene of the series finale of Breaking Bad. Online streams increased in popularity strongly almost immediately following the broadcast. The song is, according to Nielson SoundScan, selling over 5,300 downloads since the broadcast. [Billboard.com](http://Billboard.com) predicts that the song “could return to the Billboard charts as well, most likely with a placing on the Rock Digital Songs chart.” Joey Molland, the last surviving member of the classic line-up of Badfinger, took to Twitter to express his excitement at the song’s use in the finale and subsequently began to retweet news articles about the song’s usage in the finale. This appearance led to a 2,981 percent increase of sales of the song as well as 9,000 percent increase in streaming over Spotify. It became a top-selling song on iTunes following the broadcast. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-long-forgotten-70s-song-will-pop-up-next-in-a-mainstream-movie/783783/52 "2017-04-27T03:20:16Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > I’ve always said (well, maybe not always) if I made a movie, I’d include ELO’s [Sweet Talking Woman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNjrBUzXDJk) on the sooundtrack. Not to be confused with [Sweet City Woman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1IMyZRmu8Q). Ooh: [Sooner or Later](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cnCEvGrj3M) by Grass Roots. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-long-forgotten-70s-song-will-pop-up-next-in-a-mainstream-movie/783783/53 "2017-04-27T04:17:01Z")
**Brother Louie** - by Stories **Haven’t You Heard?** - Patrice Rushen **Third Rate Romance** - Amazing Rhythm Aces Probably used in something by now, but I see them being used in some goofy love story. And just because it’s one of the best songs of its type: **One Nation Under a Groove** - Parliament/Funkadelic ETA: One Nation isn’t obscure, tho… So … **Maggot Brain** - P/Funk (has a great guitar, man) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-long-forgotten-70s-song-will-pop-up-next-in-a-mainstream-movie/783783/54 "2017-04-27T04:31:36Z")
Apparantly, Maggot Brain was used in an ep of House. ---
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[Couldn’t Get It Right](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35H_cU1_mog&list=FL-Go3zYcUQVvPRMHN0MtlTg&index=34) - Climax Blues Band. ---
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> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > **Brother Louie** - by Stories > Probably used in something by now, but I see them being used in some goofy love story. A version of “Brother Louie” is already used for the [intro to the FX series “Louie”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoHpUokjGJM), starring Louie C.K., but it’s a new version based off both the Stories and original Hot Chocolate versions of the song, though the Stories singer does sing it (and changes the lyrics slightly.) ---
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> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > I’d also like somebody to use [Killer Queen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSQwI3rDETk) in a cool way. Remixed Killer Queen in the trailer for the upcoming Atomic Blonde (which I can’t link to here at work. Someone help a brother out.) which appears to be trying REALLY hard to be the next action/spy/fun Guardians/Kingsman knock off. ---
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> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Remixed Killer Queen in the trailer for the upcoming Atomic Blonde (which I can’t link to here at work. Someone help a brother out.) which appears to be trying REALLY hard to be the next action/spy/fun Guardians/Kingsman knock off. The trailers I see mostly have a re-done Blue Monday soundtrack. And I see one that has Sweet Dreams in it. If there is one with Killer Queen, I am missing it. ETA: I see it now, One minute or so into the [red band trailer](https://youtu.be/nI7HVnZlleo?t=1m13s). ---
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> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Remixed Killer Queen in the trailer for the upcoming Atomic Blonde (which I can’t link to here at work. Someone help a brother out.) which appears to be trying REALLY hard to be the next action/spy/fun Guardians/Kingsman knock off. That looks nothing like Guardians of the Galaxy. ---
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> [@Biggirl](#): > > [Drug-fuelled sex scene-- Fly Robin, Fly](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUPdG4DA42g) > > [Arming up for the big fight – Slade’s Cum On Feel The Noize.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTEGxVDHpGU) > > [First date, kids having fun, retirement home residents looking sad and eating pudding-- Your Momma Don’t Dance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTu4yQH8KBs) > > [Aced that job interview! Snagged that date! Buying a bunch of new, cool stuff-- Stevie Wonder’s Sir Duke.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6fPN5aQVDI) > > O.K. I’ll stop now. +1 on the ‘Sir Duke’ suggestion. It’s got the perfect mood for a ‘life is great cuz I’m kicking @ss!’ montage. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-long-forgotten-70s-song-will-pop-up-next-in-a-mainstream-movie/783783.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-long-forgotten-70s-song-will-pop-up-next-in-a-mainstream-movie/783783.md?page=4)