# Willard the movie- Song from commercial **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 6, 2003, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willard-the-movie-song-from-commercial/159409 "2003-03-06T03:22:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lillyflower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@lillyflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lillyflower)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willard-the-movie-song-from-commercial/159409/1 "2003-03-06T03:22:54Z")
Please help me out, does anyone know where that song is from (the movie “Willard”-commercial), who sings it, the title, anything about it. I love it but I am not sure what it is called. I am talking about the low key one that says “we both found what we are looking for” Any help would be greatly appreciated 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Obvious\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Obvious\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obvious_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willard-the-movie-song-from-commercial/159409/2 "2003-03-06T03:48:06Z")
By “commercial” do you mean trailer? The only song I recognize is “Bullet with butterfly wings” by the Smashing Pumpkins. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2003, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willard-the-movie-song-from-commercial/159409/3 "2003-03-06T03:52:54Z")
was it the old movie’s sequal’s song _Ben_ by Michael Jackson? ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willard-the-movie-song-from-commercial/159409/4 "2003-03-06T03:53:03Z")
The song is “Ben”. It’s sung by Michael Jackson, and it’s from the original “Willard” movie. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willard-the-movie-song-from-commercial/159409/5 "2003-03-06T04:01:34Z")
Actually, it’s from the sequal, _Ben_. I got corrected on that just the other day. IMDB has the particulars. [Look here](http://us.imdb.com/Tawards?0068264) That was over 30 yrs ago, though. Probably why we’re mixing the two movies. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willard-the-movie-song-from-commercial/159409/6 "2003-03-06T06:41:07Z")
Well I’ll be darned 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willard-the-movie-song-from-commercial/159409/7 "2003-03-06T06:50:31Z")
They’re remaking **WILLARD**!? Why!?! _shaking head_ That’ll be item #371 on Tamerlane’s _Signs o’ the Apolcalypse_ list. - Tamerlane ---
**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:** [March 6, 2003, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willard-the-movie-song-from-commercial/159409/8 "2003-03-06T09:26:42Z")
**Tamerlane** wrote: > [@](#): > > **They’re remaking _WILLARD_!? Why!?!** Can you think of a better screen vehicle for Crispin Glover? He’s the star. ---
**Author:** ![raygirvan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@raygirvan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raygirvan)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willard-the-movie-song-from-commercial/159409/9 "2003-03-07T01:29:17Z")
In the UK, the “Ben” song is mostly remembered for the Marti Webb version in 1985, when it was hijacked in support of a nauseatingly sentimental TV show campaign in aid of Ben Hardwick, a popular, brave and cheerful child dying of liver disease. Unsurprisingly, no-one ever mentioned that it was originally in praise of a rat. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willard-the-movie-song-from-commercial/159409/10 "2003-03-07T15:44:40Z")
I don’t think the song in the trailer is the Michael Jackson version. It seems creepier and newer. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willard-the-movie-song-from-commercial/159409/11 "2003-03-07T17:43:19Z")
The only trailer I’ve seen is the one with the Smashing Pumpkins song used only for its lyrics “Despite all my rage/I a still just a rat in a cage” because its momentum doesn’t seem to fit. ---
**Author:** ![karomon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@karomon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/karomon)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willard-the-movie-song-from-commercial/159409/12 "2003-03-07T19:48:49Z")
I’ve heard the song. It IS “Ben”, but it’s done by someone else other than Michael Jackson. I think it’s a girl that sings it. I will make a wild guess and say that it’s Jessica Simpson, but it’s hard to tell. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willard-the-movie-song-from-commercial/159409/13 "2003-03-08T00:12:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by karomon \* > \*\*I’ve heard the song. It IS “Ben”, but it’s done by someone else other than Michael Jackson. I think it’s a girl that sings it. I will make a wild guess and say that it’s Jessica Simpson, but it’s hard to tell. \*\* I think I saw Aaron Carter singing it on some awards show about a year ago. Was it maybe him? ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willard-the-movie-song-from-commercial/159409/14 "2003-03-08T00:30:03Z")
Do you know what a preemptive strike is, \*_lillyflower_? It’s where you email the mods of this forum asking them to please move this to Cafe Society, where it belongs. I recommend manhattan, a real gentle soul… 😉 Welcome to the SDMB. Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![lillyflower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@lillyflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lillyflower)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willard-the-movie-song-from-commercial/159409/15 "2003-03-13T00:55:56Z")
* * * Originally posted by karomon I’ve heard the song. It IS “Ben”, but it’s done by someone else other than Michael Jackson. I think it’s a girl that sings it. I will make a wild guess and say that it’s Jessica Simpson, but it’s hard to tell. I found out that the singer is Billy Gilman, the young country singer:) ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willard-the-movie-song-from-commercial/159409/16 "2003-03-13T01:12:04Z")
Since this is about a song or a movie or some damn thing like that, I’ll move this thread to our arts forum, Cafe Society. bibliophage moderator GQ