Five songs from movie soundtracks

[jobycom]

Just a preliminary list

1) Mrs. Robinson--Simon and Garfunkle
2) I'm Still Here--John Reznik (or however he spells it)
3) My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys--Willie Nelson
4) Purple Rain--Prince
5) Rainbow Connection--Kermit the Frog

Yeah, I expect some controversy

[mitchum]

1. "Everybody's Talkin'" Midnight Cowboy

"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid

[jobycom]

2. Good song

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

3. check out willie nelson's cover of kermit

if you get a chance

[jobycom]

5. I live in Austin, I've had many chances. I even heard it once while

passing Willie's restaurant down here.

Cool song. Never heard a bad version of it. The woman I should have married from high school once sang it at a beauty contest, in which she placed second, largely because of her voice. Sorry, but that one is still my favorite version.

Pop quiz: Without looking, do you know who wrote it?

[Robeson]

4. A Clockwork Orange - Beethoven's 9th Symphony....

...movements # 2 and 4. Awesome!

[jobycom]

6. Yeah, but I'm pretty sure Beethoven wrote that before the movie

:-)

Still, if the arrangement was done for the movie, I'll accept it.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

7. OK

1) Theme from Mahogany..Diana Ross
2) I am Calling You (theme from Baghdad Cafe) Joveeta Steele
3) It's Probably Me..Sting/ Eric Clapton from Lethal Weapon
4) The Good, The Bad and the Ugly ..Hugo Montenegro
5) Hairspray...From the Waters' film

[bertha katzenengel]

8. "Let the River Run" - Working Girl (Oscar for Carly Simon)

"Philadelphia" - Philadelphia (Oscar for Bruce Springsteen)

"If I Didn't Have You" - Monsters, Inc. (Oscar for Randy Newman, the Susan Lucci of movie music)

"Love Lifted Us Up Where We Belong" - An Officer and a Gentleman (Oscar for the person(s) who wrote it)

Oh, hell, I just had a long list in my head of Oscar winning movie songs, and I can't think of any more.

[jobycom]

9. LOL Monster's Inc?

Cool choice.

[bertha katzenengel]

10. Heck, yeah.

Randy Newman's prolific. He writes a lot of songs, too.

[NMMNG]

11. My choices

1. The Pink Room--Angelo Badalamenti
2. All I Want is You--U2
3. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me--U2
4. Change--Deftones
5. Natural One--Folk Implosion

[MN ChimpH8R]

13. Mmmmm - Badalamenti

All his soundtracks to Lynch films are gorgeous/creepy at the same time. He wrote the music (and Lynch the lyrics) for two albums by a singer named Julee Cruise. If you've never heard them you're missing a treat. Not so creepy as the ST stuff - weird lush 1950s sort of romanticism (Lynch goes some strange places).

And also, Dusty Springfield :loveya: singing "The Look of Love" from Casino Royale . Guilty pleasures :blush: include the themes to the Bond flix "A View to a Kill" - the best thing Duran Duran ever did - and "The Living Daylights."

[Lannes]

12. Most not original songs but...

Superfly- Curtis Mayfield from the movie

Rhapsody in Blue-Gershwin from "Manhattan"

Everything in Its Right Place-Radiohead from "Vanilla Sky"

Jungle Boogie-Kool and the Gang from "Pulp Fiction"

The End-The Doors from Apocalypse Now

[nytemare]

14. Okay, my list

1 Imagine-John Lennon
3 In Your Eyes-Peter Gabriel
3 Angel-Sarah McLachlan
4 Iris-Goo Goo Dolls
5 The Rose-Bette Midler

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

15. "Pure Imagination", Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

"Come with me and you'll be in a world of pure imagination".

I love that song. The lyrics and great and the melody is truly beautiful. It has also become a favorite standard of jazz musicians.