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What's your favorite song featured in a movie? (Original Post) red dog 1 Saturday OP
If You Were Here ZDU Saturday #1
Loved this song! 50 Shades Of Blue Saturday #7
Going Home (Local Hero Theme, Mark Knopfler 1983) Chasstev365 Saturday #2
any of the Cat Stevens songs in Harold and Maude Skittles Saturday #3
Love love love this song and movie! 50 Shades Of Blue Saturday #6
The Third Man Theme, featured in the 1949 classic film "The Third Man" anciano Saturday #4
I've always LOVED that one! some_of_us_are_sane 16 min ago #47
Hard to narrow down but I'll go with this one from the Dave Clark 5 movie, "Having a Wild Weekend." 50 Shades Of Blue Saturday #5
I Would Walk 500 Miles from Benny and Joon MIButterfly Saturday #8
Great song, Great movie! red dog 1 Yesterday #19
The Last Time I Felt Like This - Johnny Mathis & Jane Olivor House of Roberts Saturday #9
Oh yes! I absolutely love this song MIButterfly Yesterday #20
Interesting fact I uncovered one day. House of Roberts Yesterday #22
Indian Love Call - Slim Withman - Mars Attacks Chasstev365 Saturday #10
This song was also in the quirky Asteroid City. markodochartaigh Yesterday #16
Come What May. - Moulin Rouge vapor2 Saturday #11
Can't really say this song was fearured but Shambala Saturday #12
Right off the top of my head, I'd say Mad_Dem_X Yesterday #13
Love this song too! MIButterfly Yesterday #21
"Forever Young," in Napoleon Dynamite IndianaDave Yesterday #14
Here ya go cbabe 23 hrs ago #29
I think that I have to go with The Galaxy Song markodochartaigh Yesterday #15
What a great tune ! Pythonesque for sure and really clever. I'm pretty sure all the astronomical facts and..... FadedMullet 22 hrs ago #36
Maybe trite, but one of my top choices is Also Sprach Zarathustra prelude from 2001. quaint Yesterday #17
Not trite, still wonderful. Many symphony "collections" on Youtube include it. FadedMullet 22 hrs ago #38
That's my choice too! WestMichRad 22 hrs ago #39
I Will Remember You - Sarah Mclachlan Nittersing Yesterday #18
From Bagdad Cafe Morbius Yesterday #23
Yes! The movie is in my top two after Babe. cbabe 23 hrs ago #30
Come Feed the Birds from Mary Poppins. debm55 Yesterday #24
Tuppins, tuppins, tuppins a bag. (Two pence?) applegrove 23 hrs ago #26
Julie's voice is wonderful singing that song debm55 22 hrs ago #40
Wild Summer Nights LogDog75 Yesterday #25
Iris from City of Angels Diamond_Dog 23 hrs ago #27
Ruthless People!Mick Jagger pandr32 23 hrs ago #28
Arms of the Angel 4TheArts 23 hrs ago #31
If I had words/Babe cbabe 23 hrs ago #32
Here's an odd one, but I really like it. "Make Me Smile" from the movie "The Full Monty" performed by....... FadedMullet 23 hrs ago #33
Blues Traveler's tune "But Anyway" is one of my all time favorite tunes. What movie soundtrack used it? FadedMullet 23 hrs ago #34
Deb55 - You're still my favorite pollster her on DU, but you'll admit that this is a good one. FadedMullet 23 hrs ago #35
Yes, it is, FadedMullet. debm55 22 hrs ago #41
Seems Like Old Times ... from Annie Hall SharonAnn 22 hrs ago #37
Les miserables Loisita123 21 hrs ago #42
Ending sequence of Buckaroo Banzai AND Ferrets are Cool 21 hrs ago #43
Little Green Bag - Reservoir Dogs Brother Buzz 19 hrs ago #44
Gideon's Oboe from "The Mission" no_hypocrisy 13 hrs ago #45
Day-O Beetle Juice Emile 12 hrs ago #46
Now and forever... this one! some_of_us_are_sane 10 min ago #48

50 Shades Of Blue

(11,384 posts)
5. Hard to narrow down but I'll go with this one from the Dave Clark 5 movie, "Having a Wild Weekend."
Sat Mar 21, 2026, 10:03 PM
Saturday

It was on their album Coast to Coast that I got when I was 12. I saw their movie (still one of my favorites) when it came out the following year.

MIButterfly

(2,656 posts)
8. I Would Walk 500 Miles from Benny and Joon
Sat Mar 21, 2026, 10:14 PM
Saturday

was the first one that came to mind.

Also Unchained Melody from Ghost; never did care for that song much until I saw that movie and now I like it.

House of Roberts

(6,504 posts)
22. Interesting fact I uncovered one day.
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 07:30 PM
Yesterday

Ellen Burstyn started acting in TV and movies in 1958 as Ellen McRae, and changed to Burstyn in 1970. I watch a lot of old tv shows on various retro channels and spotted her in a show, and looked up the episode to see who she was, found her as Ellen McRae, then discovered the switch.

markodochartaigh

(5,514 posts)
16. This song was also in the quirky Asteroid City.
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 03:06 AM
Yesterday

My little cat Pangur Bán finds it as fascinating as the youtube lynx screaming videos.

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Shambala

(278 posts)
12. Can't really say this song was fearured but
Sat Mar 21, 2026, 11:38 PM
Saturday

I really dug this movie and the song spoke to me at the time.


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FadedMullet

(902 posts)
36. What a great tune ! Pythonesque for sure and really clever. I'm pretty sure all the astronomical facts and.....
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 10:10 PM
22 hrs ago

......figures are all spot on too, which you would expect.

quaint

(5,037 posts)
17. Maybe trite, but one of my top choices is Also Sprach Zarathustra prelude from 2001.
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 09:19 AM
Yesterday
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pandr32

(14,233 posts)
28. Ruthless People!Mick Jagger
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 09:14 PM
23 hrs ago

He did it as the theme song for the movie with the same name. He did it in collaboration with Daryl Hall and David Stewart.
The movie was a whole lot of fun.

FadedMullet

(902 posts)
33. Here's an odd one, but I really like it. "Make Me Smile" from the movie "The Full Monty" performed by.......
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 09:41 PM
23 hrs ago

.......Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel. Here's a video.........



I just looked at some of the other responses to your question, and I take back what I said about
this being "an odd one". It's certainly is no odder than many of the other entries in this contest.

Thanks, Red Dog, for posting this, it's a good one.

FadedMullet

(902 posts)
34. Blues Traveler's tune "But Anyway" is one of my all time favorite tunes. What movie soundtrack used it?
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 09:57 PM
23 hrs ago

FadedMullet

(902 posts)
35. Deb55 - You're still my favorite pollster her on DU, but you'll admit that this is a good one.
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 09:59 PM
23 hrs ago

Loisita123

(15 posts)
42. Les miserables
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 11:14 PM
21 hrs ago

Really liking " Do you hear the people sing" right now.

Or maybe the Bad News Bears using the music from Carmen.

Or Bob Dylan's Knock knocking on heavens door from Pat Garrett and Billy the kid.

All the music from Last of the Mohicans

Ferrets are Cool

(22,930 posts)
43. Ending sequence of Buckaroo Banzai AND
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 11:21 PM
21 hrs ago


How I feel right at this moment in time: This is not America. Pat Metheny and David Bowie

Brother Buzz

(39,868 posts)
44. Little Green Bag - Reservoir Dogs
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 01:27 AM
19 hrs ago

Quentin Tarantino has a thing about eclectic music, and boy howdy, he picked a great one for the opening of Reservoir Dogs.



Oh, speaking of opening scenes, it was brilliant using Sea Lion Woman for a haunting mood setting opening for The General’s Daughter.

no_hypocrisy

(54,871 posts)
45. Gideon's Oboe from "The Mission"
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 07:16 AM
13 hrs ago

Instrumental -- is it still a "song"?

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