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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
I watched that movie a dozen times. sheshe2 Yesterday #51
I watched it again recently in honor of Bud Cort Skittles Yesterday #53
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 Monday #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
This song and movie clip have really grown on me. Thanks for sharing! Chasstev365 Yesterday #55
Glad you enjoyed it! 50 Shades Of Blue Yesterday #56
I Would Walk 500 Miles from Benny and Joon MIButterfly Saturday #8
Great song, Great movie! red dog 1 Sunday #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 Sunday #20
Interesting fact I uncovered one day. House of Roberts Sunday #22
Indian Love Call - Slim Withman - Mars Attacks Chasstev365 Saturday #10
This song was also in the quirky Asteroid City. markodochartaigh Sunday #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 Sunday #13
Love this song too! MIButterfly Sunday #21
"Forever Young," in Napoleon Dynamite IndianaDave Sunday #14
Here ya go cbabe Sunday #29
I think that I have to go with The Galaxy Song markodochartaigh Sunday #15
What a great tune ! Pythonesque for sure and really clever. I'm pretty sure all the astronomical facts and..... FadedMullet Sunday #36
Maybe trite, but one of my top choices is Also Sprach Zarathustra prelude from 2001. quaint Sunday #17
Not trite, still wonderful. Many symphony "collections" on Youtube include it. FadedMullet Sunday #38
That's my choice too! WestMichRad Sunday #39
That movie and its soundtrack are epic! av8rdave Yesterday #57
I Will Remember You - Sarah Mclachlan Nittersing Sunday #18
From Bagdad Cafe Morbius Sunday #23
Yes! The movie is in my top two after Babe. cbabe Sunday #30
Come Feed the Birds from Mary Poppins. debm55 Sunday #24
Tuppins, tuppins, tuppins a bag. (Two pence?) applegrove Sunday #26
Julie's voice is wonderful singing that song debm55 Sunday #40
Wild Summer Nights LogDog75 Sunday #25
Iris from City of Angels Diamond_Dog Sunday #27
I just saw City of Angels the other night for the first time - Great movie! red dog 1 19 hrs ago #60
Ruthless People!Mick Jagger pandr32 Sunday #28
Arms of the Angel 4TheArts Sunday #31
If I had words/Babe cbabe Sunday #32
Here's an odd one, but I really like it. "Make Me Smile" from the movie "The Full Monty" performed by....... FadedMullet Sunday #33
Blues Traveler's tune "But Anyway" is one of my all time favorite tunes. What movie soundtrack used it? FadedMullet Sunday #34
Kingpin (1996) red dog 1 20 hrs ago #59
Deb55 - You're still my favorite pollster her on DU, but you'll admit that this is a good one. FadedMullet Sunday #35
Yes, it is, FadedMullet. debm55 Sunday #41
Seems Like Old Times ... from Annie Hall SharonAnn Sunday #37
Les miserables Loisita123 Sunday #42
Ending sequence of Buckaroo Banzai AND Ferrets are Cool Sunday #43
Little Green Bag - Reservoir Dogs Brother Buzz Monday #44
Gideon's Oboe from "The Mission" no_hypocrisy Monday #45
Day-O Beetle Juice Emile Monday #46
Now and forever... this one! some_of_us_are_sane Monday #48
Unchained Melody in Ghost. wnylib Monday #49
Amazing how they were able to place Wreckless Eric's "Whole Wide World" into.. Tikki Yesterday #50
Somewhere over the rainbow. sheshe2 Yesterday #52
I am adding Annie. sheshe2 Yesterday #54
Just Dropped in to See What Condition My Condition Was In - The Big Lebowski av8rdave Yesterday #58
One of my all-time favorite movies. red dog 1 19 hrs ago #61
The Marseillaise in Casablanca. soldierant 14 hrs ago #62

Skittles

(171,602 posts)
53. I watched it again recently in honor of Bud Cort
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 02:32 AM
Yesterday

when he passed he was 77 so he didn't make it to 80 like Maude, although in real life Ruth Gordon was 75 when she made this movie. And Vivian Pickles, who played Harold's mum. is still going strong at age 94

edited to add that Cat (Yusuf now), born the same year as Bud (and with Harold in one of those funeral scenes) is still entertaining!

50 Shades Of Blue

(11,385 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

(2,663 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

(6,506 posts)
22. Interesting fact I uncovered one day.
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 07:30 PM
Sunday

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

(5,524 posts)
16. This song was also in the quirky Asteroid City.
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 03:06 AM
Sunday

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

(904 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
Sunday

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

quaint

(5,054 posts)
17. Maybe trite, but one of my top choices is Also Sprach Zarathustra prelude from 2001.
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 09:19 AM
Sunday
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av8rdave

(10,656 posts)
57. That movie and its soundtrack are epic!
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 12:39 PM
Yesterday

I “discovered” Strauss because of that film!

red dog 1

(33,039 posts)
60. I just saw City of Angels the other night for the first time - Great movie!
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 10:56 PM
19 hrs ago

Good choice

pandr32

(14,240 posts)
28. Ruthless People!Mick Jagger
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 09:14 PM
Sunday

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

(904 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
Sunday

.......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

(904 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
Sunday

Loisita123

(17 posts)
42. Les miserables
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 11:14 PM
Sunday

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

(22,935 posts)
43. Ending sequence of Buckaroo Banzai AND
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 11:21 PM
Sunday


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

Brother Buzz

(39,873 posts)
44. Little Green Bag - Reservoir Dogs
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 01:27 AM
Monday

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

(54,877 posts)
45. Gideon's Oboe from "The Mission"
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 07:16 AM
Monday

Instrumental -- is it still a "song"?

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Tikki

(15,133 posts)
50. Amazing how they were able to place Wreckless Eric's "Whole Wide World" into..
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 01:30 AM
Yesterday

those scenes in the Movie "Stranger Than Fiction".Love, love the song.

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Tikki

av8rdave

(10,656 posts)
58. Just Dropped in to See What Condition My Condition Was In - The Big Lebowski
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 12:42 PM
Yesterday

That movie made that song a decades long earworm for me.

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