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Author Topic: The Best Music or Song Used in a Movie Bill Mantz Film Handler Posts: 91 From: Plano, TX Registered: Feb 2001 posted 04-06-2004 05:46 AM                     What are some of the best music or songs made for or used in movies. Please list each individual pieces of music or song that you liked the most in a movie past or present, like Prologue 1915-1923: from The Natural (Randy Newman) Titles: from Chariots Of Fire (Vangelis) List as many as you like and try not to duplicate any music or song others have list before you. Have Fun  |  IP: Logged Demetris Thoupis Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1240 From: Aradippou, Larnaca, Cyprus Registered: Apr 2001 posted 04-06-2004 12:18 PM                     You want a list?? OK. When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge (Selftitled picture) I Want To Spend My Lifetime - Marc Anthony & Tina Arena (Mask Of Zorro) Everything I Do - Bryan Adams (Robin Hood - Prince Of Thieves) I Don't Want To Miss A Thing - Aerosmith (Armageddon) I Wanna Run To You - Whitney Houston (The Bodyguard) I Will Find You - Clannad (The Last Of The Mohicans) Come What May - Ewan Mcgregor & Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge) Circle Of Life - The Band version (Lion King) Take My Breath Away - Berlin (Top GUN) Hopelessly Devoted To You - Olivia Newton John (Grease) My Immortal & Bring Me To Life - Evanescence (Daredevil) There You'll Be - Faith Hill (Pearl Harbor) My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion (Titanic) It Must Have Been Love - Roxette (Pretty Woman) Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman - Bryan Adams (Don Juan De Marco) All For Love - Bryan Adams & Rod Steward & Sting (The Three Musketeers) Licence To Kill - Gladys Knight (Selftitled James Bond Film) For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton (Selftitled James Bond Film) One In A Million - Bosson (Miss Congeniality) Beauty Has Her Way - Mummy Calls (The Lost Boys)!!!! Shape Of My Heart - Sting (Leon) This Used To Be My Playground - Madonna (A League Of Their Own) Speak Softly Love - Andy Williams and a lot of others (Godfather) Where To I Begin - Andy Williams and a lot of others (Love Story) Will You Be There - Michael Jackson (Free Willy 1) Friends Never Say Goodbye - Elton John (The Road To El Dorado)!! Those are some of the songs I simply loved And of-course complete OST All Lord Of The Rings Trilogy Pearl Harbor Mask Of Zorro 1942 Quest For Paradise Schindler's List Pearl Harbor THE PASSION OF CHRIST!!!!!!!! The Last Samurai JADE Meet Joe Black Bram Stockers Dracula Scent Of A Woman (Especially the unforgetable TANGO) The Fifth Element I Could keep going on forever but I will leave room for others too. I will add on the list I know you asked for FAVORITE and not FAVORITES but I love all of them. And you also NEVER EVER ask a projectionist which movie he loves most of all times... Demetris Being a projectionist is not a Job. It's An ART  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 04-06-2004 03:03 PM                     Rocky theme and Godfather theme.  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 04-06-2004 05:48 PM                        Although, "MEET JOE BLACK" was already mentioned, I believe it was only for the score and not for the various songs used. There is a song played during the end credits of the film by Hawaii's Israel Kamawiwo'ole who passed away a few years ago. The song is titled "WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD" to the tune of "SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW. It was also used during the end credits to "FINDING FORRESTER and during the recent "FIFTY FIRST DATES". Another piece of music I love is the most famous part of of Serge Rachmaninoff's "RAPSODY ON A THEME BY PAGANINI" which was heard in "SOMEREWHERE IN TIME" and the 1953 MGM film, "THE STORY OF THREE LOVES". It was during the theatrical showing of " STORY OF THREE LOVES when I first heard and fell in love with the music when I was only 14 years old. Film score I love among many, many others include-- "GLORY" James Horner "GETTYSBURG" Randy Edelman "STEEL MAGNOLIA" Georges Delerue "VERTIGO" Bernard Hermann THE TEN COMMANDMENTS" Elmer Bernstein "THE SEA HAWK" Erich W. Korngold "AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS" Victor Young "COCOON" James Horner "THE ROBE" Alfred Newman "THE ALAMO" (1960) Dimitri Tiomkin` "HOW THE WEST WAS WON" Alfred Newman "HOOSIERS" & "RUDY" Jerry Goldsmith THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT" Jerry Goldsmith "THE RIGHT STUFF" Bill Conte "SCHLINDLER'S LIST" John Williams and most of all ---- the 20th Century Fox fanfare & CinemaScope extention by Alfred Newman -Claude  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-06-2004 05:54 PM                     Most of the James Bond films had excellent "self-titled" Title music with Live and Let Die being way up there on my list. I wonder if musical films (not necessarily musicals) qualify. With that you get things like This Is Spinal Tap or even A Hard Days Night or HELP!. Most of the tunes from Warriors was quite good and also Fame. Steve  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 04-06-2004 06:38 PM                     I would agree that the Fox Fanfare truly says, "Now, THIS is a MOVIE!" 2 John William's pieces come to mind: Theme from JAWS and Theme from SUPERMAN. When you hear JAWS, you immediately think SHARK!! I think SUPERMAN is just a great, majestic tune...if you listen closely, there is even a small salute to the SUPERMAN TV show theme. The most beautiful song I've heard in a LONG time was at the end of the SOPRANO'S this week (4/4/04). It was an aria entitled " CHI' IL BEL SOGNO DI DORETTA (MAGDA) (from La Rondine)" The singer is Luba Orgonasova. A beautiful tune in the extreme upper register, demanding great control on the part of the singer. Just beautiful. Carmine Coppola's theme to NAPOLEON is also very exciting. I was one of the lucky ones to see this with a full orchestra conducted by Mr. Coppola. One of my greatest movie evenings ever.  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 04-06-2004 07:18 PM                     I'd agree about the Bonds, most of them are great songs, I particularly like Thunderball, FYEO, Spy Who Loved Me, View to a Kill, just to name a few. I also though Bohemian Rhapsody used in Wayne's World was great!  |  IP: Logged Demetris Thoupis Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1240 From: Aradippou, Larnaca, Cyprus Registered: Apr 2001 posted 04-07-2004 12:49 AM                     Adding UBp. Beautiful Maria Of My Soul - Los Lobos (The Mambo Kings) Demetris  |  IP: Logged Bill Mantz Film Handler Posts: 91 From: Plano, TX Registered: Feb 2001 posted 04-07-2004 01:45 AM                     Here are a few more Your Song: from Moulin Rouge (Craig Armstrong) Good Morning: from Singin' in the Rain (Nacio Herb Brown/Arthur Freed) Batman Theme: from Batman Original Motion Picture(Danny Elfman) Keep them Coming there are a lot more out there. There are a lot of music or song's that were better than the movie. Also try to fined some from movie most of us here on Film-Tech have forgotten about.  |  IP: Logged Demetris Thoupis Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1240 From: Aradippou, Larnaca, Cyprus Registered: Apr 2001 posted 04-07-2004 02:18 AM                     Remember the end of the great DEAD POETS SOCIETY That music really shocked me  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-08-2004 01:51 AM                        Songs written for & performed in movies: High School Confidential The Girl Can't Help It Pet Semetary Curtis Mayfield's "Superfly" soundtrack Bobby Womack's "Across 110th Street" Trouble Man Shaft "Jailhouse Rock" is dopey & was tired when it was new, even if Leiber & Stoller DID write it. Original orchestral accompaniment soundtracks: I'm in the camp that finds John Williams an infuriating, klutzy, borrowing hack. James Horner's sludge, too. Give me Franz Waxman any day - among all his brilliant stuff, "Bride of Frankenstein" is out of this world. Eli Gold's is good too, & "Mad World" is super. Korngold & Steiner sometimes can get on my nerves. Compiled (& honesty admitted) or featured classical works: Probably my favorite 'compiled' score arranged from classical works is the job Carl Davis did of arranging Rimksky-Korsakov themes into a successful whole for "Thief of Bagdad'. Lots of others have evocatively used classics for appropriate moments (cf: John Williams); this goes back to compiled scores in the silents days, & further to stage vaudeville & melodrama, & further still. "Life is Beautiful" had fun with the Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman. The undisputed genius of this & its omega was Carl Stalling.  |  IP: Logged Demetris Thoupis Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1240 From: Aradippou, Larnaca, Cyprus Registered: Apr 2001 posted 04-08-2004 02:32 AM                     One More I remember The Colour Of The Night - Lauren Christy (Selftitled Film)  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 04-08-2004 10:08 AM                       You Only Live Twice - Nancy Sinatra North by Northwest - Bernard Herrmann The Flim-Flam Man - Jerry Goldsmith The Sons of Katie Elder - Elmer Bernstein The Magnificient Seven - Elmer Bernstein  |  IP: Logged Hillary Charles Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 748 From: York, PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 04-08-2004 10:31 AM                     I second Claude's mention of Rachmaninoff's "Rapsody on a Theme by Paganini." It's so romantic and John Barry's "Somewhere in Time" score compliments it beautifully. It's also the tune Bill Murray is learning to play in "Groundhog Day." I'm actually practicing it myself to play on the piano at my wedding this fall. Speaking of John Barry, those JAMES BOND songs and scores (with few exceptions) are fantastic, including those done by others. My fondness for the OHMSS music is already known. And good for you Tim. "The Sons of Katie Elder" is REAL big-screen Western music, comparable to Bernstein's "other" great western score. I want to add Hans Zimmer's score from "Thelma & Louise" as well as Glenn Frey's song, "Part of You, Part of Me."  |  IP: Logged William Leland III Master Film Handler Posts: 336 From: Charleston, SC, Registered: Aug 2002 posted 04-08-2004 03:24 PM                        "Donnie Darko" - "Gary Jules's - Mad World" amazing song, Tears for Fears did the orginal, but i like Gary Jules version better. "Band of Brothers" theme music, not sure who does it, but it very powerful "The Last of the Mohicans" the theme music, one of my favorites scores. i use to play it for our theatre music.  |  IP: Logged

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