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- Stand By Me. Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman. 31 votes. Named After: 'Stand By Me' by Ben E. King. In the engaging film Stand by Me, four young boys - Gordie Lachance (Wil Wheaton), Chris Chambers (River Phoenix), Teddy Duchamp (Corey Feldman), and Vern Tessio (Jerry O'Connell) - embark on an unforgettable quest.
- Lean On Me. Morgan Freeman, Robert Guillaume, Beverly Todd. 7 votes. Named After: 'Lean On Me' by Bill Withers. In this fact-based film, a New Jersey superintendent, Dr. Frank Napier (Robert Guillaume), watches helplessly as East Side High becomes the lowest-ranked school in the state.
- When A Man Loves A Woman. Andy Garcia, Meg Ryan, Lauren Tom. 6 votes. Named After: 'When A Man Loves A Woman' by Percy Sledge. A wife and mother of two daughters, Alice Green (Meg Ryan) has developed a severe drinking problem.
- Unforgettable. Ray Liotta, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Coyote. 6 votes. Named After: 'Unforgettable' by Nat King Cole. Wrongfully accused of murdering his wife, Dr. David Krane (Ray Liotta) is luckily acquitted through a technicality.
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Ultimate Song Title Movie List. by Cine-Maniacal | created - 22 Aug 2018 | updated - 07 Sep 2018 | Public. An aggregate, unranked list of the 200 best "Song Title" movies. Ever. Period. Each movie shares its title with a hit song.
- Over the Rainbow. - Film: The Wizard of Oz (1939) - Performer(s): Judy Garland. - Music: Harold Arlen. - Lyrics: E. Y. Harburg. The ballad "Over the Rainbow" is the centerpiece of what is considered to be one of the greatest musical moments in film history, with Judy Garland performing the piece in "The Wizard of Oz."
- As Time Goes By. - Film: Casablanca (1942) - Performer(s): Dooley Wilson. - Music/Lyrics: Herman Hupfeld. "Casablanca" is one of the definitive romance movies in cinematic history, and part of it owes to the song "As Time Goes By."
- Singin' in the Rain. - Film: Singin' in the Rain (1952) - Performer(s): Gene Kelly. - Music: Nacio Herb Brown. - Lyrics: Arthur Freed. The film "Singin' in the Rain" featured a number of standards and old classic tunes, with the song "Singin' in the Rain" very obviously being the inspiration for the film's title.
- Moon River. - Film: Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) - Performer(s): Audrey Hepburn. - Music: Henry Mancini. - Lyrics: Johnny Mercer. The song "Moon River" was performed by Audrey Hepburn for the film "Breakfast at Tiffany's," but the song held personal importance for songwriter Johnny Mercer.
- Blue Moon
- Cheek to Cheek
- Ol’ Man River
- Somewhere Over The Rainbow
- When You Wish Upon A Star
- Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
- As Time Goes by
- White Christmas
- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
- Baby, It’S Cold Outside
“Blue Moon” evolved as a song from the MGM soundtrack-writing system, source of some of the best movie songs in their time; Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart tailored the eventual finished version for a Clark Gable film called Manhattan Melodrama. The beautiful lyrics – “Blue moon/You saw me standing alone/Without a dream in my heart/Without a love o...
Russian-Jewish émigré Irving Berlin wrote “Cheek To Cheek” in a single day, on demand, for the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie Top Hat. The song lights up a memorable scene during which a tuxedoed Astaire declares his love for Rogers (dancing elegantly in a feathery white gown). The gorgeous words – “And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak” ...
For a tune to really make its mark among the best movie songs it sometimes has to find the right singer. The 1927 Broadway drama Show Boat featured Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s song performed by actors, and, a year later, Paul Whiteman (with Bing Crosbyon vocals) had a minor hit with it. But when it was sung in the 1936 film version by Pa...
Some songs are the perfect vehicle for a performer’s interpretation and improvisation, and certain numbers are remembered more for the singer than the writer. If you mention “Somewhere Over The Rainbow,” people are more likely to think of Judy Garland’s soaring version for the 1939 film The Wizard Of Oz than the gorgeous work of composers Harold Ar...
Cliff Edwards, a middle-aged singer known as Ukulele Ike, voices the crow in Dumbo, but his voice is better known for singing the wonderfully sentimental “When You Wish Upon A Star” for the Disney classic Pinocchio. The movie theme was written by two giants of film music – Leigh Harline (“Whistle While You Work”) and Ned Washington (“High Noon”). T...
Who would have thought that a song written for an Abbott and Costello comedy would become a wartime classic? Patty, Maxene, and Laverne Andrews based their early style on the close harmonizing of The Boswell Sisters, and the public loved it. The Andrews Sisters’ song about the boogie-woogie bugle boy of Company B survived World War II and was a hit...
“As Time Goes By” was actually written by Herman Hupfeld for a short-lived 30s Broadway musical, Everybody’s Welcome, but took on a life of its own as one of Hollywood’s best movie songs, becoming embedded in the popular musical psyche after it was sung by pianist Dooley Wilson in the Humphrey Bogart-Ingrid Bergman movie Casablanca. The same old st...
Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” was on an album of songs from the film Holiday Inn, and the lyrics resonated with thousands of American troops away on duty in the Second World War. “White Christmas” earned songwriter Irving Berlin a 1943 Academy Award and, well beyond being one of the best movie songs of all time, it has become the biggest-selling ...
This started as a dark Christmas song, but when Judy Garland complained that some of Hugh Martin’s lyrics were uncomfortably bleak, he altered them and “Have yourself a merry little Christmas/It may be your last/Next year we may all be living in the past” became “Have yourself a merry little Christmas/Let your heart be light/Next year all our troub...
Another song that made it into the movies only by chance, but which rightly deserves its place among the best movie songs of all time, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” replaced Frank Loesser’s “Slow Boat To China” and became a smash hit, winning an Oscar for Best Original Song. In the movie Neptune’s Daughter, the song – a jokey call-and-response number t...
Jul 31, 2023 · The movies simply adopt the titles. This list covers many popular movies that took their name from a song, taking the power and influence of the song itself to build a wider cultural...
Mar 6, 2024 · The best movie songs from 'The Bodyguard,' 'Saturday Night Fever, 'Encanto' and more — based on their ranking on Billboard's Hot 100. Top Movie Songs of All Time
