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Posted by suntide (My Page) on Sat, Jun 3, 06 at 19:01
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Hi, I looked but I couldn't find if anybody else has posted this subject before, so I will give it a try.
Anybody have any favorite theme songs? Has anybody seen the movie from 1999 called Wing Commander? The theme song for that movie is awesome. The movie is very good, also.
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Here is a link that might be useful: Wing Commander
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Goldfinger - Shirley Bassey
Live And Let Die - Paul McCartney
The Man With The Golden Arm
Overture from "Grand Prix" - starring James Garner
Moonglow/Theme From "Picnic" - w/Wm. Holden & Kim Novak
And many others that don't come to mind right now. I've recently started to pick up and appreciate the
soundtracks of the great movie musicals like South Pacific,
Oklahoma, West Side Story, Damn Yankees and Guys and Dolls.
With the exception of Easy Rider and Casino, I am not a fan
of just taking pop, rock or rap songs from radio and calling
it a soundtrack, even though it's good to hear particular
songs. That's just another compilation disc. The movie
experience is enhanced with appropriate background music. |
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The Good the Bad and the ugly,
Once upon a time in America. |
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| I own quite afew music soudtracks,but my favorite is help. |
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| Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits fame has done some good soundtrack work. Princess Bride, Cal, and Local Hero are among his best. |
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The Sting
Blade Runner
The Mission
Out of Africa
English Patient
and recently, Brokeback Mountain |
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| I LOVE the song "In The Deep" by Bird York. It was in the movie "Crash" starring Don Cheadle and Sandra Bullock,which was a good movie. Bird York played a small part in that movie too. I never heard that song before until I saw the movie. Now I'm going to get the CD. |
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| Here are some of my favorites. First, the instrumentals, then the songs. I tried to avoid duplicating anyone else's answers. Instrumentals
Theme from Flash Gordon
March from the River Kwai
Theme from Casino Royale
Theme from the Medicine Man Songs
The Ballad of the Green Berets
Never on Sunday
Born Free
Georgy Girl
I Walk the Line
Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte
The Longest Day
Old Yeller
Hair
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Ballad of Thunder Road
North to Alaska
The Hanging Tree
The Three Caballeros
Love Is a Many Splendour Thing
Beauty and the Beast
Rat Race. Choir Version And that is all for now. |
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| Interesting list with some really good choices. A few more: Cancion del Mariachi - Desperado
Lolita YaYa - Lolita (The Ventures)
Town Without Pity
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - (Which wasn't used)
High Noon
People Who Died - The Basketball Diaries
I'll Be Holding On - Black Rain (Gregg Allman)
Windmills Of Your Mind - Thomas Crown Affair (Noel Harrison) |
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| My favourite music/movie combo is 'Magnolia' - a bit unusual in that the script was written around Aimee Mann's songs, specifically 'Deathly' which inspired the central character of Claudia. Another favourite is 'The Graduate', which has a perfect soundtrack. For a proper theme toon, how about Nielson's 'Everybody's Talking At Me' from 'Midnight Cowboy'. |
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No one could have done a better job than Harry Nillson on
"Everybody's Talking". I also have it by Fred Neil, who
wrote it: good but not good enough. For a version that'll
have you shaking your head in disbelief, you have to hear it
by the Templeton Twins (jobird, this is where you come in).
Sort of a Rudy Vallee / "Winchester Cathedral" kind of
thing. Holy Moly! Just got back from a couple of websites about
the Templeton Twins. I thought "Everybody' Talking" was
a one shot deal. But no, these lunatics have had their
way with all sorts of 60's/70's music. Try to check them
out. |
RE: Theme Songs from Movies
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Here is a link that might be useful: Templeton Twins
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