Almost everyone living in this planet formed a strong affinity to watching movies. We all have been consumed inside the seats of a cinema, reveling on the greatness of the actors gilded on the silver screen, savoring the well-thought of story and relate to whichever movie character we can. Aside from absorbing all of the cheesy lines, the impressive technologies used and the different perspectives thrown in between the scenes, we are also suckers for the movie’s official theme song. Whilst many regard theme songs as nothing but avenues to reap more money (in the end of movie and song producers that is), we must not discount the fact that it would not have an official award to be given at the Oscar’s or the Grammy’s just for nothing. Despite the fact that you might have forgotten all the …show more content…
meaty dialogues thrown in, the song will be somewhat stacked neatly on your consciousness waiting for you to sing it when provoked. Below are some of the most successful and most memorable movie soundtracks that have been part of almost everyone’s memory.
They have meted a wide stretch of audience through album sales, track streams and number of minutes played on-air, making them the cream of the crop out of the extensive cistern of theme songs that’s ever known to humanity.
It might come-off as a surprise but the best movie theme song to have stayed the longest in the illustrious Billboard Hot 100 Charts would be Debby Boone’s You Light Up My Life. Used for the movie with the same title, it’s originally sang by Kasey Cisyk and remade by Pat Boone’s daughter. The soulful and heartfelt way of singing this ballad made it stay as the number 1 track for 10 consecutive weeks, grabbed an Oscar statuette and tied with Barbra Straisand’s Evergreen for Grammy’s Best Original Soundtrack.
Quite expectedly, also grabbing the top choice would be the timeless duet of Diana Ross and Lionel Richie for the song Endless Love. Brooke Shields starred on the movie with the same title as the official theme song, and this duet have stayed for a longish 27 weeks on the charts, tagging it as the best duet hit of all
time. If you think that Bryan Adam’s monstrous song (Everything I Do) I Do It for You is nothing but a love song, think twice as it’s been used as the soundtrack of the movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Whilst it can be said that Adam’s career at that era is quite established already, the usage of this track on the movie gave it a humongous boost in patronization and sales. Straying away from the funky disco tune that they are known for, Bee Gees shushed the whole music community when they released the ballad How Deep Is Your Love for the film Saturday Night Fever in 1977. Also for the same movie, Bee Gees produced Night Fever to remind their growing fan base at that moment how flexible they can be as performers. Dubbed to be one of Whitney Houston’s biggest tracks of all time, I Will Always Love You had been iconic and reminiscent of how great Houston’s career have been. Used for the movie The Bodyguard, one trivia that surrounds this song is that it’s been written by another respected artist Dolly Parton in 1973 but only been ballooned when Houston sang it in 1992. Before the success of The Bodyguard’s official soundtrack, Boyz II Men led the charts for thirteen weeks with the song End of The Road, co-written by Babyface and used for the Eddie Murphy movie, The Boomerang.
The film begins with the song “Finger Poppin Time” by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters. I believe this is one of the best ever introduction
In the book Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago, LeAlan Johns and Lloyd Newman, as two kids grow up in ghetto, document their life from 1993 to 1996 to show the rest of the America the reality of living in a poor black neighborhood. Through vast interviews, diaries and monologues, Johns and Newman provide a new perspective on the ongoing issues in the ignorant black community; they encourage the black residents to express their point of views on gang, drug, crime, and they also address their hope. Since this book is story with long time span and fragmental writing styles, it is impossible to finish the soundtrack for chapters in detail within eight songs. Therefore, if I am going to be the music composer of the movie based on this book, I would choose eight songs for the following eight themes.
the theme music is very good because the pace can be sped up or slowed
with and have heard Symphony No. five by Beethoven. Whether it was a theme in movie
Another song that should be played during this production (where at?) is the song, “I Hope You Dance,” by Lee Ann Womack. This song is a beautiful song, written by a mother and sung to her children about life. This song goes along with Amanda’s relationship with Tom and Laura, and how she wants them to live long, happy lives, filled with love.
Louis Armstrong’s rendition of “(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue” altered various components of the original tune as he incorporated several jazz techniques typical of the 1920’s and pulled the piece out of its original context of Broadway. Doing so greatly changed the piece as a whole and its meaning, to call attention to the necessity of civil rights for the black population. Armstrong’s life was not purely devoted to music. As a civil rights advocate for the black population in the U.S., he grabbed the attention of the government through his fame and helped to bring equal rights to his brethren. But at times, Armstrong allowed his actions to undermine the importance of African American civil rights, which created negative sentiments
The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) had a soundtrack that used jazz standards, including those particularly from Bill Evans. “The piano introduction of ‘Jack’s Theme’. is built on a phrase taken from bars 5 and 6 of the second chorus of the Bill Evans and Miles Davis composition ‘Blue in Green’ from the album Kind of Blue.” (Biggs). This type of influence on this track is seen throughout the whole soundtrack of the film.
This theme was shown in the film by Kyle dying when Justin couldn’t even say bye to him over video chat because he felt as though he was not important to his parents because they always were saying how Kyle is such a good kid. When Kyle died Justin realized how much he really cared about Kyle. The theme of Max was also shown when Max was taken from Justin’s house to be put down and Justin realizes how much he misses him and he was wrong to let animal control take him for something he didn’t
Number Ten: The Black Ghosts – “Full Moon” (Twilight). Played during the opening credits and first scene of Twilight
“With pop culture apparently suffering from a retro epidemic lately, today’s 60th anniversary of Singin’ in the Rain provides a chance to look back at a film that was ahead of its time in the way that it, too, looked back” (Bahr). Even though it wasn’t all too successful in the awards department, Singin’ in the Rain stuck with audiences because it was so far ahead of its time. It took advantage of all the latest technology while still keeping its “classic movie” feel. In addition, the film implemented both original and well-known songs into the story. This makes the film feel familiar but fresh and new to its audiences. “…Singin’ in the Rain’s jokes and light parodies of actors and Hollywood are still surprisingly insightful and effective” (Bahr). Having been the most researched musical in all of film’s history, it was probably the most correct parody of Hollywood that the industry has ever seen
Enhancing and progressing the histrionic narrative, Oz superbly fuses the action of the plot with the film’s musical numbers. “Follow the Yellow Brick Road,” “If I Only Had a Brain,” and the enduring immortality of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” are songs almost everyone is familiar with and are fundamental to the film’s standing as a major work of art.
The song I chose was Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. It was written for their 1975 album A Night at the Opera by Freddie Mercury. I have chosen this song for various reasons. The first was the lack of repetition compared to other songs. First, it is an older song that many people have heard but never really understood.
The musical selections and songs that were sung told a story and narrated the almost the entire film, as is expected in...
The entire recital was choreographed by Angie Favre the coach of the dance team and teacher of the dance class offered at bay high she was also assisted by the captains of the high school dance team Katelyn Everhart, Kaylee Hinkle, and Shelbe Mccolley. The music used in this recital include songs from the original soundtrack from all three of these Disney movies including part of your world by Jodi Benson and kiss the girl by Samuel Wright from the little mermaid, Belle by Emma Watson and be our guest by Ewan Mcgregor from Beauty and the Beast, and you've got a friend in me by Randy Newman and when she loved me by Sarah Mclachlan from Toy Story. Along with songs from these movies they also had songs that went along with the theme like crank
The film doesn’t have a soundtrack, instead it has a mostly original score which is “chopped and screwed” throughout the piece. Britell was able to do this after learning of the director’s love for the sub-genre of hip hop. Chopped and screwed music is this form of southern hip-hop where you are taking tracks of music and you slow them down. Anyone knows when you slow music down like that, the pitch goes down. You would also repeat and reposition certain phrases. You do that to the point where the music, an exceedingly weird manner, is stretched and bent. Hip hop artists tend to talk very fast and in the wake of this mumble rap error, there many times you can miss what they are saying. With a track gets chopped and screwed you can feel the emotion behind it like you never heard it before. Same emotions that Barry wanted conveyed in the