Songs With Lyrics To Support The Motion Picture Titles

**Attila Kiss** · 11-24-2018, 12:30 PM

This thread can go two ways:

List Movie titles which have corresponding theme songs, with lyrics. (Please include a youtube video, if you can or will.) Quite often, I find these songs corny, but that is the part of their appeal. I still remember, when my son, being a huge Spawn fan, was ultimately let down for not hearing "SPAWN" in the main title, at all. So much so, it inspire him to write a song to correct that oversight... at the tender age of 7.
Or better yet, list movies inspired by song lyrics. With Hollywood running out of ideas, I feel this trend is going to be the next BIG thing. Therefore, I start the thread, so I can later say... I told you so. Thank God, we don't have to worry about them conceptualizing recent chart toppers, because these songs will actually have to... Say something.

Anyway, the later criteria is the one that inspired this thread, but I'm aware of the fact, that there would be slim pickings for movies based on a song lyrics, hence the expanded rule of vice versa. Needless to say, Instrumentals will NOT qualify, but songs with limited lyrics (such as the ones, only repeating the title of the movie/TV series) will be accepted.

**Attila Kiss** · 11-24-2018, 12:45 PM

This is what I meant by: Words and melodies used in praising the movie title.

**Attila Kiss** · 11-24-2018, 01:08 PM

And here is the case of a song lyrics inspiring a whole movie.

The lyrics to a French song "Le Téléphone Pleure" by the artist Claude François, aka Cloclo was a huge hit in France. It was translated to other languages, among them the English version was "Tears On The Telephone", performed by Glen Curtin. But it was the Italian take, "Piange.. Il Telefono" by Domenico Modugno, that brought its celluloid fame.

**Attila Kiss** · 11-24-2018, 01:22 PM

Emmanuelle brought the erotic movies to the mainstream. Perhaps too much to the mainstream, if you ask me. Me and my classmates skipped few classes one day to watch it as a Matinee presentation. I kid you not. Different place, different times.

**Attila Kiss** · 11-24-2018, 01:44 PM

The fictional pirate was familiar to me thanks to my Fathers fondness for the character in a movie portrayed by the bodybuilder turned actor Steve Reeves (before Schwarzenegger's time). The whole family was looking forward to the mini-series announced in 1976. It was a huge success across Europe and the title song topped many charts, too. I was just a kid, but I still remember this song being the main attraction at our school dance. None of us knew the Italian lyrics, but boy, when the chorus came on, we all sing along like there was no tomorrow. Here is the English version, not that we would've understand it, either.