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One tactic that has been used in the publicity of movies (and other media, but mostly movies) for decades is to produce a radio-friendly song to go with the film. By having music intrinsically linked, you can effectively extend the advertising for both the musical artist(s) and the movie by crossing over into the two fields. It often works out pretty well, with both the movie and the artist(s) getting a ton of free publicity from each other. For example, The Graduate and the song "Mrs. Robinson" by Simon & Garfunkel were both major hits when they first came out, with each giving a ton of publicity to the other. (This was the first time a pop hit was used on the soundtrack of a high-profile Hollywood film, and while the trend didn't catch on right away, it's safe to say it eventually became pretty standard practice.) However, the nature of the entertainment industry means that you really can't be sure what people will or will not like. Most of the time, both the song and the movie will flop. Also common is that a movie will be popular, but nobody cares about the song that got attached. One example of that is the song "You Could Be Mine" by Guns N' Roses from Terminator 2: Judgment Day. At the time, both were equally huge deals, and it was a major coup for Terminator 2 to land the first new Guns 'n' Roses song in three years for its soundtrack. The movie is still very popular, but the song is pretty much disassociated with it these days (having the Terminator in its video makes the song AND video look extremely dated; having Guns N' Roses suddenly blaring on the soundtrack early on in Terminator 2 sounds odd now). But in some cases, the song continues to be popular after the movie has gone into obscurity. Sometimes the movie was actually popular at the time, but the song has since become utterly disassociated from its original context. In cases like this, we have what is called a Breakaway Pop Hit. The measure this article will use to gauge is whether or not a song still receives airplay on non-specialized radio stations at least five years after the movie has fallen into obscurity (in other words, people just recently informed of the fact would react with a surprised, "wait, my favorite song is from a movie?") Examples of this should follow these rules: It has to be a full song, released either as a single or otherwise widely available to radio stations. The song has to continue to receive airplay on the very general radio stations (i.e. an FM oldies station would count, but not a Satellite Radio station specifically dedicated to movie themes from the 1960s). Most FM stations count in this regard, since their entirely free mood means that they have to try to appeal to as wide a group as they can. It has to have been created alongside a movie (TV show/video game/whatever). One way you can tell if it counts is if the music video heavily advertises the tie-in. It can't just have been tacked on by the studio to try to get more publicity for it (see Seal's "Kiss From a Rose" for a blatant example of that). With this rule, it does count if the music was released well in advance but was specifically intended as an intrinsic part of the movie (/TV show/video game/whatever). The movie (TV show/video game/whatever) has to fall into obscurity. This is the most subjective part of this entry, but you can tell if it fell into obscurity by the fact that the studio either didn't release a DVD of it (not due only to copyright hell) or they just gave it a "catalog" release (basically a bare bones DVD with just the movie and whatever cheaply available other features such as trailers or music videos are on hand. The price is usually $14.99 or lower). Just having a special edition version does not automatically mean it hasn't fallen into obscurity (for example, see The Criterion Collection for a TON of obscure movies with the red carpet treatment). If the average person is unlikely to know about a movie (/TV show/video game/whatever), it counts.note This is why, for example, "Take My Breath Away" by Berlin is not an example of this trope — the last thing one would call the movie Top Gun is obscure. This applies to an insane number of songs from classic Broadway and movie musicals. Far too many songs have escaped their original musicals to give a full list, but ones that have become standards, while the shows they hail from are almost never seen, can stand as notable examples. See Pop-Cultural Osmosis and Breakaway Advertisement for related phenomenons. See also Award-Bait Song. Naturally, this can be frustrating for fans of the popular song's source. Compare Covered Up and Parody Displacement. A No Recent Examples rule applies to this trope. Examples shouldn't be added until five years after the work itself falls into obscurity, to ensure that the song's popularity endures. |
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Hair was a big source of these, with the title song covered by The Cowsills, "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In" covered by The Fifth Dimension, and "Good Morning Starshine" covered by Oliver. | |
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"We Need a Little Christmas" originated in the musical Mame, but it's since become a standard Christmas Song that is often played in contexts that have nothing to do with the musical. | |
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"The Song That Never Ends" was originally written for Lamb Chop's Play-Along, but became a popular Playground Song outside of the context of the show. | |
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Brigadoon is mostly remembered for popularising the Vanishing Village trope, with the songs and specific plot only known by die-hard theater fans. But one song, "It's Almost Like Being In Love", was insanely popular, and has been covered by literally everybody — most famously Frank Sinatra. | |
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Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, an instrumental group who was one of the biggest non-rock acts of the 1960s, recorded the Burt Bacharach/Hal David tune "This Guy's in Love with You" for their 1968 TV special The Beat of the Brass. The song was different from the group's usual music because Alpert — famed as a trumpeter, not as a vocalist — sang on the song himself, and the only brass portions of the song were a couple of bridges and a fadeout (also performed by Alpert). The day after the special aired, CBS was inundated with phone calls from listeners inquiring where to buy the song. Alpert's label (A&M, which he also co-owned) rush-released the single, and two months later, it was the number-one song in America. The tune remains a popular love song, while the Tijuana Brass special remains completely out of print and obscure. | |
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Loretta Haggers was an aspiring country singer on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Mary Kay Place, who played Loretta, recorded an album in character, Tonite! At the Capri Lounge Loretta Haggers, which hit the top 10 on the country album chart in 1976, and the single "Baby Boy" reached No. 3 on the country chart. Amusingly, the character's unexpected real-world success forced the writers to contrive a scandal for Haggers to explain why she wasn't able to ditch Fernwood for Nashville. | |
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One of the songs on Inai Inai Baa!, "Popopopopose", became this when J-Pop act GReeeeN performed a cover of it, inspiring a dance challenge on YouTube. Said cover is also the first thing that shows up when one searches for the song's name. | |
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Ruth Pointer's "Streets of Gold", from Oliver & Company, was a minor hit back in 1988-89 (and included in a 1998 compilation CD of Disney songs that became pop hits, along with more familiar Disney chestnuts like "Circle of Life" and "A Whole New World"). | |
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Ironically, most Malaysians will recognize the song as one that was used to advertise Road to Avonlea (of which it did not appear in) instead of the titular series that it originated from. | |
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Meet the Robinsons was not as successful or remembered by the general public as Disney's other works were, however, the Rob Thomas song "Little Wonders", which was written for the film, peaked at number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2007. | |
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The song "Best Friend" by Harry Nilsson ("People, let me tell you 'bout my best friend...") used commonly as Stock Music for montages these days, was originally recorded for the 1969-1972 American Sitcom The Courtship of Eddie's Father. | |
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The theme song from Minder, 'I Could Be So Good For You', still ends up being played on the radio sometimes. | |
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The theme to Hawaii Five-O. If that doesn't sound familiar, this will. It's been used in everything from commercials to Bill Nye the Science Guy, usually accompanying surfing or anything to do with the ocean. | |
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Okaasan to Issho: The top-selling Japanese CD single of all time, "Dango San Kyoudai", was originally from an animated segment aired on this show. This also happened to a lesser extent with "AIUE Ohayo", a song from the show that teaches the Japanese alphabet. "Dokonoko no Kinoko", about a mushroom wanting to leave the forest and go on an adventure (set to traditional Russian folk music), became a hugely popular hit and charted on the regular Japanese music charts. It was even sung live by the hosts on NHK's New Year's Eve special (one of the most-watched shows of the year in Japan). Other songs the show featured that became popular children's standards include "Ai Ai" and "Omocha no Cha Cha Cha". |
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"Believe" by Josh Groban was originally written for The Polar Express, but later became a modestly popular Christmas standard that is still being played on the radio and covered by other artists to this day. | |
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"Consider Yourself" was originally from the musical Oliver!, but was able to break away from its origins and become a musical standard, especially as a children's song. | |
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"One Night In Bangkok" and "I Know Him So Well" from Chess. While the soundtrack was released as a concept album at first, it was always intended to eventually be staged. Both songs were hits in their original versions from that original 1984 album: "One Night in Bangkok", performed by actor Murray Head, made it to #3 in the US, while Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson's version of "I Know Him So Well" was a #1 hit in the UK. As with the rest of the music from the show, both songs were written by Benny Anderson and Bjorn Ulvaeus from ABBA. | |
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The Johnny Rivers song "Secret Agent Man" is better remembered in the US than the show to which it was the theme song, Secret Agent (originally known as Danger Man in the UK). At the very least, people will be more familiar with the show's Spiritual Successor The Prisoner, or its animated parody Danger Mouse. | |
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"Sing" from Sesame Street boomed in popularity after The Carpenters released their cover of the song, which charted at #3. It's now one of the show's signature songs. | |
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The Roots' "Lovely, Love My Family" was originally written for the Yo Gabba Gabba! episode "Family". While the show faded into obscurity over the years, it was so popular on the Sirius XM radio station Kids' Place Live that it topped their music countdown, the 13under13, and stayed on that list for 20 weeks. It is also still in the station's regular rotation to this day despite Yo Gabba Gabba! not airing on TV in the United States anymore. | |
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The Waitresses' new wave holiday classic "Christmas Wrapping" was originally recorded for A Christmas Record, a 1981 collection of new holiday songs from the roster of experimental and post-punk label ZE Records. "Christmas Wrapping" was the most commercial song on the release, which includes some rather offbeat takes on Christmas music from the likes of Suicide and Bill Laswell, and was issued as a single to promote a wider release of the compilation in 1982. While "Christmas Wrapping" didn't initially chart very high (only reaching #45 in the UK and not placing at all in the US), its reputation as an alt-rock Christmas classic grew over the years, and it's now a holiday staple that has been covered dozens of times. A Christmas Record, by contrast, is relatively obscure, to the point where even some Waitresses fans aren't aware of its existence. | |
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"Wishing Song" is associated with The Muppet Show, but was written by songwriter Paul Tracey for an obscure local New York show he and his wife were appearing on. According to him, it came into existence because there was going to be an episode about wishing, and Executive Meddling vetoed his previous suggestion, a folk song called "The Shepherd's Lamb". He later recorded it on an album that he gave to several friends, one of whom was a friend of Jim Henson, who included it and some of Tracey's other songs on the show. | |
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"Welcome Back" was originally written by John Sebastian as the theme song for Welcome Back, Kotter. In fact, the song was so popular among the writers that the show was partially renamed after it during development (it was just Kotter before). While the series is well-remembered on its own, "Welcome Back" reached #1 on the charts 5 weeks after its release, and still is in rotation on oldies radio long after the show's conclusion. | |
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Van der Valk: The theme tune, "Eye Level", played by the Simon Park orchestra, became a smash hit in its own right. It was also the only time that the Simon Park Orchestra would grace the UK charts. | |
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Futari wa Pretty Cure: Crossing this trope over with Germans Love David Hasselhoff, Twins' Translated Cover Version of "DANZEN! Futari Wa Pretty Cure" became a Taiwanese pop hit in 2006. | |
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The Raccoons: The show's theme song, "Run with Us", was initially recorded by Steve Lunt as a single-stanza chorus-only song for the first season, but rearranged and extended by Lisa Lougheed (who was also the voice of Lisa). Sadly, this was her only hit song. | |
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Billy Vera and the Beaters released "At This Moment" as a single in 1981, but it initially just reached #79 on the Billboard Hot 100. A few years later, when the song was featured in an episode of Family Ties, it was re-released and became a number-one hit. | |
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Rawhide might not exactly be obscure, but one thing you'll remember about it (other than Clint Eastwood) is its theme. Especially if you're a Blues Brothers fan. | |
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"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" from Roberta. | |
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The short-lived 1984 sitcom Dreams devoted each episode to a specific song that the fictional band was performing. One of the episodes featured the song "Alone", which had been previously recorded by the songwriting team of Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg, but it was years after the show's cancelation that Heart covered it and made it a #1 hit. | |
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"Himawari no Yakusoku" by Hata Motohiro, which was written for Stand by Me Doraemon, has been a top 10 karaoke song in Japan for 5 years as of August 2019. | |
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"Thank You For Being You" was written for the first season finale of the Canadian-American series The Noddy Shop, which was modestly successful during its PBS Kids run, but has since fallen into relative obscurity and hasn't aired on U.S. TV since 2002. These days you're more likely to be familiar with the reworked version, which appears as the closing track on two Mister Rogers' Neighborhood cover albums. | |
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Jack Johnson had a huge adult contemporary crossover hit with "Upside Down", which was written for and originated on the soundtrack for the 2006 Curious George movie. | |
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The French-Canadian animated film Ballerina was a box office flop in the United States (where it was renamed Leap), but Carly Rae Jepsen's soundtrack contribution "Cut to the Feeling" became one of the most critically acclaimed songs of 2017. It got to the point where many people didn't know it was supposed to be from a movie, which was aided by the fact that it had been released several months in advance of the film's American release, and its promotional rollout barely mentioned Ballerina at all. | |
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Remember "Who Let the Dogs Out?" The Baha Men recording was made for Rugrats in Paris. The song itself was Covered Up from Fatt Jakk and his Pack of Pets. A lesser-known example, from the first film, is No Doubt's "I Throw My Toys Around", one of the end credits songs, which has become popular among fans of said band. |
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"Ah! Sweet Mystery Of Life" from Naughty Marietta. Coming full circle, this one made it back to Broadway in Thoroughly Modern Millie. | |
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"September Song" from Knickerbocker Holiday. Didn't know it was from a musical? Neither did the girl from the play The Seven Year Itch. | |
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And then there's "Alabama Song" from Brecht and Weill's follow-up, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, best known for the cover recorded by The Doors in 1967. | |
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Cat's Eye from the anime adaptation of the manga of the same name. The anime is best described as a Cult Classic in Japan as due to obscurity from its age, it's only known to a very scattered congregation of fans and is barely remembered by the mainstream. The theme song to the anime however somehow became a staple at various karaoke venues in the country, with reports claiming that it is often requested at least once a night at any given karaoke venue all over Japan, and some generations have not seen the anime but yet are familiar with the song. | |
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"I Enjoy Being a Girl" is popular with drag queens everywhere. Flower Drum Song, with its offensive (more or less) depictions of Asians, is not so. | |
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A lesser-known example, from the first film, is No Doubt's "I Throw My Toys Around", one of the end credits songs, which has become popular among fans of said band. | |
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Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness is one of the more forgotten entries in the franchise, but the promo song "Angel of Darkness" by Alex C and Yasmin K has enjoyed plenty of popularity and gotten a lot of use in AMVs. It helps that the song isn't played in the game itself, further distancing it from the source. | |
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The Black Eyed Peas recorded a clean version of their song "Let's Get Retarded", "Let's Get It Started", to be a promo song for television coverage of the 2004 NBA playoffs. After all, was said and done on the court, it became one of the group's biggest hits; did you even know there was a "dirty" version? | |
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Another Oscar Hammerstein song, "Ol' Man River" from Show Boat, has been assumed to be an African-American spiritual. | |
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The work of Stephen Sondheim is suspiciously absent of these for the most part, mostly due to his difficult rhythms and specificity of lyrics...with one notable exception: "Send in the Clowns" from A Little Night Music. | |
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The theme to The Greatest American Hero is more popular now than the show, which lasted only a single season. It peaked at #2 shortly after the show began, but hung around on Billboard's Hot 100 charts for over two years. The show was canceled sometime before the song fell off the chart entirely. | |
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"Goodnight My Beautiful" from George White's Scandals of 1939, now most famous for the sampling of Russ Morgan And His Orchestra's version by Leyland Kirby's The Caretaker project. | |
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LeAnn Rimes' "Looking Through Your Eyes", which reached #4 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart, was also written for the film and was the song that got the big radio push at the time, making "The Prayer"'s success that much more impressive. | |
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Bryan Adams' 2002 hit "Here I Am" reached the Top 10 charts across the world when it was released, won a Golden Globe Award, and continues to be played at major events (an instrumental version was used for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games bid) years after it was released. Still, how many of you remember the DreamWorks film Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, which opened in fourth place when it debuted in theaters and barely registered a blip in the weeks afterward? This track was the lead single from it; Adams provided a whole song score for the film. | |
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Call of Duty: Ghosts is often remembered as a low-point for the series, but its credit theme, "Survival" by Eminem, managed to become a respectable pop hit by itself. | |
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Silly Symphonies: Perhaps the earliest animation-related example is "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" from The Three Little Pigs, which became a sort of anthem for audiences who were fighting the threat of ruin during The Great Depression. | |
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Soldier Soldier had a cover of the song "Unchained Melody" (itself a Breakaway Pop Hit - see Film) performed by its stars, Jerome Flynn and Robson Greene. Originally performed within the TV series, this version was so popular it was released as a massive hit single. | |
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Pikmin (2001): In the Japanese release of the original game, Nintendo commissioned an artist to perform a promotional song called "Song of Love." It's actually about how the Pikmin continually do dangerous deeds for the protagonist and follow him without question; even though many of them lose their lives helping him, "We don't ask that you love us." The game sold modestly. The song was a huge hit, particularly with the Salarymen who identified with the Pikmin's plight. | |
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"Somewhere Out There" from An American Tail, which was released as a single performed by Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram. While the film was hugely successful and indirectly led to the Disney Renaissance, the single version was successfully able to shed itself of its origins, and ended up being a hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and a Top 40 radio hit, reaching #2 on the charts in March 1987. It also becomes deliciously ironic when played at proms, since it details family separation. | |
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"You've Got Possibilities", covered by Barbra Streisand and Peggy Lee among others, originally came from It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman (where it was originated by Linda Lavin), a 1966 musical that was one of Broadway's most notorious flops (though it's a bit of a Cult Classic among theatre aficionados). | |
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Train's "Shake Up Christmastime" was also recorded for a Coke commercial and the full version has gotten a fair amount of radio airplay every Christmas since then. | |
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Mirror's Edge was commercially a flop despite being a Cult Classic, but its theme song, "Still Alive" by Lisa Miskovsky (no relation to the Portal theme) reached #29 in her native Sweden and #8 on the UK Indie chart and also received a remix maxi-single that peaked at #23 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. | |
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"No Sex for Ben" by The Rapture was only given a release as part of the Grand Theft Auto IV soundtrack, but it managed to become an underground hit, especially in Australia where it reached an impressive #14 on the Triple J Hottest 100. | |
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Anastasia had two: Aaliyah's cover of "Journey to the Past", which was successful due to the artist's popularity, and Richard Marx and Donna Lewis' "At The Beginning", which was known for being the song that topped the Adult Contemporary charts before the long reign of "My Heart Will Go On". Both of them still play on some mainstream pop stations, though the Aaliyah version of "Journey" is seen as one of her lesser songs (the in-movie version has often been compared to Frozen's "Let It Go" in that regard). The Deana Carter version of "Once Upon a December" is in the same boat, though its popularity is mostly limited to country radio. | |
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While the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode, "Once More With Feeling", doesn't contain a Breakaway Pop Hit, the trope is discussed by Anya complaining that the song she and Xander sing is "more of a book number". Obviously, either Tara's song "I'm Under Your Spell" or Spike's "(Let Me) Rest In Peace" is the one that would have been the BPH, and was intended as a play on this trope. |
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Quest for Camelot The main pop culture contribution of this imitation-Disney film was "The Prayer", a ballad sung by Céline Dion and Andrea Bocelli (Bocelli doesn't sing it in the film itself; he only appears on the end credits reprise) that has since become a standard, covered by, among others, Charlotte Church and Josh Groban. Most people are stunned to learn that (a) the song is from a movie and (b) exactly what movie the song is from. LeAnn Rimes' "Looking Through Your Eyes", which reached #4 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart, was also written for the film and was the song that got the big radio push at the time, making "The Prayer"'s success that much more impressive. |
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Grace Potter's "Something That I Want" was originally the ending theme to Tangled. However, it's become one of the most popular songs among her fans despite only having radio airplay on Sirius XM's children's channels and its only other real exposure outside of that and the movie itself being the occasional retail store music mix and the Disney Infinity video games. Granted, it's not as popular as "I See the Light" or "When Will My Life Begin" but those two songs are inseparable from Tangled while "Something That I Want" is rather easy to separate from it. | |
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O Captain! My Captain!, from the collection Leaves of Grass got this treatment in Israel, when No‘omi Shemer, a locally popular lyricist/poet, translated the poem to Hebrew and set it to music. This version was famously performed by singer Meital Trabelsi following the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. | |
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The Nelly Furtado cover of "Crocodile Rock" was originally recorded for Gnomeo & Juliet, which was a modest success at best. However, the song was a hit on the Radio Disney Top 30, to the point where it beat several Justin Bieber songs, dethroning "Somebody To Love" after a months-long streak at #1. On top of that, the music video got frequent airplay during Disney Channel commercial breaks when the film was released. The song still plays at some of Disney's theme parks and places for kids like Build-A-Bear Workshop. | |
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An obscure case is Patrik Pacard, a Christmas series produced by public broadcaster Second German Television, which centered around a boy inventor. The series had a decent reception and was translated into English several years later, but it never made any impact. However, the title theme (sung by Lady Lily) went on to reach #11 on the German pop charts. It was later released as a single, in both English and extended formats, and had a rerelease in 2004, and gained infamy years later as an internet fad related to Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation. | |
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