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February 3, 2025 • 13 mins
Friday 4: Favorite Movie Music
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What we're doing here today is a Friday for which
is your four favorite of something that could be anything, really,
your four favorite cartoon dogs, your four favorite football players,
your four favorite Christmas movies, any little thing under the sun.
And today's one is kind of an interesting one. It
actually came up, excuse me, it came up when we

(00:20):
were talking randomly. Conversation broke out randomly earlier this week
about fivele Goes West.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah, fivele Goes West, but more specifically an American tale
which produced a song they got huge. It was like,
what did we say, number two? It got up to
number two on the charts in the mid eighties somewhere
out there, which you know, I think anybody who has
been alive in the last you know, since the nineties
probably is familiar with this song. And if it's a

(00:47):
real heart tugging moment of what is generally a great
jovial kids movie that was the brainchild of Steven Spielberg,
if you could believe that, and it sparked a common right,
it's just like, that's got to be one of the
most successful songs from a movie. And then we got
to thinking about this, what are the four best songs

(01:09):
that are associated with movies. But we have we have to,
we really have to to pair this down because that
could open up an entire can of worms. So what
are what are the rules here? Like, how are we
how are we getting to the four best songs associated
with movies?

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Well, now, I would say that it would be cheating
if you grabbed a popular song that was already around
and then the movie used it in its soundtracks.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
So so the song independently existed, yeah, and then it
was put in a movie.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, yeah, Like the one I'm thinking of is is
that that song by CCR and the movie Forrest Gump. Yeah,
you know, something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
There's like three or four created songs in there. But yeah,
yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
So so essentially you kind of have to think about it.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
And this is gonna maybe probably shorten some people's list
because you might be thinking, like major hit songs that
were just happened to be in movies, not songs that
were written for, or altered for, or specifically designed to
be in a movie. Right, And there's a difference. So
we're going with this. The songs on our list would
not have existed without the movie in which it is in.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
It makes sense.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Now they exist outside of the movie now, but the
reason it was created in the first place was because.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Of the movie. Does that make sense.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah, I'm doing a good job of explaining this, that's
what you're saying. Yeah, all right, is your list ready?

Speaker 1 (02:25):
My list is ready?

Speaker 2 (02:26):
All right, Matt case fire away with your Friday four
of songs associated with movies?

Speaker 1 (02:31):
All right, and see. The lovely thing is I'm back
in the studio and I can have drops for all
of these in which I've gathered.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
The first one is is these aren't ranked.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
I couldn't find the.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Mount Rushmos is not ranked either, for whatever it's worth. Yeah,
I mean four heads on a wall. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Sometimes you have a definite number one. I don't necessarily
have a number one, but I have a one that
I want to end on for comedic timing. But I
will go ahead and start here with a really good one.
Maybe this is the best one. Maybe it's not.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
I don't know, but it's the official Lord of the
Rings theme. Ah. Yes, to be back in the shire again.
You are living in a mud hunt carved out of
the side of a hill. You're a tiny person with
Harry feet and your name's Bobo, that's right, and you're
about to save Middle Earth.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
We don't know that yet, but you're gonna try.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Right, You're at least gonna try. Gandalf's about to bump
his head and we're all about to go on a tail.
We'll never forget. That kind of lasts like a little
bit too long. Let's just be honest.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
It trags off. Did we need three movies?

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Did we need three movies? And did the last one
need to drag on until like the next day. You know,
you're like, you come back from lunch and you're like,
it's still going.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
We'd be, we'd be we'd be asking ourselves that about
eight hundred times during the Avengers movies.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
But I digress, right, But anyways, it's a beautiful song.
You get that. I think, what is that the tin
whistle playing there? Irish, the guy with the iris tin whistle,
he just he's playing his heart out here or she's
playing playing their heart out there, and it's beautiful. I
love it, all right, and it brings a tear to
my all right, all right, go ahead, my next one
with so I got two of them that are more
like from kids movies. And two of them that are

(04:05):
from adults. And so we'll go to the first kids movie.
This is definitely my favorite kids movie of all time.
I've talked about it before and it's the best. It's
underrated on Rotten Tomatoes. It is what it is. But
there was a lot to choose from from this soundtrack.
You could have gone no in Nottingham. You could have
you could have gone a couple of different ways. You
could have gone the whistle Stop song, which is a
classic one from this one, but there really isn't anywhere

(04:27):
past the intro song O de Lally from Disney's Robin
Hood Robin Hood and Little John Welcome through the Forest,
laughing back and forth.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
The oh yeah, that's good. Yeah, classic yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
This and this and that and I haven't saich a
good time? Loly golly, what of to day?

Speaker 3 (04:48):
It's crazy.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
We talked about this that one. My wife can't sit
through that one. My wife's just like, you know, it
just doesn't work for her. But you want to know
something that I believe it is just like I think
that was one of the few Disney movies that really
spoke to us dudes, like like, you know, like a
lot of Disney movies even to the present day are
mostly made for young girls, and boys can like them too,

(05:10):
And you know, I'm not saying that they can't, but
they're generally, you know, diverted into you know, the younger girls.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
You know, you can go through all the princesses and
all that jazz.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
But man, the Robin Hood, Disney's Robin Hood, the music,
the characters, the hero. It's just like a great one
for young boys to just like watch and be like, yeah,
I want to be like Robin Hood.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah. So that's a good one, all right, next.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Next one. Everybody will recognize this one right away when
you got in the theaters. And I didn't have the
privilege of actually watching this in the theater. I wish
I would have. This is not necessarily like one of
my favorite movies, but it's a sound that everyone knows.
In the way it starts, it just hits you right there.
You're ready for it.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, up, up, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
This has to be like one of the top five.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Those trumpets coming in and you can see the credits
rolling in and you're ready, You're ready for the face honesty.
That really changed the trajectory of sci fi as we
know it.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Not even just that movies. It changed the trajectory of movies.
John Williams changed the trajectory of what a music score
could achieve with the right movie and the right director
and filmmaker. Yeah, I mean, if we're going straight up score,
it's got to be the top two or three. If
we're going just songs that are recognizable within this, you know,
the movie Realm, it's got to be top five.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
I mean that that's a slam dunk. Okay, last one, okay,
last one. Let me go ahead and get to it here.
So this one is, I mean, it's it's a classic.
You'll recognize it. It's just one of those that everyone
loves you. It's a song from a great kids movie.
Everybody loves it. You know it. I know it. It's
Randy Newman, It's bathom Pot come to life.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Is this one weird? Al Yankovic?

Speaker 2 (06:56):
It's all right, Well that's not the real song, but
you know, everybody, you got.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
To bring I had actually had to call iHeart Corporate
and we couldn't play the real song, but we could
play that's a version. I think that our sound guy
back there put together during his break today. I had
him put that together.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
It's not true.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
He's back there with a piano.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
So that's not true. All that was made up. That
do not do not be mad at the the fical
nature of our company.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
That is not true. Yeah, you know that was completely fabricates.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yeah, fabricated for joking purposes.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
On all right, anyway, what do you got? What do
you got? Okay, so run through him real quick one
more time.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
That was Will Sasso from MTV by the way. Okay,
there you go. So I've got Randy Newman, You've got
a friend in me, Robin hood Oo de Lali Star
Wars theme and the Lord of the Rings theme.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
All right, there you.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Go, and guess what I'm gonna give you my Friday
for coming up next? Start thinking about yours. Your songs
associated with movies on news radio eleven ten KFA.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
B Emery sung on news radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
This isn't necessarily he's got a you know, songs that
were made and existed and then all of a sudden
we're picked up by a movie to use for a
scene or something.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
Right, yeah, just like this one.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
All right, all right, you've already you've already used all
your time. I got I got like three minutes to
get through my list. Okay, so you know, quit hogging
all the airtime their pal. All right, So here's my
list Friday four of songs in movies or or associated
specifically with movies the movies needed the song or the
song needed to the movie to exist. The first one

(08:35):
I would say is as iconic as any that we've
heard so far. Do you not just immediately start to
tear up when you'd hear this song?

Speaker 1 (08:49):
Classic?

Speaker 3 (08:51):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (08:52):
And it helps knowing the story and pretty much everybody
has seen Titanic, but I mean they nailed it with
a Leene Deon doing My heart will go on. You
can say that you're not a mushball, but I gotta
tell you straight up, if you think about that movie
and that song and how inseparable they are, you cannot
help but to think to yourself all of the sad

(09:15):
and just like outward emotional things that you could. I mean,
I don't know if there's a more emotional piece of
music ever in a movie ever, and it is only
in existence because James Cameron needed a song like that
for Titanic, right killed it will there ever be a
song in a movie that I iconic together. I don't
know if well, I mean, it helps that that movie
was like the biggest movie ever at the time. So anyway,

(09:37):
here's one that might be a little bit controversial. You're
ready for this one? Oh yeah, this is This is
one of my favorite songs. We use it on the
show quite a bit. But this is an interesting, interesting tune.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
You know where are we're going with this?

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Is this maniac? Yeah, sir, I didn't know this was
from a movie.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
This is from flash Dance.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
And the song that probably most people associate with Flashdance
is actually Flash Dance.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
The song flash Dance What a feeling? You know, Oh
what a feeling?

Speaker 2 (10:17):
And it's using a bunch of commercials and stuff, and
it's a great eighties song too, But this song, actually,
I think is a better song. And it vaulted to
number one on the charts for a couple of weeks
as well. So, and this song specifically was rewritten lyrically,
it existed, they hadn't released it. They wanted to put
it in this movie, but the guys who made the
movie said, you have to change the lyrics up. We

(10:39):
love the song, but the lyrics need to be changed
up to like match the dancer basically, so the lyrics
are about a dancer, specifically floor flashdance, so therefore it
qualifies and Maniac makes my list of my Friday for
there you go. How's that?

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yeah it makes sense to me.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
That's a good one. All right.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Here's another one that I know that we've used on
the show, and you can't like. This is an incredible
song that was very, very popular and uh yeah it
may not be for everybody, but for me and.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
Yeah, yeah, you follow me.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
It sounds familiar.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
Well it's because it is familiar.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
And you know, a lot of people out there might
be saying, I don't know what this is.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
Well I'm gonna tell you what it is.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
It is one of the most successful songs from a
movie since like Post two thousand and here's the drop.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
Look, haha, if you had one shot.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
An opportunity, everything you ever want, ever won in one moment.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
That you captured, just let slip go.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Oh it's so good, bro, A lot a lot of love,
eminem lose yourself.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
Hey, you know, like, how does this guy make this movie?
Which was awesome? Right?

Speaker 2 (12:11):
And guess what, he doesn't make another movie after this?
I mean, the guy could have just been a Hollywood
guy after this. It's just a balling song and you
can't help but just like get in a good mood
when you're listening to that song, like fire me Up Baby.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
I like the Mom's Spaghetti remix where they just they
put that over the whole song. That's all he says,
the whole song.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, of course, of course it goes pretty hard as
the kids say, yeah, yeah, something like that. Here's my
last one. This was an interesting one. This is a
song that actually is made. It was made by real people,
but by a fake band that was in the movie.
The movie is about the band that's fake and this
is one of the songs that they make and it's
actually an incredible tune and actually did very well in

(12:53):
the charts as well, doing bad.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
Thing YouTube bringing into.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
A milionkey, isn't this? It's just such a great song.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Tom Hanks movie That Thing You Do he wrote, is
the first movie that he wrote and directed and it's
a banging movie. And The Wonders is the band that
they follow, and the Wonders made this awesome song called
That Thing You Do and I just love the tune.
It's an awesome, awesome movie, So go back and rewatch that.
And that Thing You Do is just an absolutely fantastic tune.

(13:35):
So my Friday four is Lose Yourself by eminem Maniac
by Michael Simbelo from the movie Flashdance, That Thing You
Do by the Wonders, the fake band from that Thing
You Do, and My Heart Will Go On by Celine
Dion from Titanic.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Pretty awesome emery songer on news radio eleven ten kfab
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