Maybe this has been done already....but..... Best movie theme songs? I'll start

[clarice]

Theme from A Summer Place
Tubular Bells- Exorcist
Rain drops keep falling - Butch Cassidy Sundance Kid

[Bertha Venation]

1. Let the River Run - Working Girl. Carly Simon got the Oscar for it. n/t

[femmocrat]

2. There are so many.....

I'll go with "As Time Goes By" from Casablanca.

[skypilot]

3. The theme music...

...for "Carrie"--the 1976 version. In fact, the entire soundtrack is phenomenal.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. A good one I was recalling during the discussion of Texas Rising

I thought the song written by Dimitri Tiomkin as part of his score for John Wayne's version of The Alamo was gorgeous.

[Frank Cannon]

5. John Barry did a lot of them.

Including:

A lot of James Bond movies (Goldfinger, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, many more...).

Born Free
Midnight Cowboy
Out of Africa
Somewhere in Time
Dances With Wolves

You can't talk about movie themes without mentioning John Barry.

[MrScorpio]

20. I have them all and more

Big John Barry fan here.

[hifiguy]

29. Though I was pretty meh abour Duran Duran, though they could really PLAY, this was great

Barry's music, arranged by the band with lyrics by Simon LeBon. At last a perfect song for Simon's over-the-top emoting. And the bass guitar work of The Great John Taylor is outasite! And unless my ears are going bad that is a REAL Mellotron providing the strings, not one of those often cheesy 1980s string machines.

Oh Her Majesty's Secret Service was pretty fab, too.

And gads, did I love those Maurice Binder titles.

[Skittles]

35. Body Heat

OMG

[Frank Cannon]

39. How could I forget that one?

The man was a movie composing monster, in addition to having a pretty successful music group on his own.

[Skittles]

44. I absolutely agree

his music, it stays with me - hauntingly beautiful and he had an unbelievable talent for matching music to a movie perfectly

[KamaAina]

43. But he didn't do "Live and Let Die".

Sir Paul McCartney did!

[malthaussen]

6. Korngold, anything Korngold.

There a about a milion other candidates, though. Movie theme songs are often great stuff.

-- Mal

[hamsterjill]

7. As bad as I hate to bring this one up.

The theme to the Delta Force, the Chuck Norris movie. Sans Chuckie...that music is awesome!

[hamsterjill]

8. Oh and the theme from "Rocky"

n/t

[Initech]

16. You must revel in its awesomeness:

[hamsterjill]

18. And revel I did!!! Thank you!

n/t

[cemaphonic]

9. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

At least a dozen more by Morricone as well.

I've always liked Carter Burwell's theme for Millers Crossing, even though it's just an arrangement of a traditional Irish song:

[Ahpook]

19. Great ones

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

25. GBU theme is the ringtone on my cell

[Jade Fox]

10. Shadow of Your Smile ...... "The Sandpiper"

A very complex and beautiful melody.

[Jade Fox]

11. Secret Love......"Annie Get Your Gun"

Corny movie, but wonderful song and performance by Doris Day. It won a Grammy that year, I believe.

[malthaussen]

14. Did you know she did that in one take with no rehersal?

Quite impressive.

-- Mal

[Jade Fox]

23. No, I didn't know that....

but I'm not surprised.

I've heard that, technically, Doris Day had amazing singing skill.

Thanks!

[Still Blue in PDX]

34. I used to sing that song at family gatherings when I was a little kid.

It was a favorite. That and "Hey, there" by Rosemary Clooney were included in my repertoire along with "I'm a Little Teapot" and "The Bear Went Over the Mountain." It was years before I realized that it wasn't my talent that made my performance so enthralling; it was the fact that I was equal parts tone deaf and adorable. It was also fairly recently that I realized that the song "Come-on-a-My House" could be considered a bit risque'.



I still love all those wonderful torch songs.

[Jade Fox]

41. Ima gonna give you "candy".......

[horseshoecrab]

12. Just a few ...

off the top of my head ...

Man of Constant Sorrow - Oh Brother Where Art Thou
Moon River - Breakfast at Tiffany's
Help! - Help!

[Brother Buzz]

13. Get Shorty - Stink by John Lurie

[Blue_In_AK]

15. I like Lara's Theme from Dr. Zhivago,

the orchestral version.

[Samantha]

48. I was going to post that one!

I wasn't too sure how many people here would be familiar with that movie. That is one of my top favorites.

You certainly have good taste in music!

Sam

[Blue_In_AK]

49. Thanks.

When I hear it, I think of those sweeping fields of daffodils. I loved that movie so much. I think I saw it four or five times at the theater, and a few times since. Omar Sharif was so handsome and Julie Christie mesmerizing.

[Initech]

17. I'll add the theme from one of my favorites to the list: The Naked Gun

I watched those movies on Netflix the other day. They're still funny as hell.

[sarge43]

21. Ghostbusters n/t

[ghostsinthemachine]

22. The Grateful Dead Movie!

[Enthusiast]

42. +1

[CrawlingChaos]

24. For me, The Year of Living Dangerously

I just love this music for some reason, but my god, it is SO eighties. But it has such a lovely, languid, melancholy sound.

I also love a lot of stuff no one else is gonna like. Like I love all the Goblin music from Dario Argento's films.

Oh, and there are some amazing soundtracks to David Lynch films, such as my favorite, Mulholland Dr.

Year of Living Dangerously always comes to mind first though, for some reason.

[trof]

26. The Days of Wine and Roses

Lee Remick and Jack Lemmon as an alcoholic couple struggling to kick the habit.
A bittersweet movie.
The music was written by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. They received the Academy Award for Best Song in 1962.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=PNlT7Rx77y8

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

27. I think it's a bit funny but...

...Bad to the Bone in Terminator 2.

And The Ride of the Valkyries in Apocalypse Now.

[liberaltrucker]

28. "Suicide is Painless"- M*A*S*H

[hifiguy]

30. The most romantic movie theme ever

for one of the most romantic movies ever

Starts at 1:35 of this clip.

Deneuve was an angel fallen to earth.

[annabanana]

31. Midnight Cowboy - Everybody's Talkin'

[Dont call me Shirley]

32. Here's my favorite...

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[mike in raleigh]

33. Goodbye Columbus

From the movie of the same name, by The Association.

[raven mad]

36. I'll go with Tubular Bells.............. and

A Hard Day's Night.

[MrScorpio]

37. The Theme From Bullitt

[blogslut]

38. Elmer Bernstein, baby!

[DFW]

40. West/eastbound and Down

from Smokey and the Bandit

And the Endless Summer theme (always was a sucker for surf music)

[lastlib]

45. Always loved "One Tin Soldier"!

campy, yeah--but says a lot about the values of liberals, I think.

"'Peace On Earth' was all it said.....

Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
Go ahead and cheat a friend,
Do it in the name of Heaven,
You'll be justified in the end,
There won't be any trumpets blowin',
Come the Judgment Day,
On the bloody morning after, One Tin Soldier rides away....."

[irisblue]

46. Cornel Bogey March from Bridge on the River Kwai

written in 1914 by Lt Rickets, a British Band Master
a musical F/U in this scene

[lovemydog]

47. I like Goldfinger

sung by Shirley Bassey. She also sang Diamonds Are Forever.

[NanceGreggs]

50. And then there's this one ...