This is a list of songs which have been specially recorded to appear on the soundtrack of a film, and then subsequently released as a single.
Songs from films (alphabetical order)
A-E
*" After All" - Cher and Peter Cetera - Chances Are
*"All For Love" - Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting - The Three Musketeers
*"All Over the World" - Electric Light Orchestra - Xanadu
*"Almost Paradise" - Ann Wilson and Mike Reno - Footloose
*"Axel F" - Harold Faltermeyer - Beverly Hills Cop
*"Beautiful Stranger" - Madonna - Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
*"Because You Loved Me" - Celine Dion - Up Close & Personal
*"Blaze Of Glory" - Jon Bon Jovi - Young Guns II
*"Book Of Love" - Peter Gabriel - Shall We Dance?
*"Bright Eyes" - Art Garfunkel - Watership Down
*"Crazy for You"- Madonna - Vison Quest
*"Don't Worry Be Happy" - Bobby McFerrin - Cocktail
*"Die Another Day" - Madonna - Die Another Day
*"" - Electric Light Orchestra - Xanadu
*"" - Simple Minds - The Breakfast Club
*"" - Bryan Adams - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
*"Eye of the Tiger" - Survivor - Rocky III
F-I
*"Face To Face" - Siouxsie and the Banshees - Batman Returns
*"Faith Of The Heart" - Rod Stewart - Patch Adams
*"Fame" - Irene Cara - Fame
*"Flashdance...What A Feeling" - Irene Cara - Flashdance
*"Footloose" - Kenny Loggins - Footloose
*"For You I Will" - Shanice - Space Jam
*"Forbidden Colours" - David Sylvian - Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
*"Gangsta's Paradise" - Coolio - Dangerous Minds
*"Ghostbusters" - Ray Parker Jr - Ghostbusters
*"Girlfriend (Love Letter version)- the pillows Love Letter
*"Greased Lightnin'" - John Travolta & Jeff Conaway - Grease
*"Groovy Kind Of Love" - Phil Collins - Buster
*"Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?" - Bryan Adams - Juan De Marco
*"Hero" - Chad Kroeger featuring Josey Scott - Spiderman
*"Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" - U2 - Batman Forever
*"Holding Out for a Hero" - Bonnie Tyler - Footloose, Short Circuit 2
*"Hopelessly Devoted to You" - Olivia Newton-John - Grease
*"How Do I Live"- Leann Rimes- Con Air
*"Hungry Eyes" - Eric Carmen - Dirty Dancing
*"Hushabye Mountain" - Dakota Fanning - War of the Worlds
*"I Believe I Can Fly" - R. Kelly - Space Jam
*"I Can Dream About You" - Dan Hartman - Streets of Fire
*"I Disappear" - Metallica - Mission: Impossible II
*"I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" - Aerosmith - Armageddon
*"I Finally Found Someone" - Bryan Adams and Barbra Streisand - The Mirror Has Two Faces
*"I Touch Myself" - Divinyls - Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
*"I Would Die 4 U" - Prince - "Purple Rain
*"" - Electric Light Orchestra - Xanadu
*"I'm Alright" - Kenny Loggins - Caddyshack
*"In Your Eyes" - Peter Gabriel - Say Anything
*"It Must've Been Love" - Roxette - Pretty Woman
*"(I've Had) The Time Of My Life" - Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes - Dirty Dancing
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*"King Of Wishfull Thinking" - Go West - Pretty Woman
*"Kokomo" - Beach Boys - Cocktail
*"Kiss From A Rose" - Seal - Batman Forever
*"Let The River Run" - Carly Simon - Working Girl
*"Let's Go Crazy" - Prince - Purple Rain
*"Let's Hear It For The Boy" - Denise Williams - Footloose
*"The Living Daylights" - a-ha - The Living Daylights
*"Living In America" - James Brown - Rocky IV
*"Lovefool" - The Cardigans - Romeo and Juliet
*"Magic" - Olivia Newton-John - Xanadu
*"Maniac" - Michael Sembello - Flashdance
*"My Heart Will Go On" - Celine Dion - Titanic
*"Never Ending Story" - Limahl - Never Ending Story
*"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" - Starship - Mannequin
O-S
*"On The Dark Side" - John Cafferty - Eddie And The Crusiers
*"Porpoise Song (Theme From "Head")" - The Monkees - Head
*"Purple Rain" - Prince - Purple Rain and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
*"Rock On" - Michael Damian - Dream A Little Dream
*"Shake Your Foundations" - AC/DC - Maximum Overdrive
*"Shakedown" - Bob Seger - Beverly Hills Cop II
*"She's Like The Wind" - Patrick Swayze - Dirty Dancing
*"Somebody's Baby" - Jackson Browne - Fast Times At Ridgemont High"
*"St. Elmos Fire (Man In Motion)" - John Parr - St Elmos Fire
*"Stayin' Alive" - Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever
*"Streets of Philadelphia" - Bruce Springsteen - Philadelphia
*"Summer Nights" - Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta - Grease
*"The Power of Love" - Huey Lewis & The News - Back to the Future
*"Two Hearts" - Phil Collins - Buster
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*"Take My Breath Away" - Berlin - Top Gun
*"The Heat Is On" - Glenn Frey - Beverly Hills Cop
*"The Wind Beneath My Wings" - Bette Midler - Beaches
*"This Used to Be My Playground" - Madonna - A League Of Their Own
*"Try Again" - Aaliyah - Romeo Must Die
*"Unchained Melody" - Righteous Brothers - Ghost
*"Up Where We Belong" - Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes - "An Officer and a Gentleman"
*"A View To A Kill" - Duran Duran - A View to a Kill
*"We Don't Need Another Hero" - Tina Turner - Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
*"Weird Science" - Oingo Boingo - Weird Science
*"When Doves Cry" - Prince - Purple Rain
*"When The Night Comes" - Joe Cocker - An Innocent Man
*"Who Made Who" - AC/DC - Maximum Overdrive
*"Who's Johnny" - El Debarge - Short Circuit
*"Who Wants to Live Forever" - Queen - Highlander
*"Xanadu" - Olivia Newton-John - Xanadu
*"You're the One That I Want" - Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta - Grease
*"You've Got a Friend In Me" - Randy Newman - Toy Story
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Songs from films (alphabetical order)
A-E
*" After All" - Cher and Peter Cetera - Chances Are
*"All For Love" - Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting - The Three Musketeers
*"All Over the World" - Electric Light Orchestra - Xanadu
*"Almost Paradise" - Ann Wilson and Mike Reno - Footloose
*"Axel F" - Harold Faltermeyer - Beverly Hills Cop
*"Beautiful Stranger" - Madonna - Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
*"Because You Loved Me" - Celine Dion - Up Close & Personal
*"Blaze Of Glory" - Jon Bon Jovi - Young Guns II
*"Book Of Love" - Peter Gabriel - Shall We Dance?
*"Bright Eyes" - Art Garfunkel - Watership Down
*"Crazy for You"- Madonna - Vison Quest
*"Don't Worry Be Happy" - Bobby McFerrin - Cocktail
*"Die Another Day" - Madonna - Die Another Day
*"" - Electric Light Orchestra - Xanadu
*"" - Simple Minds - The Breakfast Club
*"" - Bryan Adams - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
*"Eye of the Tiger" - Survivor - Rocky III
F-I
*"Face To Face" - Siouxsie and the Banshees - Batman Returns
*"Faith Of The Heart" - Rod Stewart - Patch Adams
*"Fame" - Irene Cara - Fame
*"Flashdance...What A Feeling" - Irene Cara - Flashdance
*"Footloose" - Kenny Loggins - Footloose
*"For You I Will" - Shanice - Space Jam
*"Forbidden Colours" - David Sylvian - Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
*"Gangsta's Paradise" - Coolio - Dangerous Minds
*"Ghostbusters" - Ray Parker Jr - Ghostbusters
*"Girlfriend (Love Letter version)- the pillows Love Letter
*"Greased Lightnin'" - John Travolta & Jeff Conaway - Grease
*"Groovy Kind Of Love" - Phil Collins - Buster
*"Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?" - Bryan Adams - Juan De Marco
*"Hero" - Chad Kroeger featuring Josey Scott - Spiderman
*"Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" - U2 - Batman Forever
*"Holding Out for a Hero" - Bonnie Tyler - Footloose, Short Circuit 2
*"Hopelessly Devoted to You" - Olivia Newton-John - Grease
*"How Do I Live"- Leann Rimes- Con Air
*"Hungry Eyes" - Eric Carmen - Dirty Dancing
*"Hushabye Mountain" - Dakota Fanning - War of the Worlds
*"I Believe I Can Fly" - R. Kelly - Space Jam
*"I Can Dream About You" - Dan Hartman - Streets of Fire
*"I Disappear" - Metallica - Mission: Impossible II
*"I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" - Aerosmith - Armageddon
*"I Finally Found Someone" - Bryan Adams and Barbra Streisand - The Mirror Has Two Faces
*"I Touch Myself" - Divinyls - Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
*"I Would Die 4 U" - Prince - "Purple Rain
*"" - Electric Light Orchestra - Xanadu
*"I'm Alright" - Kenny Loggins - Caddyshack
*"In Your Eyes" - Peter Gabriel - Say Anything
*"It Must've Been Love" - Roxette - Pretty Woman
*"(I've Had) The Time Of My Life" - Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes - Dirty Dancing
J-N
*"King Of Wishfull Thinking" - Go West - Pretty Woman
*"Kokomo" - Beach Boys - Cocktail
*"Kiss From A Rose" - Seal - Batman Forever
*"Let The River Run" - Carly Simon - Working Girl
*"Let's Go Crazy" - Prince - Purple Rain
*"Let's Hear It For The Boy" - Denise Williams - Footloose
*"The Living Daylights" - a-ha - The Living Daylights
*"Living In America" - James Brown - Rocky IV
*"Lovefool" - The Cardigans - Romeo and Juliet
*"Magic" - Olivia Newton-John - Xanadu
*"Maniac" - Michael Sembello - Flashdance
*"My Heart Will Go On" - Celine Dion - Titanic
*"Never Ending Story" - Limahl - Never Ending Story
*"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" - Starship - Mannequin
O-S
*"On The Dark Side" - John Cafferty - Eddie And The Crusiers
*"Porpoise Song (Theme From "Head")" - The Monkees - Head
*"Purple Rain" - Prince - Purple Rain and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
*"Rock On" - Michael Damian - Dream A Little Dream
*"Shake Your Foundations" - AC/DC - Maximum Overdrive
*"Shakedown" - Bob Seger - Beverly Hills Cop II
*"She's Like The Wind" - Patrick Swayze - Dirty Dancing
*"Somebody's Baby" - Jackson Browne - Fast Times At Ridgemont High"
*"St. Elmos Fire (Man In Motion)" - John Parr - St Elmos Fire
*"Stayin' Alive" - Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever
*"Streets of Philadelphia" - Bruce Springsteen - Philadelphia
*"Summer Nights" - Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta - Grease
*"The Power of Love" - Huey Lewis & The News - Back to the Future
*"Two Hearts" - Phil Collins - Buster
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T-Z
*"Take My Breath Away" - Berlin - Top Gun
*"The Heat Is On" - Glenn Frey - Beverly Hills Cop
*"The Wind Beneath My Wings" - Bette Midler - Beaches
*"This Used to Be My Playground" - Madonna - A League Of Their Own
*"Try Again" - Aaliyah - Romeo Must Die
*"Unchained Melody" - Righteous Brothers - Ghost
*"Up Where We Belong" - Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes - "An Officer and a Gentleman"
*"A View To A Kill" - Duran Duran - A View to a Kill
*"We Don't Need Another Hero" - Tina Turner - Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
*"Weird Science" - Oingo Boingo - Weird Science
*"When Doves Cry" - Prince - Purple Rain
*"When The Night Comes" - Joe Cocker - An Innocent Man
*"Who Made Who" - AC/DC - Maximum Overdrive
*"Who's Johnny" - El Debarge - Short Circuit
*"Who Wants to Live Forever" - Queen - Highlander
*"Xanadu" - Olivia Newton-John - Xanadu
*"You're the One That I Want" - Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta - Grease
*"You've Got a Friend In Me" - Randy Newman - Toy Story
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A list of popular songs featured in notable automobile advertising campaigns.
*"Amazing" by Alex Lloyd - Featured in a 2004 commercial for the Ford Territory SUV
*"" by the Bodyrockers - Featured a summer 2006 Hyundai commercial, also in 2006, BMW used a condensed clip of the song for a commercial of their car's evolution to present day.
*"I See You Baby" by Groove Armada - A Fat Boy Slim remix of this song was used extensively in a United Kingdom advertising campaign for the Renault Mégane in 2003
*"" by Queen - Featured in commercials for Jaguar in 2004.
*"One Week" by the Barenaked Ladies - Featured in a Mitsubishi Lancer commercial.
*"Ready to Go" by Republica - Used by Mitsubishi to kick off its "Wake Up and Drive" advertising campaign for the 1999 Mitsubishi Galant
*"Revolution" by The Beatles - A cover version was featured in an Australian advertisement to promote a 2006 Mitsubishi sales event.
*"Right Here Right Now" by Fat Boy Slim - Featured in a series of car commercials for General Motors' Cadillac brand in 2006 as well as a series of U.S. car commercials for General Motors' Oldsmobile brand in 2000
*"You Get What You Give" by the New Radicals - Featured in a commercial for Mitsubishi Motors
*"You Really Got Me" by Van Halen - Used in the 1995 award winning Nissan commercial featuring Barbie and Ken dolls driving a Nissan 300ZX.
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*"Amazing" by Alex Lloyd - Featured in a 2004 commercial for the Ford Territory SUV
*"" by the Bodyrockers - Featured a summer 2006 Hyundai commercial, also in 2006, BMW used a condensed clip of the song for a commercial of their car's evolution to present day.
*"I See You Baby" by Groove Armada - A Fat Boy Slim remix of this song was used extensively in a United Kingdom advertising campaign for the Renault Mégane in 2003
*"" by Queen - Featured in commercials for Jaguar in 2004.
*"One Week" by the Barenaked Ladies - Featured in a Mitsubishi Lancer commercial.
*"Ready to Go" by Republica - Used by Mitsubishi to kick off its "Wake Up and Drive" advertising campaign for the 1999 Mitsubishi Galant
*"Revolution" by The Beatles - A cover version was featured in an Australian advertisement to promote a 2006 Mitsubishi sales event.
*"Right Here Right Now" by Fat Boy Slim - Featured in a series of car commercials for General Motors' Cadillac brand in 2006 as well as a series of U.S. car commercials for General Motors' Oldsmobile brand in 2000
*"You Get What You Give" by the New Radicals - Featured in a commercial for Mitsubishi Motors
*"You Really Got Me" by Van Halen - Used in the 1995 award winning Nissan commercial featuring Barbie and Ken dolls driving a Nissan 300ZX.
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Lon Haber (born June 22, 1977 in Miami, Florida) is an American actor of Austrian, German (Bavarian) and Spanish descent. He is a graduate of Phillips Academy Andover and Florida State University. He is the son of jazz musician and broadcasting executive Les Haber and public relations guru Geri Haber (née Geraldine Kowit), co-founder of Haber and Quinn Public Relations and Marketing.
He began his acting career while in elementary school and from ages 11-14 was the host of Notebook News, a for-kids broadcast news show on WBFS-TV in Miami. Broadway, Off Broadway and Regional credits include Cabaret (Viktor/Kit Kat Boy), ' (Orin, The Dentist), The Taming of the Shrew (Grumio), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph), The Lion in Winter (John). Lon is active in a number of theatrical improvisation troupes.
Co-star and guest-star roles on television include HBO's Entourage and G4TV's Attack of the Show. Proficient in dialects and voices, he can be heard on numerous commercials and television shows, and in feature films in the US, South America and Europe.
Lon is a board member of artistic and non-profit organizations like the Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company, Kids for Kids, Clifford Bailey Fine Art, The Young Storytellers Foundation, and The New Warrior Mankind Project, and also works as a freelance public relations counselor for a number of artists, corporations large and small, and community-outreach organizations. Lon is the Class Secretary for Phillips Academy Andover's Class of 1995.
Lon is an avid musician with extensive classical and jazz vocal and piano training, and is schooled in the arts of Brazilian and Afro-Caribbean percussion. He is fluent in English, German, and Spanish; well versed in French and Portuguese.
Selected Filmography
*Peoples Is Nuts (1999)
*Rest Stop (2000)
*The Suicide Diaries (2002)
*Miscommunications (2003)
Selected Television
*Notebook News (1989-1991)
*Entourage (2006-2007)
*My Own (2006)
*Attack of the Show (2006)
Selected Theater
*Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1983)
*Gypsy (1989)
*Fiddler on the Roof (1990)
*The Taming of the Shrew (1994)
*Little Shop of Horrors (1995)
*Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1997)
*Ragtime (1998)
*Cabaret (1999)
*4 Guys Named José (2000-2001)
*The Three Penny Opera (2002)
*Hasta La Muerte (2002)
*Next Stop Murder (2006)
*Better than Beethoven (2007)
He began his acting career while in elementary school and from ages 11-14 was the host of Notebook News, a for-kids broadcast news show on WBFS-TV in Miami. Broadway, Off Broadway and Regional credits include Cabaret (Viktor/Kit Kat Boy), ' (Orin, The Dentist), The Taming of the Shrew (Grumio), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph), The Lion in Winter (John). Lon is active in a number of theatrical improvisation troupes.
Co-star and guest-star roles on television include HBO's Entourage and G4TV's Attack of the Show. Proficient in dialects and voices, he can be heard on numerous commercials and television shows, and in feature films in the US, South America and Europe.
Lon is a board member of artistic and non-profit organizations like the Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company, Kids for Kids, Clifford Bailey Fine Art, The Young Storytellers Foundation, and The New Warrior Mankind Project, and also works as a freelance public relations counselor for a number of artists, corporations large and small, and community-outreach organizations. Lon is the Class Secretary for Phillips Academy Andover's Class of 1995.
Lon is an avid musician with extensive classical and jazz vocal and piano training, and is schooled in the arts of Brazilian and Afro-Caribbean percussion. He is fluent in English, German, and Spanish; well versed in French and Portuguese.
Selected Filmography
*Peoples Is Nuts (1999)
*Rest Stop (2000)
*The Suicide Diaries (2002)
*Miscommunications (2003)
Selected Television
*Notebook News (1989-1991)
*Entourage (2006-2007)
*My Own (2006)
*Attack of the Show (2006)
Selected Theater
*Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1983)
*Gypsy (1989)
*Fiddler on the Roof (1990)
*The Taming of the Shrew (1994)
*Little Shop of Horrors (1995)
*Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1997)
*Ragtime (1998)
*Cabaret (1999)
*4 Guys Named José (2000-2001)
*The Three Penny Opera (2002)
*Hasta La Muerte (2002)
*Next Stop Murder (2006)
*Better than Beethoven (2007)
Mark is an artist covering poetry, fiction and personal journalism.
Early Years
Mark Rodriguez was born in Los Angeles in 1980 in Cedars-Sinai Hospital to Rocky and Leticia Rodriguez. Mark was raised in Kingwood, Texas and lived there until he was 15 years of age.
Artist Statement
Mark humbly considers himself an artist with one eye to the future and one eye to the past. From poetry to fiction to personal journalism, he is committed to expressing and exploring the vast colors of human experience.
Currently
He is currently finishing his first novel, 'American Homies' which he will finish in 2007.
Recent Work
:* - a notebook novella
:* - a book of select poetry from 1998-2006
Early Years
Mark Rodriguez was born in Los Angeles in 1980 in Cedars-Sinai Hospital to Rocky and Leticia Rodriguez. Mark was raised in Kingwood, Texas and lived there until he was 15 years of age.
Artist Statement
Mark humbly considers himself an artist with one eye to the future and one eye to the past. From poetry to fiction to personal journalism, he is committed to expressing and exploring the vast colors of human experience.
Currently
He is currently finishing his first novel, 'American Homies' which he will finish in 2007.
Recent Work
:* - a notebook novella
:* - a book of select poetry from 1998-2006