What are some of the songs that were used in a key scene in a movie, that now when you hear the song, you can't help but picture that scene?

For instance:
I am listening to The Beatles "Twist and Shout", and I can't help but picture Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller shakin' it on a parade float in downtown Chicago.

Just like Tom Cruise dancing to Old Time Rock and Roll by Bob Seger

Just like Tom Cruise dancing to Old Time Rock and Roll by Bob Seger


That's the one I remember, and another one from "Fiddler on the Roof", "If I Were  Rich Man", it reminds me of the movie and the scene, him dancing down a dirt road.

Thriller by Michael Jackson

...in the movie, 13 Going On 30. I loved when they broke out with the Thriller dance at that party. Classic. :)

Oh..and in the movie, Superstar, when they all broke out in the song, Everybody Dance Now...by C&C Music Factory...so funny!


I am all about groups of people breaking out in random dance/song in movies! :D ;D

I like it when I run across it, but can't think of any examples right now.

Every time I hear Tiny Dancer, I think of the scene from the movie Almost Famous, on the tour bus and everyone eventually sings along
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TBzp4VEQ1M&feature=related

I always think of this scene from The Deer Hunter, whenever I hear Can't Take My Eyes Off You  by Frankie Valli & The 4 Seasons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHZhSkaLbuk

You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) by Dead or Alive, now I picture Adam Sandler singing it from The Wedding Singer.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS5MwnlDbY8

Every time I hear Tiny Dancer, I think of the scene from the movie Almost Famous, on the tour bus and everyone eventually sings along
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TBzp4VEQ1M&feature=related


I think it's amusing that everybody always knows every word to all these songs in the movies...like in "My best friend's wedding" when they all start singing Dionne Warwick's "I Say A Little Prayer" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUyFZUKo6u8

Shaft-Issac Hayes from the Shaft films with Richard Roundtree.

Unchained Melody in Ghost was almost moving for me, I felt like leaving the cinema.

Almost, Phillip?!!  Better watch those emotions.  ;D

Almost, Phillip?!!  Better watch those emotions.  ;D
I could not leave my seat, I was surround but other people in a sold out auditorium.

I think it's amusing that everybody always knows every word to all these songs in the movies...like in "My best friend's wedding" when they all start singing Dionne Warwick's "I Say A Little Prayer" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUyFZUKo6u8
it is amusing and probably a nice compliment to the singers & songwriters  :)


everytime I hear "Theme From Rawhide" (and I don't hear it very often)  I think of The Blues Brothers

Stuck In the Middle with you by Stealers Wheel during Reservoir Dogs.

These Boots Are Made For Walkin' in Full Metal Jacket.

These Boots Are Made For Walkin' in Full Metal Jacket.
indeed! that's a memorable scene, to be sure  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU6xUyLKn7U&feature=related

For instance:
I am listening to The Beatles "Twist and Shout", and I can't help but picture Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller shakin' it on a parade float in downtown Chicago.


That scene was so popular, it pushed 'Twist and shout' back into the US Top 40 in 1986

indeed! that's a memorable scene, to be sure   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU6xUyLKn7U&feature=related
...please add Wooly Bully by Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs from the same movie.

Great thread, I was just thinking about this today at work.

On the radio I heard "Miracles" by Jefferson Starship, and I had to smile because it will forever remind me of the final scene from Crank. 

One of my favorite movie endings of all time.  ;)

yeah, this is a cool thread.  The End - Apocalypse Now

Bob Dylan wrote and performed the soundtrack for the 1973 Sam Peckinpah western "Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid" (and he also acted in it as well, which was actually quite bizarre). The movie itself is mostly forgotten, but one of the songs from the soundtrack, "Knocking On Heaven's Door" became one of Dylan's most well-known songs and has been covered by countless artists.

When I watched the movie and heard the song in its original context, "Knocking On Heaven's Door" became even more powerful to me, and the scene is quite moving.

Plus Slim Pickens is one of my favorite actors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MgubwywhiU

Somewhere Out There-James Ingram.

In Dreams by Roy Orbison, featured in Blue Velvet.

at the beginning of The Outsiders, the song Gloria by Them

'Hip to Be Square' by Huey Lewis and the News.  As it appears in the movie 'American Psycho' at the scene where Patrick Bateman is bludgeoning that guy to death in his appartment.  Hard to hear that song and not think of that scene LOL

In Dreams by Roy Orbison, featured in Blue Velvet.


Oh man, I haven't seen that movie in forever!

Dennis Hopper is such a nut in that movie.  :D

China Grove - The Doobie Brothers from the movie Field Of Dreams, when Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones are cruising in the Volkswagon van

The William Tell Overture by Rossini makes me think of A Clockwork Orange.

Caught Up In You - .38 Special    is part of the soundtrack from one of my guilty pleasures. The movie Spring Break I love this movie, and i don't know a single actor in it, but it's fun

I heard on the radio last night Mr Sandman by The Four Aces and my first thought was Back To The Future.

I heard on the radio last night Mr Sandman by The Four Aces and my first thought was Back To The Future.
The same applies for Chuck Berry's Johnny B Goode.