Don't forget El DeBarge's "Who's Johnny" from "Short Circuit".
Don't forget El DeBarge's "Who's Johnny" from "Short Circuit".
Muscle Beach Party [[1964):
- Stevie Wonder - "Happy Street"
Aloha, Bobby and Rose [[1975)
- Stevie Wonder - "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours"
The Wanderers:
- The Miracles - "You've Really Got a Hold on Me" / "You've Really Got a Hold on Me"
Norman... Is That You? [[1976)
- Smokey Robinson - "An Old Fashioned Man"
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine - Supremes
Sixth Sense -Come See About Me - Supremes
A Life Less Ordinary - I Hear A Symphony - Supremes
England Is Mine - Marvelettes - You're The One
Bringing Out the Dead - Marvelettes - Too Many Fish In The Sea
??????? 70's/'80's art house movie that I used to have on video - Remove This Doubt - Supremes
3 from Baby Driver
Easy - Commodores
Every Little Bit Hurts - Brenda Holloway
Nowhere To Run - Martha & The Vandellas
The Walking Dead:
"How I Wish"- Queen Latifah
"Smiling Faces Sometimes"- The Undisputed Truth
"What's Going On"- Marvin Gaye
"Ooo Baby Baby"- The Miracles
"The Tracks of My Tears"- The Miracles
"Cloud Nine"- The Temptations
"Get Ready"- The Temptations
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine"- Marvin Gaye
"War"- Edwin Starr
These fit the criteria given [[movies, Motown songs, Motown artists unless it was implied to mean only regular album cuts not written specifically for a movie
Mahogony-Theme from Mahogany - Diana Ross
Mahogany - Erucu - Jermaine Jackson
Beach Ball- Come Do [[To) the Beach Ball With Me - Supremes
Beach Ball-Surfer Boy -Supremes
Endless Love-Endless Love-Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
Endless Love-Dreaming of You-Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
My Turn-It’s My Turn-Diana Ross
From Mahogany
Eddie Kendricks- "Let's Go Back to Day One"
Ocean's Twelve:
Marvin Gaye - "What's Going On?"
From Trouble Man:
Marvin Gaye - "Trouble Man"
Stevie Wonder - "Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants"
Big Time [[1977):
Smokey Robinson -
- J.J.'s Theme
- Hip Trip
- He Is The Light Of The World
- So Nice To Be With You
- Shana's Theme [[With Dialogue)
- If We're Gonna Act Like Lovers
- The Agony And The Ecstasy
- Theme From Big Time [[Reprise)
Tropic Thunder: "Ball of Confusion [[That's What the World Is Today)"
The T.A.M.I. Show [[Movie)
The Supremes - "When The Lovelight...."; "Run, Run, Run"; "Baby Love"; "Where Did Our Love Go"
Marvin Gaye - "Stubborn Kind Of Fellow"; "Pride & Joy"; "Can I Get A Witness"; "Hitch Hike"
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - "That's What Love Is Made Of"; "You've Really Got A Hold In Me"; "Mickey's Monkey"
SAVE THE CHILDREN [[Motown Soundtrack)
Marvin Gaye - "Save The Children"; "What's Happening Brother"
The Temptations - "Papa Was A Rolling Stone"
Gladys Knight & The Pips - "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"
Jackson 5 - "I Wanna Be Where You Are"
I kept thinking there was one movie that hadn't been named yet, and I remembered it this morning!
In & Out featured a huge segment using Diana Ross's I Will Survive!
There was some eighties flick on the other day,where a japanese dude was singing[the way you do the things you do].
To Wong Foo Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar - Brick House by the Commodores
It is best known as a Gloria Gaynor song she recorded for Polydor in 1978. To include a remake of a song from another record company would mean that now we would have to start considering remakes of Motown songs by artists that are not associated or were signed to Motown. I don't like that, it's not authentic. I hope you understand?
Ok, got it!
Norman Is That You?
- Stevie Wonder -"For Once In My Life"
- Thelma Houston -"One Out Of Every Six "
- Diana Ross - "Touch Me In the Morning"
- Smokey Robinson -"An Old Fashioned Man"
Bingo Long and the Traveling Allstars & Motor Kings:
- Thelma Houston -"The Bingo Long Song [[Steal On Home)"
I love Motown, but I spent my late teen years and early 20s in Chicago, and Cooley High was one of our rival High Schools in Chicago. My high School, Bowen, was, along with Cooley, and a handful of other South Side, South Chicago, and West Side high schools, had some of the best musicians and singing groups in the nation, during the '50s and early '60s. We should have filled that film with Chicago sounds of The Impressions, Jerry Butler, Billy Butler and The Enchanters, Jan Bradley, The Artistics, Gene Chandler, The Dukays, Billy Stewart, The Chi-Lites, Barbara Green, The Dells, Otis Leavill, Barbara Acklin, The Daylighters, Betty Everett, Dee Clark, Donald and The Delighters, The Opals, The Sheppards, The Fascinations [[I know they were from Detroit-but they recorded for Curtis Mayfield- same with Walter Jackson).
Robb, there is also a Cooley High in Detroit, although I know the one in film was about the one in Chicago. The writer and director of "Cooley High" was Eric Monte. We learned later on it was an autobiographical film about his life growing up in Chicago in the early 60s. His character in the film is named "Preach". They could have combined the Sound of Chicago and the Motown Sound and it would have worked. That is what we heard as kids visiting relatives in Chicago in those days.
Here is another new film that uses Motown music in it. "Like Father, Like Son":
Not quite a film, but a weird placement in the BBC Drama series "Inspector George Gently".
In the episode "Gently Northern Soul", set in 1969 , at a "Northern Soul" event [[despite the fact that term was not coined until 1971!) the playlist includes a track from the Four Tops that wasn't released until the Lost and Found CD [[2005).
"Sweet was the love" is played at a dance scene. So we have dancers dancing to a track that was not known about in 1969.
Stranger still, when the show was repeated some years later, the original sound track [[original 60s NS tunes plus said Four Tops track) was removed and replaced by a 'pastiche' soul soundtrack, presumably due to copyright issues.
Spike Lee’s new joint BlacKkKlansman also uses The Tempts’ “Ball of Confusion.”
Hi!
The first song in that movie is "Oh Happy Day", followed by "Too Late to Turn Back Now" and the third - if I remember correctly - is "Ball of Confusion."
Incidentally, that cordial guy called Felix is a Finnish actor by the name of Jasper Pääkkönen.
Best regards
Heikki
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