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    Motown's Most Successful Singles From Motion Pictures ?

    I count five of them from Motown that made The Top 100 rock era songs [[up to 1991) for movies based on their Billboard Hot 100 chart performance.

    The list from the book, HOTTEST HOT 100 HITS, has some guidelines.
    Not just any song used in a movie counts. The song has to be derived for the movie specifically, not simply an inserted oldie or popular tune. Nothing from BIG CHILL.
    An older song qualifies though if the version used in the movie was created for it , as in LA BAMBA as performed by Los Lobos for the Ritchie Valens film biography.
    A cover version of a song from a movie doesn't count [[ Meco's STAR WARS ).
    ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK was used in BLACK BOARD JUNGLE and became a hit because of it , but it wasn't written for use in the movie: doesn't count.

    Motown's contributions are :

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    at #1 is HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE Bee Gees SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER


    at #45 by proxy, is Motown alumnus Norman Whitfield's CAR WASH by Rose Royce :

    Last edited by Boogiedown; 11-21-2020 at 06:48 PM.

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