Films That Featured Motown Recordings.....

[144man]

Don't forget El DeBarge's "Who's Johnny" from "Short Circuit".

[marv2]

Don't forget El DeBarge's "Who's Johnny" from "Short Circuit".

Right! I forgot about that one. Thanks 144man.

[marv2]

Muscle Beach Party [[1964):

- Stevie Wonder - "Happy Street"

[marv2]

Aloha, Bobby and Rose [[1975)

- Stevie Wonder - "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours"

[Fourtopsbiggestfan]

Forest Gump:

-The Supremes - "Stoned Love"

What scene? I could never find that one. I definitely heard the Four Tops I CAN'T HELP MYSELF.

[marv2]

The Wanderers:

- The Miracles - "You've Really Got a Hold on Me" / "You've Really Got a Hold on Me"

[marv2]

What scene? I could never find that one. I definitely heard the Four Tops I CAN'T HELP MYSELF.

"Stoned Love" was played in the film Forest Gump. Remember the Times Square New Year's Eve scene? It was played in the bar where they were celebrating.

[masterblaster]

Stop, Look, Listen [[To Your Heart) by Diana and Marvin was played in Bridget Jones' Diary.

And don't forget "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" by Diana Ross is played at the end of the movie.

[marv2]

Norman... Is That You? [[1976)

- Smokey Robinson - "An Old Fashioned Man"

[copley]

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

[copley]

3 from Baby Driver

Easy - Commodores
Every Little Bit Hurts - Brenda Holloway
Nowhere To Run - Martha & The Vandellas

[marv2]

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

[jobucats]

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

[marv2]

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

Those fit the criteria.

[marv2]

From Mahogany

Eddie Kendricks- "Let's Go Back to Day One"

[marv2]

Ocean's Twelve:

Marvin Gaye - "What's Going On?"

[Philles/Motown Gary]

From Trouble Man:

Marvin Gaye - "Trouble Man"

[Philles/Motown Gary]

Stevie Wonder - "Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants"

[marv2]

Stevie Wonder - "Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants"

Yes! I bought the album for one song....."Send One You Love".

[Philles/Motown Gary]

Yes! I bought the album for one song....."Send One You Love".

Yeah, other than that, "Secret Life....." wasn't exactly one of Stevie's most hit-laden albums!

[marv2]

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)

[marv2]

Yeah, other than that, "Secret Life....." wasn't exactly one of Stevie's most hit-laden albums!

I was only 19 years old and I did not understand that album at all.

[Philles/Motown Gary]

I was only 19 years old and I did not understand that album at all.

I was 28 and I didn't get it, either. In fact, at 67, I STILL don't! LOL!!!

[marv2]

I was 28 and I didn't get it, either. In fact, at 67, I STILL don't! LOL!!!

Maybe we have to watch the film to see how the music fits. I believe it is about watching plants grow, ZZZZZZZZZZZ LOL!

[sansradio]

Tropic Thunder: "Ball of Confusion [[That's What the World Is Today)"

[Philles/Motown Gary]

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"

[Philles/Motown Gary]

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"

[thommg]

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!

[marv2]

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!

But that is not a Motown song. I was tempted to include movies that had Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing" as a part of the soundtrack but refrained for the same reason.

[arr&bee]

There was some eighties flick on the other day,where a japanese dude was singing[the way you do the things you do].

[marv2]

There was some eighties flick on the other day,where a japanese dude was singing[the way you do the things you do].

Can you remember anything else about the movie JAI? I will try to find it.

[arr&bee]

can you remember anything else about the movie jai? I will try to find it.

it was a detective flick with-micheal douglas and andy garcia.

[marybrewster]

??????? 70's/'80's art house movie that I used to have on video - Remove This Doubt - Supremes

Underground USA

[thommg]

But that is not a Motown song. I was tempted to include movies that had Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing" as a part of the soundtrack but refrained for the same reason.

Well, Diana recorded it for Motown and they used that version in the film , so technically, it's a Motown song.

[sup_fan]

To Wong Foo Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar - Brick House by the Commodores

[copley]

Underground USA

Mary, thanks so much. It was driving me crazy that I couldn't remember. Other Motown tracks from that movie are:

Four Tops - 7 Rooms of Gloom

Supremes - Baby Love

Stevie Wonder - Uptight

[marv2]

Well, Diana recorded it for Motown and they used that version in the film , so technically, it's a Motown song.

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?

[144man]

Norman... Is That You? [[1976)

- Smokey Robinson - "An Old Fashioned Man"

Was "One Out of Every Six" by Thelma Houston in the film?

[marv2]

Was "One Out of Every Six" by Thelma Houston in the film?

I'm not sure. I also want to check to see if "Slide On Home" by Thelma for "Bingo Long and the Traveling Allstars" was a Motown song.

[marv2]

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"

[marv2]

Bingo Long and the Traveling Allstars & Motor Kings:

- Thelma Houston -"The Bingo Long Song [[Steal On Home)"

[robb_k]

Oh you beat me too it!LOL! I think "Cooley High" was the first film that came to mind when I was thinking about this thread. It probably made the best use of the music for each scene.

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).

[marv2]

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.

[marv2]

Here is another new film that uses Motown music in it. "Like Father, Like Son":

[snakepit]

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.

[sansradio]

Spike Lee’s new joint BlacKkKlansman also uses The Tempts’ “Ball of Confusion.”

[marv2]

Spike Lee’s new joint BlacKkKlansman also uses The Tempts’ “Ball of Confusion.”

Sansradio, that is the very first song and film mentioned in this thread. LOL!

[sansradio]

Sansradio, that is the very first song and film mentioned in this thread. LOL!

Lord, have mercy.😬

BTW, have you gotten a chance to see it? If not, run, don’t walk. A home run.

[marv2]

Lord, have mercy.��

BTW, have you gotten a chance to see it? If not, run, don’t walk. A home run.

I heard it was great! I have to go see it . Thanks Sansradio!

[heikki]

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