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Some of the Best Movies and Their Music – Part One

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Great movies and great songs go together. Often times, the musician catches a break when the film becomes a blockbuster and they are exposed to millions of viewers who might not have ever heard their music before. Let’s take a couple of days and share classics that came from some of the best Hollywood movies ever made.

Who could that Tom Cruise Kelly McGillis scene, early in ‘Top Gun,’ when the song “You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feeling” by the Righteous Brothers gives the actors a romantic moment that would live forever?

“Mrs. Robinson,” in the ‘Graduate’ opened the flood gates of new fans for Simon and Garfunkel. Paul had pitched Nichols two other songs which were dismissed, but there was something about this one that he loved.

Bob Seger’s “Shakedown” was a hit tune from the Eddie Murphy film ‘Beverley Hills Cop II,’ and brought Bob to Hollywood. The songs was perfect for the movie Most people don’t know that it was first recorded by fellow Detroiter Glenn Frey who didn’t like the lyrics, so he gave the song to Bob.


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