...within the films themselves, that is. Whether heard as source music or as proper underscore. NOT re-records or versions of the themes recorded and released (or not released) with the intention of radio play by the composer or "cover" versions, either.
I really like when composers do this and Brian Tyler does a fine job of arranging his Iron Man 3 theme into the catchy "Can You Dig It?"
...within the films themselves, that is. Whether heard as source music or as proper underscore. NOT re-records or versions of the themes recorded and released (or not released) with the intention of radio play by the composer or "cover" versions, either.
Glad you specified; otherwise there would be like thousands to choose from.
Aww, Mr. Phelps, putting in all those "qualifiers" might just render me mute. Nah!
By the way, when I played Tyler's Iron Man pop version you listed, I kept getting an ad that said, "The one thing you should eat every single morning for your prostrate." Did you read it? What was it?
In the first original Rocky when Rocky is seducing Adrian, there seems to be a kind of rock version of the main theme playing on the radio. Intentional source music I believe.
Is this another English ~ American English distinction?
As for Jim's question ... could we include Piero Piccioni's Puppet on a Chain which includes a (very short) barrel organ source music sequence playing the theme as the hero is being followed.
Perhaps not pop enough ... back to thinking (which is better than thinking about my prostate!)
Of course: there's the truly awful rendition of the awful title song to Live and Let Die sung by BJ Arnau whilst Bond and Leiter are visiting the Fillet of Soul - New Orleans.
OMG, MusicMad, I'm lying on the floor absolutely prostrate over my humiliating typo!! Meanwhile, do take care of your own you know what.
No worries ... and sorry to tease ... it's just that other females (mainly in my family and especially my mother) always include the extra 'r' in their pronunciation. And given a history of such matters within my family ... Now, if only I knew how to care for my own ...
Hey, I LIKE that Live and Let Die cover version - maybe because it was my first film score album.
Does Can You Read My Mind? count from Superman? It's definitely a pop version of the love theme, and can't fairly be called a song since Margot Kidder doesn't sing.
Also, what about themes that are already pop? Like Diamonds Are Forever, for example. Or Moon River? I'm confused.
How about the love theme from COMA? I believe that was the second cue in the film, after "Stranger on the Street". That was my favorite SInatra tune.... "...Stranger on the street... exchanging glances, stranger on the....." wait a minute... DAMN MY DYSLEXIA AGAIN!
I don't know if it's necessarily a pop version, but "The Conscience of the King" has the Alexander Courage Star Trek theme playing as source music in a sort of lounge arrangement. It always craps on the otherwise solid episode.
I think the Ferrante &Teicher-like arrangement of the love theme from "Logan's Run" is heard over that film's end title sequence.
EDIT: No, I think I remembered wrong. We get a reprise of "End of the City" instead.
Don't Alex North and Leonard Bernstein provide jukebox-style arrangements of their themes from "Streetcar Named Desire" and "On the Waterfront" for use as source music in those films?
