What film titles have been based upon the titles of pre-existing songs? To keep this idea manageable, we have to exclude:
Films that have title songs written specifically for them: IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT; A HARD DAY’S NIGHT; WHERE THE BOYS ARE; any James Bond film
Musicals that have title songs that come from the original stage shows: THE SOUND OF MUSIC; OLIVER!; ANYTHING GOES
I’m thinking of films such as:
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (the song was first featured in the MGM musical HOLLYWOOD REVUE OF 1929) WHITE CHRISTMAS (the song was written for the earlier HOLIDAY INN) ODE TO BILLY JOE CONVOY
Across the Universe Addicted To Love Afternoon Delight Alexander's Ragtime Band Alice's Restaurant American Pie Anchors Away April Showers At Long Last Love Auld Lang Syne Autumn Leaves The Best Things In Life Are Free Baby It's You Beyond the Sea Birth of the Blues Black Snake Moan Blue Hawaii Blue Skies Blue Velvet Boogie Nights Book of Love Born To Be Wild Boys Don't Cry Brazil (2 films) Breakfast on Pluto By the Light of the Silvery Moon Bye Bye Love California Dreaming Can’t Buy Me Love Coal Miner's Daughter Convoy Cruisin' Down the River The Crying Game Deep In My Heart Deep In the Heart of Texas Demolition Man Detroit Rock City Don't Fence Me In Downtown Easter Parade Easy To Love Embracable You Fly Me To The Moon For Me and My Gal Frankie and Johnny Funny Face Girls Just Want To Have Fun Great Balls of Fire Guantanamera Harper Valley P.T.A. Happy Together Heartbreak Hotel Honey Hotel California I Dream of Jeannie If You Knew Susie I'll Be Seeing You I'll Get By The In Crowd In Dreams In the Good Old Summertime In the Mood It Had To Be You I Wanna Hold Your Hand Jumpin' Jack Flash Just a Gigolo Kawa no Nagare no You ni Kiss Me Goodbye La Bamba The Last Time I Saw Paris Lean On Me Love Me or Leave Me Love Potion No. 9 Lullaby of Broadway Man On the Moon Meet Me In St. Louis Message In a Bottle Mona Lisa Monster Mash Mood Indigo Moon Over Miami Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter Mule Train Murder By Numbers Murder, He says My Darling Clementine My Girl My Wild Irish Rose Night and Day The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia Ode to Billy Joe On Moonlight Bay On Top of Old Smoky One Fine Day Only You Pagan Love Song Peggy Sue Got Married Pennies From Heaven Prelude to a Kiss Pretty Woman P.S. I Love You Purple People Eater Red River Valley Rock-a-Bye Baby Rock Around the Clock Round Midnight Sea of Love She Wore a Yellow Ribbon Shine On Harvest Moon (2 films) Silent Night Singin’ In the Rain Smile Some Kind of Wonderful Somebody Loves Me Someone To Watch Over Me Somewhere In the Night Soul Man St. Louis Blues (3 films) Stand By Me Starman Staying Alive Stormy Weather Streets of Fire Summer In the City Sunflower Swanee River Sweet Home Alabama Sweetheart of Sigma Chi (2 films) Take Me Out To the Ball Game Taking Care of Business Temptation Tequila Sunrise That Old Feeling That'll Be the Day That's Entertainment There's No Business Like Show Business Three Little Words Thunderstruck Till the Clouds Get By Till the End of Time Touch Me In The Morning The Trail of the Lonesome Pine Trouble In Mind Twist and Shout Two of Us Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie What's Love Got To Do With It When a Man Loves a Woman White Christmas Who'll Stop the Rain Why Do Fools Fall In Love With a Song In My Heart Yankee Doodle Dandy Yellow Submarine You Can't Hurry Love Young At Heart You're My Everything Your Cheatin' Heart
ALICE'S RESTAURANT (1967 song, 1969 film) Technically, though, the song title is "Alice's Restaurant Massacree," but few use the full title when referring to the song. The album on which it appeared was titled "Alice's Restaurant" and in the song itself, Arlo Guthie calls the song "Alice's Restaurant."
