Popdose: LOST SOUNDTRACK CLASSICS: “You’re The Best” | Popdose
MichaelWSP
· 2 years ago
This is hitting Simmons' column inside of 72 hours. No question about it. Brilliant work.
Carlos
· 2 years ago
As a music geek, I get a lot of friends asking me questions like, who sings that song that goes...blah blah blah all the time. I have been asked about You're The Best a lot through the years. People love it! My friend is a techno DJ in my old hometown of Queens, NY and he actually plays this song at the end of his set and the crowd actually sings along! Another tidbit, I manage a rock band from Missouri called Promise To Burn and they cover this song from time to time. They also cover No Easy Way Out by Robert Tepper from the fourth installment of the Rocky films. That is a kick ass song!
Elaine
· 2 years ago
Wow! What a great idea/execution/choice/entry/interview! Thank you, Jason and Jefito. I am so glad to know there are marvelous screwy-music afficionados like you in this world. I've already thought of 3 other entries that I bet will show up here. What was it about the 80's and the obscurity of that 'one soundtrack song?'
Did you ask Mr. Esposito "why the 'bean'?" Is it like Frances Cobain's middle name?
This is so exciting!
p.s. using Opera now. The paragraph breaks seem to be working, finally.
Billy K
· 2 years ago
Way to knock it out of the park guys.
My own personal "Lost Soundtrack Classic" ('cause you asked, right?) is Ray Charles' "Just Because," which rolled at the end credits of "The Sure Thing." I tell ya, I've been tracking that song down for years. I finally discovered it was on some 80s Ray Charles vinyl-only album that hasn't come up on eBay for over a year. I mean, it's LOST. At one point in the 80s I plugged a VCR into my tape deck and dubbed it. You can image the excellent fidelity! I am now resigned to dubbing it off a DVD, which should provide good sound.
Hooray for rambling personal anecdotes!
But seriously, great job fellas.
David
· 2 years ago
Good song. Great interview.
I cannot picture That man singing Those lines with That voice.
I can now only assume that Robert Tepper and Tim Capello will also look like someone's uncles, and not shaggy piles of feathered hair atop some bombers jackets.
Robert
· 2 years ago
Rocky and Rocky V in that franchise? I'm guessing Stallone, who directed Rocky II, III, IV, and Balboa, offered You're the Best to Avildsen when he couldn't find a place for it in Rocky III. Awful nice of the Stallion to do that. I had several friends ask me recently if I could send You're the Best to them over e-mail so they could add it to their exercise playlist on their iPod.
There's a sketch-comedy duo in Chicago who wrote an eight-minute Karate Kid rock opera. You can hear it at http://www.myspace.com/themikeandduaneshow. And Patton Oswalt wrote a funny biography of Karate Kid villain Johnny Lawrence, but his Web site isn't featuring it right now.
How about Frank Stallone's Far from Over from Staying Alive as a future installment? I'd like to pretend that I only enjoy that song from an ironic distance, but I don't. It's a great song. Cheesy, sure, but Frank Stallone sells it like crazy.
Dw Dunphy
· 2 years ago
Good job, lads. Now it's time to uncover whomever did that Send Me An Angel song, so prominent in many 80s soundtracks, sounding like the dude who sings with Scorpions, but is not the dude who sings with Scorpions... yet is probably also German.DwD
woofpop
· 2 years ago
What a way to start! Just amazing..
Carlos
· 2 years ago
That song, Send Me An Angel, was done by REAL LIFE. It was featured in a really funny scene in the BMX movie, Rad.
Carlos
· 2 years ago
By the way, the Scorpions actually did have a song called, Send Me An Angel too but it;s an entirely different song and came out in the 90's.
DanChick
· 2 years ago
Ooh! Ooh! What a great topic... Some that I think of right away: 'Apron Strings' by Everything but the Girl from She's Having A Baby...Love Rules' by Don Henley from Fast Times at Ridgemont High...It Can't Rain All The Time' by Jane Siberry from The Crow...'Nothing in Common' by the Thompson Twins from, natch, Nothing in Common... 'Spies Like Us' and 'No More Lonely Nights' by McCartney, OK, getting very obscure now, but 'Love is My Decision' by Chris DeBurgh, the themefrom Arthur II. I think I had the 45 of that one. With the picture sleeve. OK, I've embarrassed myself, I must go...
ChuckB
· 2 years ago
Great concept boys! Can't wait to see what follows. Hmmm...if I can throw one of my own favorites in here for your consideration. A 1984 or 85' film called Tuff Turf with the title song sung by Southside Johnny. I have yet to find this cut on anything other than a Rhino vinyl lp. The soundtrack also turned me on to Jack Mack the Heart Attack, an LA rock soul band who perform in the film and have 3 songs on the lp.One that I remember withoutcranking up my turntable was SoTuff.Just a thought.
Private Beach
· 2 years ago
Good idea, but why limit it to the 80s? Lots of good movie songs from the 60s and 70s are now hard to find - only yesterday I saw the Inside Daisy Clover soundtrack LP on eBay (Andre and Dory Previn) - checked on Amazon and there's no CD of it.
kurt
· 2 years ago
oooh...sounds great. If You Were Here by the Thompson Twins (Sixteen Candles) comes to mind
Robert
· 2 years ago
Looking at Them, who has a helpful Soundtrack Saturday series.
Robert
· 2 years ago
Sorry, help is the wrong word. Collaborative consultation, maybe?
Jeremy
· 2 years ago
How about that song from Eddie and The Cruisers. John Cafferty or someone sang it.
Elaine
· 2 years ago
On the daaaarrrrrk side, ohhhhhhhhh yeahhhhh. I remember that lame movie. It was one of the first times I noticed movie lip-synch.Hey, anybody remember back when 1999, the Prince album, was transferred to CD, and the data was so ginormous that the disc would have to be a two-set? The decision was made to drop (at least) one song from the set, if you can believe that ridiculous b.s. So my purchase didn't include DMSR. I was ticked off! It took me a while, but I finally tracked it down. And where did I find it? On the soundtrack for Risky Business. mmm hm. that's right. Keep in mind, this was before the days of amazon.com and the Internet. I had to pay $30 for the thing. It was an import, if you can believe it. For my trouble, I ended up with Muddy Waters and Jeff Beck and Tangerine Dream to boot. And some tired ass Bob Seger song.Also had a really tough time finding the Valley Girl soundtrack, and I kept finding Fast Times soundtrack pressings minus Goodbye, Goodbye, for some reason.
BD
· 2 years ago
South Park and Family Guy?
Kareem
· 2 years ago
Check this out:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzChi6-RwWUYou're the Best rendition.
D-Pete
· 2 years ago
I nominate "The Best Man in the World" by Ann Wilson from the 1986 (?) Eddie Murphy flick "The Golden Child." What an awesome song -- it sounds a lot like "Never" by Heart. And yet it bombed as a single. Go figure.
Robert
· 2 years ago
The Men's Club. It's performed by Jim Gilstrap and written by Lee Holdridge and John Bettis. It plays over the closing credits of the movie (sorry, not a montage moment) as Roy Scheider, Craig Wasson, and maybe David Dukes are running along the Golden Gate Bridge. I've always liked this song, but it was never officially released.brbrAnd I've mentioned Michael Franks's Come Home to You from 1982's Author! Author! in the Mellow Gold comments before. One of Franks's only singer-for-hire gigs? I'm not sure. The song was written by Alan and Marilyn Bergman.
tres
· 2 years ago
Eek! I could seriously go off on a tangent right now. I think this project may be dangerously too cumbersome. But I admire your ambition. I'll just say, Who's Johnny by El Debarge, who would later be just Debarge. Or in keeping with your post, how 'bout the theme song to Karate Kid II, Peter Cetera's (sp?) Glory of Love. Or two gems off the Goonies sntrk, 'Goonies R Good Enough' by Cyndi Lauper, and the super obscure 'Eight Arms To Hold You' by The Goon Squad - made in reference to the famously deleted Octopus scene in Goonies. Preston Smith's Oh I Love You So from Cocktail. Theme to St. Elmo's Fire appropriately called Man in Motion (St. Elmo's Fire), Axl F, andanything from any John Hughes movie is burned on everyone's brain...like Weird Science by Oingo Boingo. But I'd say most of the John Hughes stuff doesn't fall under the category of Lost....which I take to mean obscure and/or forgotten, like you have described. That kinda limits it to things like David Bowie's Magic Dance from Labyrinth or ex-Kajagoogoo front man Limahl's theme song to The Neverending Story. To end this on a manly note, I'll throw out Kenny Loggins' Meet Me Half Way from Stallone's arm westling opus 'Over the Top'. wait a sec, that wasn't very manly at all...(p.s. sorry I don't use this Opera thingy, I really do make nice paragraphs...)
Jason
· 2 years ago
I'm loving all the suggestions so far, but yes, as Tres mentions, it IS called Lost Soundtrack Classics, with the emphasis on lost. This means, unfortunately (or fortunately?) that songs like Who's Johnny, Man In Motion, On The Dark Side, or anything that even remotely made its way onto a chart of any kind is probably not meant for this series. But so far, these are great suggestions, and we're already trying to contact some of these artists...we'll keep you posted!
Robert
· 2 years ago
Good point. I think Frank Stallone's Far from Over made it into the Top 40 in the summer of '83. Damn!
Terje
· 2 years ago
Does Lindsey Buckingham's Holiday Road from National Lampoon's Vacation qualify as a Lost Classic? I'm in doubt, as it peaked at no. 82 on the Billboard charts, and even has a video. But to my knowledge it's never been released on CD - and I'd love to hear the story behind it.
Crimson Ghost
· 2 years ago
Yes, Holiday Road! The Rocky soundtracks were full of these gems. And don't forget that lost Robert Palmer-less Power Station song at the end of Commando, Someway, Somehow, Someone's Gotta Pay.
JoseViruete
· 2 years ago
ABOLUTELY AMAZING! I really love that song and always wanted to know a bit more about Mr. Exposito. One of my fav soundtrack songs ever. Great work, Jason! Greetings from Spain.
Bryan
· 2 years ago
No lost soundtrack songs discussion would be complete without including almost the entire soundtrack from Real Genius. While it featured a few big hits (Tears For Fears' Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Bryan Adams' One Night Love Affair and Don Henley's All She Wants To Do Is Dance) there were a number of really obscure tunes (mostof them not so surprisingly - during montages in the film). Chaz Jankel's Number One is the one that always stood out the most to me, but I'm Falling (by Comast Angels) and even the obligitary love song You're The Only Love (Paul Hyde And The Payolas) were pretty good too.
"Holiday Road" is a great suggestion, because it's a song that everybody remembers but no one can seem to find.
Bryan
· 2 years ago
Thanks Robert ... I hadn't actually seen that post, but managed to track down all the individual tracks a couple of years ago and made my own soundtrack! :)
Dan
· 2 years ago
wow, what a complete fulfilling exhumation of a 'lost' song!
I'd nominate for your series another truly 'lost' song - the Joni Mitchell song deleted after the promo issue of the 'Grace of My Heart' soundtrack. (MCA?) didn't have the licensing! It was replaced by Shawn Colvin covering the same song. Shawn is also in the movie, and of course Allison Anders' quasi-kinda-sorta Carole King biopic practically BEGS an interview... with variations on 'what were you thinking??' Don't get me wrong, I love it, but boy is it weird when considering all the true-life tales of the girl-group/'60s era it stitches together.
There's also a great old James Carr song that comes during the big clinch scene in 'Only You' when Andrew McCarthy and Helen Hunt dance and fall in love...
I think I might have that Southside Johnny Tuff Turf song on a 45...
Of Montreal or Matt Pond PA covered 'Holiday Road' a year or so ago.
Notamoto
· 2 years ago
Thank you SO much for posting the song, I've been looking everywhere for it!!
Eric
· 2 years ago
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086508/soundtrack [Randall tex Cobb also is famous, or infamous for his fight against Larry Holmes at the Astrodome for the heavyweight title, it was a brutal affair that left Howard Cossell in shock.]
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My friend is a techno DJ in my old hometown of Queens, NY and he actually plays this song at the end of his set and the crowd actually sings along!
Another tidbit, I manage a rock band from Missouri called Promise To Burn and they cover this song from time to time. They also cover No Easy Way Out by Robert Tepper from the fourth installment of the Rocky films. That is a kick ass song!
Did you ask Mr. Esposito "why the 'bean'?" Is it like Frances Cobain's middle name?
This is so exciting!
p.s. using Opera now. The paragraph breaks seem to be working, finally.
My own personal "Lost Soundtrack Classic" ('cause you asked, right?) is Ray Charles' "Just Because," which rolled at the end credits of "The Sure Thing." I tell ya, I've been tracking that song down for years. I finally discovered it was on some 80s Ray Charles vinyl-only album that hasn't come up on eBay for over a year. I mean, it's LOST. At one point in the 80s I plugged a VCR into my tape deck and dubbed it. You can image the excellent fidelity! I am now resigned to dubbing it off a DVD, which should provide good sound.
Hooray for rambling personal anecdotes!
But seriously, great job fellas.
I cannot picture That man singing Those lines with That voice.
I can now only assume that Robert Tepper and Tim Capello will also look like someone's uncles, and not shaggy piles of feathered hair atop some bombers jackets.
There's a sketch-comedy duo in Chicago who wrote an eight-minute Karate Kid rock opera. You can hear it at http://www.myspace.com/themikeandduaneshow. And Patton Oswalt wrote a funny biography of Karate Kid villain Johnny Lawrence, but his Web site isn't featuring it right now.
How about Frank Stallone's Far from Over from Staying Alive as a future installment? I'd like to pretend that I only enjoy that song from an ironic distance, but I don't. It's a great song. Cheesy, sure, but Frank Stallone sells it like crazy.
'Spies Like Us' and 'No More Lonely Nights' by McCartney, OK, getting very obscure now, but 'Love is My Decision' by Chris DeBurgh, the themefrom Arthur II. I think I had the 45 of that one. With the picture sleeve. OK, I've embarrassed myself, I must go...
I'll just say, Who's Johnny by El Debarge, who would later be just Debarge.
Or in keeping with your post, how 'bout the theme song to Karate Kid II, Peter Cetera's (sp?) Glory of Love.
Or two gems off the Goonies sntrk, 'Goonies R Good Enough' by Cyndi Lauper, and the super obscure 'Eight Arms To Hold You' by The Goon Squad - made in reference to the famously deleted Octopus scene in Goonies.
Preston Smith's Oh I Love You So from Cocktail.
Theme to St. Elmo's Fire appropriately called Man in Motion (St. Elmo's Fire), Axl F, andanything from any John Hughes movie is burned on everyone's brain...like Weird Science by Oingo Boingo. But I'd say most of the John Hughes stuff doesn't fall under the category of Lost....which I take to mean obscure and/or forgotten, like you have described. That kinda limits it to things like David Bowie's Magic Dance from Labyrinth or ex-Kajagoogoo front man Limahl's theme song to The Neverending Story. To end this on a manly note, I'll throw out Kenny Loggins' Meet Me Half Way from Stallone's arm westling opus 'Over the Top'. wait a sec, that wasn't very manly at all...(p.s. sorry I don't use this Opera thingy, I really do make nice paragraphs...)
http://lookingatthem.blogspot.com/2007/01/repos...
"Holiday Road" is a great suggestion, because it's a song that everybody remembers but no one can seem to find.
I'd nominate for your series another truly 'lost' song - the Joni Mitchell song deleted after the promo issue of the 'Grace of My Heart' soundtrack. (MCA?) didn't have the licensing! It was replaced by Shawn Colvin covering the same song. Shawn is also in the movie, and of course Allison Anders' quasi-kinda-sorta Carole King biopic practically BEGS an interview... with variations on 'what were you thinking??' Don't get me wrong, I love it, but boy is it weird when considering all the true-life tales of the girl-group/'60s era it stitches together.
There's also a great old James Carr song that comes during the big clinch scene in 'Only You' when Andrew McCarthy and Helen Hunt dance and fall in love...
I think I might have that Southside Johnny Tuff Turf song on a 45...
Of Montreal or Matt Pond PA covered 'Holiday Road' a year or so ago.
[Randall tex Cobb also is famous, or infamous for his fight against Larry Holmes at the Astrodome for the heavyweight title, it was a brutal affair that left Howard Cossell in shock.]