Top 10 Title Songs from Films
谢谢捧场。这次我们带来“十大电影同名主题歌”。既然是主题歌,歌曲与电影的契合度是十分重要的因素。加上社会反响、歌手长相和评委的品味,构成我们独特的评分准则。
10. The Temptations - My Girl, 1964
Song
Released: 1964.12
Charted: US#1; UK#2 (1991)
Film
Released: 1991.11
Box office: $121.5 million
Home Alone(中译“小鬼当家”)爆红后,童星 Macaulay Culkin 乘胜追拍
My Girl(中译“小鬼初恋”)。故事背景在七十年代初,用
The Temptations 名曲做片名和主题歌再贴切不过了。
9. Olivia Newton-John – Xanadu, 1980
Song
Released: 1980.6
Charted: US#8; UK#1
Film
Released: 1980.8
Box office: $23 million
Olivia Newton-John 主演的歌舞片Xanadu 遭遇滑铁卢,票房不如预期,影评更被无情鞭挞。不过片中歌曲却大受欢迎。除了这首同名主题歌外,Magic 是另一首榜首之作。
8. Irene Cara – Fame, 1980
Song
Released: 1980.5
Charted: US#4; UK#1
Film
Released: 1980.5
Box office: $42 million
Fame 是描写高校生活的青春歌舞片,出人意料地叫好叫座。女主角 Irene
Cara 主唱的同名主题歌同样成功,勇夺三大电影奖(奥斯卡、金球和英国电影学院)的最佳原声歌曲奖。
7. Ray Parker Jr. – Ghostbusters, 1984
Song
Released: 1984.6
Charted: US#1; UK#2
Film
Released: 1984.6
Box office: $295.2 million
八十年代最成功的电影之一,超自然喜剧
Ghostbusters(中译“捉鬼敢死队”)掀起捉鬼热潮。同名主题歌虽然有版权纠纷,但无碍风行。遇到灵异事件?记住歌词“Who you gonna call”。
6. Debby Boone - You Light Up My Life, 1977
Song
Released: 1977.8
Charted: US#1; UK#48
Film
Released: 1977.8
Box office: $8.5 million
尽管票房惨淡,同名主题歌却赢得奥斯卡和金球奖的最佳原声歌曲奖,以及成为格莱美年度之歌。值得注意的是,影片中歌曲演唱者是
Kvitka Cisyk,原声专辑则是Debby Boone。
5. Diana Ross and Lionel Richie -
Endless Love, 1981
Song
Released: 1981.6
Charted: US#1; UK#7
Film
Released: 1981.7
Box office: $32.4 million
走过青青珊瑚岛之后,Brooke Shields 再带来一场青春爱情风暴。没想到,为少女偶像量体裁衣的同名主题歌,却比电影走得更远,早已成为英文金曲、经典情歌。
4. Kenny Loggins – Footloose, 1984
Song
Released: 1984.1
Charted: US#1; UK#6
Film
Released: 1984.2
Box office: $80 million
又一部对流行文化有深远影响的青春片。同名主题歌跟影片一样,舞曲和摇滚的激情结合,充满阳光、活力和快乐。这也是为什么今天的人如此怀念八十年代的原因。
3. Bette Midler – The Rose, 1979
Song
Released: 1980.3
Charted: US#3
Film
Released: 1979.11
Box office: $29.2 million
原本要拍 Janis Joplin 的传记片,却因其家人反对而临时改写。紧急搜罗的歌曲中竟然有这首如此契合的主题歌 The Rose。原创者是名不见经传的洛杉矶歌手Amanda McBroom。
2. Phil Collins - Against All Odds, 1984
Song
Released: 1984.2
Charted: US#1; UK#2
Film
Released: 1984.3
Box office: $21.7 million
这部新黑色电影是1947年黑色电影 Out of the Past 的翻拍。Phil Collins 创作的同名主题歌削去惊悚,突出浪漫,再加入一些悲伤。最后,我们都忘记了电影,只爱歌曲。
1. Paul McCartney and Wings - Live and Let Die, 1973
Song
Released: 1973.6
Charted: US#2; UK#9
Film
Released: 1973.6
Box office: $161.8 million
James Bond 系列电影的票房向来出彩,主题歌亦向来出色。其中Live and Let Die 可以说是佼中之佼(Billboard 的评语)。为了创作,Paul McCartney 特意读了一遍原著,绝无欺场。
荣誉提名:
Tom Jones - What's New Pussycat?,
1965
The Way We Were - Barbra
Streisand, 1973
Biliy Joey - Easy Money, 1983
Prince - Purple Rain, 1984
Duran Duran - A View to a Kill,
1985
Ben E. King - Stand by Me, 1961 (1986
film)
Roy Oribison – Oh, Pretty Woman,
1964 (1990 film “Pretty Woman”)
Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson - Beauty
and the Beast, 1991
Sting - Demolition Man, 1993
Neil Young – Philadelphia, 1993