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1->''"On top of that, ''[WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail]'' introduced the now-often-used idea of using a new soft rock song by a popular artist to boost the attention of the movie. I walk into clothing stores (although not often) and they're STILL playing "Somewhere Out There" on radio stations. And every time they do, I think of Fievel Mouskewitz because I can't help it."''
2-->--'''Website/PlatypusComix''', [[http://platypuscomix.com/educational/burythatfilm.html "Bury That Film! Starring Michael Eisner"]]
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4One tactic that has been used in the publicity of movies (and other media, but mostly movies) for decades is to produce a radio-friendly song to go with the film. By having music intrinsically linked, you can effectively extend the advertising for both the musical artist(s) and the movie by crossing over into the two fields. It often works out pretty well, with both the movie and the artist(s) getting a ton of free publicity from each other. For example, ''Film/TheGraduate'' and the song "Mrs. Robinson" by Music/SimonAndGarfunkel were both major hits when they first came out, with each giving a ton of publicity to the other. (This was the first time a pop hit was used on the soundtrack of a high-profile Hollywood film, and while the trend didn't catch on right away, it's safe to say it eventually became pretty standard practice.)
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6However, the nature of the entertainment industry means that you really can't be sure what people will or will not like. Most of the time, both the song and the movie will flop. Also common is that a movie will be popular, but nobody cares about the song that got attached. One example of that is the song "You Could Be Mine" by Music/GunsNRoses from ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''. At the time, both were equally huge deals, and it was a major coup for ''Terminator 2'' to land the first new Guns 'n' Roses song in three years for its soundtrack. The movie is still very popular, but the song is pretty much disassociated with it these days (having the Terminator in its video makes the song AND video look extremely dated; having Music/GunsNRoses suddenly blaring on the soundtrack early on in ''Terminator 2'' [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece sounds odd now]]).
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8But in some cases, the song continues to be popular after the movie has gone into obscurity. Sometimes the movie was actually popular at the time, but the song has since become utterly disassociated from its original context. In cases like this, we have what is called a Breakaway Pop Hit. The measure this article will use to gauge is whether or not a song still receives airplay on non-specialized radio stations at least five years after the movie has fallen into obscurity (in other words, people just recently informed of the fact would react with a surprised, "wait, my favorite song is from a movie?") Examples of this should follow these rules:
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10# It has to be a full song, released either as a single or otherwise widely available to radio stations. The song has to continue to receive airplay on the very general radio stations (i.e. an FM oldies station would count, but not a Satellite Radio station specifically dedicated to movie themes from the 1960s). Most FM stations count in this regard, since their entirely free mood means that they have to try to appeal to as wide a group as they can.
11# It has to have been created alongside a movie (TV show/video game/whatever). One way you can tell if it counts is if the music video heavily advertises the tie-in. It can't just have been tacked on by the studio to try to get more publicity for it (see Seal's "Kiss From a Rose" for a blatant example of that). With this rule, it does count if the music was released well in advance but was specifically intended as an intrinsic part of the movie (/TV show/video game/whatever).
12# The movie (TV show/video game/whatever) has to fall into obscurity. This is the most subjective part of this entry, but you can tell if it fell into obscurity by the fact that the studio either didn't release a DVD of it (not due only to [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes copyright hell]]) or they just gave it a "catalog" release (basically a bare bones DVD with just the movie and whatever cheaply available other features such as trailers or music videos are on hand. The price is usually $14.99 or lower). Just having a special edition version does not automatically mean it hasn't fallen into obscurity (for example, see Creator/TheCriterionCollection for a TON of obscure movies with the red carpet treatment). If the average person is unlikely to know about a movie (/TV show/video game/whatever), it counts.[[note]]This is why, for example, "Take My Breath Away" by Music/{{Berlin}} is ''not'' an example of this trope -- the last thing one would call the movie ''Film/TopGun'' is obscure.[[/note]]
13%%# Quality of the movie (TV show/video game/whatever) is irrelevant. ''Film/Armageddon1998'', for example, is widely reviled. However, due to the fact that it gets referenced a lot (usually in a negative manner), it has certainly not fallen into obscurity. As such, the song "I Don't Want To Miss a Thing" by Music/{{Aerosmith}} would not count as an example (even if most people couldn't tell you that it was tied in to the film). On the flip side, a movie that is considered to be very high quality does not excuse it from obscurity. As mentioned in example 3, see Creator/TheCriterionCollection for a lot of movies that are academically considered to be very high quality, yet are extremely obscure.
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15This applies to an ''insane'' number of songs from classic Broadway and movie musicals. Far too many songs have escaped their original musicals to give a full list, but ones that have become standards, while the shows they hail from are almost never seen, can stand as notable examples.
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17See PopCulturalOsmosis and BreakawayAdvertisement for related phenomenons. See also AwardBaitSong. Naturally, this can be frustrating for fans of the popular song's source. Compare CoveredUp and ParodyDisplacement.
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19'''A Administrivia/{{No Recent Examples|please}} rule applies to this trope'''. Examples shouldn't be added until '''five years''' after the work itself falls into obscurity, to ensure that the song's popularity endures.
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30* Jim Guthrie's song "Hands In My Pocket" was originally written for a Capital One commercial.
31* The Music/{{Carpenters}} song ''We've Only Just Begun" was first used in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVGmdwHTP1I 1970 Crocker Bank commercial]] sung and co-written by Music/PaulWilliams. Richard Carpenter saw the commercial on TV one night, called Williams and asked if there was a bridge to the song. Williams lied and said there was and he and his songwriting partner worked quickly to write the rest of the song before giving it to Carpenter.
32* Political advertising, but still - Boston mayoral candidate Walter A. O'Brien commissioned a pair of songwriters to write a song supporting his candidacy and protesting a fare hike on the subway system. While O'Brien lost, the song, "Charlie On The M.T.A." was later covered by the Kingston Trio, becoming a hit for the band that was widely remembered to this day. The fare cards and tickets for the transit authority (now called the MBTA) are called [=CharlieTickets=][=/=][=CharlieCards=], after the song. A plaque in the popular hub Park Street Station explains the story behind the name of the ticket and the song.
33* An Alka-Seltzer commercial from 1964 had a vignette of different peoples' stomachs with a jaunty guitar-led instrumental tune, later becoming a radio hit "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's On)" by the T-Bones.
34* The UrExample of this is ''Literature/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer,'' which was originally written as a Montgomery Ward advertising jingle. However, the song was a musical version of the original 1939 story of the same name.
35* Timothy Leary asked Music/JohnLennon to write him a song when was running for political office, that song turned out to be Music/TheBeatles' hit "Come Together". Subverted, in that John ended up keeping the song instead of letting Leary use it.
36* Coca-Cola has proved to be the undisputed master of this trope in advertising:
37** Their 1971 jingle "I'd Like To Buy the World a Coke" had radio callers '''requesting the commercial''', so a longer version was released that was a Billboard Top 10 hit, which was re-written as "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)".
38** "Country Sunshine" by Dottie West was also a Coca-Cola jingle first, and released as a single in 1973 based on the popularity of the commercial, becoming her signature song.
39** "First Time," recorded by Robin Beck originated as a Coca-Cola jingle and was released as a single in 1988.
40** Music/{{Train}}'s "Shake Up Christmastime" was also recorded for a Coke commercial and the full version has gotten a fair amount of radio airplay every Christmas since then.
41** In a similar spirit, Melanie Thornton of Music/LaBouche fame had a Christmas song called "Wonderful Dream", which was based on Coke's "Holidays Are Coming" song from TheNineties.
42* A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9OCgem4a_k 1973 commercial]] for Old Home Bread introduced the world to Music/CWMcCall, a truck driver whose flirty adventures with a truck-stop waitress named Mavis were told through a talk-singing CountryRap. The commercials proved so popular that the soundtrack was turned into a single about the "Old Home Fill'er Up and Keep On Truckin' Cafe," which was a hit in the markets where the bread was sold. It was so successful that the advertising executive who sang in the commercials, Bill Fries, assumed the C.W. [=McCall=] persona and (with the help of Chip Davis, who wrote the music and later formed Music/MannheimSteamroller) had a real-life musical career capped by the smash hit "Convoy."
43* "Osakana Tengoku" was originally written as a theme song for a National Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations' Seafood Center campaign. When mouth spread about the song in the early 2000s, it became a children's music standard.
44* The original version of the song "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" was originally performed on Eddie Cantor's radio show in 1934 as a PublicServiceAnnouncement that persuaded the public to help out less fortunate people at Christmas, being that it was around the time of TheGreatDepression.
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48* ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'': Crossing this trope over with GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff, Twins' TranslatedCoverVersion of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NwS5mLfOyI "DANZEN! Futari Wa Pretty Cure"]] became a Taiwanese pop hit in 2006.
49* "Himawari no Yakusoku" by Hata Motohiro, which was written for ''Anime/StandByMeDoraemon'', has been a top 10 karaoke song in Japan for 5 years as of August 2019.
50* ''Manga/CatsEye'' from the anime adaptation of the manga of the same name. The anime is best described as a CultClassic in Japan as due to obscurity from its age, it's only known to a very scattered congregation of fans and is barely remembered by the mainstream. The theme song to the anime however somehow became a staple at various [[KaraokeBox karaoke venues]] in the country, with reports claiming that it is often requested at least once a night at any given karaoke venue all over Japan, and some generations have not seen the anime but yet are familiar with the song.
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54* ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot''
55** The main pop culture contribution of this [[AllAnimationIsDisney imitation-Disney]] film was "The Prayer", a ballad sung by Music/CelineDion and Andrea Bocelli (Bocelli doesn't sing it in the film itself; he only appears on the end credits reprise) that has since become a standard, covered by, among others, Music/CharlotteChurch and Music/JoshGroban. Most people are stunned to learn that (a) the song is from a movie and (b) exactly what movie the song is from.
56** Music/LeAnnRimes' "Looking Through Your Eyes", which reached #4 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart, was also written for the film and was the song that got the big radio push at the time, making "The Prayer"'s success that much more impressive.
57* Remember "Who Let the Dogs Out?" The Baha Men recording was made for ''WesternAnimation/RugratsInParis''. The song itself was CoveredUp from Fatt Jakk and his Pack of Pets.
58** A lesser-known example, from [[WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie the first film]], is Music/NoDoubt's "I Throw My Toys Around", one of the end credits songs, which has become popular among fans of said band.
59* Although Music/PaulSimon's "Father and Daughter" gained a life of its own as an inspirational tune, it originally began on the soundtrack to ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys Movie'' (and received an Oscar nomination for Best Song).
60* Music/BryanAdams' 2002 hit "Here I Am" reached the Top 10 charts across the world when it was released, won a Golden Globe Award, and continues to be played at major events (an instrumental version was used for the Vancouver 2010 UsefulNotes/OlympicGames bid) years after it was released. Still, how many of you remember the Creator/{{DreamWorks|Animation}} film ''WesternAnimation/SpiritStallionOfTheCimarron'', which opened in fourth place when it debuted in theaters and barely registered a blip in the weeks afterward? This track was the lead single from it; Adams provided a whole song score for the film.
61* "Somewhere Out There" from ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'', which was released as a single performed by Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram. While the film was hugely successful and indirectly led to the Disney Renaissance, the single version was successfully able to shed itself of its origins, and ended up being a hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and a Top 40 radio hit, reaching #2 on the charts in March 1987. It also becomes deliciously ironic when played at proms, since it details family separation.
62* Ruth Pointer's "Streets of Gold", from ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'', was a minor hit back in 1988-89 (and included in a 1998 compilation CD of Disney songs that became pop hits, along with more familiar Disney chestnuts like "Circle of Life" and "A Whole New World").
63* Music/JackJohnson had a huge adult contemporary crossover hit with "Upside Down", which was written for and originated on the soundtrack for the 2006 ''WesternAnimation/{{Curious George|2006}}'' movie.
64* Creator/KateWinslet recorded the song "What If" for 2001's ''WesternAnimation/ChristmasCarolTheMovie''. The film was critically panned and is largely forgotten. Winslet's song is regarded as SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic, shot to number 6 in the charts in its first week, and became the Christmas number one in Ireland for 2001. The song is still fondly remembered and most people forget it came from the movie.
65* Music/JustinTimberlake may have invoked this with "Can't Stop the Feeling!", a summer pop hit that also happened to be his contribution to the soundtrack of the [=DreamWorks=] film ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}''. It helps the song was released over ''7'' months before the movie officially came out in 2016. Even though ''Trolls'' became quite popular and successful, the song has mostly become distanced from it to the general public.
66* The title VillainSong from "WesternAnimation/DerFuehrersFace" became a popular wartime song as performed by Music/SpikeJones. It was the song's popularity that helped re-title the cartoon from "Donald Duck in Nutzi Land".
67* The French-Canadian animated film ''WesternAnimation/{{Ballerina}}'' was a box office flop in the United States (where it was renamed ''Leap''), but Music/CarlyRaeJepsen's soundtrack contribution "Cut to the Feeling" became one of the most critically acclaimed songs of 2017. It got to the point where many people didn't know it was supposed to be ''from'' a movie, which was aided by the fact that it had been released several months in advance of the film's American release, and its promotional rollout barely mentioned ''Ballerina'' at all.
68* The Music/KellyClarkson song "Broken and Beautiful" was written for the movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Uglydolls}}'', which flopped in North America due to strong competition from the billion-dollar juggernaut ''Film/AvengersEndgame''. The song would get frequent airplay on radio stations even after the film left most theaters.
69* The Music/NellyFurtado cover of "Crocodile Rock" was originally recorded for ''WesternAnimation/GnomeoAndJuliet'', which was a modest success at best. However, the song was a hit on the Radio Disney Top 30, to the point where it beat several Music/JustinBieber songs, dethroning "Somebody To Love" after a months-long streak at #1. On top of that, the music video got frequent airplay during Creator/DisneyChannel commercial breaks when the film was released. The song still plays at [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks some of Disney's theme parks]] and places for kids like Build-A-Bear Workshop.
70* ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' had two: Music/{{Aaliyah}}'s cover of "Journey to the Past", which was successful due to the artist's popularity, and Richard Marx and Donna Lewis' "At The Beginning", which was known for being the song that topped the Adult Contemporary charts before the long reign of [[Film/Titanic1997 "My Heart Will Go On"]]. Both of them still play on some mainstream pop stations, though the Aaliyah version of "Journey" is seen as one of her lesser songs (the in-movie version has often been compared to ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}''[='=]s "Let It Go" in that regard). The Deana Carter version of "Once Upon a December" is in the same boat, though its popularity is mostly limited to country radio.
71* "Believe" by Josh Groban was originally written for ''WesternAnimation/ThePolarExpress'', but later became a modestly popular Christmas standard that is still being played on the radio and covered by other artists to this day.
72* The song "Prince Charmless" is fairly well-known on the internet and even [[PrinceCharmless named a trope]]. The movie it came from, ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfAnastasia'', is virtually unheard of in comparison other than being a blatant ripoff of the above-mentioned ''Anastasia''.
73* Grace Potter's "Something That I Want" was originally the ending theme to ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}''. However, it's become one of the most popular songs among her fans despite only having radio airplay on Sirius XM's children's channels and its only other real exposure outside of that and the movie itself being the occasional retail store music mix and the ''VideoGame/DisneyInfinity'' video games. Granted, it's not as popular as "I See the Light" or "When Will My Life Begin" but those two songs are inseparable from ''Tangled'' while "Something That I Want" is rather easy to separate from it.
74* ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'' was not as successful or remembered by the general public as Disney's other works were, however, the Music/RobThomas song "Little Wonders", which was written for the film, peaked at number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2007.
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78* ''O Captain! My Captain!'', from the collection ''Literature/LeavesOfGrass'' got this treatment in Israel, when [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Shemer No‘omi Shemer]], a locally popular lyricist/poet, translated the poem to Hebrew and set it to music. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgi0odb-YFM This version was famously performed]] by singer [[https://www.facebook.com/meital.trabelsi Meital Trabelsi]] following the 1995 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Yitzhak_Rabin assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin]].
79* ‘[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHFEiiRShi0 Song of Guarding]]’ from Natan Alterman’s ''Literature/SummerCelebration'' was set to music and became a fairly popular song in Israel.
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83* "How Do You Talk to an Angel", credited to the fictional band The Heights from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heights_(American_TV_series) the early '90's FOX show of the same name]], was nominated for an Emmy and went to #1 in the US, but the show was canceled a week after the song fell from its peak.
84* Celine Dion's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLeYvefzUFA "To Love You More"]] was originally written for the 1995 Japanese drama ''Koibito Yo'' (My Dear Lover). Listen to the Japanese version [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7WesH505uc here]].
85* While the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' musical episode, "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E7OnceMoreWithFeeling Once More With Feeling]]", doesn't contain a Breakaway Pop Hit, the trope is [[DiscussedTrope discussed]] by Anya complaining that the song she and Xander sing is "more of a book number".
86** Obviously, either Tara's song "I'm Under Your Spell" or Spike's "(Let Me) Rest In Peace" is the one that would have been the BPH, and was intended as a play on this trope.
87* The Johnny Rivers song "Secret Agent Man" is better remembered in the US than the show to which it was the theme song, ''Secret Agent'' (originally known as ''Series/DangerMan'' in the UK). At the very least, people will be more familiar with the show's SpiritualSuccessor ''Series/{{The Prisoner|1967}}'', or [[ParodyDisplacement its animated parody]] ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse''.
88* Similar to the Heights example was the theme song to the sitcom ''Makin' It'', which was Creator/GarryMarshall's attempted SpiritualAdaptation of ''Film/SaturdayNightFever''. A DoItYourselfThemeTune performed by the show's star David Naughton, the show's producers wisely called on Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris, the pair responsible for Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive", to provide the {{Disco}}-style song, and it managed to outpace the show in popularity. It peaked at #5 and lasted 17 weeks on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, whereas the show only lasted 9 episodes. It peaked on the charts almost ''four months'' after the show was canceled!
89* The theme to ''Series/TheGreatestAmericanHero'' is more popular now than the show, which lasted only a single season. It peaked at #2 shortly after the show began, but hung around on Billboard's Hot 100 charts for over ''two '''years'''.'' The show was canceled sometime before the song fell off the chart entirely.
90* The "Peter Gunn Theme" by Music/HenryMancini. Nobody remembers [[Series/PeterGunn the original show]] but everybody recognizes the tune. At least some of the blame for that can be laid at the feet of VideoGame/SpyHunter1983 and ''Film/TheBluesBrothers''.
91* The theme song from ''Series/{{Minder}}'', 'I Could Be So Good For You', still ends up being played on the radio sometimes.
92* The obscure cop show ''TheProtectors'' would be almost entirely forgotten if not for its theme tune, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z-4IGSk9k0 "Avenues and Alleyways"]] by Tony Christie.
93* "For You I Will (Confidence)" by singer/songwriter Teddy Geiger originated as the theme song for the failed ([[CriticalDissonance but critically well received]]) 2006 CBS {{dramedy}} ''Love Monkey'', which Geiger had a small recurring role in. A few months after CBS ditched the show, the song made the Top 30 of the US pop charts.
94* CountryMusic singers Johnny Lee and Lane Brody co-wrote and recorded "The Yellow Rose", set to the old folk song "The Yellow Rose of Texas", and recorded it as the theme to ''The Yellow Rose'', an Creator/{{NBC}} PrimeTimeSoap starring Creator/CybillShepherd and Creator/SamElliott. The show itself was part of NBC's infamous "no-hitter" 1983-84 season (every single show they debuted that fall got canceled during the season, though ''The Yellow Rose'' managed to air all 22 of its episodes before it was axed). The song hit #1 on the country charts a couple of months before the series ended, and it remains a staple of the classic country format.
95** Ironically, most Malaysians will recognize the song as one that was used to advertise Series/RoadToAvonlea (of which it did '''not''' appear in) instead of the titular series that it originated from.
96* The theme to ''Series/HawaiiFiveO''. If that doesn't sound familiar, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpxJsy8nfjA this will]]. It's been used in everything from commercials to ''Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy'', usually accompanying surfing or anything to do with the ocean.
97* ''Series/{{Rawhide}}'' might not exactly be obscure, but one thing you'll remember about it (other than Creator/ClintEastwood) is its theme. Especially if you're a [[Film/TheBluesBrothers Blues Brothers]] fan.
98* ''Series/SoldierSoldier'' had a cover of the song "Unchained Melody" (itself a Breakaway Pop Hit - see Film) performed by its stars, Jerome Flynn and Robson Greene. Originally performed within the TV series, this version was so popular it was released as a massive hit single.
99* The song "Best Friend" by Music/HarryNilsson ("People, let me tell you 'bout my best friend...") used commonly as StockMusic for montages these days, was originally recorded for the 1969-1972 American {{Sitcom}} ''The Courtship of Eddie's Father''.
100* An obscure case is ''Patrik Pacard'', a Christmas series produced by public broadcaster Second German Television, which centered around a boy inventor. The series had a decent reception and was translated into English several years later, but it never made any impact. However, the title theme (sung by Lady Lily) went on to reach #11 on the German pop charts. It was later released as a single, in both English and extended formats, and had a rerelease in 2004, and gained infamy years later as an internet fad related to Jean-Luc Picard from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.
101* "I Believe", a duet between [[Main/{{Muppet}} Kermit the Frog]] and actress Creator/TiffanyThornton, was a minor Radio Disney hit during the 2009 holiday season. Those who only heard the song from there, Creator/DisneyChannel and/or through buying the single release on iTunes may be unaware of the fact that it was originally written as a Kermit solo for the UsefulNotes/MacysThanksgivingDayParade the previous year (Thornton and Kermit even performed it there the year their version was released).
102* ''Series/WickedCity'' only lasted for 3 episodes but in the same vein as [[Film/JemAndTheHolograms2015 "Youngblood"]], Music/KTTunstall's version of "Should I Stay Or Should I Go" remained fairly popular on iTunes afterward.
103* Loretta Haggers was an aspiring country singer on ''Series/MaryHartmanMaryHartman''. Mary Kay Place, who played Loretta, recorded an album in character, ''Tonite! At the Capri Lounge Loretta Haggers'', which hit the top 10 on the country album chart in 1976, and the single "Baby Boy" reached No. 3 on the country chart. Amusingly, the character's unexpected real-world success forced the writers to contrive a scandal for Haggers to explain why she wasn't able to ditch Fernwood for Nashville.
104* Music/HerbAlpert & The Tijuana Brass, an instrumental group who was one of the biggest non-rock acts of the 1960s, recorded the Burt Bacharach[=/=]Hal David tune "This Guy's in Love with You" for their 1968 TV special ''The Beat of the Brass''. The song was [[BlackSheepHit different from the group's usual music]] because Alpert -- famed as a trumpeter, not as a vocalist -- sang on the song himself, and the only brass portions of the song were a couple of bridges and a fadeout (also performed by Alpert). The day after the special aired, CBS was inundated with phone calls from listeners inquiring where to buy the song. Alpert's label (A&M, which he also co-owned) rush-released the single, and two months later, it was the number-one song in America. The tune remains a popular love song, while the Tijuana Brass special remains completely out of print and obscure.
105* Billy Vera and the Beaters released "At This Moment" as a single in 1981, but it initially just reached #79 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. A few years later, when the song was featured in an episode of ''Series/FamilyTies'', it was re-released and became a number-one hit.
106* The British-French crime drama ''The Last Panthers'' received good critical notice when it aired in late 2015 but has largely faded from memory. At the time, as now, the show's successes were completely dwarfed by those of its theme song: Music/DavidBowie's 10-minute swan song "Blackstar", which he had composed for the series and was also the first single from [[Music/BlackstarAlbum what would be his final album]].
107* In 1996, a DirectToVideo special put out by Character Counts! was released called ''Kids For Character''. This video featured a song called "Six Simple Words" which is still used by classrooms that follow the Character Counts curriculum and is more well-known today than the actual video itself.
108* The Roots' "Lovely, Love My Family" was originally written for the ''Series/YoGabbaGabba'' episode "Family". While the show faded into obscurity over the years, it was so popular on the Sirius XM radio station Kids' Place Live that it [[http://kplfans.blogspot.com/2009/01/13-under-13-16jan2009.html topped their music countdown]], the [=13under13=], and stayed on that list for 20 weeks. It is also still in the station's regular rotation to this day despite ''Yo Gabba Gabba!'' not airing on TV in the United States anymore.
109* ''Series/OkaasanToIssho'':
110** The top-selling Japanese CD single of all time, "Dango San Kyoudai", was originally from an animated segment aired on this show. This also happened to a lesser extent with "AIUE Ohayo", a song from the show that teaches the Japanese alphabet.
111** "Dokonoko no Kinoko", about a mushroom wanting to leave the forest and go on an adventure (set to traditional Russian folk music), became a hugely popular hit and charted on the regular Japanese music charts. It was even sung live by the hosts on NHK's New Year's Eve special (one of the most-watched shows of the year in Japan).
112** Other songs the show featured that became popular children's standards include "Ai Ai" and "Omocha no Cha Cha Cha".
113* Counting [=CDs=], records, and tapes, "Oyoge! Taiyaki-kun" would be the highest-selling Japanese single. It originated as a song played in a segment aired on the children's TV show ''Hiirake! Ponkickles''.
114* Although it originated in the Taisho era with different lyrics, the common version of the Japanese lullaby "Yurikago no Uta" debuted in a 1967 installment of the NHK series ''Minna No Uta''.
115* "Thank You For Being You" was written for the first season finale of the Canadian-American series ''Series/TheNoddyShop'', which was modestly successful during its Creator/PBSKids run, but has since fallen into relative obscurity and hasn't aired on U.S. TV since 2002. These days you're more likely to be familiar with [[RewrittenPopVersion the reworked version]], which appears as the closing track on two ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'' {{cover album}}s.
116* "Wishing Song" is associated with ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', but was written by songwriter Paul Tracey for an obscure local New York show he and his wife were appearing on. [[https://muppetmindset.wordpress.com/2014/01/17/interview-with-songwriter-paul-tracey/ According to him]], it came into existence because there was going to be an episode about wishing, and ExecutiveMeddling vetoed his previous suggestion, a folk song called "The Shepherd's Lamb". He later recorded it on an album that he gave to several friends, one of whom was a friend of Creator/JimHenson, who included it and some of Tracey's other songs on the show.
117* One of the songs on ''Series/InaiInaiBaa'', "Popopopopose", became this when J-Pop act [=GReeeeN=] performed a cover of it, inspiring a dance challenge on Website/YouTube. [[CoveredUp Said cover is also the first thing that shows up when one searches for the song's name]].
118* "The Song That Never Ends" was originally written for ''Series/LambChopsPlayAlong'', but became a popular PlaygroundSong outside of the context of the show.
119* The short-lived 1984 sitcom ''Dreams'' devoted each episode to a specific song that the fictional band was performing. One of the episodes featured the song "Alone", which had been previously recorded by the songwriting team of Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg, but it was years after the show's cancelation that Music/{{Heart|Band}} covered it and made it a #1 hit.
120* Series/VanDerValk: The theme tune, "Eye Level", played by the Simon Park orchestra, became a smash hit in its own right. It was also the [[OneHitWonder only time that the Simon Park Orchestra would grace the UK charts.]]
121* Besides ''Makin' It'' as mentioned above, producer Creator/GarryMarshall had a nice string of theme songs that became hits. While the source shows for "Series/HappyDays" by Pratt & [=McClain=] (which got to #5) and ''Series/LaverneAndShirley'''s "Making Our Dreams Come True" (a Top 30 hit for Cyndi Grecco) are still famous, the largely-forgotten ''Angie'' produced Maureen [=McGovern=]'s "Different Worlds" in 1979, which hit #1 on the ''Billboard'' Adult Contemporary chart and also made it into the Top 20 in the Hot 100.
122* The 2003 KoreanDrama ''Punch'' received criticism at the time of its airing and recorded low viewer ratings. However, KCM’s song "I Know" from the soundtrack received great popularity, and it's especially remembered even by those who haven’t seen ''Punch'' as a result of being used as background music for many Cyworld [[note]]a Korean social network popular in the 2000s equivalent to Myspace[[/note]] pages.
123* "Sing" from ''Series/SesameStreet'' boomed in popularity after Music/TheCarpenters released their cover of the song, which charted at #3. It's now one of the show's signature songs.
124* "Welcome Back" was originally written by John Sebastian as the theme song for ''Series/WelcomeBackKotter''. In fact, the song was so popular among the writers that the show was partially renamed after it during development (it was just ''Kotter'' before). While the series is well-remembered on its own, "Welcome Back" reached #1 on the charts 5 weeks after its release, and still is in rotation on oldies radio long after the show's conclusion.
125* "Koi" was Gen Hoshino's ending theme for the live-action adaptation of ''The Full-Time Wife Escapist''. The series lasted for eleven episodes, yet "Koi" remains one of Hoshino's most popular songs.
126* The Christmas standard "It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year" came from a 1962 episode of ''The Andy Williams Show''.
127* Long after the TroubledProduction and premature cancellation of the early Creator/{{Netflix}} series ''Series/TheGetDown'', Music/ChristinaAguilera and Nile Rodgers' "Telepathy" remains in regular rotation in places such as shopping malls and department stores.
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131* "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" from J.S. Bach's sacred {{cantata}} ''Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben'' (BWV 147). The former title, by the way, appears nowhere in the translated text of the cantata. The melody of "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" is actually from two, almost identical movements of the cantata ("Wohl mir, daß ich Jesum habe" and "Jesus bleibet meine Freude" respectively). The melody is very famous in both religious and secular circles; in the latter, the melody often appears stripped of its religious lyrics and any hint of its Baroque origin.
132* Music/BruceSpringsteen's recording of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" was first released on the 1982 multi-artist children's album ''In Harmony 2'', a tie-in album for ''Series/SesameStreet'', although the song was recorded seven years earlier in 1975. And while the album itself has yet to be reissued on CD or digitally (even though it won a Grammy), the song has received annual airplay on radio stations for decades.
133* Henry Purcell's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZGgU8zRBDM incidental music]] for the play ''Abdelazer,'' a Restoration tragedy by Aphra Behn, is much more famous than the play it was originally composed for, which has fallen into obscurity.
134* The Waitresses' new wave holiday classic "Christmas Wrapping" was originally recorded for ''A Christmas Record'', a 1981 collection of new holiday songs from the roster of experimental and post-punk label ZE Records. "Christmas Wrapping" was the most commercial song on the release, which includes some rather offbeat takes on Christmas music from the likes of Music/{{Suicide|Band}} and Bill Laswell, and was issued as a single to promote a wider release of the compilation in 1982. While "Christmas Wrapping" didn't initially chart very high (only reaching #45 in the UK and not placing at all in the US), its reputation as an alt-rock Christmas classic grew over the years, and it's now a holiday staple that has been covered dozens of times. ''A Christmas Record'', by contrast, is relatively obscure, to the point where even some Waitresses fans aren't aware of its existence.
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138* Music/TheBlackEyedPeas recorded a [[SelfCensoredRelease clean]] version of their song "Let's Get Retarded", "Let's Get It Started", to be a promo song for television coverage of the 2004 [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]] playoffs. After all, was said and done on the court, it became one of the group's biggest hits; did you even know there was a "dirty" version?
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142* "You've Got Possibilities", covered by Barbra Streisand and Peggy Lee among others, originally came from ''It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Franchise/{{Superman}}'' (where it was originated by Creator/LindaLavin), a 1966 musical that was one of Broadway's most notorious flops (though it's a bit of a CultClassic among theatre aficionados).
143* "Ah! Sweet Mystery Of Life" from ''Theatre/NaughtyMarietta''. Coming full circle, this one made it back to Broadway in ''Film/ThoroughlyModernMillie''.
144* "One Night In Bangkok" and "I Know Him So Well" from ''Theatre/{{Chess}}''. While the soundtrack was released as a concept album at first, it was always intended to eventually be staged. Both songs were hits in their original versions from that original 1984 album: "One Night in Bangkok", performed by actor Murray Head, made it to #3 in the US, while Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson's version of "I Know Him So Well" was a #1 hit in the UK. As with the rest of the music from the show, both songs were written by Benny Anderson and Bjorn Ulvaeus from Music/{{ABBA}}.
145* The endlessly covered song "All The Things You Are" was originally written for a poorly-received Broadway musical called ''Very Warm For May''. This was a bit of a surprise for the composer, Jerome Kern, who worried that the tricky modulations (which make a full turn around the circle of fifths) would put most musicians off. It was also not featured in the show's MedleyOverture.
146* "I've Gotta Be Me" from the largely forgotten Broadway musical ''Golden Rainbow'' became a massive hit when it was covered by Creator/SammyDavisJr in 1968.
147* "September Song" from ''Theatre/KnickerbockerHoliday''. Didn't know it was from a musical? Neither did the girl from the play ''The Seven Year Itch''.
148* ''Right This Way'', an extremely obscure Broadway flop of 1938, produced the hit "I'll Be Seeing You (In All The Old Familiar Places)." The same songwriters wrote the near-standard "I Can Dream, Can't I?" for the same show.
149* "If I Ruled The World" from ''Pickwick''.
150* "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" from ''Promises, Promises''. This also applies to [[ChristmasSongs "Turkey Lurkey Time"]] to some extent.
151* Music/ColePorter's "Begin the Beguine" and "Just One of Those Things" originally came from the musical ''Jubilee'' (1935), a show which was largely forgotten after it sunk under its exorbitant production costs. Interestingly, though the songs became two of Cole Porter's biggest hits, this was not the case until years after the show closed.
152* Another Cole Porter example: "It's De-Lovely" from ''Red, Hot and Blue''. (You're more likely to hear it in revivals of its spiritual predecessor ''Anything Goes'' since it's become RetCanon there.)
153* The political-satire musical ''I'd Rather Be Right'' was a success in 1937, but has rarely been revived since due to its reliance on topical humor about the F.D.R. administration. The show's enduring legacy is the song "Have You Met Miss Jones?"
154* "I Wanna Be Loved By You" was originally from ''Good Boy'', a 1928 Broadway musical remembered for little else.
155* "Feeling Good" from ''The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd''.
156** From the same show, "On a Wonderful Day Like Today."
157* "Too Close For Comfort" from ''Mr. Wonderful''.
158* "Mack the Knife" is a crooner classic, but who remembers it's from a musical that brutally criticizes the frivolities of capitalism? Easily the best-remembered song from Creator/BertoltBrecht and Kurt Weill's ''Theatre/TheThreepennyOpera''; double points for being translated from the original German.
159** And then there's "Alabama Song" from Brecht and Weill's follow-up, ''Theatre/TheRiseAndFallOfTheCityOfMahagonny'', best known for the cover recorded by Music/TheDoors in 1967.
160* "Once Upon A Time (Never Comes Again)" from ''All American''.
161* "Comes Love" from ''Yokel Boy''.
162* "Here's That Rainy Day" from ''Carnival in Flanders'', a ScreenToStageAdaptation which bombed horribly in 1953.
163* "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" from ''Film/{{Roberta}}.''
164* "Hey, Look Me Over" from ''Wildcat'', a Creator/LucilleBall vehicle on which Creator/DesiluStudios lost a good chunk of money.
165* Several Stephen Foster songs that most Americans think are "folk songs" (such as "Oh Susannah", "Camptown Races", etc.) were originally performed in 19th-century minstrel shows.
166* "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" from ''Oh, Look!''. (Of course, its principal motif was lifted from the even older Fantaisie-Impromptu by Frederic Chopin.)
167* Most of George M. Cohan's famous songs, except for his World War I song "Over There," hailed originally from the stage musicals he created in the earlier part of his career:
168** "The Yankee Doodle Boy" and "Give My Regards To Broadway" from ''Little Johnny Jones'' (1904).
169** "Mary's a Grand Old Name" from ''Forty-five Minutes from Broadway'' (1905).
170** "You're a Grand Old Rag" (not a typo ... that was the original name before Cohan changed it to the more PC "Flag") from ''George Washington, Jr.'' (1906).
171** [[SpellingSong "Harrigan"]] from ''Fifty Miles from Boston'' (1908).
172* "Rule, Britannia" was originally composed for the 18th-century masque ''Alfred''.
173* "Makin' Whoopee" and "Love Me Or Leave Me" from ''Whoopee!''. ("Love Me Or Leave Me" was a SetSwitchSong irrelevant to the plot and didn't even appear in the film version.)
174* Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" was almost certainly not written especially for ''Betsy'' (1926), but the show's producer, Florenz Ziegfeld, could get away with pretending that it was. It was far more popular than either the show (which was a flop) or the songs Rodgers and Hart wrote for it.
175* Broadway musical revues practically deserve their own category. They were plotless SketchComedy shows and ephemeral to the point that many of them [[AnnualTitle put the production year in the title]], and were not meant to be revived. They also were more likely than ordinary musical comedies to throw in songs that were already popular to sell tickets. On top of all that, they often kept their SketchComedy routines entirely separate from their potential hit tunes. Nevertheless, they produced some enduring tunes:
176** "Shine On, Harvest Moon" from ''Follies of 1908''.
177** "Poor Butterfly" from ''The Big Show'' (1916), one of a series of circus-style revues produced at the enormous Hippodrome Theatre.
178** "Pretty Baby" from ''The Passing Show of 1916''.
179** "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody" from ''Ziegfeld Follies of 1919''.
180** "Say It With Music" from ''Music Box Revue of 1921''.
181** "Somebody Loves Me" from ''George White's Scandals of 1924''.
182** "Manhattan" from ''The Garrick Gaieties'' (1925).
183** "The Birth of the Blues," "Black Bottom" and "Lucky Day" from ''George White's Scandals of 1926''.
184** "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" from ''Blackbirds of 1928''.
185** "Get Happy" from ''The 9:15 Revue'' (1930), a particularly short-lived show.
186** "Memories Of You" from ''Blackbirds of 1930''.
187** "On the Sunny Side of the Street" from ''Lew Leslie's International Revue'' (1930).
188** "I Found a Million Dollar Baby in a Five and Ten Cent Store" from ''Crazy Quilt'' (1931).
189** "Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries" from ''George White's Scandals of 1931''.
190** "Alone Together" from ''Flying Colors'' (1932).
191** "Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?" from ''New Americana'' (1932). This song even came to define TheGreatDepression era.
192** "Autumn In New York" from ''Thumbs Up!'' (1934).
193** "I Can't Get Started" from ''Ziegfeld Follies of 1936''.
194** "How High the Moon" from ''Two for the Show'' (1940).
195** "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" from ''Seven Lively Arts'' (1945).
196** "Goodnight My Beautiful" from ''George White's Scandals of 1939'', now most famous for the sampling of Russ Morgan And His Orchestra's version by Music/LeylandKirby's The Caretaker project.
197* "I Enjoy Being a Girl" is popular with drag queens everywhere. ''Literature/FlowerDrumSong'', with its offensive ([[FairForItsDay more or less]]) depictions of Asians, is not so.
198* "Lazy Afternoon" from the AcclaimedFlop musical ''Theatre/TheGoldenApple''.
199* Music/ColePorter's timeless song "Night and Day" originated in 1932's musical ''Gay Divorce'', a show that reputedly became a hit mostly on the popularity of that song. It was the only song retained in the film version, ''The Gay Divorcée''.
200* "My Heart Belongs To Daddy" from ''Leave It to Me!''.
201* "Bilbao Song" from ''Happy End''.
202* "Make Someone Happy" from ''Do Re Mi''.
203* The work of Music/StephenSondheim is suspiciously absent of these for the most part, mostly due to his difficult rhythms and specificity of lyrics...with one notable exception: "Send in the Clowns" from ''Theatre/ALittleNightMusic''.
204* "It’s Only a Paper Moon" did this ''twice''. Originally titled "If You Believed in Me", it was written for the otherwise non-musical 1933 play ''The Great Magoo''. (The play was produced by Billy Rose, who as usual demanded and got joint credit for the lyrics.) This flopped badly, but by the time it closed, Hollywood had come calling in a big way for composer Harold Arlen, and he was able to sell the song. It soon reappeared, under its now-familiar title, as a new number in the film version of the stage musical ''Take a Chance''[[labelnote:*]] (which, coincidentally, had enjoyed its highly successful stage run at the theatre next door to the one where ''The Great Magoo'' had appeared)[[/labelnote]]. This was a hit on release, remained well known through the rest of the 30s and 40s, and then slowly sank out of sight.
205* "My Funny Valentine" and "The Lady Is A Tramp" from ''Theatre/BabesInArms''. (Neither of these songs was featured in the well-known Creator/{{MGM}} movie version of ''Babes in Arms'', but both did appear in the movie version of ''Pal Joey''.)
206* Cat Stevens attempted a musical that he called ''Revolussia'' but eventually abandoned it. From it, he recorded one of his most famous songs, "Father and Son."
207* "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen," most famous in its TranslatedCoverVersion, originally came from ''Men ken lebn nor men lost nisht'', a musical written for the Yiddish theatre in 1932.
208* Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" is one of the most famous pieces in the classical repertoire, easily eclipsing the 1900 adaptation of Creator/AlexanderPushkin's ''The Tale of Tsar Saltan'' from which it comes.
209* Another Oscar Hammerstein song, "Ol' Man River" from ''Theatre/ShowBoat'', has been assumed to be an African-American spiritual.
210* ''Theatre/{{Hair}}'' was a big source of these, with the title song covered by The Cowsills, "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In" covered by The Fifth Dimension, and "Good Morning Starshine" covered by Oliver.
211* Several songs from musicals by Creator/AndrewLloydWebber were released as singles, such as "I Don't Know How to Love Him" from ''Theatre/JesusChristSuperstar''. The most notable examples of "remembered song, forgotten show" by ALW, however, are "Love Changes Everything" from the otherwise-forgotten ''Theatre/AspectsOfLove'' and "Unexpected Song" from the likewise-forgotten ''Song and Dance''.
212* "Consider Yourself" was originally from the musical ''Theatre/{{Oliver}}'', but was able to break away from its origins and become a musical standard, especially as a children's song.
213* ''Theatre/{{Brigadoon}}'' is mostly remembered for [[TropeCodifier popularising]] the VanishingVillage trope, with the songs and specific plot only known by die-hard theater fans. But one song, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ern9pZQaKv4 "It's Almost Like Being In Love"]], was insanely popular, and has been covered by ''literally everybody'' -- most famously Music/FrankSinatra.
214* "Step to the Rear" from the 1967 Broadway flop ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Now,_Dow_Jones How, Now, Dow Jones]]'' became a minor hit and is now best-known as the melody of the University of South Carolina's FootballFightSong.
215* "We Need a Little Christmas" originated in the musical ''Theatre/{{Mame}}'', but it's since become a standard [[ChristmasSongs Christmas Song]] that is often played in contexts that have nothing to do with the musical.
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219* "[[https://youtu.be/AzsiE44Lz_w?list=PLjACqN5i5sDVBPJGHevomO4YZd9wwVLkS Late Goodbye]]", by Finnish rock group Music/PoetsOfTheFall, was originally recorded for ''VideoGame/MaxPayne2TheFallOfMaxPayne'' and based on a poem written by the game's lead writer after a dream he once had. The game itself didn't sell too well, despite being critically loved and developing an almost cult status, but the song wound up becoming the band's breakout hit, both in Finland and abroad.
220* ''VideoGame/Pikmin2001'': In the Japanese release of the original game, Nintendo commissioned an artist to perform a promotional song called "[[NonindicativeName Song of Love]]." [[LyricalDissonance It's actually about how the Pikmin continually do dangerous deeds for the protagonist and follow him without question; even though many of them lose their lives helping him, "We don't ask that you love us."]] The game sold modestly. The song was a ''huge'' hit, particularly with the {{Salarym|an}}en who identified with the Pikmin's plight.
221* "No Sex for Ben" by The Rapture was only given a release as part of the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' soundtrack, but it managed to become an underground hit, [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff especially in Australia]] where it reached an impressive #14 on the Creator/TripleJ Hottest 100.
222* ''VideoGame/TombRaiderTheAngelOfDarkness'' is one of the more forgotten entries in the franchise, but the promo song "Angel of Darkness" by Alex C and Yasmin K has enjoyed plenty of popularity and gotten a lot of use in [[FanVid AMVs]]. It helps that the song isn't played in the game itself, further distancing it from the source.
223* ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'' [[AcclaimedFlop was commercially a flop despite being a]] CultClassic, but its theme song, "Still Alive" by Lisa Miskovsky (no relation to the ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' theme) reached #29 in her native Sweden and #8 on the UK Indie chart and also received a remix maxi-single that peaked at #23 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.
224* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyGhosts'' is often remembered as a low-point for the series, but its credit theme, "Survival" by Music/{{Eminem}}, managed to become a respectable pop hit by itself.
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228* ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons'': The show's theme song, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usFFKNRB2z8 "Run with Us"]], was initially recorded by Steve Lunt as a [[SingleStanzaSong single-stanza]] [[ChorusOnlySong chorus-only song]] for the first season, but [[RearrangeTheSong rearranged]] [[ThemeTuneExtended and extended]] by Lisa Lougheed (who was also [[TheDanza the voice of Lisa]]). Sadly, [[OneHitWonder this was her only hit song]].
229* ''WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies'': Perhaps the earliest animation-related example is "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" from ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittlePigs'', which became a sort of anthem for audiences who were fighting the threat of ruin during TheGreatDepression.
230-->'''Creator/WaltDisney:''' Possibly, ''The Three Little Pigs'' came out at the right psychological moment, for back in 1933, a lot of people were seriously thinking of keeping the "big, bad wolf" from their door. At any rate, both the song and the picture were quite successful, and important to us in another way as well, for it showed us the value of telling a story through a song.
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