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Songs from fictional events

T

Tom Wells

Walked into the shop at work this morning at 3:25 AM and WLS-FM started playing
Shama Lamma Ding Dong by Otis Day and the Nights. ( written and actually sung by Lloyd Williams )

I have been playing this for a LONG time on my part 15, and figured it was good song,
but not likely to ever be played on a commercial station. I play a good deal of music off the beaten path.

So what's happened? This song is from Animal House. 1979. It was written for the movie.
Naturally it sounds like 1963, but here it is now, mixed in with 1960s oldies on a great big market station.

What has happened? :eek: I like it, but still think it's something I wouldn't have ever expected.

What will be next? More off the beaten path, or more movie "oldies"?

ARE there any other movie-born "oldie originals" that could stand up on their own musically as well as Shama Lama Ding Dong?
 
the entire "Grease" soundtrack.

KUDOS to any station that plays "Sham-a-lama-ding-dong" (great Rock N' Roll CHa-Cha like "Those magic Changes" from Grease) ....and their loss to any station that doesn't play it (and more importantly the loss to the listeners deprived of hearing it).

"Wait Till Otis see's us, He loves us..We'd like to do a liitle tune called Shama-Lama-Ding-Ding..so hit It"...........
 
The Graduate Soundtrack
Not from a movie, but a TV series, Happy Days - Pratt and McLaine
 
Blue Bayou - Linda Ronstadt (or Roy Orbison)
 
John Henry - Tennessee Ernie Ford
 
patches
running bare ..I mean Bear
Teen Angel
Leader of the Pack
I want My baby Back
Last kiss
 
(I couldn't remember, but now it hit me---a supposed historical event that never took place)

New York Mining Disaster 1941---Bee Gees

cd
 
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