Showing posts with label TV Show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TV Show. Show all posts

Monday, August 19, 2019

Patti LaBelle & Bill Champlin "The Last Unbroken Heart"

Miami Vice only aired for five seasons, yet the crime drama spawned three separate soundtracks of music. Unlike most television shows that aired songs made for the program, Miami Vice paid nearly $10,000 to use popular music within the show. Miami Vice II contained the Patti LaBelle & Bill Champlin ballad "The Last Unbroken Heart" in 1987. 

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Tears for Fears "Head Over Heels"

Having never seen an episode of Psych, I imagine it's a collection of people offering to shake hands with a stranger when -- fooled ya! -- the hand shaker ends up running his hand through his hair while yelling, "Psych!". Hilarity, right?!?

Stand by...I'm being told that's not at all what happened on the television show. Bummer. Well, never mind then. The crime series from USA Network once enlisted Curt Smith of Tears for Fears fame to do a cameo on an episode from season five

Thursday, January 17, 2019

Dionne Warwick & Jeffrey Osborne "Love Power"

If the Lifetime/Netflix thriller You premiered in 1987, you could add "Love Power" to the show's soundtrack. The Dionne Warwick and Jeffrey Osborne duet touches on two lovers who never quite get over one another -- even a psychic in Los Angeles said so! In the twisted drama You, Penn Badgley plays the lead character Joe Goldberg who falls in love with Beck, a customer he meets at his bookstore. Joe ultimately stalks Beck by using social media to learn everything he can about her, her family and friends. Joe does any and everything (including masturbating in the bushes and committing multiple murders) to make Beck all his (insert diabolical laugh). Shocked at the amount of fans who fell for Joe, the real-life Badgley took to Twitter to remind these troubled souls that Joe is, um, a killer. Love Power: it rules us and fools us.


Wednesday, August 8, 2018

The BoDeans "Closer to Free"

What do you remember about the Fox television show Party of Five? Neve Campbell? Scott Wolf? How about the show's theme song "Closer to Free"? That song, from the group's fifth album, helped make The BoDeans a household name. Originally released in 1993, the song saw a renaissance thanks to Adult Contemporary radio in 1996.

Saturday, April 7, 2018

Gloria Estefan "Get on Your Feet"

Fans of the sitcom Parks & Recreation remember Gloria Estefan's Latin-Pop song "Get on Your Feet" during a number of hilarious episodes in Season 4. If that's not your thing, you can look forward to "On Your Feet!", a Broadway musical about Miss Estefan (and perhaps the Miami Sound Machine).

Monday, March 26, 2018

Lindsey Buckingham "Trouble"

Law & Order premiered on television in 1990. Nearly a decade earlier, Lindsey Buckingham released Law and Order: his debut solo album. The album's big hit was the catchy song "Trouble" which featured fellow Fleetwood Mac alum Mick Fleetwood on drums.

Thursday, December 28, 2017

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Dido "Here With Me"

Dido's "Here With Me" got a nice push from The WB television network when their sci-fi drama Roswell used "Here With Me" for its theme song. The network also used Gavin DeGraw's "I Don't Wanna Be" and Paula Cole's "I Don't Wanna Wait" as theme songs to their other network shows. The popularity of Dido's follow up single, "Thank You", also helped boost airplay for "Here With Me" which was released before "Thank You". If anyone still didn't know who the heck Dido was, Eminem helped make her a household name with his song "Stan".