Songs that sample clips from old movies or TV shows.

Going back to Big Audio Dynamite: their first album's first track, Medicine Show, has a very lengthy bit of dialogue appropriated from Sergio Leone's The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.

 

I Am the Walrus - The Beatles
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

 

Pink Floyd’s “Nobody Home” has a clip from Gomer Pyle, U.S.MC. You can hear Gomer and Sgt. Carter talking. I wonder which episode it is. There is clever timing of Gomer’s “Surprise, Surprise, Surprise” after Roger sings the line about not being able to get thru on the telephone.

 

Simon And Garfunkle , Silent Night/7 Oclock News

 

Primal Scream - Loaded

 

Armageddon Days Are Here (Again) by The The features an audio extract from television news capturing the immediate aftermath of the assassination of Robert Kennedy. "Get the gun, get the gun, get the gun... get away from the gun."

 

Grey Gardens by Rufus Wainwright opens with a line of dialogue from the Grey Gardens documentary.

 

Scrooby Snacks by Fun Lovin' Criminals features audio clips from Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction.

 

Kate Bush - Hounds of love , dialogue from Night of the demon 1957 horror starring Dana Andrews

 

Saint Etienne Hobart Paving
Many samples on the source album, So Tough, but I think the most effective is an exchange from Made, a 1972 British film starring Roy Harper, which starts this track.

 

Sigue Sigue Sputnik Love Missile F1-11
Some of Malcolm McDowell's 'ultraviolence' quotes from A Clockwork Orange are used.

 

"Fentry" by Grandaddy includes dialogue from the movie Tomorrow

 

“Make My Day” by T.G. Sheppard & Clint Eastwood

 

"Batdance" by Prince has numerous sound bites from the 1989 film Batman.

The single version:

 

"What a Glorious Night" by Sidewalk Prophets starts with Linus' famous monologue from A Charlie Brown Christmas.

 

That same clip is used in Tom Clay's 1971 hit pastiche "What the World Needs Now Is Love/Abraham, Martin and John."

It also features a short excerpt of Martin Luther King's last speech ("I've been to the mountaintop"), RFK's reaction to King's assassination, Ted Kennedy speaking at RFK's funeral, a radio broadcaster reacting to JFK's assassination in Dallas, some kind of Army film/recording from the Vietnam era, and a recording of a Chicago priest/minister asking kids the meaning of segregation, bigotry, hatred, and prejudice. (Years ago, I knew where Clay got that from, but I've forgotten, and no one else seems to care.)

Clay wanted to use Walter Cronkite's announcement of JFK's death, but CBS News wouldn't let him, so it was re-recorded verbatim for the single.

 

Paul Hardcastle's "19" contains a sound bite from a television documentary about the Vietnam War.

 

Cult Of Personality - Living Color

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Mayte - "House Of Brick" (A cover of The Commodores "Brick House" featuring a Prince vocal)
At the outset it has Michael J. Fox as Marty saying "This is... this is an oldie" from Back To The Future.

 

Manic Street Preachers used to love adding soundbites from films, documentaries and archival interviews interviews into their songs.

Most memorably they sampled from "The Machinist" ( "Peeled Apples"), "The Virgin Suicides" ( "Doors Closing Slowly"), "1984" ( "Faster"), "The Medusa Touch" ("Ready for Drowning") and "A Streetcar Named Desire" ( "Little Baby Nothing"). Although the latter sample was subsequently removed from later copies as it hadn't been cleared!

 

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult has far too many to list

 

Oh, and the the ENTIRE Negativland catalogue!

 

Big audio dynamite e=mc (squared) samples a few Nic Roeg movies