Songs That Share Titles With Unconnected Movies/TV Shows

Looking for songs that have the same titles and TV shows or movies that don't have any connection.

Examples:

U2: "Vertigo" - same title as 1959 movie
John Lennon: "One Day (At a Time)" - virtually same title as 1975 TV series

Punctuation discrepancies like that okay, but not alterations that add/subtract words.

For instance, "Happy Days Are Here Again" wouldn't count for "Happy Days".

Obviously, actual TV/movie theme songs don't count.

 

Not what you intended I know, but it should be noted that Gene Pitney's song "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" did not appear in the film of the same name. And in fact, the "connection" with the film is somewhat tenuous.

According to Wikipedia:

 

Yeah, if the song was paid for by the movie studio, it doesn't work for the thread, as it clearly is connected to the film.

But hey, no one else has replied yet, so I won't whine about your post!

Plus, my dog Putty is from the Youngstown area, so you're A-OK!

 

David Bowie 7 Years in Tibet
David Bowie Dead Man Walking
David Bowie Fame
David Bowie Starman

I always found it interesting that Earthling had two non-theme tune songs on it.

 

dire straits - once upon a time in the west

 

Does it count if the songs were optioned for the movie, but one had nothing to do with the other? "Sweet Home Alabama", for instance.
Perhaps a film written maybe on the grounds that the public would be more likely to see a movie entiled "Sweet Home Alabama", than another Reese Witherspoon chick-movie about a young girl coming back to her sweet home in Alabama...

 

What I really wanted from the thread was titles that were coincidental and not linked in any way.

That wouldn't apply for the film "SHA". Even if it doesn't use the song, it's clear it took its title from the song.

Falls into needing to "read minds" to some degree. For instance, I'm guessing "Once Upon a Time in the West" consciously used the movie title, but I don't know if there's real evidence of that.

Sorry if I didn't explain this part better - it gets confusing!

 

Front Line Assembly-Electric Dreams, 2007
Movie-Electric Dreams, 1984

 

Fair enough, and nah, not that confusing. But, it also stands to reason that, in a situation such as this, the song itself proabably had no bearing on the plot, or existence of the lyrics having no resonance with the creation of the story whatsoever. I think it's just as possible, the film's name and story was merely inspired from the fact that such a song was well-known, and a writer wondered, "hmmm, could I turn this title into a movie, because so many customers might see a significance...?"

Stand By Me, f'rinstance. Or Boogie Nights. Or, doubtlessly not connected in any way except the coincidence of Gary Numan singing about something John Lasseter was also writing about: Cars.

I'm just being made aware of an upcoming film featuring Dax Shephard, which is a further sequel of sorts to the Dumb and Dumber series, about a bucolic midwestern town and its' bucolic civil servants. It will be titled, The Mayor of Simpleton. But I'm sure nobody was in a board room opining, "If only we could access some of that sweet XTC popularity to bring into the fold of our highly-cerebral Jim Carrey franchise..."

 

(Karl Bartos) Electric Music-Friends, 1998
Friends-1994>

 

"Wild, Wild West" by The Escape Club would qualify. (Originally a network TV series starring Robert Conrad.)

 

Reba McIntire had a song out entitled "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" (1968 film with Sondra Locke).

 

State of The Union-Romancing The Stone, 2002
Movie-Romancing The Stone, 1984

 

I get that the movie "SHA" had no obvious connection to the song's lyrics/themes, but I really want songs/TV or movies that are apparently coincidental.

"Stand By Me" and "Boogie Nights" clearly got their titles from the songs. "Cars" likely did not...

 

And then there's 2006's Out Of The Blue, a New Zealand film about a massacre, which I'm pretty sure never referenced Debbie Gibson's song of the same name, for inspiration, or even contacted her with a mind to use the bubbly-synth/bongo record as its' main title song...
(Chances are, Ms. Gibson probably hadn't done any high school term papers on the 1980 Canadian Dennis Hopper film of the same name before writing it, either...)

While we're at it, there's also a Hallmark film called, Only In My Dreams, which is predicated on two strangers tossing coins in a magic fountain.

Maybe Debbie spent a lot of time at home watching basic cable...?

 

Syntax-Strange Days, 2003
Movie-Strange Days, 1995

 

Michael Hurley has a great song entitled "Twilight Zone" that has no connection to the TV series of the same name.

 

Michael Hurley has a great song entitled "Twilight Zone" that has no connection to the TV series of the same name.

ETA: Come to think of it, so does Dr. John.

 

When In Rome-Child's Play, 1988
Movie Series-Child's Play, 1988>

 

Yeah, titles, but there is really no reference in the Bachman story to the night coming and the land being dark, that informs this story. Nor, does the 1970's porn industry tale offer any suggestion to exactly how boogie nights are are indeed the best in town. (Okay, other than that reason...!)

 

Good pick!

And good for not picking Lennon's "Out the Blue"!

 

You understand the whole thread solely addresses titles, right? Content doesn't matter...

 

Shadow of a Doubt (Tom Petty, and 1943 Hitchcock flick).

 

Just having some fluffy fun with a fluffy topic...!

 

Also, Michael Jackson probably grew up knowing about a 1960 TV series narrated by Boris Karloff, but it was never suggested he wrote a song inspired by it or not. The series: Thriller.

His backup rapper, Vincent Price, surely was taking notes, though...