Unused Movie theme songs / title tracks

Are you aware of any unused movie theme songs / title tracks, either released or remain unreleased but are available to listen to online?

I know there are several James Bond songs which were not used

Pulp – Tomorrow never lies

Moderator Note.....

Please include the ARTIST NAME and SONG NAME in the text of your post!!! And the MOVIE NAME too, which would be most helpful.

 

Thunderball · Johnny Cash

 

One of MANY unused themes for this movie, but a real good one:

 

And another James Bond reject:

 

Didn't Kate Bush write the title track for Terry Gilliam's Brazil, which went unissued until a deluxe version of the soundtrack?

 

Radiohead "Spectre" (2015)


wiki says: the English band Radiohead were commissioned to write the title song, and submitted "Man of War", an unreleased song written in the 1990s. It was rejected as it had not been written for the film and so was ineligible for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Radiohead recorded another song for the film, "Spectre", but this was also rejected as too melancholy.
Radiohead released "Spectre" as a free download, their first release since 2011.

 

For cripes sake, people, please include the ARTIST NAME and SONG NAME in the text of your post!!! And the MOVIE NAME too, which would be most helpful.

Some of these video links will go the way of the dodo bird at some point, and future generations looking at this thread will have NO idea what all the songs were.

Gorts, can the above posts be fixed ex post facto?? If so, that would be incredibly appreciated!!

 

Another Bond reject, Alice Cooper "The Man With The Golden Gun"

 

The whole "1984 (For The Love Of Big Brother)" album by the Eurythmics. At least in the "Director's Cut".

 

I also DID report it -- and made the same sort of request there via the report button. In fact, it was only after I reported it, that I went back and edited my post so people could see my request publicly -- so there'd be some explanation as to why all the posts were suddenly AOK at some point in the future.

 

I think Paul McCartney did a few:

Same Time Next Year for the Alan Alda film and Twice in a Lifetime for Heaven Can Wait. He also did a song called Seems Like Old Times which I think was going to be for the film of the same name, but it never got beyond demo stage. Too bad, it was pretty good.

 

David Rose - Forbidden Planet
This would've been the theme from the movie FORBIDDEN PLANET, and David Rose apparently was preparing an entire score when MGM head Dore Schary saw Louis & Bebe Barron at a Greenwich Village concert, hired them on the spot and let Rose out of his contract on the film. This was released as a single at the time, and then Rose destroyed the rest of the score.

 

Gene Pitney, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. From wikipedia:

The John Otway version is very good imo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MTWbjTtZqY

 

Rejected from James Bond: A View to a Kill (1985), was this Elton John song, "Shoot Down the Moon"


It's said that "Shoot Down the Moon" might have made the cut for A View to a Kill if it didn't sound too much like a vintage Bond theme tune. Elton thought he'd had a big hit on his hands if the track was chosen, but when producers instead wanted Duran Duran's song "A View to a Kill," which in turn wound up being their second and final US number 1 hit and also the only Bond theme ever to do so, Elton took the news hardly.

~Ben

 

The Association said that members of the band wrote multiple theme songs for Goodbye Columbus, one that was used, and another that was rejected but that they released with a lyric change.

 

Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" was considered for use in Rocky III (1982), before the band turned down Sylvester Stallone's request for its use in the film and then Stallone subsequently had a band called Survivor, whose early albums were little known, write a new song, "Eye of the Tiger," to replace it.


~Ben

 

"Wives and Lovers" might fit within the ambit of the thread (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) -

For the film, see Wives and Lovers (film).

"Wives and Lovers" is a 1963 song by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. It has been recorded by numerous male and female vocalists, instrumentalists and ensembles, most notably by Jack Jones in 1963. That recording earned the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male and peaked at number fourteen on the Hot 100 and number nine on the Easy Listening chart.

"Wives and Lovers" is a song of advice to married women, to stay attractive and attentive to their husbands ("wives should always be lovers, too") to avoid their husbands straying with "girls at the office". The song originated when Bacharach and David were asked to write a song with the title "Wives and Lovers", on the theme of marital infidelity, as a promotional tie-in for the 1963 film Wives and Lovers. The song did not appear in the film but was intended simply to promote the film; which made it what was known at the time as an "exploitation song". Similarly, the song "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," which Bacharach and David wrote in 1962, promoted, but was not featured in, the film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

 

Stallone was lucky to get a better song when Queen rejected him

 

Alex North’s 2001 soundtrack.

https://www.ascap.com/playback/2012/12/wecreatemusic/fmf-alex-norths-lost-score-for-kubricks-2001

 

The Pet Shop Boys wrote a song for another Bond film, The Living Daylights. When a-ha were ultimately chosen to record the film's theme, the Pet Shop Boys reworked their piece to create This Must Be The Place I Waited Years To Leave for their Behaviour album

 

Lay Lady Lay (Bob Dylan, obv) was allegedly going to be in the soundtrack for Midnight Cowboy, but Dylan didn't finish writing it in time. It was never going to be the theme/title track though, so it doesn't really count.

 

Rejected scores are a whole other thing, and relatively commonplace

 

The song written (and turned down) for "Heaven Can Wait" was "Did We Meet Somewhere Before?", which heavily features clarinet (in the film, Warren Beatty's character plays the clarinet).

"Twice in a Lifetime" was actually featured in the movie by that title (featuring Gene Hackman).

 

I think the OP is looking for songs that were specifically commissioned for films. In that case, Queen’s “Keep Passing the Open Windows”, which was rejected for The Hotel New Hampshire (Tony Richardson, 1984) works

 

Frank Ocean-“Wise Man”

rejected for Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, 2012)