Movies | Pop Culture | Music

18 Hit Songs That We All Forgot Were Written For Movies

Great American Films Limited Partnership / Richard E. Aaron/MPTV

Take a look at your music playlists from yesteryear, and you may be surprised some of the hit tunes came from a slew of classic films we've watched on repeat.

Take a walk down memory lane, listen to these 18 songs, and see if you recognize the scene they were played in!

1. Dirty Dancing - "Time of my Life"

By Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes

2. Blue Hawaii - "Can't Help Falling In Love"

By Elvis Presley

3. Titanic - "My Heart Will Go On"

By Celine Dion

4. Space Jam - "I Believe I Can Fly"

By R. Kelly

5. Back To The Future - "The Power of Love"

By Huey Lewis and the News

6. Dangerous Minds - Gangsta's Paradise

By Coolio, featuring L.V

7. Saturday Night Fever - Stayin' Alive

By the Bee Gees

8.  Charlie's Angels - "Independent Women, Pt. 1"

By Destiny's Child

9. Boomerang - "End Of The Road"

By Boyz II Men

10. Armageddon - "I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing"

By Areosmith

12. Purple Rain - "When Doves Cry"

By Prince

13. Almost Famous - "Tiny Dancer"

By Elton John

14. Pretty in Pink - "If You Leave"

By Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

15. Against All Odds - "Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)"

By Phil Collins

16. Say Anything - "In Your Eyes"

By Peter Gabriel

17.  Can't Hardly Wait - "Dammit"

By Blink-182

18. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves - "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You"

By Bryan Adams

What is your favorite song from a movie soundtrack?

More Throwbacks

Movies

Macaulay Culkin Clears Up Some Confusion About The 'Home Alone' Recreation

When that amazing new Google Assistant ad dropped yesterday starring Macaulay Culkin recreating all of the iconic scenes from the 1990 classic Home Alone, People absolutely lost their minds. But here's the thing, you watch it once and you're like, "Oh wow, that's hilarious!" But if you watch it a second time, you'll see that they really went all out to recreate it shot for shot. Honestly, it's almost creepy how well they did. Whether he's jumping on the bed:20th Century Fox / YouTube - GoogleUsing his aftershave:20th Century Fox / YouTube - GoogleTrimming the tree:20th Century Fox / YouTube

Movies

Macaulay Culkin Is Back As Kevin From 'Home Alone' And It's Actually Amazing

It's Christmas time, and you know what that means! It's time to watch a family abandon their son in their home and not even call anyone to go take care of him while he fends off burglars and makes an enormous mess of their house! That's right, every year we all gather around the TV and watch Home Alone for the millionth time, enjoying the hilarious antics that young Kevin McCallister gets into. Macaulay Culkin's portrayal of the character is what made the movie work, well, that and the fact that the 'Wet Bandits' were pretty funny. Culkin made a

Movies

A Behind-The-Scenes Look At The New Aladdin Is Here And At Least One Of Our Wishes Was Granted

We've been waiting patiently, okay mostly patiently, since Disney announced that Aladdin was being remade. The cartoon remains one of the most iconic movies of all time, and the fact that they were going to try and bring it to life with real humans instead of the animated versions was kind of concerning. We saw the first trailer a while ago, but the only character we actually saw up close was Aladdin himself. We didn't see how the Genie looked, or Jasmine, or any of the other characters. But now, Entertainment Weekly has given us all the first look at

Music

Hootie And The Blowfish Are Making A Comeback In A Huge Way

Hootie and the Blowfish are one of those bands that helped define the 90s. You couldn't go more than two hours without hearing one of their songs after they hit it big.But as is the case with most bands, Hootie and the Blowfish decided to take a break. In 2008, their lead singer Darius Rucker went solo, and became successful on his own. The only time the band has reunited was for Jason Aldean's High Noon Neon Tour when he was in Atlanta, but now they've decided to return in a major way. Kick your Monday off with us

90s

Brace Yourself: The Backstreet Boys Released A New Song And Are Going On A World Tour

The Backstreet Boys have been one of the biggest bands in the country, well, the world for several decades now. After getting their start in the early 90s, they've managed to be one of the very few bands that has stuck together and continued performing. They didn't need a big reunion, because they didn't break up. Well, let's just pretend like that whole Kevin fiasco didn't happen. But anyways, they've been putting out music and performing together for 25 years now, and they have no intention of stopping. To be fair, they did warn of this two decades ago. They

90s

The Spice Girls Announced Their Reunion Tour Dates And We Really 'Wannabe' There

It's been months and months of a "will they or won't they" debate, but we've finally got some concrete details about the Spice Girls reunion tour. It feels like every time they appear on a talk show or make a comment on Twitter they've been contradicting what the others have said, but now it's official, there's no going back, the Spice Girls are going on tour. Well, sort of. There is one catch, Victoria Beckham is not going to be there. We all suspected it for a while, as she herself had said that she didn't want to go on