Cinema, television series and advertising are a powerful means of turning old hits in the history of music into a trend and recovering them from oblivion. It will not be necessary to remember that Unchained Melody (Unchained Melody) from the movie Ghost, composed by The Righteous Brothers and that was playing non-stop on the radio formulas of the 90s. Hour after hour for weeks and months. So with the series scene we live in, do you think we could find five similar examples?
Stranger Things is to blame
It was because of the Netflix series and the first batch of episodes of the fourth season that a song has returned to the forefront of the music scene who has nothing more and nothing less than 37 years behind him. Is about Running Up That Hilll, by Kate Bush, which plays in a couple of moments and has caused an earthquake in the most listened to songs lists around the world, rising to first place almost unstoppably.
So with that example so recent, we wanted to go find others that have caused similar situations after appearing in successful series in the last 20 years. Do you think they are at the same height? Here we leave them.
Make Your Own Kind of Music
We will all agree that lost it was the first series that became a viral phenomenon and one of its achievements was to influence the trends that were experienced in that first decade of the 21st century. the 1969 song Make Your Own Kind of Music, by Cass Elliot, which is heard in the chapter in which we meet Desmond, is already part of the history of TV. When she began to play on that record player… who didn’t later have the need to listen to her again?
BabyBlue
Another of the most legendary endings of any television series in recent years, that of breaking bad, is crowned by a song that nobody wantedexcept for its creator, Vince Gilligan, who had insisted on using BabyBlue (1971, Badfinger) for containing the word “blue”. When all those who refused at first saw the result of that last shot (SPOILER eye in the video) no one doubted that it was the best that could conclude what is one of the best series that time has seen.
The Never Ending Story
stranger things He knows what it is to make a musical theme fashionable with many years behind him. She got it in season three too, when Dustin and Suzie sing The Never Ending Story, the song that takes its title from the novel but, above all, from the 1984 film and which Limahl composed. For many weeks, the chords of that great composition were resounding in the lists of the most listened to on Spotify and other platforms.
beautiful bye
And we immersed ourselves in the national scene with The Money Heist. Obviously that couldn’t be missing. beautiful bye that the Professor and Berlin sing as a resistance anthem of some robbers who claim to be fighting the system. The choice was not accidental since originally this song was a popular theme sung by Italian partisan sympathizers who fought in World War II against the Nazi occupiers. So if we spin a little…
Tell me how it happened
And finally we are going to stay with one of the longest-running television phenomena of our country, a series that not only takes as its main theme a great classic from 1968 composed by the Formula V group, but also put it back on the map when TVE premiered the fiction back in 2001, making it more and more its own, with some verses that were changing along with the series. «Tell me about what you have found / In your long walk / Tell me how it went / If you have known happiness…«.
