Madonna - Can’t Stop
Remember that small window of time during the 80’s when people thought casting Madonna as the lead in a romantic comedy was a good idea. Oh, the 80’s, how I miss you. The best thing about the movie Who’s That Girl? is it’s soundtrack. I don’t think there is anyone who feels different about this. While most know the two big hits off the soundtrack, “Who’s That Girl?” and “Causing a Commotion”, over the years, I’ve developed a fondness for the unreleased Madonna track. “Can’t Stop” isn’t a song that will set the world on fire nor is it a very good song in the Madonna catalog, but there is something undeniable infectious about it and kind of pop-love-song sweet that reminds me a lot of the fun, sweet love songs Madonna used to to (Cherish, Open Your Heart, etc). “Just can’t help myself.. I’ve got to have you and no one else!”

Billy Ocean - When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going
Shut up, y’all, Billy Ocean on your dash. If you listen to this song and Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito immediately spring to mind, congratulations, you are a child of the 80’s. If you are picturing them in matching white tuxedos, congratulations, you had MTV in the 80’s. “Can I touch you? And do the things that lovers do?” I had no business singing this song aloud in my room when I was seven, but .. I did.

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“Chase” - Giorgio Moroder - From the Midnight Express soundtrack, 1978

This song is seriously badass.

This song!

Dooley Wilson - As Time Goes By
Herman Hupfeld wrote “As Time Goes By” for the 1931 Broadway musical Everybody’s Welcome. In the original show, it was sung by Frances Williams. The song was re-introduced in 1942 in the film Casablanca, sung by Dooley Wilson accompanied by pianist Elliot Carpenter and heard throughout the film as a leitmotif. The song’s famous opening line, “You must remember this…”, is actually the start of the song’s chorus as it was originally written and performed. Wilson did not sing the preceding verse in Casablanca, however, and most subsequent recordings have followed the film’s lead in omitting it, leading to its being virtually unknown to most listeners.

Little Richard - The Girl Can’t Help It
Released in December 1956, this song is one of my favorite early rock songs and secures Little Richard’s place among rock’s pioneers. Perhaps not his greatest known hit, I love this song because it has a bop about it that makes it infectious. The song was recorded for the title sequence song for the 1956 comedy musical film The Girl Can’t Help It starring Jayne Mansfield (oh, Mariska Hargitay’s mom), Tom Ewell, and Edmond O’Brien. I can’t listen to this song without thinking of Ms. Mansfield’s strut.

Favorite Smallville Music Cues (Bonus)
The Pussycat Dolls - Don’t Cha
from Exposed (5x06)
Am I the only person in the world who listens to the Tori Alamaze version of this song? This Cee Lo Green produced track was the Pussycats Dolls’ breakthrough track. Of course, whenever I listen to it I think of this scene and Lois Lane awkwardly stripping to it. Not a bad association if you ask me. This scene is also memorable for being one the earliest scenes to showcase Clark’s ever present and slowly growing attraction to Lois. He can’t look away even though he knows he should and it’s really awkward… and very adorable. Everyone is embarrassed, except we know that this is not the last time Clark will be rendered mute by Lois.

The Carrie Nations - Sweet Talking Candyman
Fictitious Band Alert! The Carrie Nations were an all-girl rock and roll band formed for the film Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, but that doesn’t mean their music isn’t awesome. The film, co-written by Roger Ebert, is cult classic remembered more for its insane (INSANE) ending and the fact that it earned an “X” rating upon its release, but I love it for its music. Most of the soundtrack is made up of classic rock songs with a hint of psychedelic and R&B.

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Soggy Bottom Boys - I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow