One of two songs nominated for Best Original Song from La La Land, City of Stars managed to take the prize as one of La La Land’s six Oscars.

Since he co-starred with Jim Carrey in Ace Ventura, it made sense that Tone Loc would contribute a song to the soundtrack, which he did with “Ace is in the House”

The theme song for 1993’s Free Willy, Will You Be There was also the eighth single off the Dangerous album and the longest song (at least the album version) in Michael’s discography.

Appearing on the soundtrack for Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, Motorhead performed a version of the song Hellraiser that Lemmy wrote with Ozzy Osbourne and Zakk Wylde and made a music video that features Pinhead himself, Doug Bradley.

Based on the Peter S. Beagle fantasy novel, Rankin/Bass produced the animated version of The Last Unicorn in 1982 which featured a title song by the band America.

There have been many different takes on HG Wells’ classic War of the Worlds but by far the funkiest was Jeff Wayne’s prog rock concept album from 1978, which retold the story through songs and spoken narration from actor Richard Burton.

Setting the tone for the xXx universe, Rammstein performed their song Feuer Frei in the opening sequence of the 2002 xXx and director Rob Cohen directed the band’s official music video as well.

Anders Holm from Workaholics and rapper Serengeti came together in 2015 for the 90’s club jam throwback duo Perfecto and put out an EP that included the song “Giorgio” and a 17 minute origin story song.

Night Ranger provided the title track for the 1987 Michael J. Fox comedy, The Secret of My Success, where Fox tries to make it in the big city but gets caught up in a fake persona and a love square between himself, his boss, his boss’ wife and a fellow exec.

We all know Brie Larson now as an Oscar winning actress and star of some huge upcoming blockbusters but back in 2005 she was a potential teen pop star and put out the single “She Said” from her one album, Finally out of PE.

Perhaps the most bizarre moment in the Ernest film canon isn’t some wacky slapstick bit but a serious and sad montage where Ernest sings the melancholy song “Gee I’m Glad It’s Raining” as all hope of saving the camp seems lost.