In the '80's, the songtrack album was big deal. Agents clamored to get their artist on the record. A lesser artist can rake in the royalties of the major guys on the record. Fortunately, at the time we still had '45's.
Lou Reed had a few.
Sam Moore & Lou Reed - Soul Man (A&M 1986)
Taken from a distasteful comedy about a white kid dressing in blackface to take advantage of racial quotas as a university. I never saw it.
And and another one
Lou Reed - My Love is Chemical b/w It doesn't matter (Atlantic 1985)
Taken from the film White Nights about a pair of dancers - one Russian, one black - dancing their way across Siberia after a plane crash. The film also contained the Lionel Ritchie song 'Say You, Say Me.' which won the Academy Award that year. I thankfully did not have to get suckered into the songtrack album.
Speaking of the Academy Award for Best Song. Here comes my opinion. The category needs to go. It originated when Hollywood was producing original musicals with original songs. Now it's relegated to the song played over the closing credits to keep the audience there to witness the name of craft services company at each location shoot. The song often has nothing to do with the film.
Mark my words, when Hamilton is turned into a movie there will be one new song inserted as Oscar Bait for Best Song.
Iggy Pop's Repo Man Theme and the Ramones Rock and Roll High School were robbed.
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