From the biopic starring MuhammadAli himself (it takes a HUGE ego to star in your own biopic while you're still in the middle of your career)...the song The Greatest Love Of All out shined the movie in a big way..primarily because Ali himself was a horrible actor. You want to know how bad he was..Will Smith played a better Muhammad Ali than Ali did playing himself.
The original song was sung by George Benson 8 years before Whitney Houston took it, bitch slapped it and made it one of her signature songs (not the only time she would do that with someone else's song)
This film about two guys wo work at a NY city morgue and moonlight as pimps was a stars (before they were) studded affair with Henry Winkler along with Michael Keaton, in his first starring role, and Shelley Long, who later in the year would star as Diane Chambers in the popular sitcom Cheers. Also appearing are Richard Belzer, a young Kevin Costner as "Frat Boy #1" and Shannen Doherty appears as a Bluebell scout. The film was so-so at the box office but the end credits song was catchy as hell.
Sung by Rod Stewart it 3 years before Dionne Warwick and friends made it the most annoying earbug of 1985 scoring major music awards including song of the year.
Car Wash is a 1976 cult favorite which means it flopped majorly in the main stream. But the soundtrack was a major hit and force on radio and the disco scene.
The R&B band Rose Royce scored major success, yielding three Billboard R&B Top Ten singles: "Car Wash", "I Wanna Get Next to You", and "I'm Going Down". The popularity of the music actually helped the film to a large degree.
