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2. Bob Dylan: “Things Have Changed”
Bob Dylan gained his first and solely Oscar thus far for this doomy, bluesy quantity from Curtis Hanson’s 2000 movie “Wonder Boys” — beating out Björk, who carried out her nominated “I’ve Seen It All” that evening in her iconic swan costume. “People are loopy and instances are unusual,” a wry, weary Dylan sings on an early and enduring spotlight in his Twenty first-century discography. “I’m locked in tight, I’m out of vary/I used to care, however issues have modified.”
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3. Keith Carradine: “I’m Easy”
Keith Carradine performed a fictitious folks singer named Tom Frank in Robert Altman’s nice 1975 musical tapestry “Nashville,” and the transfixing scene when he performs this track at a bar — and a number of girls within the viewers suppose it’s about them — is a basic. Released beneath the actor’s personal title, this acoustic ballad he wrote for the movie grew to become a success in the true world, peaking at No. 17 on the Hot 100 and profitable him the film’s sole Oscar.
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4. Isaac Hayes: “Theme From ‘Shaft’”
You’re rattling proper Isaac Hayes gained the 1972 greatest unique track Oscar for this timelessly cool theme. His victory that evening was historic: Not solely was Hayes the primary Black artist to win the award — he was additionally the primary Black individual ever to win a non-acting Oscar, interval. In 1972! Way, approach, approach overdue.
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5. Doris Day: “Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)”
Confession: I didn’t notice that this track, which has since develop into a regular, was written for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 remake of “The Man Who Knew Too Much” till I lately noticed the film for the primary time. The extra you understand!
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6. Bruce Springsteen: “Streets of Philadelphia”
The Boss gained an Oscar for the primary track he ever wrote for a film, this misty and forlorn temper piece from Jonathan Demme’s 1993 tear-jerker “Philadelphia.” The first model of the track — nonetheless unreleased, however heard briefly within the movie — featured contributions from the jazz legends Ornette Coleman and “Little” Jimmy Scott, however for the one, Springsteen went with this sparser association nearer to the spirit of his unique demo.
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7. Stevie Wonder: “I Just Called to Say I Love You”
Sometimes an Oscar-winning track outclasses, and outlasts, the movie for which it was written — like “I Just Called to Say I Love You,” certainly one of a number of songs Stevie Wonder contributed to the soundtrack of the 1984 Gene Wilder romantic comedy “The Woman in Red.” The single, in fact, is kind of well-known, however I like this prolonged model from the soundtrack, which ends with two minutes of Wonder having a lot of enjoyable with a Vocoder.
