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unusual facts about ''Flashdance'' soundtrack



Alison Krauss discography

Her soundtrack performances have led to further popularity, including the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, which won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2002 and is also credited with raising American interest in bluegrass, and the Cold Mountain soundtrack, which led to her performance at the 2004 Academy Awards.

Anousheh Khalili

She is known for providing vocal talent and appearing in the videos for Deep Dish's "Flashdance" and "Say Hello," the latter of which was nominated for a Grammy in 2006 in the Best Dance Recording category, and Sharam's "Fun".

Big Poppa

Biggies actual debut was "Party and Bullshit" (1993) which appeared on the Who's the Man? Soundtrack of the same year.

Café Racers

The song "I'll Be Here Where the Heart Is" was included on the chart-topping, six times Platinum Flashdance soundtrack which received a Grammy Award for Best Album Of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture at 26th Annual Grammy Awards.

Carlton Draught

At first, he is rejected then copies a dance sequence in the movie Flashdance to the song Flashdance... What a Feeling and is accepted.

Christmas Is Almost Here

The third release came in 2009, when Borders released special limited copies with the track "The Night Before Christmas", which came from Simon's soundtrack to the 1992 film This Is My Life.

Donald Peterman

Donald William Peterman (January 3, 1932 – February 5, 2011) was an American Academy Award-nominated cinematographer whose numerous feature film credits included Flashdance, Men in Black, Cocoon and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

Doug Cotler

Cotler’s 1984 Grammy was awarded for writing “Manhunt,” a powerful song featured in the hit album and movie, “Flashdance.”

Durga McBroom

In addition to her singing, she has performed as an actress in the movies Flashdance and The Rosebud Beach Hotel.

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark

Bob's infatuation with Elvira also infuriates his love interest Patty who, with the help of several members of the school board and PTA sabotage Elvira's good name and her attempts to open a late night film fest using Bob's theater, the last straw breaking when in a Flashdance scene, she is covered in tar instead of a bucket of water and feathered by Patty, humiliating her.

Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon

The song enjoyed a second life when it appeared on the 1994 Pulp Fiction soundtrack, performed by rock band Urge Overkill.

Have a Cigar

The first was used as b-side for the Learn to fly CD single, while the second one, featuring Brian May on lead guitar, first appeared on the Mission: Impossible II soundtrack, and later as an Amazon.com bonus track on their 2009 Greatest Hits album and in the 2011 limited-edition vinyl only release Medium Rare, released for Record Store Day.

I'm Glad

In 2003, following the use of dance routines from the film "Flashdance" in the music video for "I'm Glad" (directed by David LaChapelle), Maureen Marder sued Lopez, Sony Corporation, and Paramount in an attempt to gain a copyright interest in the film.

The recreation of scenes from Flashdance led Maureen Marder—whose life was the inspiration for the storyline of the film—to sue Lopez, Sony Corporation, and Paramount Pictures for copyright infringement in November 2003, claiming the video was an unauthorized depiction of her life story.

It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown

It wasn't the first time Jahan had substituted for another performer as a dancer—she doubled for Jennifer Beals in Flashdance as well.

The show is presented as an original musical which features parodies of the early 1980s breakdancing craze, MTV, the movies Saturday Night Fever, Flashdance, and Footloose, and a number of popular top 40 hit songs of the early 1980s.

Japanese hip hop

A big break through time for the dance scene in Japan was after the movies "Flashdance," "Wild Style", and "Beat Street".

As movies like 'Flashdance' (1983) reached the islands, more and more young people began dancing on the street and other public arenas, which added to its cultural integration.

Jerry Hey

Michael Boddicker, Irene Cara, Kim Carnes, Douglas Cotler, Keith Forsey, Richard Gilbert, Jerry Hey, Duane Hitchings, Craig Krampf, Ronald Magness, Dennis Matkosky, Giorgio Moroder, Phil Ramone, Michael Sembello, Shandi Sinnamon (composers) for Flashdance performed by various artists

Keith Forsey

Keith co-wrote "Flashdance... What a Feeling" with Moroder and Irene Cara, who also performed the track, for the movie "Flashdance".

The popularity of "Flashdance" led to his (co-)writing songs featured on the soundtracks of "Ghostbusters", "Beverly Hills Cop" and "The Breakfast Club".

Korn Digital EP 2

The EP contains three tracks, including a demo of "Holding All These Lies" by Jonathan Davis, a live recording of "System" from the Queen of the Damned soundtrack recorded in Fargo, North Dakota on May 18, 2010, and an exclusive in-studio music video of "People Pleaser" not included in the Korn III: Remember Who You Are deluxe edition package.

MTI Home Video

One of the company's first releases was Freedance, an interactive fitness workout video featuring Marine Jahan from the film Flashdance.

Nifelheim

In 1996, the band recorded the Vulcano cover "Witches Sabbat" with guest vocalist Goat (ex-Satanized) for the second Headbangers Against Disco split EP which also featured Usurper (de) and Unpure, and the song "Hellish Blasphemy" for the Gummo soundtrack; the latter was re-recorded for the band's second album, Devil's Force, which featured Zweetsloot and Nödtveidt again.

Planet Colors

The first single from the album, "What a Feeling", features American singer Irene Cara and is a cover version of her 1983 song "Flashdance... What a Feeling".

Queen Margot

La reine Margot – Soundtrack, soundtrack, by Goran Bregović, to the 1994 film

The Cox Family

The Cox Family can be heard on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, and their 1994 collaboration with Alison Krauss (I Know Who Holds Tomorrow) won the 1995 Grammy Award for Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album.

The Luck of the Fryrish

Back in the 1980s, a teenage Fry hides the seven-leaf clover inside his Ronco record vault in his copy of The Breakfast Club soundtrack.

The Spaceship

Captain Gordon "Flashdance" Taylor (James Fleet) – Gordon is captain of The Really Invincible III and has a tendency to throw cheese and wine parties at a moments notice.


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