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I keep on saying that I don't "do" contests;  and then I do.  I claim I'm not competitive;  by and large I am not, but I do admit to being happy to win - when it happens.  So let me declare **again** that I don't participate to win, but rather because the topic resonates for me.  It also means that I ~~won't~~ don't always follow the rules as @zord189 discovered when he wanted just ***one*** song.  He got [this](https://steemit.com/life/@fionasfavourites/songsofmylife-steemitbloggerscontest-y1calop831).

## Considering the instructions

They are simple
>The Topic For This Round Is…Movie Tunes
>...
Create a blog post with your top 3 nominations along with your reasoning behind them. 

I looked carefully:  there is ***no small print***

Given that I went a little OTT with the *Songs of (my) Life*, not only do I have a standard to maintain, but I really had a very difficult time picking my top three.  I've gone round in circles, this post has brewed, grown, been pruned and I'm sure that when I'm done I will still find that I've got others that I've missed.

There are tunes from movies that have stuck with me over the years - for many different reasons.  Some of them are entire soundtracks.  Soundtracks I knew word for word: before ever seeing the film.  Yes, I mean ***film***.  I'll begin with these.

#### The Sound of Music

As a child, I loved Julie Andrews:  she was my hero and she sang like an angel.  One of my favourite records (yes...there I go again...) was an album of beautiful Christmas carols.  Ermm...I digress... I cannot remember the first time I saw *The Sound of Music*, but I do know that I knew every song, and when I saw them on celluloid, they developed new meaning.  All of them.
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#### The Rocky Horror Picture Show 
This 1975 film was banned in Souh Africa for years, but as teenagers we managed to find and listen to the soundtrack *ad nauseum*.  I loved the melodies and the rhythm, but at 13, from an ultra conservative home, I  really had not the slightest inkling of what the film was about.  It was something I learned by osmosis over the years.  It's a film I have never seen, but I have seen a couple of stage adaptations, including one here in McGregor.  All the more memorable because of the cast - and their real life personalities.  Nobody will ever be able to "do" a better Frankenfurter.

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The final soundtrack in my selection of three, is - 

### Grease

The storyline of that 1978 film resonated for the then 16-year old Fiona, and the music was a combination of 70's pop and 60's rock and roll with the odd ballad chucked in for good measure.  Brilliant.  At least two songs from this soundtrack feature in *Songs of (my) Life*...

No, I'm not done yet:

### Bond
I think we all have, or have had, our James Bond phases.  Depending on one's gneration, one has a one and only Bond.  ***My*** only Bond is Roger Moore.  I don't really like what's happened to the genre;  perhaps I'm old ~~fashioned~~ but I don't like the introduction of the gratuitous violence.  *Quantum of Solace*:  just no.  Daniel Craig:  just no.  But there have been some billiant theme tunes.  Some memorable for the films, others for different reasons.

Three, no four, I just really love.  The first two I have seen - as home movies * on a Sunday evening at boarding school.  The other two:  I have no idea.  I think I have, but hey, the formula is such that well, the story is largely inconsequential.

**Rita Coolidge – "All Time High" Octopussy**
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**Carly Simon – "Nobody Does It Better"**
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**Sheena Easton - For your eyes only**
This 1981 song evokes fabulous memories of university, people places, loves...not...
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##### Golden Eye - Tina Turner
I am a huge Tina Turner fan.  My ex-husband loathed her and when she came to South Africa, I was going to the show.  Come hell or high water.  This was her opening song.  Need I say more?
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### Other random movie songs that just can't be ignored

Also in **that** post to which I keep referring, are other of of my favourite movie tunes.  Memorable for the movies as much as for the periods in my life when I saw them:  Blondie's *Heart of Glass* from *American Gigolo*, and, actually, I should have included the entire soundtrack of *Fame*, and I did not mentioned, but which would have been apt in ***that *** post, is Irene Cara's *Out there on m own*.

These two deserve special mention.  They speak for themselves.

**Streets of Philadelphia - Bruce Springsteen 1993**
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**Madonna - This used to be my Playground 1992**
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## Last, but not least, my top 3

The third place is a tie: two very poignant songs - one from the seventies, from the musical, ***Hair***, and which until I did my research for this post, I didn't know, had been voted best song in 1979.  Like *Rocky Horror* it was banned in South Africa and I only saw it in 1981 or 1982. When it ***was*** released, it was cut to shreds.

**Easy to Be Hard - Hair**
I will never forget this scene in the film, and I still get cold shivers when I hear the song - as I did the other day, when I heard it on the radio.  
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As an aside, [John Savage ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Savage_(actor)), who played Claude, in the film, spent some time in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 80's and I had a little to do with him because of my involvelment with the street children movement.  Lovely, unassuming man.

Tie with this is 
**Calling You -  Bagdad Cafe**
This 1987 film arrived in South Africa in 1988.  I was living in Johannesburg at the time (when I was working with street children and met John Savage) and this film made an enormous impression on me - as did actress CCH Pounder - a  story of healing and friendship - unexpected.  And the fellowsip of women.
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Second place is also a tie.  The first, because ***that opening scene*** is one that is memorable for all the right reasons, including this song.  The rest of the movie?  Well, it's a chick flick, but not up there with the best.  But this Righteous Brothers' song....well, it has a life way beyond this movie.

**Unchained Melody - Ghost**
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**You make me feel like a Natural Woman  - The Big Chill**
Carole King's song, from the ***Tapestry*** album is one of her best.  However, no more apt than when it is carefully placed in this film.  *The Big Chill* has to be one of those timeless films that resonates for people who've had any real life, and relationship, experience.  And deep (or not) friendships.
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# The Number One
The top of the three has simply got to be ***Bohemian Rhapsody***.  It continues to "live", and more than just survive, succeeding generations of music genres.  It's featured in two films, including the eponymous Queen biopic (which I cannot wait to see, but living in the boondocks....), which is testimony to the gigantic talent and brilliance, not just of Freddie Mercury, but the ensemble that made Queen, Queen.
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## A last word (or three)
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