Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - Hooked to the Silver Screen Edition Part 1
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🗓️ 12 December 2025
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Summary
If you need confirmation of Hollywood’s vast influence on mass culture, look no further than the pop charts. From the 1937 classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs through this year’s KPop Demon Hunters, soundtracks have launched hits, defined genres—and sometimes even eclipsed the films that inspired them in the first place. Rock classics, funk jams, rap bangers, even Christmas standards: all became hits because we heard them first at the cinema.
Join Chris Molanphy as he unspools nearly a century of hit movie music, from Simon & Garfunkel’s groundbreaking ode to “Mrs. Robinson,” to the, ahem, titanic tin whistle of “My Heart Will Go On.”
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| 0:20.2 | Hey there, hit parade listeners, it's Chris. Before we get started, I want to give you one more |
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| 2:14.2 | please enjoy part one of this Hit Parade episode. |
| 2:17.6 | Welcome to Hit Parade, a podcast of Pop Chart History from Slate magazine about the hits from |
| 2:38.8 | coast to coast. I'm Chris Malanfi, chart analyst, pop critic, and writer of Slate's |
| 2:44.2 | Why Is This Song Number One series? On today's show, 25 years ago, in early December 2000, a soundtrack album hit record stores |
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