Your Name Up There Someday

Soundtracks to movies that may never be made:

Meadowood

“Everybody Wants to Rule the World” – Tears for Fears

“Music Box Dancer” – Frank Mills

“Wasted on the Way” – Crosby, Stills & Nash

“Africa” – Toto

“You Make Lovin’ Fun” – Fleetwood Mac

“We Built This City” – Starship

“Electric Avenue” – Eddy Grant

“Don’t Come Around Here No More” – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

“Some Other Time” (feat. Bill Evans) – Tony Bennett

“Queen of Hearts” – Juice Newton

“On the Dark Side” – John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band

“On the Wings of a Dream” – John Denver

“Walking On a Thin Line” – Huey Lewis & The News

“Take Me Home” – Phil Collins

“All I Need is a Miracle” – Mike + The Mechanics

“Walk of Life” – Dire Straits

(total running time: 1 hour 8 minutes)


The Salamander

“Most of the Time” – Bob Dylan

“I Want to Know What Love Is” – Foreigner

“True Love” – Glenn Frey

“Electric Blue” – ICEHOUSE

“The Ways of Love” – Neil Young

“One Good Woman” – Pete Cetera

“No Blue Thing” – Ray Lynch

“Don’t You Know What the Night Can Do” – Steve Winwood

“The Way You Do the Things You Do” – UB40

“Second Chance” – 38 Special

“Sacrifice” – Elton John

“Si Voy a Perderte” – Gloria Estefan

“Don’t Know Much” (with Aaron Neville) – Linda Ronstadt

“Right Here Waiting” – Richard Marx

(total running time: 1 hour 6 minutes)


English as a Foreign Language

“You Will You Won’t” – The Zutons

“Talk” – Coldplay

“Caught By the Fuzz” – Supergrass

“Hey Ya!” – Outkast

“Remember Me” – British Sea Power

“Svatebni Pisen (Live)” – Hana Hegerova

“Lucky Man” – The Verve

“Ashes” – Embrace

“Hung Up” – Madonna

“Dry Your Eyes” – The Streets

“Aftermath” – R.E.M.

“Banquet” – Bloc Party

“Alright” (Brad Carter Remix) – Red Carpet

“Champagne Supernova” – Oasis

“Holy Grail” – Badly Drawn Boy

(total running time: 1 hour 11 minutes)


If You Leave Me Now

“Cold Heart” (PNAU Remix) – Elton John & Dua Lipa

“Save Your Tears” – The Weeknd

“I Ain’t Worried” – OneRepublic

“If You Leave Me Now” – Chicago

“Who Are You” – The Who

“She’s Always a Woman” – Billy Joel

“Straight On” – Heart

“Coming Home” – Marshall Hain

“Ever Fallen in Love” – Buzzcocks

“How Deep Is Your Love” (Serban Mix) – Bee Gees

“Kiss You All Over” – Exile

“Every Kinda People” – Robert Palmer

“Lay Your Love On Me” – Racey

“Locomotive Breath” – Jethro Tull

“Don’t Leave Me This Way” – Thelma Houston

“Don’t Look Back” – Boston

(total running time: 1 hour 7 minutes)

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Published by: David Ewald

David Ewald is the author of the novels The Thief of THAT, The Book of Stan, and He Who Shall Remain Shameless, the collection The Fallible: Stories, the cycle Great Awakenings & Other Plays, and the novelette Markson's Pier (co-written with Stuart Ross). He writes, teaches and parents in California's Central Valley.

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