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"Who's Johnny" is a dance-pop hit recorded by El DeBarge. Released in 1986 off the Gordy label, the single was used for the film Short Circuit and reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Hot R&B Singles chart. [1]. It was the only solo #1 single DeBarge released after he left his surname-based family group in the same year.
"Weird Al" Yankovic recorded a parody for his Polka Party! album called "Here's Johnny" about The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson announcer Ed McMahon.
In 1990, German singer Adams Hambüger-Hatt released a German version of the song titled, Wer ist Johnny.
"Who's Johnny" is a dance-pop hit recorded by El DeBarge. Released in 1986 off the Gordy label, the single was used for the film Short Circuit and reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Hot R&B Singles chart. [1]. It was the only solo #1 single DeBarge released after he left his surname-based family group in the same year.
"Weird Al" Yankovic recorded a parody for his Polka Party! album called "Here's Johnny" about The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson announcer Ed McMahon.
In 1990, German singer Adams Hambüger-Hatt released a German version of the song titled, Wer ist Johnny.









![Huey Lewis and The News - The Power of Love
The Power of Love is the title of a 1985 single by Huey Lewis and the News written for and featured in the 1985 blockbuster film Back to the Future. It gave the band their first number-one hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100,[2] their second number-one hit on the U.S. Top Rock Tracks chart, and was a top ten hit on the UK Singles Chart, where it appeared on UK editions of the bands fourth studio album, Fore!. The song was nominated for an Academy Award at the 58th Academy Awards.
The song appears early in Back to the Future as Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) skateboards to school, then when he and his band played the song for a Battle of the Bands auditions (which Lewis, himself, is judging, and tells Martys group that they are just too darn loud), and later when Marty returns to his neighborhood. In the sequel, Back to the Future Part II, the 2015 version of Marty attempts to play the song on his guitar just after being fired, but ends up playing it very poorly due to his damaged hand from his 1985 accident with a Rolls-Royce. Finally, it can be briefly heard playing in the car where Needles and his buddies are driving when Needles challenges Marty to the fate-determining car race near the end of Back to the Future Part III.
The music video shows the band playing in a nightclub with Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) showing up in his DeLorean, apparently after time-traveling, and a couple stealing it for a joy ride. Huey Lewis and The News - The Power of Love](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YlfKVoqsqbk/mqdefault.jpg)
![Gladys Knight - Licence To Kill
The soundtrack to Licence to Kill, the 16th James Bond film of the same name, was released by MCA Records in 1989.
Because the usual James Bond composer John Barry (who had scored almost every film from From Russia with Love onwards) was not available at the time, due to the fact he was undergoing throat surgery, the soundtracks score was composed and conducted by Michael Kamen, who also composed the soundtracks for the first three Die Hard films and all four Lethal Weapon films.
Initially Eric Clapton and Vic Flick were asked to write and perform the theme song to Licence to Kill. The theme was said to have been a new version based on the James Bond Theme. The guitar riff heard in the original recording of the theme was played by Flick.
The prospect, however, fell apart and Gladys Knights song and performance was chosen, later becoming a UK Top 10 hit. The song (one of the longest to ever be used in a Bond film) was composed by Narada Michael Walden, Jeffrey Cohen and Walter Afanasieff. It was based on the horn line from Goldfinger, which required royalty payments to the original writers.[1] The music video of Licence to Kill was directed by Daniel Kleinman, who later took over the reins of title designer from Maurice Binder for the 1995 Bond film, GoldenEye.
All the instrumental tracks are amalgams of various sequences and musical cues from the film rather than straight score excerpts. The end credits of the film feature the song If You Asked Me To sung by Patti LaBelle. Though the song was a top ten R&B charter and a minor pop hit for LaBelle, in 1992, the song was covered by and became a much bigger hit for singer Céline Dion. The track Wedding Party, used during the wedding of Felix Leiter to Della Churchill, makes reference the track Jump Up from the very first Bond film, Dr. No. Gladys Knight - Licence To Kill](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZnSbrx5YByY/mqdefault.jpg)