The entire sound track of "A Soldier's Story" was amazing: Patti LaBelle--who played a blues singer in a black nightclub in the town outside the army base--wrote and directed it (the soundtrack, not the movie), and performed several of the songs. Others were performed by the actor who played the blues-singing baseball player framed by the sergeant in his drive to get rid of "geechy" black soldiers. A powerful movie, much of whose power derives from the great blues score.

Others include "High Noon," the ballad--sung by Tex Ritter, father of the actor John Ritter--which serves as an emotional narrative for the story, one of the great Westerns, starring Grace Kelly and Gary Cooper. Others, of course, include Simon and Garfunkle's "The Graduate" soundtrack and Cat Stevens' "Harold and Maude." I also loved the Frank Sinatra/Bing Crosby "High Society" scene. But that was a musical and a whole nother category: "American in Paris," "Cabaret," and on and on. --seed