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At this year\u2019s Academy Awards, coming up on Sunday March 15, one song that had reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, HUNTR\/X\u2019<\/a>s megahit \u201cGolden\u201d from KPop Demon Hunters<\/em>, is competing for best original song. That\u2019s nothing compared to the 1985 Oscars, when all five nominees had been No. 1 hits, for the first and (so far) only time in Oscar history.<\/p>\n More from Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n The nominees included two songs from Footloose<\/em> \u2013 Kenny Loggins<\/a>\u2019 rhythmic title song and Deniece Williams<\/a>\u2019 midtempo R&B\/pop charmer, \u201cLet\u2019s Hear It for the Boy.\u201d Footloose<\/em> was just the fourth film to spawn two best original song nominees, following Fame<\/em> in 1981 and a pair of films in 1984, Flashdance <\/em>and Yentl<\/em>. Dean Pitchford, who wrote the screenplay for Footloose <\/em>and co-wrote all the songs on the soundtrack, was nominated for co-writing both songs. He was the only nominee in the category that year who had previously won an Oscar. In 1981, he won for co-writing Irene Cara\u2019s smash \u201cFame\u201d from the film of the same name.<\/p>\n The other nominees were Phil Collins<\/a>\u2019 torch ballad \u201cAgainst All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)\u201d from Against All Odds<\/em>; Ray Parker Jr.<\/a>\u2019s catchy earworm \u201cGhostbusters\u201d from the film of the same name; and Stevie Wonder<\/a>\u2019s warm, sentimental \u201cI Just Called to Say I Love You\u201d from The Woman in Red<\/em>.<\/p>\n Two of these songs, \u201cAgainst All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)\u201d and \u201cI Just Called To Say I Love You,\u201d also received Grammy nods for song of the year. (The Grammys didn\u2019t introduce their category of best song written for visual media until 1988.)<\/p>\n As stacked as this category was that year, two other film songs topped the Hot 100 that year and were not nominated \u2013 Prince<\/a>\u2019s \u201cWhen Doves Cry\u201d and Prince and the Revolution<\/a>\u2019s \u201cLet\u2019s Go Crazy,\u201d both from Purple Rain<\/em>. But Prince did win an Oscar<\/a> that night for best original song score.<\/p>\n Travel back with us to the 57th annual Academy Awards, held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles on March 25, 1985, the only ceremony where all five nominees for best original song were No. 1 Hot 100 hits.<\/p>\n From the film:<\/strong> Against All Odds<\/em><\/p>\n Music and lyric: <\/strong>Phil Collins<\/p>\n Recorded by: <\/strong>Phil Collins<\/p>\n Weeks spent at No. 1<\/strong>: Three<\/p>\n Performed on Oscar telecast by: <\/strong>Ann Reinking with Gary Chryst<\/p>\n Notes: <\/strong>This was Collins\u2019 first nomination. He was nominated again in 1989 for \u201cTwo Hearts\u201d from Buster<\/em> (a co-write with Motown legend Lamont Dozier). He finally won in 2000 with \u201cYou\u2019ll Be in My Heart\u201d from Tarzan.<\/em><\/p>\n The producers of the telecast didn\u2019t invite Collins to perform his torch ballad, which was his first of seven No. 1 hits on the Hot 100. They instead extended the invite to singer\/dancer <\/a>Ann Reinking, who was joined by dancer Gary Chryst. Four years later, when Collins was nominated for \u201cTwo Hearts,\u201d none<\/em> of the nominated songs were performed on the telecast. Fortunately, the Academy invited Collins to perform the third time he was nominated, for \u201cYou\u2019ll Be in My Heart.\u201d<\/p>\n From the film:<\/strong> Footloose<\/em><\/p>\n Music and lyric:<\/strong> Kenny Loggins and Dean Pitchford<\/p>\n Recorded by: <\/strong>Kenny Loggins<\/p>\n Weeks spent at No. 1<\/strong>: Three<\/p>\n Performed on Oscar telecast by: <\/strong>Debbie Allen<\/p>\n Notes: <\/strong>This was Loggins\u2019 first and only No. 1 Hot 100 hit. \u201cFootloose\u201d helped establish his identity as the go-to guy for film songs in the 1980s. He followed this smash with \u201cDanger Zone\u201d from Top Gun<\/em>, \u201cMeet Me Halfway\u201d from Over the Top<\/em> and \u201cNobody\u2019s Fool\u201d from Caddyshack II, <\/em>all of which made the top 15 on the Hot 100.<\/p>\n Footloose <\/em>was such an iconic film that it was remade in 2011. Blake Shelton performed the title song in the reboot. He even opened that year\u2019s Country Music Association Awards with a performance of the song, where he was joined by Loggins. (That makes up for the fact that Loggins wasn\u2019t invited to perform his smash on the 1985 Oscars. Debbie Allen performed a heavily-choreographed <\/a>rendition of the song instead. The producers of that year\u2019s telecast clearly were not highly attuned to the Billboard<\/em> charts.)<\/p>\n From the film:<\/strong> Ghostbusters<\/em><\/p>\n Music and lyric: <\/strong>Ray Parker Jr.<\/p>\n Recorded by: <\/strong>Ray Parker Jr.<\/p>\n Weeks spent at No. 1: <\/strong>Three<\/p>\n Performed on Oscar telecast by: <\/strong>Ray Parker Jr.<\/p>\n Notes: <\/strong>This was Parker\u2019s first and only No. 1 hit Hot 100 hit. This was one of two nominations the film received, along with best visual effects. Parker performed the song on the Oscar telecast in an elaborate production number<\/a>, capped by a cameo appearance by comedian Dom DeLuise.<\/p>\n Ghostbusters<\/em> was the year\u2019s top-grossing hit <\/a>at the domestic boxoffice, according to boxofficemojo.com. Of the other films represented with best original song nominations, Footloose<\/em> was No. 6 for the year, The Woman in Red<\/em> was No. 33 and Against All Odds<\/em> was No. 39.<\/p>\n From the film:<\/strong> The Woman in Red<\/em><\/p>\n Music and lyric:<\/strong> Stevie Wonder<\/p>\n Recorded by: <\/strong>Stevie Wonder<\/p>\n Weeks spent at No. 1: <\/strong>Three<\/p>\n Performed on Oscar telecast by: <\/strong>Diana Ross<\/p>\n Notes: <\/strong>This was Wonder\u2019s eighth of nine No. 1 Hot 100 hits. Fellow Motown legend Diana Ross performed the ditty<\/a> on the Oscar telecast. Wonder accepted the Oscar from actor\/dancer Gregory Hines. After expressing disbelief<\/a> that he won (\u201cI really cannot believe it\u201d), he set about thanking people: \u201cI would like to accept this award in the name of Nelson Mandela. I\u2019d like to thank, first of all, Miss Dionne Warwick for allowing me this opportunity. I\u2019d like to thank Gene Wilder for thinking that I might be able to do some songs for your film. Thank Orion Pictures and thank Motown Records and my family and my crew. From my heart, I love you.\u201d<\/p>\n According to the indispensable tome, Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards<\/em>, Wonder\u2019s support for Mandela, the South African civil rights leader who had been imprisoned since 1964, drew a swift response from the South African government: They banned his music.<\/p>\n For the record, Wonder was the first blind person to win an Oscar.<\/p>\n From the film:<\/strong> Footloose<\/em><\/p>\n Music and lyric: <\/strong>Tom Snow and Dean Pitchford<\/p>\n Recorded by: <\/strong>Deniece Williams<\/p>\n Weeks spent at No. 1: <\/strong>Two<\/p>\n Performed on Oscar telecast by: <\/strong>Deniece Williams<\/p>\n Notes: <\/strong>This was Williams\u2019 first and only No. 1 hit Hot 100 hit. Williams performed the song<\/a> on the Oscar telecast. Pitchford and Snow were nominated again in 1990 for \u201cAfter All\u201d from the Cybill Shepherd\/Robert Downey Jr. rom-com Chances Are<\/em>.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a fun story: When Clive Davis was overseeing Whitney Houston\u2019s debut album, he thought that, to balance the ballads, she needed a sassy, youthful song along the lines of \u201cLet\u2019s Hear It for the Boy.\u201d \u00a0He found it in \u201cHow Will I Know\u201d \u2014 which, like \u201cLet\u2019s Hear It\u2026,\u201d topped the Hot 100. Happily, Pitchford later had a more direct relationship with Houston than simply having inspired the selection of a song she recorded: In 1991, Houston topped the Hot 100 with \u201cAll the Man That I Need,\u201d a torchy ballad that Pitchford co-wrote with his \u201cFame\u201d collaborator Michael Gore.<\/p>\n Best of Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Billboard’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At this year\u2019s Academy Awards, coming up on Sunday March 15, one song that had reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, HUNTR\/X\u2019s megahit \u201cGolden\u201d from KPop Demon Hunters, is competing for best original song. 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\u201cFootloose\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u201cGhostbusters\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u201cI Just Called to Say I Love You\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s Hear It for the Boy\u201d<\/h2>\n