Title Theme Tune/Quotes

It seems that most of the songs that you hear nowadays on the radio played by the disc jockeys -- apart from rock and roll and other children's records -- tend to be motion-picture title songs. Apparently producers feel that we will not attend their movies unless we have the titles well-drilled into our heads in advance. Of course, we don't go anyway, but at least this way they make back on the song some of what they've lost on the picture. But with the rise of the motion-picture title song, we have such hits of the past few years as "The Ten Commandments Mambo", "Brothers Karamazov Cha-Cha", "Incredible Shrinking Man, I Love You"... I'm sure you're all familiar with these...

—Tom Lehrer, intro to "Oedipus Rex" (from An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer)...