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Coffee Break: Songs from movies

What songs do you want to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?
What songs do you want to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?Daniella Urdinlaiz, via lookcatalog, Flickr CC BY 2.0

by Anna Reed

February 24, 2017

The 89th Academy Awards ceremony is this Sunday, where the best films, actors, producers, designers and directors of 2016 will be honored.

Up for Best Picture is Arrival, Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, Hell or High Water, Hidden Figures, La La Land, Lion, Manchester by the Sea and Moonlight. The nominees for Best Actress in a Leading Role are Isabelle Huppert, Ruth Negga, Natalie Portman, Emma Stone and Meryl Streep, and the nominees for Best Actor are Casey Affleck, Andrew Garfield, Ryan Gosling, Viggo Mortensen and Denzel Washington.

The host is Jimmy Kimmel and "La La Land" will probably win everything. Regardless, let's have some fun today with songs that were in movies, or at least a prominent part of the soundtrack to a movie. We're not just looking for songs from 2016 movies - but rather any movie in the history of the motion picture industry.

What songs from movies do you want to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?

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Songs played

The Shins - New Slang
Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle with You
Kenny Loggins - I'm Alright
Elliott Smith - Needle in the Hay
Pixies - Where Is My Mind
Dolly Parton - 9 To 5
Jamiroquai - Canned Heat