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Best Opening and Closing Songs in Film: Readers' Edition

July 19th 2011 2:00PM

Since we dropped our epic Best Opening Songs and Best Closing Songs in Film lists, we've had some very enthusiastic input from our readers, many beginning with a vigorous "How could you forget about ..." and punctuated with several exclamation marks. We're still sticking to our one-director-per-countdown rule, but we just couldn't resist rounding up the most popular opening and closing song picks from Spinner commenters. Pardon the spoilers, and let's get to it!
'Blue Velvet,' Bobby Vinton
'Blue Velvet'

MORE OPENING SONGS: David Lynch's 1986 film 'Blue Velvet' is your standard mystery -- that gets stranger, more twisted and perverted by the scene. Before college student Kyle MacLachlan (aka Agent Cooper of 'Twin Peaks') returns to his hometown and is instantly thrust into its secret, seedy world of psychotic criminals with violent fetishes, his father has a stroke to the happy, all-is-well 1963 pop hit by Bobby Vinton. The signature Lynch-ian distortion kicks in to
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