Artist	Song
Gene Loves Jezebel	Desire (Come and Get It)
from Voodoo Dollies - The Best of Gene Loves Jezebel (1999)
Perry Como	Juke Box Baby
from Perry Como's Greatest Hits (1999)
Steve Earle & The Dukes	Six Days on the Road
from Essential Steve Earle (1993)
Altered Images	Happy Birthday
from Happy Birthday (1995)
Killing Joke	Eighties
from Laugh? I Nearly Bought One! (2003)
Kate Bush	This Woman's Work
from The Sensual World (1989)
Big Joe Turner	Lipstick, Powder and Paint
from Big Joe Turner: The Rhythm & Blues Years (2005)
Fats Waller	Yacht Club Swing
from Ain't Misbehavin (2004)
Love and Rockets	Haunted When the Minutes Drag
from Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven (2000)
Zapp	Radio People
from The New Zapp IV U (2008)
Kirsty MacColl	You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby
from Kirsty MacColl: The Collection (2008)
Book of Love	Modigliani (Lost In Your Eyes)
from Book of Love (2008)
The Dream Academy	The Edge of Forever
from The Dream Academy (2005)
Paul Williams Sextet	Thirty Five Thirty
from Stompin' at the Savoy: Harlem Nocturne, 1944 - 1947 (2005)

Comment:

Some of the '80s' biggest hits were forever burned into our brains with the help of John Hughes' sharp-shooting soundtracks, but his silver-screen smashes snuck in under the radar some tunes that might not have grabbed their fair share of ears otherwise. Kirsty MacColl's jingle-jangle cover of the Smiths' "You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby" was a B-side before bubbling its way up in [i]She's Having a Baby[/i]. [i]Ferris Bueller[/i] showed the world there was more to the Dream Academy than "Life In A Northern Town" by casting Matthew Broderick's big kiss against the breathless romantic ballad "The Edge of Forever." Hughes wasn't limited to alt-rock and high school anti-heroes, though — Steve Earle's cover of trucker anthem "Six Days on The Road" gave a country-rockin' kick-start to weary road rats Steve Martin and John Candy's screwball journey in [i]Planes, Trains and Automobiles[/i].

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