The Best Country Song from A Movie!

Red River Valley? Though I don't think the origin is exactly "Country".

Love is a Red Dress- from Pulp Fiction

Willie Nelson's 'My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys' from "The Electric Horseman"

You Can't Fool Me...I'm a Moron!

I cross my heart from pure country

The soundtrack of "Pure Country", doesn't get any better than George.

My most favorite singer James Otto has songs in the following films and so to me, they are the best. (smiles)

Road House 2
One of the Larry The Cable Guy films (the 1st one I believe. I do know that his song is what gets the film started and the name of the song is "They Call Me The Breeze")
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 I believe is the name of the film released in 2008 or 2009

God bless you and James always!!!

Holly

Check out my most favorite singer, James Otto, when you can! I love him SO much!!! (smiles)

From what your question seems to indicate, the song should be **original** to that film, meaning it was written **for** (or debuted in) that movie and not heard prior to the release of that movie. Now, that might not be what you intended, but that's what I take it to mean. After all, if you're merely asking what is the best song that happened to be used in a movie, whether or not the song was written for (or at least debuted in) the movie, just about any popular song you could name would qualify, because almost all popular songs are used in some movie. If that is the meaning of your question, you should just ask what is the best song ever written, because the set of all strong contenders for the winner would be virtually identical for each question. What's more, many popular songs have subsequently been used for the title of a movie, such as "I Walk The Line" (1970, Gregory Peck and Tuesday Weld). There aren't too many Country songs better than "I Walk The Line".

Therefore, I presume that the question asks what is the best Country song that is original to a movie. That is a much, much more restricted list. In fact, though I know that there have been many good ones that would be eligible, I am hard-pressed to think of any, off the top of my head. However, I can think of a few minor songs that fit the category, which follow.

"He Gives Us All His Love" (written and sung by Randy Newman in the 1971 film "Cold Turkey" -- though Randy Newman isn't traditionally considered a Country Music singer).

"North To Alaska" (co-written and sung by Johnny Horton in the 1960 movie of the same name). Actually, this song was **not** a minor one, but a #1 hit song on the Country charts and reached #4 on the Pop charts.

I'm Easy" (written and sung by Keith Carradine in the movie "Nashville" (1975)). This was also a big hit, but it wasn't really a Country song, though it was in a movie about Country music. It is usually considered in the Adult Contemporary category.

There are a bunch of songs that debuted in one of the "Singing Cowboy" Westerns made from the '30s through the '50s. Any of those would qualify. I'm not an expert on those, can't name even one of them. I can, however, name one that was written for a Bing Crosby movie.

"I'm An Old Cowhand From The Rio Grande" (written by Johnny Mercer, written for and debuted in "Rhythm On The Range" (1936), sung by Bing Crosby). By any yardstick, this is a classic cowboy Country/Western song (though it has often been played in a swing-music fashion), covered by Roy Rogers with the Sons Of The Pioneers.

I'll keep trying to think of more of them. I know that there are several big Country songs that fit this category, I just can't think of them at the minute.

By the way, none of the songs I've seen offered by either the OP (your song was first sung by Neil Young in 1978) or the repliers have named a song that qualifies, at least of those I know. There are a couple of obscure things mentioned (probably in the past 20 years, since the cartel of the powerful Country Music recording labels and the radio station networks deliberately changed the meaning of the term "Country", only allowing neo-Country (which is pop-rock with a southern or western accent) to be played on the radio in America, and only sung by those younger than 40. I wouldn't know any of those. I listen to **real** Country music, which is still being produced, and released on smaller labels, now given the genre-label of "Original Country Music". Actually, in these last 2 decades, I've gotten especially fond of the very early music, called "Old-Timey Music".