Coca-Cola has proved to be the undisputed master of this trope in advertising:.
Subverted, in that John ended up keeping the song instead of letting Leary use it.
Timothy Leary asked John Lennon to write him a song when was running for political office, that song turning out to be The Beatles' hit "Come Together". However, the song was a musical version of the original 1939 story of the same name. The Ur-Example of this is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, which was originally written as a Montgomery Ward advertising jingle. An Alka-Seltzer commercial from 1964 had a vignette of different peoples' stomachs with a jaunty guitar-led instrumental tune, later becoming a radio hit "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's On)" by the T-Bones. A plaque in the popular hub Park Street Station explains the story behind the name of the ticket and the song. In fact, the fare cards and tickets for the transit authority (now called the MBTA) are called CharlieTickets/CharlieCards, after the song. While O'Brien lost, the song, "Charlie On The M.T.A." was later covered by the Kingston Trio, becoming a hit for the band that was widely remembered to this day. O'Brien commissioned a pair of songwriters to write a song supporting his candidacy and protesting a fare hike on the subway system. Political advertising, but still - Boston mayoral candidate Walter A. Williams lied and said there was and he and his songwriting partner worked quickly to write the rest of the song before giving it to Carpenter. Richard Carpenter saw the commercial on TV one night, called Williams and asked if there was a bridge to the song. The Carpenters song ''We've Only Just Begun" was first used in a 1970 Crocker Bank commercial sung and co-written by Paul Williams. Jim Guthrie's song "Hands In My Pocket" was originally written for a Capital One commercial. Compare Covered Up and Parody Displacement. Naturally, this can be frustrating for fans of the popular song's source. See Pop-Cultural Osmosis and Breakaway Advertisement for related phenomenons. Far too many songs have escaped their original musicals to give a full list, but ones that have become standards, while the shows they hail from are almost never seen, can stand as notable examples. This applies to an insane number of songs from classic Broadway and movie musicals. If the average person is unlikely to know about a movie (/TV show/video game/whatever), it counts. Just having a special edition version does not automatically mean it hasn't fallen into obscurity (for example, see The Criterion Collection for a TON of obscure movies with the red carpet treatment). This is the most subjective part of this entry, but you can tell if it fell into obscurity by the fact that the studio either didn't release a DVD of it (not due only to copyright hell) or they just gave it a "catalog" release (basically a bare bones DVD with just the movie and whatever cheaply available other features such as trailers or music videos are on hand. The movie (TV show/video game/whatever) has to fall into obscurity. With this rule, it does count if the music was released well in advance but was specifically intended as an intrinsic part of the movie (/TV show/video game/whatever). It can't just have been tacked on by the studio to try to get more publicity for it (see Seal's "Kiss From a Rose" for a blatant example of that). One way you can tell if it counts is if the music video heavily advertises the tie-in. 
It has to have been created alongside a movie (TV show/video game/whatever).Most FM stations count in this regard, since their entirely free mood means that they have to try to appeal to as wide a group as they can. an FM oldies station would count, but not a Satellite Radio station specifically dedicated to movie themes from the 1960s). The song has to continue to receive airplay on the very general radio stations (i.e. It has to be a full song, released either as a single or otherwise widely available to radio stations.The measure this article will use to gauge is whether or not a song still receives airplay on non-specialized radio stations at least five years after the movie has fallen into obscurity (in other words, people just recently informed of the fact would react with a surprised, "wait, my favorite song is from a movie?") Examples of this should follow these rules:
In cases like this, we have what is called a Breakaway Pop Hit. Sometimes the movie was actually popular at the time, but the song has since become utterly disassociated from its original context. But in some cases, the song continues to be popular after the movie has gone into obscurity.
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