Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan had some interesting reservations about writing the theme song for Joel Schumacher's ...

The opening theme music from a TV show can become an earworm — just think of Mission: Impossible or Peter Gunn. For composers, coming up with something catchy is like trying to write a Top 40 hit.

Now they don’t write theme songs at all. At most, they might pick an actual old-timey tune, a real one — and just pay the old songwriter a lot more than $750 for it. This story has been updated.

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Rufus Wainwright talks about writing and performing "Secret Sister," the closing song for "Rebel Hearts," a documentary about activist nuns.

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Now they don’t write theme songs at all. At most, they might pick an actual old-timey tune, a real one — and just pay the old songwriter a lot more than $750 for it. This story has been updated.