A Hazy Shade of Winter song as "one of [Simon and Garfunkel's] best songs, and certainly one of the toughest and more rock-oriented". In 1987, the Bangles were approached to record a song for the soundtrack of the film "Less Than Zero". They chose to record a cover of "A Hazy Shade of Winter", which they had been performing live since at least as far back as March 1983. Their cover, simply titled "Hazy Shade of Winter", was a harder-edged rock song that removed most of the bridge section. The record, like the rest of the soundtrack album, was produced by Rick Rubin. After a
Ghost of a Chance (Homicide: Life on the Street) the then-recent closing of Baltimore's Memorial Stadium. Fearing it will go to waste, Lewis wants to flood the stadium and turn it into an aquatic theme park. The song "Hazy Shade of Blue", by songwriter Tor Hyams, plays while the police raid several neighborhood homes in search of clues and leads in the Adena Watson murder case. The hymn "The Sweet By and By", written by S. Fillmore Bennett and Joseph P. Webster, plays during Watson's funeral in the final scene of the movie. Crosetti and Lewis sing the theme song to the children's show "Casper the Friendly Ghost" while