OK, I'm going to cheat a little. I can't think of a song with a scream in it that is my favorite, but I can think of a "Favorite Recorded Scream" (which is, in my defense, the un-expanded upon question!). This, is the Wilhelm Scream:

http://hollywoodlostandfound.net/sounds/Wilhelm_tk4.wav

Pre-digital era sound effects (Foley) were generally created in-house at the studio (like they are today), but finding and using the recording was a pain and giant sfx libraries were not really possible, so some classic sound effects got used over and over and over (and over) again. Famous Foley artist Ben Burtt gave the effect the name "Wilhelm" and used it in all of his movies as a kind of inside joke. He named the effect after a character named Pvt. Wilhelm that gets shot in the leg by an arrow (and, of course, screams) in "The Charge at Feather River" (1953). His research led him to his best guess that actor/singer Sheb Wooley is the voice behind "The Wilhelm Scream." Here are a FEW of the movies you can hear the Wilhelm scream in (I would not be surprised if it was used in a song or two or ten, but I can't think of any offhand):

"Them!" (1954), "Land of the Pharaohs" (1955), "The Sea Chase" (1955), "Sergeant Rutledge" (1960), "PT-109" (1963), "The Green Berets (1968), "The Scarlet Blade" (1974), "Star Wars" (1977), "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981), "Poltergeist" (1982), "Batman Returns" (1992), "Planet of the Apes" (2001), "Agent Cody Banks" (2003), "Madagascar" (2005), "Toy Story" (1995), "Hercules" (1997), "Pirates of the Caribbean" (2003), "Beauty and the Beast" (1991), "Aladdin" (1992), "A Goofy Movie" (1995), "The Fifth Element" (1997), “The Majestic” (2001), “Just Visiting” (2001), “A Man Apart” (2003), "Tears of the Sun" (2003), "Hollywood Boulevard" (1976), "Explorers" (1985), "Gremlins 2" (1990), "The Second Civil War" (1997), “Matinee” (1993), "Looney Tunes: Back in Action" (2003)...

etc. etc. (Epic credit to Steve Lee for the research on this!)

Bonus Fun: now that you know what the Wilhelm Scream sounds like, you'll hear it all the time when watching TV!

Source(s):
http://hollywoodlostandfound.net/wilhelm/


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