Blue Oyster Cult

"We're all at the mercy of the cowbell sketch in different ways," Buck Dharma says.

Buck Dharma recalls how the famous sketch starring Christopher Walken and Will Ferrell turned an "afterthought" into a necessity.

Veteran band cleans out its closet with unearthed recordings from its 1978-83 vaults.

There are plenty of songs that modest chart success when they were originally released but got a significant boost later when they were featured on a TV show or in a movie.