Beetlejuice [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

by Danny Elfman

Overview

Danny Elfman provides one of his most quintessentially Elfman-esque scores for one of Tim Burton's most quintessentially Burton-esque movies, Beetlejuice. The film's dark yet sardonically funny "Main Titles" is among Elfman's all-time best moments, bustling along with a dark joie de vivre (or is it joie de morte?) that defines the spooky fun of both this movie, and his collaboration with Burton. The score's stylized world also includes the ironically perky "Travel Music"; "Incantation," a tensely percussive cue that unfolds into exaggerated brass and ghostly vocals and organs; and the eerily pretty but still whimsical "Lydia Discovers." The tip-toeing pizzicato strings and pianos, and the theatrical brass, organs, harps, and percussion that appear on every track -- most definitively on tracks like "Enter...The Family / Sand Worm Planet" -- underline the film's live-action cartoonishness, with the music's hyperactive shifts, and the addition of Harry Belafonte's "Jump In Line" and "Banana Boat Song (Day-O)" just adding another layer of quirkiness to the whole thing. A perfect mix of silliness and spookiness, Beetlejuice remains one of Elfman's most consistent scores. ~ Heather Phares

Product Details

Release Date:	10/25/1990
Label:	Geffen / Dgc
UPC:	0720642420225
Rank:	5651

Tracks

1. Beetlejuice~Main Titles
2. Beetlejuice~Travel Music
3. Beetlejuice~The Book! / Obituaries
4. Beetlejuice~Enter...The Family / Sand Worm Planet
5. Beetlejuice~The Fly
6. Beetlejuice~Lydia Discovers?
7. Beetlejuice~In the Model
8. Beetlejuice~Juno's Theme
9. Beetlejuice~Beetle-Snake
10. Beetlejuice~Sold
11. Beetlejuice~The Flier / Lydia's Pep Talk
12. The Banana Boat Song (Day-O)
13. Beetlejuice~Incantation
14. Beetlejuice~Lydia Strikes a Bargain...
15. Beetlejuice~Showtime!
16. Beetlejuice~Laughs
17. Beetlejuice~The Wedding
18. Beetlejuice~The Aftermath
19. Beetlejuice~End Credits
20. Jump in the Line

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Danny Elfman   Primary Artist,Vocals
Original Trinidad Steel Band   Primary Artist
Harry Belafonte   Primary Artist,Lead Vocals,Vocals
Millard Thomas   Guitar
Tony Scott   Conductor
Ralph Hunter   Conductor
William Ross   Conductor
Ernie Calabria   Cuatro,Guitar
Norman Keenan   Bass

Technical Credits

Bob Sirapson   Engineer
Stephen Somvel   Composer,Composer
Mary Ann Dibs   Design
Jane O'Neal   Photography
William Attaway   Composer
Bob Fernandez   Mixing
Steve Samuel   Composer
Deborah Norcross   Design
Trinidad Steel Band   Performer
Bob Bollard   Producer
Bob Badami   Editing,Music Editor
Irving Burgie   Composer
Erik Darling   Composer
Gabriel Oller   Composer
John Williams   Composer
Leonard Bernstein   Composer
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky   Composer
Ralph de Leon   Composer
Alan Arkin   Composer
Danny Elfman   Composer,Producer,Performer
Miklos Rozsa   Composer
Steve Bartek   Producer,Orchestration
Bob Carey   Composer
David Arnold   Composer
Harry Belafonte   Composer,Performer
Nancy Fogarty   Editing,Music Editor
Raymond Bell   Composer
Gabrielle Oller   Composer