Jackie Brown: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture

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Jackie Brown: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture
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Soundtrack album by
Various artists
ReleasedDecember 9, 1997 (1997-12-09)
Genre
Length51:06
Label Maverick Records
A Band Apart Records
Producer Quentin Tarantino
Lawrence Bender
Quentin Tarantino film soundtrack chronology
Four Rooms
(1995)		Jackie Brown: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture
(1997)		 Kill Bill: Volume 1
(2003)
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Jackie Brown: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture is the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino's motion picture Jackie Brown . It was originally released on December 9, 1997. The soundtrack uses a variety of music genres, including soul. The soundtrack also includes dialogue from the motion picture and lacks a typical film score, similar to the other soundtracks of Tarantino films.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Artist(s)Length
1."Across 110th Street"Bobby Womack Bobby Womack and Peace 3:48
2."Beaumont's Lament" (Dialogue)  Samuel L. Jackson and Robert de Niro 0:50
3."Strawberry Letter 23" Shuggie Otis The Brothers Johnson 4:58
4."Melanie, Simone and Sheronda" (Dialogue) Samuel L. Jackson and Robert de Niro0:32
5."Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?"Bill Withers Bill Withers 3:12
6."Tennessee Stud" Jimmy Driftwood Johnny Cash 2:54
7."Natural High" Charles McCormick Bloodstone 4:54
8."Long Time Woman" Les Baxter Pam Grier 2:52
9."Detroit 9000" (Dialogue)  Council Cargle 0:07
10."(Holy Matrimony) Letter to the Firm"
 Foxy Brown 3:26
11."Street Life"
 Randy Crawford 4:18
12."Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)"
 The Delfonics 3:21
13."Midnight Confessions"Lou Josie The Grass Roots 2:43
14."Inside My Love"
 Minnie Riperton 3:56
15."Just Ask Melanie" (Dialogue) Samuel L. Jackson, Robert de Niro, and Bridget Fonda 0:43
16."The Lions and the Cucumber"
  • Manfred Hübler
  • Siegfried Schwab
 The Vampires' Sound Incorporation 5:07
17."Monte Carlo Nights"Elliot Easton Elliot Easton's Tiki Gods 3:25
Total length:51:06

Tarantino's selection process for the songs

Tarantino has said that in developing the script for Jackie Brown, he decided on the majority of the songs during the writing stage. [2] He added:

More or less the way my method works is you have got to find the opening credit sequence first. That starts it off from me. I find the personality of the piece through the music that is going to be in it [...] It is the rhythm of the film. Once I know I want to do something, then it is a simple matter of me diving into my record collection and finding the songs that give me the rhythm of my movie.

Other tracks heard in the film

Some of the songs used in the film were not included in the commercially released soundtrack. These songs are listed during the film's credits.

Personnel

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
France (SNEP) [3] Gold100,000*
United Kingdom (BPI) [4] Gold100,000*
United States—321,000 [5]

* Sales figures based on certification alone.

Notes

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ The Guardian Quentin Tarantino interview (II) with Pam Grier, Robert Forster and Lawrence Bender. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
  3. ↑ "French album certifications – B.O.F. – Jackie Brown" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique . Retrieved June 22, 2018.
  4. ↑ "British album certifications – Original Soundtrack – Jackie Brown". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved June 2, 2018.
  5. ↑ Donahue, Ann (September 5, 2009). "The Billboard Q&A: Quentin". Billboard. Retrieved June 2, 2018.
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