Inglourious Basterds (soundtrack)

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Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Soundtrack album by
Various artists
ReleasedAugust 18, 2009 (2009-08-18)
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Length37:14
Language
  • English
  • German
  • French
Label A Band Apart
Maverick
Warner Bros.
Quentin Tarantino film soundtrack chronology
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Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Django Unchained
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Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino's motion picture Inglourious Basterds . It was originally released on August 18, 2009. The soundtrack uses a variety of music genres, including Spaghetti Western soundtrack excerpts, R&B and a David Bowie song from the 1982 remake of Cat People. [6] "The Man with the Big Sombrero", a song from the 1943 screwball comedy Hi Diddle Diddle , was rerecorded in French for the movie. This is the first soundtrack for a Quentin Tarantino film not to feature dialogue excerpts. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media, but lost to the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Artist(s)Length
1."The Green Leaves of Summer [fn 1] " Dimitri Tiomkin Nick Perito & His Orchestra1:55
2."The Verdict (La condanna) [fn 2] "Ennio Morricone Ennio Morricone 1:14
3."White Lightning (Main Title) [fn 3] "Charles Bernstein Charles Bernstein 2:55
4."Slaughter [fn 4] "Billy Preston Billy Preston 4:24
5."The Surrender (La resa) [fn 5] "MorriconeEnnio Morricone2:48
6."One Silver Dollar (Un Dollaro Bucato) [fn 6] "Gianni Ferrio Gianni Ferrio 2:05
7."Davon geht die Welt nicht unter" Zarah Leander 2:06
8."The Man with the Big Sombrero [fn 7] "
Samantha Shelton & Michael Andrew1:50
9."Ich wollt' ich wär' ein Huhn"
Lilian Harvey & Willy Fritsch 2:45
10."Main Theme from Dark of the Sun [fn 8] "Jacques Loussier Jacques Loussier 3:11
11."Cat People (Putting Out Fire) [fn 9] "
David Bowie 4:10
12."Tiger Tank [fn 10] "Lalo Schifrin Lalo Schifrin 1:17
13."Un Amico [fn 11] "MorriconeEnnio Morricone2:35
14."Rabbia e Tarantella [fn 12] "MorriconeEnnio Morricone3:53
Total length:37:14

Footnotes

  1. Originally from the 1960 film The Alamo
  2. Originally from the 1967 film The Big Gundown
  3. Originally from the 1973 film White Lightning
  4. Originally from the 1972 film Slaughter
  5. Originally from the 1967 film The Big Gundown
  6. Originally from the 1965 film Blood for a Silver Dollar
  7. Original English-language version by June Havoc from the 1943 film Hi Diddle Diddle
  8. Originally from the 1968 film Dark of the Sun
  9. Originally from the 1982 film Cat People
  10. Originally from the 1970 film Kelly's Heroes
  11. Originally from the 1973 film Revolver
  12. Originally from the 1974 film Allonsanfàn

Film music not included on the album

  1. "L'incontro Con La Figlia" – Ennio Morricone (from Il ritorno di Ringo )
  2. "Il Mercenario (ripresa)" – Ennio Morricone (from Il mercenario )
  3. "Algiers November 1, 1954" – Ennio Morricone & Gillo Pontecorvo (from La battaglia di Algeri )
  4. "Hound Chase (intro)" – Charles Bernstein (from White Lightning )
  5. "The Saloon" – Riz Ortolani (from Al di là della legge )
  6. "Bath Attack" – Charles Bernstein (from The Entity )
  7. "Claire's First Appearance" – Jacques Loussier (from Dark of the Sun )
  8. "The Fight" – Jacques Loussier (from Dark of the Sun )
  9. "Mystic and Severe" – Ennio Morricone (from Da uomo a uomo )
  10. "The Devil's Rumble" – Davie Allan & The Arrows
  11. "What'd I Say" – Rare Earth
  12. "Zulus" – Elmer Bernstein (from Zulu Dawn )
  13. "Eastern Condors" – Ting Yat Chung (from Eastern Condors )
  14. "Titoli" – Angelo Francesco Lavagnino (from The Last Days of Pompeii ) – used as the opening titles for the film-within-a-film, Nation's Pride

Promotional video

A music video for the French-language version of "The Man with the Big Sombrero" was directed by Meiert Avis. Using the scene of the movie Hi Diddle Diddle where the song was originally performed by June Havoc, singer Samantha Shelton was digitally inserted into the scene, carefully mimicking the exact choreography done by Havoc in the previous film.

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