Music used a lot in movies

Cafe Society
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My beginning trumpet book in sixth grade called that Spookville. Can’t find any confirmation of that, though.

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There is a piece of music that was featured prominently in the movie True Romance that I hear alot in other movies and commercials… and I’ve always wondered what it was. It is a light-hearted, tropical-ish marimba piece. Anyone know the name?

Also, as to the original OP… the Hawaiian ukelele cover of “Over the Rainbow”/“Wonderful World” by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole.

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Otherwise known as the “dying of a terminal disease” music.

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The instrumental intro to What’s This? from Nightmare Before Christmas is used in lots of trailers, but not in the actual films.

And the industrial music is actually the 2nd movement of Powerhouse by Raymond Scott. The first movement is quite different, but also familiar to any WB cartoon watcher.

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There are a couple of movies whose main themes have been used in a great many film trailers, and all are by the same composer, Randy Edelman.

  • Dragonheart
  • The Last of the Mohicans
  • Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

For establishment shots, we also have:

  • The Mexican Hat Dance, to show that you’re south of the border.
  • The whistle and harmonica theme (I think it’s from The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly) for any one-to-one showdown or to set the mood in a ghost town.
  • Mr. Sandman, by the Chordettes, for the “we’re back in the 50s” cue.

Syrupy romance:

  • Tchaikovsky’s Theme from Romeo & Juliet

Victory:

  • Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture
  • We Are the Champions by Queen
  • Beethoven’s Symphony No 9
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The whiny violin, tear-inspiring “Hearts and Flowers,” usually played when some little old lady is about to be thrown out into the cold.

“The Girl I left Behind,” when the subject is the American Revolution.

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I think I’ve nailed the cafe music – “Reine de Musette” composed by Jean Peyronnin. I haven’t yet found a sample that can be linked.

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I think I found another one – College football games are set to the tune of the “Washington and Lee Swing.”

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Rob Dougan’s “Clubbed to Death” was first popularized in “the Matrix” and has since showed up in several trailers.