White Dawn in The Right Stuff. Really disappointed it wasn't originally written for the film by the composer.
Was that played as source music?
I don't know, I assumed "tracked" music was source music. At the same time I don't think the Cantina Band music is source music. It was music written by the composer specifically for the film and its adjoining scene. Isn't source music something borrowed from another project?
I’d probably go with Star Wars ‘Cantina Band’ as maybe being the most iconic movie source cue.
Iconic, indeed. If going for dramatic impact, perhaps "The Conversation" [LP title] from Close Encounters? Remember the booming bass busting the glass ... diagetic and hazardous!
Album version of Spanish Coast from the Last Run. Gorgeous.
For me it's the album version of Yo Te Amo
and also Juke Box from the Amityville Horror, supposedly from the wedding party scene but i can only hear a version of Blue Moon which is not on the album but is an identical arrangement to this track
If we are counting songs that make a diegetic appearance, two of my favorites are “Lapti Nek” from RotJ, and “Nights Are Forever” that you can actually hear on a jukebox for a few seconds in TWILIGHT ZONE - THE MOVIE.
That Aimee Mann song someone mentioned in MAGNOLIA is pretty badass as well.
I don't like "source" cues interspersed with underscore but I do occasionally listen to them separately. Lots to choose from but I could listen to Goldsmith's Try Again, Moonburn from In Harm's Way every day (several times).
Hi! I'm very passionate about these cues, my personal favorite is 'Fashion Show' from Designing Woman, the orchestration is just about perfect and I feel encapsulates the sophisticated feeling of most dance music, what's yours?
More Previn, more source-music-perfection, from a movie I just saw:
I would have to say one of my favorites is Earth Angel from Back to the Future, especially the part where the orchestra swells when George kisses Lorraine. Amazing. And I know it’s not purely source music but it is a great mix of diegetic and non-diegetic music.
Hard too say - it would probably be Dawn of the Dead because it has numerous source music that wasn't done by Goblin like the shopping mall stuff, I would dig a full release of that score but I know it'll never happen in this life-time or next! Pity!
One of my absolute favorites is the dance music in "Picnic" where George Duning intermingles "Moonglow" (which William Holden & Kim Novak are dancing to) with his original theme for the movie. A magnificent fusion of source and underscore, and a gorgeous score I'd love to have back out in the world in some readily accessible form or another.
Also, "The Long Goodbye" ranks high for me on sheer audacity alone. It's almost entirely a "Source Music" based score -- with the score coming out of radios (home & car), loudspeakers at convenience stores, records, Jack Riley at the piano, doorbells, etc. There is some actual underscore, particularly towards the end of the film, but my recollection is that most of the music in the film does come from an on-screen source. To this day, it's one of my favorite Williams scores, actually.
