Pop song, rock and compilation score

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Genre

Pop song, rock and compilation score · In the late 1960s, filmmakers discovered that existing pop songs could carry a film. In The Graduate (1967), Mike Nichols used songs by Simon & Garfunkel. Easy Rider (1969) had no composed score but a string of rock tracks, among them Steppenwolf. For Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Burt Bacharach wrote the airy ‘Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head’. In American Graffiti (1973), the radio plays hits from the 1950s and early 1960s throughout the film. Quentin Tarantino built Pulp Fiction (1994) on surf rock and soul from his own record collection. The soundtrack album thus became an important commercial product as well.

Listening

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  The Sound of Silence · Simon & Garfunkel, 1967
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  Born to Be Wild · Steppenwolf, 1969
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  Misirlou · Dick Dale & His Del-Tones, 1994

In School of Rock

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• Film Music Map^NL Map

See also

• Anne Dudley
• Randy Newman
• Danny Elfman
• Curtis Mayfield
• Michael Kamen
• Craig Armstrong
• Marvin Hamlisch
• Daft Punk
• Air
• Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
• Thom Yorke
• Oneohtrix Point Never (Daniel Lopatin)
• Dick Dale & His Del-Tones
• Pop jazz, lounge and crime TV (Mancini school)
• New Hollywood
• Blaxploitation: soul and funk
• Disco and synth-pop scores
• Industrial and electronic texture scores
• Bollywood pop and disco (R.D. Burman era)