''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 The Spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's film-making style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most o ...

soundtrack excerpts, R&B and a David Bowie song from the 1982 remake of '' Cat People.'' "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.

Track listing

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The Green Leaves of Summer "The Green Leaves of Summer" is a song by Paul Francis Webster, with music by Dimitri Tiomkin, written for the 1960 film '' The Alamo''. It was performed in the film's score by the vocal group The Brothers Four. In 1961, the song was nominated fo ...

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Nick Perito Nicholas Perito (April 7, 1924 – August 4, 2005) was an American Hollywood composer and arranger and, for 40 years, the closest collaborator of singer Perry Como. Life Early years Born in Denver, Perito's start in music was at an early age ...

& His Orchestra # "The Verdict (La Condanna)" –

Ennio Morricone Ennio Morricone (; 10 November 19286 July 2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and trumpeter who wrote music in a wide range of styles. With more than 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as more than 100 classica ...

(mislabeled "Dopo la condanna") (from '' La resa dei conti'') # "'' White Lightning'' (Main Title)" – Charles Bernstein (from '' White Lightning'') # "Slaughter" –

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(from '' Slaughter'') # "The Surrender (La resa)" –

(from ''La resa dei conti'') # " One Silver Dollar (Un Dollaro Bucato)" –

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(from '' Un dollaro bucato'') # "Davon geht die Welt nicht unter" –

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# "The Man with the Big Sombrero" – Samantha Shelton & Michael Andrew (original English-language version by June Havoc from '' Hi Diddle Diddle'') # "Ich wollt' ich wär' ein Huhn" – Lilian Harvey &

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# "Main Theme from '' Dark of the Sun''" –

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(from '' Dark of the Sun'') # " Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" – David Bowie (from '' Cat People'') # "Tiger Tank" –

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(from '' Kelly's Heroes'') # "Un Amico" – Ennio Morricone (from ''

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'') # "Rabbia e Tarantella" – Ennio Morricone (from ''

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Film music not included on the album

# "L'incontro Con La Figlia" –

(from ''

Il ritorno di Ringo ''The Return of Ringo'' ( it, Il ritorno di Ringo) is a 1965 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Duccio Tessari and the sequel to the earlier film ''A Pistol for Ringo''. Like its predecessor, the film features a score composed by Ennio Mo ...

'') # "Il Mercenario (ripresa)" –

(from '' Il mercenario'') # "Algiers November 1, 1954" –

& Gillo Pontecorvo (from '' La battaglia di Algeri'') # "Hound Chase (intro)" – Charles Bernstein (from '' White Lightning'') # "The Saloon" – Riz Ortolani (from '' Al di là della legge'') # "Bath Attack" – Charles Bernstein (from ''

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'') # "Claire's First Appearance" –

(from '' Dark of the Sun'') # "The Fight" –

(from '' Dark of the Sun'') # "Mystic and Severe" –

(from '' Da uomo a uomo'') # "The Devil's Rumble" – Davie Allan & The Arrows # " What'd I Say" – Rare Earth # "Zulus" –

Elmer Bernstein Elmer Bernstein ( '; April 4, 1922August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor. In a career that spanned over five decades, he composed "some of the most recognizable and memorable themes in Hollywood history", including over 150 origi ...

(from '' Zulu Dawn'') # "Eastern Condors" – Ting Yat Chung (from '' Eastern Condors'') # "Titoli" –

Angelo Francesco Lavagnino Angelo Francesco Lavagnino (22 February 1909 – 21 August 1987) was an Italian composer, born in Genoa. He is best known for scoring many films, including ''Legend of the Lost'', '' Conspiracy of Hearts'', '' Gorgo'', '' The Legion's Last Patrol' ...

(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

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. 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.

Personnel

* Executive Producer: Quentin Tarantino * Music Supervisor: Mary Ramos * Soundtrack Producers: Lawrence Bender, Pilar Savone, and Holly Adams

References

External links

Official soundtrack website
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