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Running Time: 34 minutes 50 seconds (Score Album)
Running Time: 44 minutes 47 seconds (Song Album)
Running Time: 103 minutes 35 seconds (Expanded Score Album)
Warner Brothers 9-26264-2 (1990) – Score Album
Sire Records 9-26209-2 (1990) – Song Album
Intrada ISC-363 (1990/2016) – Expanded Score Album
Music composed by Danny Elfman.
Additional music by Shirley Walker. Finale (0:31)
Music Composed by Danny Elfman
Conducted by Shirley Walker
Orchestrations by Steve Bartek, Additional Orchestrations by Shirley Walker and Jack Hayes
Recorded by Dennis Sands, Album Mixed by Shawn Murphy
Album Produced by Danny Elfman, Steve Bartek and Bob Badami
Label (Catalogue): Sire, (CD 26264)
Availability: Out of print
Purchasing options:Available used at Amazon.com
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Unfortunately, most of this discussion is moot when considering the score's terrible editing in the film itself and the non-existent satisfactory soundtrack album. To that end, a certain amount of Pee-Weemayhem is to be heard. It perhaps doesn’t help that it was written in that career golden period when he wrote so many of his all-time great scores, and as such tends to be a little overshadowed by Batman and Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas and the like.
He was so entranced with the 1930's romantic element that he hired veteran stage composer Stephen Sondheim to write five songs for the picture, some of which performed by Madonna in source-like settings. Danny's previous scores were always detailed in their accompaniment to the action, but Dick Tracy seems to be the point where scores like Batman Returns were born.
After completing the highly successful Batman, Elfman landed this job.
It is fun, wonderfully recorded and presented on CD and certainly more entertaining than the film it's from.
As someone who tries to remain unbiased when reviewing a CD, I'd tend to think that my summation was, as honest as possible. Conducted by Shirley Walker. "It really wasn't as weird as it sounds," Mr. Elfman said, laughing.
Never mind the fact that the 52-year-old actor was already too old to play the titular crime-stopper in 1990; he continued to stir rumors of a sequel well into the 2010's. Like in "Main Titles", we hear the emergence of a swelling love theme for both the female leads - Tess Trueheart and Breathless Mahoney.
"After The 'Kid'" gives way to the main action theme that occurs throughout the CD.
Again, the music, being closely modeled after the action, dives and swells with each shot. It was especially praised for its visual style, which used a strong and bold primary color palette, and stunning art deco architecture, to maintain consistency with the look of Gould’s original style. A song-only soundtrack album contained none of them or the score.
Two of them are introduced in the “Main Titles,” beginning with Tracy’s Theme, which is a punchy, dramatic, intense march for staccato brass that perfectly captures the no-nonsense attitude of the lantern-jawed lawman. We get some more action cues - not serious sounding, but always on the edge of a cartoon. Danny Elfman's trademark over-the-type style takes us up and down, always as if on a roller coaster.
There is some definite music that Elfman fans would enjoy, but I think it may remain something only fans like myself could listen to regularly. Perhaps the greatest oddity is that the next track "Crime Spree" was never used at all in the film. For the score, Beatty secured the efforts of Danny Elfman, who was still very much a composer on the rise at the time, following his work on the Pee-Wee movies, Beetlejuice, and Batman, which he had written the year before.
However we get it in this track.