Performance (soundtrack)

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Performance
Soundtrack by various
Released	September 19, 1970
Length	36:26
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Jack Nitzsche
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Performance is a 1970 soundtrack album to the film Performance by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg. It features music from Randy Newman, Merry Clayton, Ry Cooder, Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie, The Last Poets and Mick Jagger.

A single from the album "Memo from Turner" b/w "Natural Magic" by Mick Jagger was released in 1970.

[edit] Tracks

Side 1

1. "Gone Dead Train" 2:56 (Randy Newman)
2. "Performance" 1:49 (Merry Clayton)
3. "Get Away" 2:09 (Ry Cooder)
4. "Powis Square 2:25 (Ry Cooder)
5. "Rolls Royce and Acid" 1:50 (Jack Nitzsche)
6. "Dyed, Dead, Red" 2:35 (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
7. "Harry Flowers" 4:03 (Nitzsche-Newman)

Side 2

1. "Memo from Turner" 4:08 (Mick Jagger)
2. "Hashishin" 3:39 (Buffy Sainte-Marie & Ry Cooder)
3. "Wake Up, Niggers" 2:47 (The Last Poets)
4. "Poor White Hound Dog" 2:50 (Merry Clayton)
5. "Natural Magic" 1:40 (Jack Nitzsche)
6. "Turner's Murder" 4:15 (Merry Clayton Singers)

[edit] Screen credits

• Original music by Jack Nitzsche
• Conductor: Randy Newman
• Singers: Merry Clayton, Buffy Sainte-Marie
• Santur: Nasser Rastigar-Neird,
• Moog synthesiser: Bernard Krause

Music performers

• Ry Cooder
• Amiya Dasgupta
• Lowell George
• Milt Holland
• Gene Parsons
• Russ Titelman
• Bobby West

[edit] References

• Performance credits

v • d • e Randy Newman Main albums Randy Newman (1968) · 12 Songs (1970) · Randy Newman Live (1971) · Sail Away (1972) · Good Old Boys (1974) · Little Criminals (1977) · Born Again (1979) · Trouble in Paradise (1983) · Land of Dreams (1988) · Bad Love (1999) · The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 1 (2003) · Harps and Angels (2008) Compilations Lonely at the Top: The Best of Randy Newman (1987) · Guilty: 30 Years of Randy Newman (1998) · The Best of Randy Newman (2001) Musicals Randy Newman's Faust (1995) Films scored Performance (1970) · Cold Turkey (1971) · Ragtime (1981) · The Natural (1984) · ¡Three Amigos! (1986) · Parenthood (1989) · Awakenings (1990) · Avalon (1990) · The Paper (1994) · Maverick (1994) · Toy Story (1995) · James and the Giant Peach (1996) · Michael (1996) · Cats Don't Dance (1997) · A Bug's Life (1998) · Pleasantville (1998) · Toy Story 2 (1999) · Meet the Parents (2000) · Monsters, Inc. (2001) · Seabiscuit (2003) · Meet the Fockers (2004) · Cars (2006) · Leatherheads (2008) · The Princess and the Frog (2009) Songs "Mama Told Me Not to Come" · "Sail Away" · "Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear" · "Political Science" · "You Can Leave Your Hat On" · "Louisiana 1927" · "Rednecks" · "Short People" · "I Love L.A." Related Discography · Brill Building · Nilsson Sings Newman