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Rarely, there is a movie whose end credits are worth watching solely for the music. Chicago (2002) is one of those films, with the song, “I Move On” (John Kander/Fred Ebb), which was nominated for an Academy Award. But I belatedly caught up with the film, Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), and discovered a musical piece, “Once There Was a Hushpuppy” (Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin), that had me watching the closing credits for a second time before I checked YouTube and found it there as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFFiaTOAWIc. If you have six and one-half minutes at your disposal, I urge you to check it out. It’s magnificent!
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I zipped over to You Tube and listened David. It does sound very powerful indeed. I haven’t seen the film yet, but I can well imagine that it works well, after an emotional viewing experience.
A very different ‘end credits’ song that always stays in my mind, is the Psychedelic Furs singing the title track to ‘Pretty in Pink’. When I first saw that film, I thought playing this over the credits was a masterstroke.
As a young man, I remember a fashion of wearing the suede ‘Hushpuppy shoes’, with different coloured laces on each foot. Looking back, I think, ‘what was that about?’.
Best wishes as always, Pete.
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“Pretty in Pink” is a good example, and there are many others. I just haven’t stumbled on many good ones of late. I don’t recall ever wearing Hush Puppies, but I’ve recently seen shoes with different colored laces. Fads come and go, and then ignorance of the past, or else nostalgia, brings them back.
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A few of my favorite end credits: Yellow Submarine, Head (the Beatles and the Monkees, respectively), Night of the Living Dead, Skidoo (oddly enough, all from the 1960s. Perhaps it was the era of the cool end sequence.)
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George, I have the film, Yellow Submarine, on DVD. I’ve seen Night of the Living Dead, but don’t recall the music. I’ll have to go listen to it.
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The score to Night, like Dawn, are all library cues, but effectively so. Though, admittedly, I was not thinking end credit music so much as the end credit sequence as a whole.
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