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Performance (soundtrack)

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Released
  
September 19, 1970

Release date
  
19 September 1970

Producer
  
Jack Nitzsche

Length
  
36:26

Movie
  
Performance

Label
  
Rhino/Warner Bros.

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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.

Contents

A single from the album, "Memo from Turner" sung by Mick Jagger (b/w the instrumental "Natural Magic") was released in 1970 reaching #32 on the UK singles chart.

Tracks

Side 1

  1. "Gone Dead Train" 2:56 - Randy Newman (Jack Nitzsche/Russ Titleman)
  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 (Jack Nitzsche, Randy Newman)

Side 2

  1. "Memo from Turner" 4:08 (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)
  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)

Screen credits

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

    • Music performers

  • Ry Cooder - guitar
  • Amiya Dasgupta - sitar
  • Lowell George - guitar
  • Milt Holland - drums and percussion
  • Gene Parsons - drums and guitars
  • Russ Titelman - percussion
  • Bobby West - bass

    • Songs

    1Gone Dead TrainRandy Newman2:56
    2PerformanceMerry Clayton1:49
    3Get AwayRy Cooder2:09

    References

    Performance (soundtrack) Wikipedia
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