Alex North - Woolf Georges Delerue - Dolphin Grusin/Simon - Graduate Ennio Morricone - Wolf Georges Delerue - Silkwood Carly SImon - Working Girl Hans Zimmer - Henry Ry Cooder - Colors
The Birdcage is a delightful listen but not sure how the credits fall there.
Alex North - Woolf Georges Delerue - Dolphin Grusin/Simon - Graduate Ennio Morricone - Wolf Georges Delerue - Silkwood Carly SImon - Working Girl Hans Zimmer - Henry Ry Cooder - Colors
The Birdcage is a delightful listen but not sure how the credits fall there.
My favourite score is DAY OF THE DOLPHIN by quite a wide margin. BILOXI BLUES is also pretty good. Delerue was such a master at these bittersweet sentiments.
Runner-up is REGARDING HENRY, the Zimmer version (although Delerue's is nice too).
The rest of the scores I either don't know properly or don't care for that much. I can't stand Morricone's WOLF, for example.
Alex North - Woolf Georges Delerue - Dolphin Grusin/Simon - Graduate Ennio Morricone - Wolf Georges Delerue - Silkwood Carly SImon - Working Girl Hans Zimmer - Henry Ry Cooder - Colors
The Birdcage is a delightful listen but not sure how the credits fall there.
How does the Working Girl score sound?
Working Girl is a pop score. Very 80s. Would sound dated to many but who cares? (I don't). The basis of it is Carly's Oscar winning song Let the River Run. I like her score for Heartburn too.
By far, I would say Day of the dolphin. But The Graduate songs are such obvious classics that it would be a crime not to put them on the top of the list (I don't remember Grusin's score for this film). I love Carly Simon's songs for Heartburn and Working Girl which deserved its Oscar (The rest of the scorefor WG was more or less based on it). I'm also very found of the very moving Silkwood and its country taste. Delerue's unused main title for Biloxi Blues was very gentle and nostalgic as well.
There is also one in the middle of the film when one soldier is arrested in the forest in front of the whole platoon by Chris Walken who is in a jeep. The cue is more in the moving area than the suspense one if I remember well.
The main title was remplaced by Pat Suzuky wonderful rendition of "How High Is the Moon". Her version is so great that I can't blame Nichols for this choice, even if I'm a big Delerue fan.
No matter how much I mull over the question, I still can't get my mind around just how perfect Simon & Garfunkel's music is for The Graduate. Nothing else resonates with me like their songs do for that film.
