Performance (soundtrack)

Performance

Soundtrack album by various
Released	September 19, 1970
Length	36:26
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Jack Nitzsche

Singles from Performance
"Memo from Turner" Released: October 23, 1970

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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" sung by Mick Jagger (b/w the instrumental "Natural Magic") was released in 1970 reaching #32 on the UK singles chart.

Tracks

Side 1

"Gone Dead Train" 2:56 - Randy Newman (Jack Nitzsche/Russ Titleman)^[2]
"Performance" 1:49 (Merry Clayton)
"Get Away" 2:09 (Ry Cooder)
"Powis Square 2:25 (Ry Cooder)
"Rolls Royce and Acid" 1:50 (Jack Nitzsche)
"Dyed, Dead, Red" 2:35 (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
"Harry Flowers" 4:03 (Jack Nitzsche, Randy Newman)

Side 2

"Memo from Turner" 4:08 (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)
"Hashishin" 3:39 (Buffy Sainte-Marie, Ry Cooder)
"Wake Up, Niggers" 2:47 (The Last Poets)
"Poor White Hound Dog" 2:50 (Merry Clayton)
"Natural Magic" 1:40 (Jack Nitzsche)
"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

References

Performance credits

Randy Newman

Studio albums	Randy Newman (1968) 12 Songs (1970) Sail Away (1972) Good Old Boys (1974) Little Criminals (1977) Born Again (1979) Trouble in Paradise (1983) Land of Dreams (1988) Bad Love (1999) Harps and Angels (2008)

Live albums	Randy Newman Live (1971)

Compilations	Lonely at the Top: The Best of Randy Newman (1987) Guilty: 30 Years of Randy Newman (1998) The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 1 (2003) The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2 (2011)

Musicals	Randy Newman's Faust (1995)

Films scored	Cold Turkey (1971) Ragtime (1981) The Natural (1984) Parenthood (1989) Awakenings (1990) Avalon (1990) Yakety Yak, Take it Back (1991) Trash Talk (1992) 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) Toy Story 3 (2010) Monsters University (2013) Cars 3 (2017) Toy Story 4 (2018)

Soundtrack albums	Avalon (1990) Meet the Parents (2000) Cars (2006) The Princess and the Frog (2009)

Songs	"Mama Told Me Not to Come" "Sail Away" "He Gives Us All His Love" "Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear" "Political Science" "You Can Leave Your Hat On" "Louisiana 1927" "Rednecks" "Short People" "I Love L.A." "You've Got a Friend in Me" "When She Loved Me" "We Belong Together" "It's a Jungle Out There"

Related	Discography Brill Building Nilsson Sings Newman Raising the Bar

Family	Alfred Newman David Newman Emil Newman Joey Newman Lionel Newman Thomas Newman

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