| Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | ||||
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| Released | June 22, 1988 | |||
| Recorded | April 1988 | |||
| Studio | CTS Studios, Wembley, London | |||
| Genre | Jazz noir, film soundtrack | |||
| Length | 45:56 | |||
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| Producer | Alan Silvestri | |||
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, directed by Robert Zemeckis and featured film score composed by regular Zemeckis collaborator Alan Silvestri, who conducted the London Symphony Orchestra. The musical score was heavily influenced on Carl W. Stalling's music composed for Looney Tunes.[1][2] Apart from Silvestri's score, the film also features performances of "Hungarian Rhapsody", "Why Don't You Do Right?" by Amy Irving as Jessica Rabbit, "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" by Charles Fleischer as Roger Rabbit, and a choral version of "Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!" performed by the Toons.[2]
The score was recorded at the CTS Studios in Wembley, London in April 1988. The soundtrack was originally released by Buena Vista Records on June 22, 1988, but immediately fell out of print after its release. It was reissued in April 2002, and since then the album saw multiple releases, including a 2018 Intrada Records' release of the film score in three-CD set,[3] and two vinyl editions released by Mondo and Walt Disney Records in September 2019 and 2021.
The score received critical acclaim, while critics often citing it as one of "Silvestri's best scores in his career", and received Silvestri a nomination for Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media and Saturn Award for Best Music, but lost both awards to Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne and Cong Su for their work in The Last Emperor (1987) and Christopher Young for Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988).
- ^ Robert Zemeckis, Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman, Ken Ralston, Frank Marshall, Steve Starkey, DVD audio commentary, 2003, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
- ^ a b Robert Zemeckis, Richard Williams, Bob Hoskins, Charles Fleischer, Frank Marshall, Alan Silvestri, Ken Ralston, Behind the Ears: The True Story of Roger Rabbit, 2003, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
- ^ "Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (3CD)". Intrada Records. January 23, 2018. Archived from the original on January 26, 2018. Retrieved January 25, 2018.