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- Frozen – Christophe Beck. In Frozen, Disney animation moves back to its best form. Christophe Beck, composer for the Muppets’ recent big screen outings, wrote touching music that perfectly complemented the songs by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez.
- Interstellar – Hans Zimmer. Zimmer delivered magnificently for Interstellar, receiving an Oscar nod for his soundtrack. Painstakingly composed over two years, Zimmer visited London’s Temple Church to record its historic organ.
- Casablanca – Max Steiner. The peak of Max Steiner’s noir years, he apparently begged to drop ‘As Time Goes By’ from featuring in the film’s score, but was overruled.
- James Bond Theme – Monty Norman. The most famous guitar riff in cinema has featured in every official Bond film since Dr. No (1962), when it accompanied the opening title.
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- Star Wars Theme. Listen to Star Wars's Theme. Are you surprised? Of course, the best movie music ever composed is the Star Wars theme. The epic chord that opens this composition is instantly recognizable and sets the tone for the huge adventure to come.
- Mission: Impossible Theme. Listen to Mission: Impossible's Theme. Lalo Schifrin's musical theme has featured heavily in the title sequence for every Mission: Impossible movie, often getting rearranged by different composers for each film.
- Indiana Jones Theme. Listen to Indiana Jones's Theme. Yet another pairing between John Williams and Steven Spielberg brings us one of the greatest movie themes of all time.
- Back to the Future Theme. Listen to Back to the Future's Theme. The musical theme from Back to the Future sounds absolutely massive. Of course, that's no surprise seeing as it was performed by a 98-piece orchestra, known as The Outatime Orchestra.
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- Blue Moon (Manhattan Melodrama a, 1934) “Blue Moon” evolved as a song from the MGM soundtrack-writing system, source of some of the best movie songs in their time; Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart tailored the eventual finished version for a Clark Gable film called Manhattan Melodrama.
- Cheek To Cheek (Top Hat, 1935) Russian-Jewish émigré Irving Berlin wrote “Cheek To Cheek” in a single day, on demand, for the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie Top Hat.
- Ol’ Man River (Show Boat, 1936) For a tune to really make its mark among the best movie songs it sometimes has to find the right singer. The 1927 Broadway drama Show Boat featured Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s song performed by actors, and, a year later, Paul Whiteman (with Bing Crosby on vocals) had a minor hit with it.
- Somewhere Over The Rainbow (The Wizard Of Oz, 1939) Some songs are the perfect vehicle for a performer’s interpretation and improvisation, and certain numbers are remembered more for the singer than the writer.
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