Beetlejuice (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the original score of the 1988 film of the same name which was first released in 1988 and features most of the score by Danny Elfman from the film.
Background[]
Geffen reissued the original 1988 soundtrack on vinyl in 2015, which was later re-mastered and pressed to vinyl by Waxwork Records in 2019 for the 30th anniversary of Beetlejuice. The soundtrack features two original recordings performed by Harry Belafonte used in the film: "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" and "Jump in the Line (Shake, Senora)". Two other vintage Belafonte recordings that appeared in the film are absent from the soundtrack: "Man Smart, Woman Smarter" and "Sweetheart from Venezuela". The soundtrack entered the Billboard 200 albums chart the week ending June 25, 1988, at No. 145, peaking two weeks later at No. 118 and spending a total of six weeks on the chart. This was after the film had already fallen out of the top 10 and before the video release later in October. "Day-O" received a fair amount of airplay at the time in support of the soundtrack.
The complete score (with the Belafonte tracks included) was released in both the DVD and the Blu-ray as an isolated music track in the audio settings menu; this version of the audio track consists entirely of "clean" musical cues, uninterrupted by dialogue or sound effects.
Track listing[]
- Main Titles (02:28)
- Travel Music (01:09)
- The Book!/Obituaries (01:31)
- Enter..."The Family"/Sand Worm Planet (02:50)
- The Fly (00:50)
- Lydia Discovers? (00:57)
- In The Model (01:32)
- Juno's Theme (00:48)
- Beetle-Snake (02:09)
- "Sold" (00:33)
- The Flier/Lydia's PepTalk (01:22)
- Day-O (03:08)
- The Incantetion (03:12)
- Lydia Strikes A Bargain... (00:51)
- Showtime! (01:08)
- "Laughs" (02:32)
- The Wedding (02:03)
- The Aftermath (01:23)
- End Credits (02:50)
- Jump In Line (Shake, Shake Señora) (03:43)