Boogie Nights (soundtrack)
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The original motion picture soundtrack to the 1997 film Boogie Nights is a two-disc set released between the end of that same year and the beginning of the next year.
The first soundtrack album, Boogie Nights: Music from the Original Motion Picture, was released October 7, 1997 in the United States. Boogie Nights 2: More Music from the Original Motion Picture, was released January 13, 1998.
Boogie Nights: Music from the Original Motion Picture
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Boogie Nights 2: More Music from the Original Motion Picture
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Personnel
- Paul Thomas Anderson – executive producer
- Karyn Rachtman – executive producer, music supervisor
- Liz Heller – executive producer[5]
- Bobby Lavelle – music supervisor
- Carol Dunn – music coordinator
Songs featured in the film but not on these soundtracks
- Boney M.’s “Sunny” can be heard at the opening gathering at Hot Traxx
- Silver Convention’s “Fly, Robin, Fly” comes on when Jack is talking to Eddie in the back room at Hot Traxx
- The song Jack Horner plays in his living room after escorting Amber home from Hot Traxx is “The Sage” by the Chico Hamilton Quintet
- Buck demonstrates the power of the TK-421 with the country-western song “Off the Road” by Richard Gilka
- Andrew Gold's Lonely Boy was played during the first party scene at Jack's house when Amber's son calls and Maurice answers the phone.
- The documentary that Amber Waves directs for Dirk Diggler is scored by two songs, “Disco Fever” and “Flying Objects,” composed by interstitial music cult hero Roger Webb
- Roberta Flack’s “Compared to What” scores the bummer montage in which Buck is turned down for a loan, Amber and Roller Girl slip into an abyss of cocaine psychosis, and Dirk and Reed can’t get the tapes
- Nena (band)'s "99 Luftballons" is featured as the conclusion to the Rahad Jackson sequence
- An instrumental version of Jethro Tull’s “Fat Man” from their album Stand Up recurs throughout, most notably as Dirk runs from the botched drug deal at Rahad’s house
- ’Til Tuesday’s “Voices Carry” plays on Roller Girl’s Walkman for a quick moment at the end of the movie
- Juice Newton’s “Queen of Hearts”
- Starland Vocal Band’s “Afternoon Delight”
- Brook Benton’s “It’s Just a Matter of Time”[6]
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