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The Nightmare Before Christmas is the fifteenth soundtrack album by American composer Danny Elfman.It was released on October 12, 1993, by Walt Disney Records to promote the 1993 American stop-motion animated musical dark fantasy film The Nightmare Before Christmas.
"Boogie Oogie Oogie" is a song by the American band A Taste of Honey from their 1978 self-titled debut album. Released as their debut single in the summer of 1978, the song became an extremely popular crossover disco hit.
On September 27, 2008, three days before the release of Nightmare Revisited, the album was made available for streaming exclusively by Spin.com. [2]On September 22, 2008, Evanescence vocalist Amy Lee, who contributed a cover of "Sally's Song" for the album, announced that she would be performing her cover on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on October 13, 2008. [3]
Elfman was initially cast as Jack's singing voice and, after the songs were recorded, Sarandon was cast to match Elfman's voice style. [15] [16] Elfman also voices: Barrel, one of the trick-or-treaters working for Oogie Boogie. The Clown with the Tear-Away Face, a demonic entity disguised as a unicycle-riding clown. Catherine O'Hara as:
The first single, "Boogie Oogie Oogie", from their debut album A Taste of Honey, spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1978, and sold two million copies. [4] A Taste of Honey was awarded two platinum records for the single and album, and won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist at the 20th Grammys on February 15, 1979.
Page would often appear to perform “Oogie Boogie’s Song” at the Hollywood Bowl’s live singalong of the film, often stealing the show. Best of Variety The Best Pop Culture Halloween ...
Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote: "Those who cite 'Boogie Oogie Oogie' as definitive disco dumbness should reread the lyrics of 'Tutti Frutti' and think about the great tradition of the left-field girl-group novelty—'Mr. Lee,' 'Iko Iko,' 'Shame, Shame, Shame.' But though a ...
The Oogie Boogie Man [10] is the main antagonist, who is a large burlap sack full of bugs. Oogie Boogie did not appear in Tim Burton's original poem, but Burton later sketched a portrait of what appeared to be a potato sack man with horrible things inside. [11] The Oogie puppet was two feet high, twice the height of the other puppets. [11]