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"Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band" is a song recorded by Meco, taken from the album Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk. It hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on October 1, 1977, holding on to the spot for two weeks [ 1 ] and peaked at no. 7 on the UK Singles Chart , remaining in the charts for nine weeks. [ 2 ]
The first piece of music from the Cantina scene was released in 1977 on the Star Wars Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, entitled simply "Cantina Band". Later CD re-releases of the soundtrack album included the second piece, which was titled "Cantina Band #2". The first "Cantina Band" number has since been retitled "Mad About Me". [25]
In August 1977, RCA Records acquired the worldwide rights to Millennium's output, and issued "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band" and Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk in the United Kingdom as the first releases from the deal. [27] A promotional, DJ-exclusive version of "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band" was released in September 1977. [11]
He later rejoined the band in 1993.) Later, Bea Arthur, who plays Ackmena, proprietress of the Mos Eisley cantina, sings "Good Night, But Not Goodbye" set to the Cantina Band theme. Some of the same aliens seen in the cantina in Star Wars reappear, including the band Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes, as back-up musicians. [15]
It is written in the style of big-band jazz and is stylistically akin to the "Cantina Band" music from Star Wars. The track features solo alto saxophone, two baritone saxophones, solo clarinet, trombones, kazoo , muted trumpets, [ as ] Fender Rhodes piano, bass, synthesizers, steel drums, and various percussion, including washboards and goblet ...
The musical score for Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, the Star Wars saga's sixth installment, was recorded over fourteen days at Abbey Road Studio with the London Symphony Orchestra and London Voices starting on February 3, 2005, and ending on February 17, with one morning allocated specifically for vocal recording.
The Max Rebo Band made their debut in Return of the Jedi during the scenes set in Jabba's palace on Tatooine.In the original version, the trio performs a Huttese-language pop song titled "Lapti Nek" (Huttese for "Fancy Man"); the English lyrics (by composer John Williams's son Joseph Williams) are about dancing; Hardware Wars creator Ernie Fosselius helped arrange the song.
Robin R. Bottin [1] (born April 1, 1959) is an American special make-up effects creator. Known for his collaborations with directors John Carpenter, Paul Verhoeven and David Fincher, Bottin worked with Carpenter on both The Fog and The Thing, with Verhoeven on RoboCop, Total Recall and Basic Instinct, and with Fincher on Se7en and Fight Club.