Performance (soundtrack)

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Performance
Soundtrack by various
Released	September 19, 1970
Length	36:26
Label	Warner Brothers Records
Producer	Jack Nitzsche
Professional reviews
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Performance is a 1970 soundtrack album to the film Performance by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg. It features music from Randy Newman, Merry Clayton, Ry Cooder, Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie, The Last Poets and Mick Jagger.

A single from the album "Memo from Turner" b/w "Natural Magic" by Mick Jagger was released in 1970.

[edit] Tracks

Side 1

1. "Gone Dead Train" 2:56 (Randy Newman)
2. "Performance" 1:49 (Merry Clayton)
3. "Get Away" 2:09 (Ry Cooder)
4. "Powis Square 2:25 (Ry Cooder)
5. "Rolls Royce and Acid" 1:50 (Jack Nitzsche)
6. "Dyed, Dead, Red" 2:35 (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
7. "Harry Flowers" 4:03 (Nitzsche-Newman)

Side 2

1. "Memo from Turner" 4:08 (Mick Jagger)
2. "Hashishin" 3:39 (Buffy Sainte-Marie & Ry Cooder)
3. "Wake Up, Niggers" 2:47 (The Last Poets)
4. "Poor White Hound Dog" 2:50 (Merry Clayton)
5. "Natural Magic" 1:40 (Jack Nitzsche)
6. "Turner's Murder" 4:15 (Merry Clayton Singers)

[edit] Screen credits

• Original music by Jack Nitzsche
• Conductor: Randy Newman
• Singers: Merry Clayton, Buffy Sainte-Marie
• Santur: Nasser Rastigar-Neird,
• Moog synthesiser: Bernard Krause

Music performers

• Ry Cooder
• Amiya Dasgupta
• Lowell George
• Milt Holland
• Gene Parsons
• Russ Titelman
• Bobby West

[edit] References

• Performance credits