Inglourious Basterds (soundtrack)

Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino's motion picture Inglourious Basterds. It was originally released on August 18, 2009. The soundtrack uses a variety of music genres, including Spaghetti Western soundtrack excerpts, R&B and a David Bowie song from the 1982 remake of Cat People. "The Man with the Big Sombrero", a song from the 1943 screwball comedy Hi Diddle Diddle, was rerecorded in French for the movie. This is the first soundtrack for a Quentin Tarantino film not to feature dialogue excerpts. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media, but lost to the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack.

Film music not included on the album

 * 1) "L'incontro Con La Figlia" – Ennio Morricone  (from Il ritorno di Ringo)
 * 2) "Il Mercenario (ripresa)" – Ennio Morricone (from Il mercenario)
 * 3) "Algiers November 1, 1954" – Ennio Morricone & Gillo Pontecorvo (from La battaglia di Algeri)
 * 4) "Hound Chase (intro)" – Charles Bernstein (from White Lightning)
 * 5) "The Saloon" – Riz Ortolani (from Al di là della legge)
 * 6) "Bath Attack" – Charles Bernstein (from The Entity)
 * 7) "Claire's First Appearance" – Jacques Loussier (from Dark of the Sun)
 * 8) "The Fight" – Jacques Loussier (from Dark of the Sun)
 * 9) "Mystic and Severe" – Ennio Morricone (from Da uomo a uomo)
 * 10) "The Devil's Rumble" – Davie Allan & The Arrows
 * 11) "What'd I Say" – Rare Earth
 * 12) "Zulus" – Elmer Bernstein (from Zulu Dawn)
 * 13) "Eastern Condors" – Ting Yat Chung  (from Eastern Condors)
 * 14) "Titoli" – Angelo Francesco Lavagnino (from The Last Days of Pompeii) – used as the opening titles for the film-within-a-film, Nation's Pride

Promotional video
A music video for the French-language version of "The Man with the Big Sombrero" was directed by Meiert Avis. Using the scene of the movie Hi Diddle Diddle where the song was originally performed by June Havoc, singer Samantha Shelton was digitally inserted into the scene, carefully mimicking the exact choreography done by Havoc in the previous film.

Personnel

 * Executive Producer: Quentin Tarantino
 * Music Supervisor: Mary Ramos
 * Soundtrack Producers: Lawrence Bender, Pilar Savone, and Holly Adams