Performance (soundtrack)
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" sung by Mick Jagger was released in 1970 reaching #32 on the UK singles chart.
Tracks
Side 1- "Gone Dead Train" 2:56 - Randy Newman
- "Performance" 1:49
- "Get Away" 2:09
- "Powis Square 2:25
- "Rolls Royce and Acid" 1:50
- "Dyed, Dead, Red" 2:35
- "Harry Flowers" 4:03
- "Memo from Turner" 4:08
- "Hashishin" 3:39
- "Wake Up, Niggers" 2:47
- "Poor White Hound Dog" 2:50
- "Natural Magic" 1:40
- "Turner's Murder" 4:15
Screen credits
- Original music by Jack Nitzsche
- Conductor: Randy Newman
- Singers: Randy Newman, Mick Jagger, Merry Clayton, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Merry Clayton Singers
- Santoor: Nasser Rastegar-Nejad
- Moog synthesizer: Bernard Krause
- Ry Cooder – guitar
- Amiyo Das Gupta – sitar
- Lowell George – guitar
- Milt Holland – drums, percussion
- Gene Parsons – drums, guitars
- Russ Titelman – percussion
- Bobby West – bass
Cover versions
- William Orbit recorded "Harry Flowers" for his Strange Cargo III