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- Danny Elfman wrote the songs and score and provided the singing voice of Jack.
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Oct 25, 2016 · One of the producers said, “What about getting up and singing a few songs from Nightmare?” And I said, “Why not?” Then six months later, I called and said, “Did I say I was going to sing?”
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Oct 13, 2023 · Elfman joined Burton early on in the development of The Nightmare Before Christmas, plussing up the loose animation pitch into a musical worthy of the Disney Renaissance.
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Oct 24, 2015 · Danny Elfman says when he was writing songs for “The Nightmare Before Christmas” hero Jack Skellington, he related to the character’s life goals. He’ll sing the role (as he did for the...
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This was essentially your first professional music endeavor. DANNY ELFMAN:It was really amazing. Six months before I was performing mandolin and violin with them, I hadn’t played anything. Music wasn’t even part of my agenda. It was insane. It was such a 180 from where I thought I was heading in life. I was only 18, and up until 16 I really thought...
You joined this early form of Oingo Boingo after some time busking in Africa. ELFMAN:It was a different band entirely. All acoustic, no electronic instruments. We called ourselves a “troupe.” It was 12 people, and everybody had to play three different instruments. We’d be a string ensemble playing Django Reinhardt, and then we’d switch it up to a b...
ELFMAN:It’s totally my brother’s film, and when he asked me to do the music, I did three or four songs. It was during the changeover between the Mystic Knights ending and Oingo Boingo beginning, because we were starting to play some electronic instruments — so we broke that magic shield. So my brother caught us right at the beginning of what was go...
ELFMAN:I don’t remember a lot about that. I was doing the score — it was my second or third — and they said, “Hey, how about your band appear in this scene and play onstage?” I was like, “I guess? I don’t know?” What I remember most was meeting and hanging out with Robert Downey Jr., who was the sound mixer mixing us while we played. Any memories o...
This took place during an important juncture in your life where you were dealing with hearing problems. ELFMAN:I’d been thinking about it since the late ’80s, and I was in a conundrum. I realized in hindsight that I was not wired to be in a band. I was always frustrated, and every other year I wanted to be in a different band. I never had a sense o...
You have a lot of singular milestones in your career, but being involved in a classic work of art beloved by children and adults — it’s a rare experience. ELFMAN: I consider that film to be a real blessing of my life — if there were any blessings. There were plenty of curses. I never worked on a film more than three months prior to that, but with T...
Family Guy parodied you and your style of music as part of their Star Warsparody episode. ELFMAN: [Laughs] Yeah, I saw it. How did it feel to be parodied? ELFMAN:It was very surreal. I didn’t know what to make of it, except that the piece of music they had me playing was really ridiculous. I was like, “Oh my God, I’ve been reduced to that.” It’s on...
You mentioned earlier that this project — essentially your second solo album ever — came out of necessity. ELFMAN: It was a perfect storm of elements happening at the same time. For one, I was enormously angry and frustrated about America and what was happening to it in 2020. For the first time in my life, I was thinking, “We may have to pick up ro...
The Nightmare Before Christmas (also known as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas) is a 1993 American stop-motion animated musical fantasy film directed by Henry Selick in his feature directorial debut and produced and conceived by Tim Burton. It tells the story of Jack Skellington, the King of " Halloween Town", who stumbles upon ...
Dec 4, 2017 · We spoke to Pumpkin King Danny Elfman about his live, orchestral performance of The Nightmare Before Christmas in NYC ... the 1993 flick and how it feels to sing cherished tunes like “This Is ...
