Ghostbusters - Scenes with isolated Elmer Bernstein music

Collage of scenes from "Ghostbusters" movie with the original isolated music soundtrack.

Lovely, almost ethereal soundtrack (unfortunately only released on CD in a very limited edition by Varese Saravande years ago) by Elmer Bernstein. Parts of this soundtrack were never used on the actual movie, and sometimes was even replaced by Pop songs.

Copyright 1984 Sony Pictures.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Ghost
• Busters
• Ghostbusters
• Dan
• Aykroyd
• Bill
• Murray
• Movie
• Motion
• Music
• Soundtrack
• Isolated
• Score
• Elmer
• Bernstein

[barkboingfloom]

Is this a theremin being used as the spooky wooing sound throught the film? I hope its not just a synthesizer. I just noticed it after 25 years. Of course I had no clue what a theremin was at 8 years old.

[gamera77]

No, it's a ondes martenot, a 1928 french instrument similar to a theremin but using a keyboard.

[BeebeCh1972]

Very ethereal sounds - like everyone said, how did you get the music anyway? I'd love to get the music - and everywhere I look for it in the soundtrack, there is no such music.

[gamera77]

There was a VERY limited soundtrack CD release by Varese Saravande years ago (I did learn this after uploading this video to Youtube) but now it's sold out everywhere. From time to time it appears on eBay but usually gets very expensive.

[SPeacock]

@gamera77 I have the score - I can send it to you via email if you want (in a Torrent file) - just PM me with your email address :)

[gamera77]

Thanks a lot Speacock, but I already have it ;)

[SimonFoston]

It's criminal that this great soundtrack isn't widely available on CD. Elmer Bernstein did an amazing job on it.

[mohawker47]

Do you think you could do the same thing to the scene with the techno beat while Ray and Winston are talking about God? I can't find it anywhere!

[Raycloud]

They just don't make movies like this anymore... Ghostbusters was truly one of a kind.

[TheSWFuniverse]

Ray: It's a Girl

Winston: I thought Gozer was a man.

Egon: It's whatever it wants to be.

Bill: Well, whatever it is.. it's gotta get through us.. - Go GET HER Ray!!

[TheSWFuniverse]

One of the most chilling openings ever.. I swear the Columbia Pictures becomes somewhat ghostly of and in itself

[illuminatioracle]

@Pinhead222 dude. why wouldn't they be? it's a huge public library.

[cymrutube3]

Easily the best score ever.. possibly better than Star Wars even

[Jimaica87]

this was probably the single most epic movie to come from the 80s

[turiel33]

At the time you couldn't get the best music from the soundtrack but some of us had our ways. It just sounds so much better now.

[GojiJuicePower]

ok...so shes a dog....

[baldy319]

Yep, still there.  The reading room in the NYPL looks almost the exact same, as well.

[southernfmradio]

@gamera77 Yeah that is a very spooky sound!