Danny Elfman - Everybody Needs

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Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American musician, who is famous for composing scores and songs for Tim Burton's films, the "The Simpsons Theme" and leading the rock band Oingo Boingo as singer/songwriter from 1976 until its breakup in 1995, and has composed film scores extensively since 1985's Pee-wee's Big Adventure. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and won a Grammy Award for Tim Burton's Batman and an Emmy Award for his Desperate Housewives theme. Elfman also wrote the theme for the video game Fable.

Danny Elfman and Tim Burton
In 1985, Tim Burton and Paul Reubens invited Elfman to write the score for their first feature film, Pee-wee's Big Adventure. Elfman was apprehensive at first because of his lack of formal training, but with orchestration assistance from Oingo Boingo guitarist and arranger Steve Bartek he achieved his goal of emulating the mood of such composers as Nino Rota and Bernard Herrmann.[4] He later described, in the booklet for the first volume of 'Music for a Darkened Theatre,' that the first time he heard his music played by a full orchestra was one of the most thrilling experiences of his life[5][citation needed]. Elfman has spoken of the affinity he developed right away with Burton,[4] and he has gone on to score all but three of his major studio films (Ed Wood, which was scored by Howard Shore, Sweeney Todd, an adaptation of the 1979 Stephen Sondheim Broadway musical for which music already existed, and James and the Giant Peach, for which the musical score was done by Randy Newman ).

To date Elfman has scored the following Burton films: * Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) his first orchestral score. * Beetlejuice (1988) * Batman (1989) his first large-scale action score. * Edward Scissorhands (1990) his personal favorite of his own scores.[citation needed] * Batman Returns (1992) * The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) - in which he also performed the singing voice of the lead character (Jack Skellington) and two supporting roles (Barrel, one of Oogie Boogie's three henchmen, and The Clown with the Tearaway Face). * Mars Attacks! (1996) * Sleepy Hollow (1999) * Planet of the Apes (2001) * Big Fish (2003) * Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) - in which he also provided the voices for the Oompa-Loompas in the musical numbers. * Corpse Bride (2005) - in which he also performed the role of Bonejangles.

Burton has said of Elfman: "We don't even have to talk about the music. We don't even have to intellectualize which is good for both of us, we're both similar that way. We're very lucky to connect" (Breskin, 1997).

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[Princesslildee]

another great song from the great mind of Danny

[lovesGenet]

da guy is a genius .Did he do da arrangements for the brass earlier n oingo-boingo .I would love to get info about his early band .amazing catalogue of work.

[SHMILY43]

IM 45 and I love Danny too. I wish I could tell you that you didnt miss out on anything, but In S.Cal when I graduated HS in (orange county)1984 oingo Boingo was my religion......I am so proud he has gone on to do such great things but I will never get tired of listening to his classics!

[MJandBOINGOforLIFE]

I'm fifteen but I absolutely worship Oingo Boingo and Danny Elfman. I wish so bad I lived in the 80's. The music now is terrible. Boingo forever.

[Octoberchic25]

I won't give up till the day I die!

[lizismestupid]

@Octoberchic25 Kid, you rule. Please keep spreading the Boingo like the plague. I have a feeling if a band today covered Boingo songs, it would explode like fire.

[Octoberchic25]

this is epic! im 14 and i showed my friends this kinda music (oingo boingo) and they loved it more than the crap they call music today...aka justin bieber

[naobatt]

@lovesGenet steve bartek arranged the horns, danny wrote the parts

[postyesterdayman]

@lovesGenet yes.

[MrJaidesoto]

I used to walk home from school in 1990 listening to this song on my walkman.

[LeMegasandwich]

FUNKY