Performance (soundtrack)

Performance
Soundtrack album by various
Released	September 19, 1970
Length	36:26
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Jack Nitzsche
Singles from Performance
"Memo from Turner" Released: October 23, 1970

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	B−[2]

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 (b/w the instrumental "Natural Magic") was released in 1970 reaching #32 on the UK singles chart.

Tracks

Side 1

1. "Gone Dead Train" 2:56 - Randy Newman (Jack Nitzsche/Russ Titelman)^[3]
2. "Performance" 1:49 (Bernie Krause,^[4] Merry Clayton)
3. "Get Away" 2:09 (Ry Cooder)
4. "Powis Square 2:25 (Ry Cooder)
5. "Rolls Royce and Acid" 1:50 (Jack Nitzsche)
6. "Dyed, Dead, Red" 2:35 (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
7. "Harry Flowers" 4:03 (Jack Nitzsche, Randy Newman)

Side 2

1. "Memo from Turner" 4:08 (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)
2. "Hashishin" 3:39 (Buffy Sainte-Marie, Ry Cooder)
3. "Wake Up, Niggers" 2:47 (The Last Poets)
4. "Poor White Hound Dog" 2:50 (Merry Clayton)
5. "Natural Magic" 1:40 (Jack Nitzsche)
6. "Turner's Murder" 4:15 (Merry Clayton Singers)

Screen credits

• Original music by Jack Nitzsche
• Conductor: Randy Newman
• Singers: Mick Jagger, Merry Clayton, Buffy Sainte-Marie
• Santoor: Nasser Rastegar-Nejad
• Moog synthesizer: Bernard Krause

Music performers

• 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 (1993)

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: P". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 10, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
3. Richardson, Chris (2 July 2015). "Randy Newman: Once a Rocker". Zero to 180 – Three Minute Magic. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
4. Cope, Julian ("the Seth Man") (June 2010). "Unsung: Beaver & Krauserocksampler". Head Heritage. Retrieved 7 August 2018.

• Performance credits