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Goodfellas Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack for the 1990 film Goodfellas, directed by Martin Scorsese, notable for its use of popular music from the various periods it portrayed. In a similar manner to American Graffiti and Scorsese's earlier Mean Streets , the songs served roughly the same purpose as a composed musical score.
Tony Bennett's version was featured in the opening sequence of the 1990 film Goodfellas. [9] The opening line of the song was sung regularly and exuberantly by the character Carmine Ragusa on the television series Laverne & Shirley, [10] typically when he had good news. Jackie Wilson's version of the song is featured in the 2010 video game ...
"Wobble Wobble" is the debut single by 504 Boyz, released in 2000 from their debut studio album, Goodfellas. The song was produced by Beats by the Pound member Carlos Stephens and featured seven members of the group, Master P, C-Murder, Silkk the Shocker, Mac, Magic, Krazy and Mystikal.
A tandem of the songs— such as "Beefing", "I Can Tell", and "No Limit"—were previously released on No Limit's 1999 albums. Goodfellas debuted atop the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and number two on the Billboard 200 (behind only NSYNC 's No Strings Attached ), with first-week sales of 139,000 copies in the US.
Goodfellas premiered at the 47th Venice International Film Festival on September 9, 1990, where Scorsese was awarded with the Silver Lion award for Best Director, and was released in the United States on September 19, 1990, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film grossed $47 million against a budget of $25 million.
Shepherd was a founding member of the Compass Players in the early 1960s, along with Alan Alda and Alan Arkin.. Shepherd was known for her portrayal of Aunt Tweedy in the film Mystic Pizza, Karen's overbearing mother in the film Goodfellas, Carmela Soprano's mother Mary DeAngelis in the HBO television series The Sopranos, and the assistant school principal in Uncle Buck. [4]
The Barry Manilow song "Copacabana" (1978) is named after, and set in, the club. The nightclub was used as a setting in the films Goodfellas , Raging Bull , Tootsie , The Purple Rose of Cairo , Carlito's Way , The French Connection , Martin and Lewis , Green Book , Beyond the Sea , The Irishman , and One Night in Miami .
He has also appeared in the movies Cadillac Man and Goodfellas (both in 1990), and Catch Me If You Can (2002), as well as in commercials. [5] [8] He released the self-produced albums Under the Cover of Darkness in 1996, and Who Could Imagine, called "a masterpiece" by Joel Selvin, former pop critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, in 2007. [5]