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Forrest Gump: The Soundtrack is the soundtrack album for the 1994 Academy Award -winning Tom Hanks film Forrest Gump, and contains music from many well-known American artists. The score, composed by Alan Silvestri, was released separately (as Forrest Gump – Original Motion Picture Score) on the same day. The album was reissued in 2001 with ...
"Turn! Turn! Turn!", also known as or subtitled "To Everything There Is a Season", is a song written by Pete Seeger in 1959. [1] The lyrics – except for the title, which is repeated throughout the song, and the final two lines – consist of the first eight verses of the third chapter of the biblical Book of Ecclesiastes. The song was originally released in 1962 as "To Everything There Is a ...
Box office. $678.2 million [ 2 ] Forrest Gump is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis. An adaptation of the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom, the screenplay of the film is written by Eric Roth. It stars Tom Hanks in the title role, alongside Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, and Sally Field in ...
The song is a staple of period piece films about 1960s America and the Vietnam War, such as Forrest Gump, and often used as a common shorthand to quickly establish the atmosphere of 1960s counterculture movement and protests. [45]
Running on Empty (song) " Running on Empty " is a song by American singer-songwriter Jackson Browne. It is the title track of his 1977 live album of the same name, recorded at a concert at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, on August 27, 1977. A number 11 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 when it was released as a single, it spent ...
The song was included in the film Forrest Gump and its soundtrack. In The X-Files TV series ("Detour" - S05E04), Scully sings the song to a wounded Mulder in the forest at night. The song's opening lyric "Jeremiah was a bullfrog" was used by Petey Pablo in his 2001 track "I Told Y'all" from his album Diary of a Sinner: 1st Entry.
In the 1994 film Forrest Gump, "Fortunate Son" is played in the scene in which Forrest and Bubba arrive in a combat zone in South Vietnam aboard a U.S. Army helicopter. [ 30 ] In the 2004 version of the film The Manchurian Candidate , a cover version of this song performed by Wyclef Jean is featured and is the opening track of the closing credits.
Alan Silvestri. Alan Anthony Silvestri (born March 26, 1950) is an American composer and conductor of film and television scores. He has been associated with director Robert Zemeckis since 1984, composing music for nearly all of his feature films including the Back to the Future film series, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump, Cast Away, and ...