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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 ...
"Layla" was used in Goodfellas during the scene portraying the aftermath of the 1978 Lufthansa heist. Director Martin Scorsese planned out the sequence with the song specifically in mind, playing it on set to synchronise with the staging and camera movement. [122]
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 ...
Pitchfork placed it at number 18 on its list of "The 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s". [3] Billboard named the song number 8 on their list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time. [4] The song appears in the 1987 film Adventures in Babysitting and in the 1990 movie Goodfellas.
In 1990, the song was used by director Martin Scorsese as the soundtrack to a frenetic scene in his film Goodfellas, when Ray Liotta's character Henry Hill, a cocaine-addicted gangster, fears that the authorities are closing in on his illegal activities.
In 2019, the song was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame under the new singles category created in 2018. [23] The song appeared in a Broadway musical based on the songs of Ellie Greenwich, Leader of the Pack, which opened in 1985. [24] In 1990, the song was used in the Martin Scorsese film, Goodfellas. [25]
Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical gangster film [5] directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler. It is a film adaptation of Pileggi's 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy .
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.