Jackie Brown: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture

Jackie Brown: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture
Jackie Brown: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture
Soundtrack album by Various artists
Released	December 9, 1997
Genre	R&B; soul;
Length	51:06
Label	Maverick Records; A Band Apart Records
Producer	Quentin Tarantino; Lawrence Bender
Quentin Tarantino film soundtrack chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Jackie Brown: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture is the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino's motion picture Jackie Brown. It was originally released on December 9, 1997. The soundtrack uses a variety of music genres, including soul. The soundtrack also includes dialogue from the motion picture and lacks a typical film score, similar to the other soundtracks of Tarantino films.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Artist(s)	Length
1.	"Across 110th Street"	Bobby Womack	Bobby Womack and Peace	3:48
2.	"Beaumont's Lament" (Dialogue)		Samuel L. Jackson and Robert de Niro	0:50
3.	"Strawberry Letter 23"	Shuggie Otis	The Brothers Johnson	4:58
4.	"Melanie, Simone and Sheronda" (Dialogue)		Samuel L. Jackson and Robert de Niro	0:32
5.	"Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?"	Bill Withers	Bill Withers	3:12
6.	"Tennessee Stud"	Jimmy Driftwood	Johnny Cash	2:54
7.	"Natural High"	Charles McCormick	Bloodstone	4:54
8.	"Long Time Woman"	Les Baxter	Pam Grier	2:52
9.	"Detroit 9000" (Dialogue)		Council Cargle	0:07
10.	"(Holy Matrimony) Letter to the Firm"	Inga Marchand Isaac Hayes Jean-Claude Olivier Samuel Barnes	Foxy Brown	3:26
11.	"Street Life"	Joe Sample Will Jennings	Randy Crawford	4:18
12.	"Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)"	Thom Bell William Hart	The Delfonics	3:21
13.	"Midnight Confessions"	Lou Josie	The Grass Roots	2:43
14.	"Inside My Love"	Minnie Riperton Leon Ware Richard Rudolph	Minnie Riperton	3:56
15.	"Just Ask Melanie" (Dialogue)		Samuel L. Jackson, Robert de Niro, and Bridget Fonda	0:43
16.	"The Lions and the Cucumber"	Manfred Hübler Siegfried Schwab	The Vampire Sound Incorporation	5:07
17.	"Monte Carlo Nights"	Elliot Easton	Elliot Easton's Tiki Gods	3:25
Total length:				51:06

Tarantino's selection process for the songs

Tarantino has said that in developing the script for Jackie Brown, he decided on the majority of the songs during the writing stage.^[2] He added:

More or less the way my method works is you have got to find the opening credit sequence first. That starts it off from me. I find the personality of the piece through the music that is going to be in it [...] It is the rhythm of the film. Once I know I want to do something, then it is a simple matter of me diving into my record collection and finding the songs that give me the rhythm of my movie.

Other tracks heard in the film

Some of the songs used in the film were not included in the commercially released soundtrack. These songs are listed during the film's credits.

"Baby Love" by The Supremes
"Exotic Dance" by Roy Ayers
"My Touch of Madness" by Jermaine Jackson
"La-La (Means I Love You)" by the Delfonics
"Cissy Strut" by The Meters
"Aragon" by Roy Ayers
"Brawling Broads" by Roy Ayers
"She Puts Me in the Mood" by Elvin Bishop
"Undun" by the Guess Who
"Escape" by Roy Ayers
"Vittrone's Theme - King Is Dead" by Roy Ayers
"Grazing in the Grass" by Orchestra Harlow
"Mad Dog (Feroce)" by Umberto Smaila
"Jizz Da Pitt" by Slash's Snakepit

Personnel

Quentin Tarantino and Lawrence Bender – Executive album producers
Mary Ramos and Michele Huznetsky – Music consultants
Tom Baker – Mastering
Ann Karlin and John Katovsich – Music coordinators

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
France (SNEP)^[3]	Gold	100,000^*
United Kingdom (BPI)^[4]	Gold	100,000^*
United States	—	321,000^[5]
^* Sales figures based on certification alone.

Notes

^ Allmusic review
^ The Guardian Quentin Tarantino interview (II) with Pam Grier, Robert Forster and Lawrence Bender. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
^ "French album certifications – B.O.F. – Jackie Brown" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
^ "British album certifications – Original Soundtrack – Jackie Brown". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved June 2, 2018.
^ Donahue, Ann (5 September 2009). "The Billboard Q&A: Quentin". Billboard. Retrieved 2 June 2018.

[1] Allmusic review

[guardian-2] The Guardian Quentin Tarantino interview (II) with Pam Grier, Robert Forster and Lawrence Bender. Retrieved 2008-03-04.

[FranceB.O.F.Jackie_BrownalbumCertRef-3] "French album certifications – B.O.F. – Jackie Brown" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. Retrieved 22 June 2018.

[United_KingdomOriginal_SoundtrackJackie_BrownalbumCertRef-4] "British album certifications – Original Soundtrack – Jackie Brown". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved June 2, 2018.

[5] Donahue, Ann (5 September 2009). "The Billboard Q&A: Quentin". Billboard. Retrieved 2 June 2018.

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Films written and directed	Reservoir Dogs (1992) Pulp Fiction (1994) accolades Jackie Brown (1997) Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004) Death Proof (2007) Inglourious Basterds (2009) accolades Django Unchained (2012) accolades The Hateful Eight (2015) accolades Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (2019) accolades
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Characters	Mia Wallace Seth Gecko The Bride Hans Landa
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