Studio
Director
Movie page
 
Label
Release date
Running time
Availability
Soundtrack page		 Universal - 2005
Peter Jackson
Official site
 
Decca 000571502
December 13, 2005
74:27 - 21 tracks
in print
Decca, Amazon

   
 
 
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1.   King Kong 1:09
2.   A Fateful Meeting (audio clip) 4:16
3.   Defeat Is Always Momentary 2:48
4.   It's In The Subtext 3:19
5.   Two Grand 2:34
6.   The Venture Departs 4:03
7.   Last Blank Space On The Map 4:43
8.   It's Deserted 7:08
9.   Something Monstrous... Neither Beast
 Nor Man		 2:38
10.   Head Towards The Animals (audio clip) 2:48
11.   Beautiful 4:08
12.   Tooth And Claw 6:17
13.   That's All There Is... 3:26
14.   Captured 2:25
15.   Central Park 4:36
16.   The Empire State Building (audio clip) 2:36
17.   Beauty Killed The Beast I 1:59
18.   Beauty Killed The Beast II 2:22
19.   Beauty Killed The Beast III 2:14
20.   Beauty Killed The Beast IV 4:45
21.   Beauty Killed The Beast V 4:13

 Audio clips courtesy of Decca Records 

 
Soundtrack credits
Music Composed by James Newton Howard
Produced by James Newton Howard and Jim Weidman

Score Conducted by
Supervising Orchestrator
Orchestrators
 
 
Auricle Control Systems
Music Preparation
Librarian
Music Contractor
Vocal Contractors

Boy Soloist
Solo Vocal Coordinator
Additional Vocals
Ethnic Winds
Piano

Ambient Music Design
Additional Music

Recorded by
Additional Recording
Mixed by
Scoring Crew
 
 
 

Supervising Music Editor
Music Editors
Music Consultant

Supervising Technical Assistant
Technical Assistants
Assistant to Mr. Howard
Music Coordinator

Score Recorded at
 
  Score Mixed at

 Pete Anthony, Mike Nowak, Bruce Babcock
Jeff Atmajian
Pete Anthony, Pat Russ, Brad Dechter, Jon Kull, Bruce Babcock, Frank Bennett, Conrad Pope
 
Richard Grant
JoAnn Kane Music Service
Mark Graham
Sandy DeCrescent
Hollywood Film Chorale, Sally Stevens

Ben Inman
Becky Bentham for Hothouse Music Ltd.
Liz Constantine
Chris Bleth, Pedro Eustache
Mike Lang

Mel Wesson
Blake Neely, Chris P. Bacon

Joel Iwataki and Alan Meyerson
James T. Hill
Alan Meyerson
Larry Mah, Mark Eshelman, Brian Clements, Adam Michalak, Greg Loskorn, Kirsten Smith, Mark Gebauer, Tom Hardisty, Jay Sylvester, Tim Lauber, Bill Talbot, Tom Steel, Jason Llloyd, Stacy Robinson, Eddie Bydalek

Jim Weidman
David Olson, Peter Myles, Malcolm Fife, Marie Ebbing, Jonathon Stevens
Mark Willsher

Stuart Thomas
Chris P. Bacon, Aaron Martin
Annica Ackerman
Nigel Scott

The Barbra Streisand Scoring Stage at Sony Studios, Todd-AO Scoring, Fox Scoring Stage, O'Henry Sound Studios, and Cow On The Wall Studios
Todd-AO West

Mastered by Erick Labson at Universal Mastering Studios West
Score Published by Universal Pictures Music (ASCAP)

Executive Producers: Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh

Executives In Charge of Music for Universal Pictures: Kathy Nelson and Harry Garfield
Music Business Affairs for Universal Pictures: Phil Cohen
Music Business Affairs for Universal Classics Group: Sheryl Gold

Chairman, Universal Classics Group: Chris Roberts
Soundtrack Coordination for Universal Classics Group: Meredith Friedman and Paul Altomari
Production Manager: Tom Arndt

Booklet contains a listing of all the names of the orchestra players

  
Related links
 - Video clips of James scoring King Kong in Production Diary (2 clips from 4 & 5 weeks to go)
 - Article from SoundtrackNet about the technical aspects of scoring King Kong: The Tech of King Kong
 - News item on Television New Zealand about the King Kong replacement also featuring this site