Music

I've been wondering the same. Will post if I come across anything.

does anyone know if the song "Do It Again" by Steeley Dan is in this movie? I've never seen the movie, but when they played it on local TV when I was a kid, that was always the song they played during the commercial.

I assume it's actually not in the movie, and that the TV execs just used it to play up Jack Nicholson being in the movie...either way, it turned me on to Steeley Dan!

The music in the background during the opening credits in red against a solid field of black,
with Jonathan (Nicholson) baiting Sandy (Garfunkle), invisible in the background,
is Glenn Miller's Moonlight Serenade.

When that song, the opening credits, and the lazy banter conclude,
the music that begins as Susan (Candice Bergen) cruises the rooms of a party
is Tommy Dorsey's I'm Getting Sentimental Over You.

That song ends right about the time Susan responds to Sandy's "No, I don't either"
by asking him, "You don't agree with what you said?"

I don't recognize the song that plays briefly during the conclusion of that first conversation,
with Sandy following, not leading, as in every one of his conversations with either Susan or Jonathan,
but no significant score of music appears until 28 minutes into the movie,
after four minutes of Jonathan badgering Sandy to score with Susan,
followed by seven minutes of Jonathan's treacherous little campaign
to get laid with Susan once he gets the feeling from his "friend" Sandy that Susan is sexually receptive,
ten minutes after Jonathan finally rapes Susan in the park, then Sandy insipidly coaxes Susan into frigid consent,
capped by Sandy telling Jonathan that Sandy is the better friend
for indulging Jonathan's crowing about his own conquests:

_____ Jonathan and Sandy take turns dancing with Susan in a tavern to the sound of
one of Glenn Miller's renditions of "A String of Pearls."