Does anyone know the name of tune that plays repeatedly during this movie? It it the same music that is now being used in the Cellular One - Evo television ad (the one with the beauty queen about to hock her tiara to pay her wireless bill). The music has a very New Orleans sound.
shareDo you mean "Killing me Softly with his Song" ?
A dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste
Charles Fox, who scored The Drowning Pool, also co-wrote Killing Me Softly. The piano refrain that is a motif whenever Iris is on screen features the first few bars of the chorus of that song.
shareI find it a bit odd that Charles Fox would incorporate strains from "Killing Me Softly With His Song," a hit four years before this was released, into the score of this film when it never has a vocal, but that's part of the score's oddball charm.
shareJust saw this movie on TCM. The scene in the empty bar where a Cajun dude is singing by himself and playing an accordion--longish dark red hair, long sideburns, flowered blue, white, and orange button-down shirt. Later in the same scene where Harper (Paul Newman) is talking to the Cajun bartender with the very very strong bayou accent, who serves him "coon-ass beer." It may be the bartender (James Fontenot) who is sings\ing, but I'm not finding anything to corroborate that.
Any ideas? The song/singing was fantastic!