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The Late Shift Music

posted 12 years ago by NCC011701
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Does anybody have good versions of the music from this movie? There are about 3-4 themes that they use (all sound like they are being played or came from the mind of Paul Shaffer)...for example,

1)the music after Leno calls Littlefield in the bathroom and he's running to call his assistant Betty or whatever job she has.

2)when Ovitz calls Dave and tells him NBC has made an offer for the Tonight show in Dave's office and they are crowded around the speaker phone.

3) (my personal favorite) the walk music when Dave leaves his NBC office, crosses the street to walk into the CBS building to have his own press conference near the end of the movie.

I love each of those themes. Granted, I am a Letterman music nut. Love his old Late Night with David Letterman theme the best. I've been trying to add these pieces of music to my collection and I can't really find a clean version of them anywhere. Does anybody know or have made versions of those 3 themes from this movie?

[–] Uncle_Brian 9 years ago

NCC, I only just noticed your query, after posting a new query of my own. As the final credits are rolling, we hear a jazz rendition of There's No Business Like Show Business, featuring an extended tenor solo. Do you know who's playing? Can it be the Paul Shaffer band, and if so, who is the tenor player?