The Nightmare Before Christmas: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the 1993 soundtrack to the film of the same name

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Nightmare Before Christmas, often promoted as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, is a 1993 stop motion musical fantasy film directed by Henry Selick and produced/co-written by Tim Burton. It tells the story of Jack Skellington, a being from "Halloween Town" who opens a portal to...

. Composed by Danny Elfman

Danny Elfman

Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film. Up until 1995, he was the lead singer and songwriter in the rock band Oingo Boingo, a group he formed in 1976...

, the soundtrack was nominated for the 1993 Golden Globe for best original score. The album peaked at #98 on the Billboard 200

Billboard 200

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. For the film's 2006 re-release in Disney Digital 3-D

Disney Digital 3-D

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, a special edition of the soundtrack was released, a bonus disc which contained covers of several of the film's songs by Fall Out Boy

Fall Out Boy

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, Panic! at the Disco

Panic! at the Disco

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, Marilyn Manson

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, Fiona Apple

Fiona Apple

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 and She Wants Revenge

She Wants Revenge

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. Six original demo tracks by Elfman were also included.

Track listing

On some versions of the CD, "End Title" is two tracks (20 and 21) with lengths of 1:10 and 3:55 respectively. In this case, track 21 is considered a "hidden track" but features the same music as the 20-track release, which keeps "End Title" as one track.

2006 reissue bonus disc

The "Kidnap the Sandy Claws" and "This Is Halloween" demos are reversed in the tracklisting on the backside of the album cover and in the album booklet.

Featured Singers

Jack Jack Skellington Jack Skellington is the protagonist in the 1993 Disney film The Nightmare Before Christmas. Jack is the "Pumpkin King" of Halloween Town and lives in a fantasy world based solely on the Halloween holiday...	Danny Elfman Danny Elfman Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film. Up until 1995, he was the lead singer and songwriter in the rock band Oingo Boingo, a group he formed in 1976...
Sally	Catherine O'Hara Catherine O'Hara Catherine Anne O'Hara is a Canadian-American actress and comedienne. She is well known for her comedy work on SCTV, and her roles in the films After Hours, Beetlejuice, Home Alone, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, and also in the mockumentary films written and directed by Christopher Guest...
Mayor	Glenn Shadix Glenn Shadix William Glenn Shadix Scott , born William Glenn Shadix, was an American actor, known for his role as Otho Fenlock in Tim Burton's horror/comedy film Beetlejuice and the voice of the Mayor of Halloween Town in The Nightmare Before Christmas.-Early life and education:Shadix was born in Bessemer,...
Oogie Boogie	Ken Page Ken Page (actor) Ken Page is an American cabaret singer and actor from St. Louis, Missouri, best known as the voice of the evil bag of bugs Oogie Boogie in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and the Kingdom Hearts series, and for playing Old Deuteronomy in the original Broadway and video cast of Cats.Ken...
Lock	Paul Reubens Paul Reubens Paul Reubens is an American actor, writer, film producer, and comedian, best known for his character Pee-wee Herman. Reubens joined the Los Angeles troupe The Groundlings in the 1970s and started his career as an improvisational comedian and stage actor...
Shock	Catherine O'Hara
Barrel	Danny Elfman
Santa	Ed Ivory

Cast

Sherwood Ball

Debi Durst

Randy Crenshaw

Kerry Katz

Susan McBride

Bobbi Page

Greg Proops

Greg Proops

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Carmen Twillie

Carmen Twillie (actress)

Carmen Twillie is a studio singer and actress. She is a long time friend of Tommy Morgan and has appeared as guest soloist with Morgan's choir. She is best known for singing the Elton John and Tim Rice song "Circle of Life" in the 1994 Disney animated feature The Lion King...

Glenn Walters

Additional album personnel

• Album Produced
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
   by Danny Elfman
• Associate Album Producers: Bob Badami and Richard Kraft

• Musical Director: Steve Bartek
  Steve Bartek
  Steve Bartek, born in Garfield Heights, Ohio on January 30, 1952, is an American guitarist, film composer, conductor and orchestrator.-Early career:...
  
  

• Songs Orchestrated by Steve Bartek
• Score Orchestrated by Mark McKenzie
• Additional Orchestraions and Music Preparation by Mark Mann

• Songs Conducted by Chris Boardman
• Score Conducted by J.A.C. Redford
• Vocals Recorded by Bill Jackson
• Songs Recorded by Bobby Fernandez and Shawn Murphy
• Score Recorded by Shawn Murphy

• Songs and Score Mixed
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
  In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...
  
   by Shawn Murphy
• Assistant Engineers
  Audio engineering
  An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...
  
  : Sharone Rice, Bill Easystone, Mike Piersante
  Mike Piersante
  -2009 GRAMMY Awards:Mike Piersante won two Grammy Awards in 2009 for his work as Engineer/Mixer. The first Grammy was for Please Read the Letter a duet track by Alison Krauss and Robert Plant...
  
  , and Andy Bass
• Digital Editing and Mastering
  Audio mastering
  Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
  
   by Dave Collins

• Music Editor: Bob Badami
• Assistant Music Editor: Letitia Rogers
• Vocal Contractor: Bobbi Page
• Contractor: Patti Zimmitti
• Copyist: Joel Franklin
• Demo Assistant: Megan Cavallari

• Original Album Art Direction by Gary Adler

Bonus Content

1. "This is Halloween"

Produced and Mixed by Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson

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 and Tim Skold

Tim Skold

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2. "Sally's Song"

Produced by Mike Elizondo

Mike Elizondo

Michael "Mike" Elizondo is a well-known songwriter, bassist, keyboardist, and hip hop music producer.-Musical career:Mike Elizondo is especially known for his collaborations with internationally successful producer Dr. Dre and rapper Eminem. He has played the bass for many of Dr...

Mixed by Adam Hawkins

Engineered by Adam Hawkins @ Phantom Studio, Westlake Village, CA

Assistant Engineer: Erin J. Funk-Dublan

Keyboards

Musical keyboard

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: Zac Rae

Upright Bass

Double bass

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: Mike Elizondo

Drums

Drum kit

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: Charley Drayton

Charley Drayton

Charley Drayton is an American multi-instrumental musician and producer, who has played as a drummer and bass guitarist for many bands and artists and is currently the drummer in Australian rock bands Divinyls and Cold Chisel....

Strings

Strings (music)

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: The Section Quartet

The Section Quartet

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 - Eric Gorfain

Eric Gorfain

Eric Gorfain is an American violinist and leader of The Section Quartet.He has been classically trained since the age of four and later participated in orchestras throughout his studies at UCLA, where he became symphony concertmaster....

, Daphne Chen, Leah Katz, Richard Dodd

Richard Dodd

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String Arrangement

Arrangement

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 by Eric Gorfain

Project Coordinator: Jolie Levine

3. "What's This?"

Produced and Mixed by Neal Avron

Recorded by Neal Avron and Erich Talaba

Pro Tools Engineer: Matt Green

Matt Green

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Assistant Engineer: Zeph Sowers

Recorded at The Pass Studios, Los Angeles, CA

Mixed at Paramount Studios, Hollywood, CA

Mix Assistant: George Gumbs

4. "Kidnap the Sandy Claws"

Produced by She Wants Revenge

5. "This Is Halloween"

Produced by Panic! At the Disco and Rob Mathes

Rob Mathes

Rob Mathes is an American record producer, music arranger, composer, songwriter, and performer. He also writes bluesy spiritual-pop music.-Background:Born in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, Mathes showed interest and skill in music at a very early age...

Vocals Arranged by Ryan Ross and Brendon Urie

Recorded by Panic! At the Disco at Ryan's house Las Vegas, NV

Orchestra Arranged and Conducted by Rob Mathes

Recorded by Mark Mandelhaum, assisted by Alex Venguer at Legacy Recording Studio, New York, NY

Concertmaster and Orchestra Contractor: Sandra Park

Music Copyist: Mike and Lori Casteel

Mixed by Chris Shaw at Avatar Studios, New York, NY

6-11. Demos

All Demo Vocals Performed by Danny Elfman

Synth

Synthesizer

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 Demo Tracks Arranged, Orchestrated and Performed by Danny Elfman

Recorded by Bill Jackson

Mixed by Noah Snyder

Produced by Danny Elfman and Tim Burton

Tim Burton

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• A&R
  A&R
  Artists and repertoire is the division of a record label that is responsible for talent scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists. It also acts as a liaison between artists and the record label.- Finding talent :...
  
  : Dani Markman
• Business affairs: Jeff Lowy
• Mastered by Pat Sullivan at Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood, CA

• Creative Direction: Steve Gerdes
• Album Design: Greg Ross for Orabor

Foreign Language Versions

There are several foreign language versions of the soundtrack, each features tracks sung by vocalists in their native language as well as original score tracks by Danny Elfman.

• French, L'Étrange Noël de Monsieur Jack

Jack - Olivier Constantin

Sally - Nina Morato

Nina Morato

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Oogie Boogie - Richard Darbois

Richard Darbois

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Santa Claus (Pere Noel

Père Noël

Père Noël is a legendary gift-giver during Christmas in France and French-speaking areas, identified with Father Christmas or Santa Claus in English speaking territories....

)- Henri Poirier

• German

Jack - Alexander Goebel

Sally - Nina Hagen

Nina Hagen

Nina Hagen is a German singer and actress.-Early years:Hagen was born as Catharina Hagen in the former East Berlin, East Germany, the daughter of Hans Hagen , a scriptwriter, and Eva-Maria Hagen, an actress and singer...

Oogie Boogie - Ron Williams

Santa Claus - Manfred Lichtenfeld

• Italian

Jack - Renato Zero

Renato Zero

Renato Zero is the stage name of Renato Fiacchini , an Italian singer-songwriter and showman whose career spans a full 6 decades, from the 1960s to the 2010s....

Sally - Marjorie Biondo

Oogie Boogie (Bau-Bau) - Andrea Surdi

Santa Claus (Babbo Nachele) - Silvio Spaccesi

• Japanese
• Spanish, Pesadilla Antes De Navidad

Oogie Boogie - Jesús Castejón

• Russian