Danny Elfman, who composed the score for Darkman, wrote the " March of the Dead " theme for Army of Darkness.

Daniel Robert " Danny " Elfman ( born May 29, 1953 ) is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film and creating The Simpsons main title theme as well as the 1989 Batman movie theme.

Danny Elfman was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Blossom Elfman ( née Bernstein ), a writer and teacher, and Milton Elfman, a teacher who was in the Air Force.

From 1976 and on it was led by Danny Elfman, until 1995 when they suddenly retired.

In this way, Ackerman provided inspiration to many who would later become successful artists, including Joe Dante, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Stephen King, Donald F. Glut, Penn & Teller, Billy Bob Thornton, Gene Simmons ( of the band Kiss ), Rick Baker, George Lucas, Danny Elfman, Frank Darabont, John Landis and countless other writers, directors, artists and craftsmen.

* 1953 – Danny Elfman, American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor ( Oingo Boingo )

Burton is known for using recurring collaborators on his works ; among them are Johnny Depp, who has become a close friend of Burton since their first film together ; musician Danny Elfman, who has composed scores for all but five of the films Burton has directed and / or produced ; and domestic partner Helena Bonham Carter.

Burton, a fan of the eccentric musical group Oingo Boingo, asked songwriter Danny Elfman to provide the music for the film.

Owing to creative squabbles during the making of The Nightmare Before Christmas, Danny Elfman declined to score Ed Wood, and the assignment went to Howard Shore.

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Poe lends vocals to two songs on the Real Steel Original Motion Picture Score (" Why We're Here " and " Parkway Motel ") composed by Danny Elfman, released November 1st, 2011.

Smith recorded an orchestral version of " Between the Bars " with composer Danny Elfman for the movie.

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Danny Elfman frequently cites Nino Rota as a major influence.

This was also the year the cult movie Forbidden Zone was released, which included rearrangements of, and homages to, Calloway songs written by Danny Elfman, a Calloway fan.

From 1976 it was led by songwriter / vocalist Danny Elfman, who has since achieved success as a composer for film and television.

As Richard Elfman's interest shifted to filmmaking, he passed leadership of the band to younger brother Danny Elfman, who had recently returned from spending time in Africa playing violin and studying percussion instruments.

By this time, Richard was no longer a group member, and the band had coalesced into an octet: Danny Elfman on lead vocals ; Steve Bartek on guitars ; Richard Gibbs on keyboards ; Kerry Hatch on bass ; Johnny " Vatos " Hernandez on drums ; and Leon Schneiderman, Sam " Sluggo " Phipps and Dale Turner on horns.

The first release was officially a Danny Elfman solo record in 1984 ( titled So-Lo ); it was actually a group effort released under Elfman's name.

Then, starting with 1985's Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Danny Elfman began scoring major films with increasing frequency, including almost all of Tim Burton's films.

However, Danny Elfman insists that the name change was virtually meaningless, and " kind of an afterthought.

Following the band's dissolution, frontman Danny Elfman turned full-time to writing film scores, having composed several scores through the 1980s and early 1990s while the band was active.

In 1995, the year Ajax won the Champions League, the Dutch national team was almost entirely composed of Ajax players, with Edwin van der Sar in goal ; players such as Michael Reiziger, Frank de Boer, and Danny Blind in defense ; Ronald de Boer, Edgar Davids, and Clarence Seedorf in midfield ; and Patrick Kluivert and Marc Overmars in attack.

* The Million Dollar Band: This was a jam-session segment, airing from 1980 through 1988, composed of legendary Nashville musicians Chet Atkins, Boots Randolph, Roy Clark, Floyd Cramer, Charlie McCoy, Danny Davis, Jethro Burns, and Johnny Gimble.

In 2009, Taco Bell introduced a music video style commercial entitled, " It's all about the Roosevelts " composed and produced by Danny de Matos at his studio for Amber Music on behalf of DraftFCB Agency.

* Part of Brooke's poem " Dust " is used as the lyric for a song by the same title, composed by Danny Kirwan and recorded by Fleetwood Mac on their 1972 album Bare Trees.

The show's theme tune was composed by Mike Post, who also scored the pilot ( Ian Dye and Danny Lux did subsequent episodes ).

World famous song Danny Boy is taken from a melody composed by O ’ Cahan bard Rory Dall O ’ Cahan.

" The Five Pennies " movie theme song was composed by Sylvia Fine, the wife of Danny Kaye.

Danny Elfman composed the main theme, and John Debney composed the score for the film.

The score was composed by Danny Troob.

Other musical versions include the song “ The Ugly Duckling ” composed by Frank Loesser and sung by Danny Kaye for the 1952 Charles Vidor musical film Hans Christian Andersen, and Honk !, a musical based on the tale which was produced in Britain and won an Olivier Award.

The commercial, titled " Fur and Against ", used music composed by Gary Kemp, and included appearances by Law, Chrissie Hynde, Moby, George Michael, Danny Goffey, Rhys Ifans, Sadie Frost, Helena Christensen, Sir Paul McCartney, Mel C, and Stella McCartney.

The world famous song Danny Boy is taken from a melody composed by Ó Catháin bard Ruairí Dall Ó Catháin.

By January 1967 the group was composed of founding member Danny Smythe, along with newer arrivals John Evans ( guitar, keyboards, background vocals ), Alex Chilton ( lead vocal, guitar ), Bill Cunningham ( bass guitar, keyboards, background vocal ), Gary Talley ( lead guitar, electric sitar, bass, background vocal ), and Larry Spillman ( drums ).

The soundtrack to Steel Panthers featured tracks composed by Rick Rhodes and Danny Pelfrey.

Danny Elfman composed the fanfare.

Silver Apples are an American psychedelic electronic music duo from New York, composed of Simeon Coxe III, who performs as Simeon, on a primitive synthesizer of his own devising ( also named The Simeon ), and until his death in 2005, drummer Danny Taylor.

The show's ominous theme music, composed by Danny Elfman, plays in the background.

The game's music was composed by Russell Shaw, with the opening title theme written by Oscar-nominated composer Danny Elfman.

The original music score is composed by Danny Elfman.