When asked during a 2007 phone-in interview on XETRA-FM if he ever had any notions of performing in an Oingo Boingo reunion, Elfman immediately rejected the idea and stated that in the last few years with the band he had begun to develop significant and irreversible hearing damage as a result of his continuous exposure to the high noise levels involved in performing in a rock band.

Elfman was honored with the prestigious Richard Kirk award at the 2002 BMI Film and TV Awards.

Elfman was apprehensive at first because of his lack of formal training, but with orchestration assistance from Oingo Boingo guitarist and arranger Steve Bartek, he achieved his goal of emulating the mood of such composers as Nino Rota and Bernard Herrmann.

Elfman also provided the singing voice for Jack Skellington in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and the voices of both Barrel and the " Clown with the Tear-Away Face ".

Burton has said of his relationship with Elfman: " We don't even have to talk about the music.

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

When the group began to move away from its cabaret style towards a more pop / rock format, Richard Elfman made a film based on the band's stage performance, Forbidden Zone, which was released in 1980 and filmed in black and white with a cast mostly made up of band members and friends.

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.

( 1996 ), another film of Burton's with music composed by Elfman.

The music for the show was provided by a diverse set of musicians, including Mark Mothersbaugh, The Residents, Todd Rundgren, Danny Elfman ( who provided the score for both of the Pee-wee movies ), Mitchell Froom, Van Dyke Parks, George Clinton and Dweezil Zappa with Scott Thunes ( spelled ' Tunis ' in the credits ).

Elfman also supplied the voice for the " Clown with the Tear-Away Face ".

McDowell and Burton experienced creative differences, which convinced Burton to make the film as a musical with lyrics and compositions by frequent collaborator Danny Elfman.

Elfman and Burton created a rough storyline and two-thirds of the film's songs, while Selick and his team of animators began production in July 1991 in San Francisco, California with a crew of over 120 workers, utilizing 20 sound stages for filming .. Joe Ranft worked as a storyboard artist, while Paul Berry was hired as an animation supervisor.

Directed by Richard Elfman, who co-wrote the film with fellow Mystic Knights member Matthew Bright, it was the first film scored by his brother Danny Elfman.

On their way to school, Frenchy Hercules ( Marie-Pascale Elfman ) and her brother Flash ( Phil Gordon ) have a conversation with Squeezit Henderson ( Matthew Bright ), who tells them that, while being violently beaten by his mother, he had a vision of his transgendered sister René ( also played by Bright ), who had fallen into the Sixth Dimension through the door in the Hercules ' basement.

There, he is captured by Satan ( Danny Elfman ), with whom he makes a deal to bring him the Princess in exchange for Satan's help freeing René and Frenchy.

As Richard's interest shifted to filmmaking, he passed leadership of the band to younger brother Danny Elfman, who had begun to lose interest in musical theatre, and had gained interest in other musical styles such as ska, and had become " sick of lugging around so much stuff with the theatre troupe.

Two sequences from the original 16mm footage were featured on the 2004 DVD release: one of Danny Elfman, as Satan, performing " Minnie the Moocher " ( later reshot with visual elements borrowed from the original 16mm sequence and alternate lyrics ), and another of Marie-Pascale Elfman, singing " Johnny ".

The sequence with Elfman as Satan, and members of the Oingo Boingo as his minions, came from live shows, in which the band would perform Cab Calloway tunes like " St. James Infirmary Blues " in the same costumes.

For the " Yiddishe Charleston " scene, Richard Elfman had shot the sequence with him lip-syncing to an old recording of the song, but was later unable to acquire the rights to the recording, and had to record a new version of the song while attempting to sync the new recording with the footage.

In 1985, Tim Burton and Paul Reubens invited Elfman to write the score for their first feature film, Pee-wee's Big Adventure.

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.

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.

Since then, Elfman has scored every film that Tim Burton has directed except for Ed Wood ( because of a falling out that they had ) and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street because the music was based on Stephen Sondheim's musical.

The film is also the fourth feature collaboration between Burton and film score composer Danny Elfman.

Both Burton and Elfman consider Edward Scissorhands their most personal and favorite work.

Edward Scissorhands is the fourth feature film collaboration between director Tim Burton and composer Danny Elfman.

Ed Wood is notable for being one of the two films directed by Tim Burton that did not feature a score by Danny Elfman.

* Matt Taylor & Ellen Wakayama for 25th Anniversary Music Box ( Danny Elfman & Tim Burton )

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

Dead Man's Party has been " Elfo-Approved " ( appreciated and supported by Richard Elfman ), are joined onstage by former Oingo Boingo members ( notably Johnny Hernandez and Steve Bartek ), and own one of Oingo Boingo's balaphones.

Elfman has said he first became interested in film music upon seeing The Day the Earth Stood Still, and he paid homage to that score in his music for Mars Attacks!

The film's soundtrack has also become popular, and its theme song was eventually reused by Danny Elfman, who rearranged it as The Dilbert Zone for use as the theme for the television series Dilbert.

Film composer Danny Elfman has made great use of this technique, which needs to be performed in a more " transparent " orchestral setting to be heard.

Author Kurt Vonnegut, has a cameo as himself, as does the band Oingo Boingo, whose frontman Danny Elfman composed the score for the film.

On songs such as " Little Girls " and " Capitalism ", Elfman has since stated that his intentions were to write in jest from the perspective of various disputable characters, adding he was " out to offend everybody ".

Apart from performing as a live instrumentalist, Fitzgerald has also worked as a composer and songwriter, having worked with a wide range of musicians including Dweezil Zappa and Danny Elfman, and has written songs for the group No Doubt, as well as for the movie School of Rock.

Like his former bandmate Danny Elfman, Gibbs has embarked on a life of scoring movies and television shows.

Elfman has had film roles in Mercury Rising, Collateral, Godzilla and Armageddon, and smaller parts in The Mod Squad, Keeping the Faith, and Gone in 60 Seconds.

Richard Elfman had never gone to film school when production on the film started, and " I didn't know what I was getting into.