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Shrek Forever After: Music from the Motion Picture" Soundtrack List

1) "It's The Rumpelstiltskin Show!" (Skit)
2) "Isn't It Strange" - Performed by Scissor Sisters
3) "Tough Love For Baba" (Skit)
4) "One Love" - Performed by Antonio Banderas
Sunshine and Rainbows (Skit)

5) "Top of The World" - Performed by The Carpenters

6) "Cupcake Party" (Skit)
7) "Rumpel's Party Palace" - Performed by Mike Simpson
8) "Pinocchio Gets His Wish" (Skit)
9) "Click Click" -Performed by Light FM featuring Lloyd Hemmings
Gingy's lil Sugar (Skit)
10) "Darling I Do" -Written and Performed by Landon Pigg and Lucy Schwartz
11) "Shake Your Groove Thing" - Performed by Mike Simpson
12) "Hello" - Written and Performed by Lionel Richie
13) "Birthday Bash" (Skit)
14) "Sure Shot - Performed by Beastie Boys
15) "Hook's Garrrrden" (Skit)
16) "Right Back Where We Started From" -Performed by Maxine Nightingale
17) "Wheezer Wig" (Skit)
18) "I'm A Believer" - Performed by Weezer
19) "Home To Fifi" (Skit)



Now I HAVE to go see it!

I've read that Richard is $500,000 richer because of it, that's how much it cost to get him to sell the rights.

Awesome!

Good for him!

Gosh, where'd you read that? To me that's an incredibly enormous sum, but who knows, maybe that's just a standard copyright fee? No wonder movies cost to much to go to, if they're paying that kind of money to everyone whose music they've used on these soundtracks.

It was an on-line review of the Shrek movie, here it is towards the end

http://www.okcfriday.com/default.asp?sourc...day&he=.com

"One scene was to be shot with the Karen Carpenter tune, Top of the World -- it was just the perfect touch, but they had to buy the rights. Katzenberg is notoriously close with a dollar, and Richard Carpenter said he’d sell the song for $500,000, so they figured, “no way!” Mr. Katzenberg saw the importance of the song in that sequence and said, “Pay ‘em!”
Edited by Brownedger, 01 June 2010 - 12:52 AM.

There is a good article on the process of getting music into movies on the ASCAP web site..

http://www.ascap.com/filmtv/movies-part1.html

If the half million is the total cost for use of the song, it may not have all gone to Richard. There's the song publisher's (EMI) fee, A&M record company fee, and paying the songwriters, Richard Carpenter and John Bettis.

That's what I deduced from the reading I have done. Maybe somebody who has dealt with this on a first hand basis can correct or shed more light on it.

I know if I owned the song and it was that important to a movie that will make millions from box office and DVD sales, I would negotiate for top dollar.

My impression is that the money goes to the owner of the rights to a song. These rights may be bought and sold. As you may recall, Michael Jackson at one point owned the rights to the Beatles' catalog, after learning from Paul McCartney that buying the rights to music can be a good investment.

Well, as Olivia-NJ said (about Karen) ..it's her voice on the record (or something similar)..

The songwriter is nothing without the singer.

I'm not into the SHREK movies, but ..nice to hear the news.

Ugh! I wonder WHEN it's supposed to come in here...Hello South America wants Shrek *starts jumping up and down*

For a movie with the popularity of Shrek, I'm not the least bit surprised that the song went for half a mil.

I haven't seen any Shrek movies, but I don't fault Richard for asking for big bucks......why not???