>   i went out and rented _McCabe and Mrs. Miller_ after i saw
>   PUtV, and got the impression that he had re-recorded those
>   songs...anybody know for sure?
Those are the album versions. They just fade in and out at
different places.

    The three songs from the movie are tracks 3 4 and 5 off of Songs -- Winter
Lady, Stranger Song, and Sisters of Mercy.

    Various songs from McCabe and Mrs. Miller are on LC's first album. No
soundtrack that I know of was ever released.
    And no, I don't think he's done any other soundtracks -- unless you count
"Everybody knows" from "Pump Up the Volume"!

    Did LC do any other songs for this movie besides the 3rd song on the first
side (can't rememeber the title) of _Songs of LC_?

    Does anyone know if the soundtrack from this film was ever released? Or
did any of the songs make it on to other Leonard Cohen albums? Finally, has he
worked on soundtracks for any other films?
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Tony Cunningham, Insignia Solutions. tjc@ed.ac.uk or tjc@insignia.co.uk


This explains a lot about me. I thought it was the heavy drinking, the late
hours, the barking mad women, the lying around in bed reading novels and
eating Nescafe out of a jar with the spoon. But it's because of the Mac.

    The three songs used on the McCabe soundtrack are Stranger Song, Sisters
of Mercy, and Winter Lady. Cohen did not do the songs "for" the movie: the
album predates the movie by several years. Altman decided to use already
existing songs, and (I have always supposed, though I can't prove it) adjusted
his script to fit the songs, rather than vice versa. Anyway, the songs now fit
the movie so perfectly that it's easy to suppose they might have been written
"for" it. Cohen of course also wrote the music for Lewis Furey's "Night Magic."
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    I believe the movie was actually created around the L. Cohen songs,
although the songs were basically reinterpreted, as it were, for the movie.

    It was my impression that Robert Altman used these songs in the movie, but
not that Cohen had written them for it (although they work remrkably well in
it). Does anybody know for sure?

>      The three songs from the movie are tracks 3 4 and 5 off of Songs --
> Winter Lady, Stranger Song, and Sisters of Mercy.
    The songs are for the most part from the first album. There are also
instrumental bits of "Stranger Song" and "Winter Lady" and a couple of
additional instrumentals--one (or two?) in G# and one in E minor. The
instrumental of "Winter Lady" are different mixes of the album take (as is the
next-to-last "Winter Lady" with vocals). The other instrumentals are not from
the album. It is known that the G# instrumental takes were recorded in NYC
especially for the soundtrack; I'm not sure about the others.