AT LAST! After 20 years of obscurity, the Dawn of the Dead cue sheets - detailing which DeWolfe library tracks were selected by George Romero for use in the film - have surfaced! Thanks to the dedication of Dawn fan Patrick Doody and Music Supervisor Llyswen Vaughan and the assistance of DeWolfe's New York manager Mitchel Greenspan, the mystery is no more. Listed below are the 58 cues licensed for inclusion in Dawn.

The DeWolfe library remains the world's leader in production music; as such, all the cues listed here are still available for license. Rumors of a possible release of these tracks in CD form have circulated, but nothing has been finalized as yet. According to Mitch, the cost of licensing the tracks for such a release would be prohibitive - to put it mildly.

He did, however, offer a second option: the licensing of certain tracks to this website in Real Audio format. I was thrilled by the notion, though again money is a factor...$150 per track is still too steep for a non-profit website, even for a few fantastic cues. Any ideas? Donations, perhaps? Write me, I'm open to suggestions.

Click on highlighted titles for notes on those titles, or simply read them separately, at the bottom of the page.

• ??? Bird: Apparently Mitchel typed the sheets he sent me from a handwritten or faded original - hence the missing word. If someone stumbles across this LP, the answer will become obvious.
  
  
• Par Boom de Fond: French title which translates roughly to "Boom by the Bottom."
  
  
• Ciel de Glace: French title. "Sky of Ice." The previous two "Glace" tracks - "Caverne de Glace" and "De Sert de Glace" translate to "Cavern of Ice" and "The Uses of Ice," respectively. Obviously a theme going on here.
  
  
• Stalactites et Stalagmites: French title. "Stalactites and Stalagmites."
  
  
• The Gonk: Legendary, well-known mall "Muzak" jingle heard over the closing credits. This is the only track easily isolated from the film, despite some sound effects in the mix.
  
  
• Ragtime Razzmatazz: Very likely the playful music heard during the pie-fight sequence.
  
  
• Cause I'm a Man: Twangy, country-style tune heard during the posse sequence. Written and performed by Peter Reno, this track was originally released on the LP pictured above, Electric Banana. Interestingly, the majority of this album - aside from an instrumental version of this song and two versions of a cut called "Free Love," also by Reno - is a collection of tunes by the sixties rock band Pretty Things, who recorded a series of albums under the Electric Banana pseudonym for DeWolfe. Best of all, the vocal version of "Cause I'm a Man" slipped through the cracks and was accidentally included on a German CD release of Pretty Things: Electric Banana. This 1991 disc is fairly rare, but worth the search if you crave this particular song.
  
  
• We Are The Champions: Obviously not the Queen song; probably a rousing action track, possibly the "Peter fights his way to the roof" tune heard at the end of the film.
  
  
• Proud Action: More likely, this was the "fighting to the roof" theme, judging by the name, or maybe the catchy "blocking the entrances" tune. We'll never know without comparison.

Many of the DeWolfe LPs, having served their purpose years ago for whatever TV show, film or commercial, have become part of someone's vinyl collection...and as such, occasionally pop up for sale or auction. Note the LP code numbers - certain albums contain as many as 7 Dawn tracks.

Also, without hearing the cues, we can deduce a few things from the titles grouped together on a certain album. For instance, it's fairly evident that HMC/LP 510 is a selection of "Muzak;" DWS/LP 3309 contains several tension/horror cues, etc.

Also, as DeWolfe's headquarters are in England, many of these cues appeared in British films and TV productions. The harpsichord "mall chase" piece, for instance, appeared in its entirety as the theme of an episode of the UK Thriller series (according to Dawn fan Lon Miller).

If anyone out there in Webland finds or hears these any of these albums, please mail me - I'd love to determine, once and for all, which cues are which.