Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (soundtrack)

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the film score to the 1984 Steven Spielberg film, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. The music was composed and conducted by John Williams and performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony, with orchestrations provided by Herbert W. Spencer and Alexander Courage and first released on CD, LP, and cassette in 1984 and reissued on CD in 2008.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Film score by John Williams
Released	1984
Studio	Sony Scoring Stage, Culver City
Genre	Film score
Length	40:13, 75:26
Label	Polydor
Producer	John Williams Bruce Botnick
John Williams chronology
Return of the Jedi (1983) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1984) The River (1984)
Indiana Jones chronology
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

Numerous cues from the film were missing from the soundtrack's initial LP issue due to the inherent length limitations of a single LP (approximately forty minutes). After the release of an extended Raiders of the Lost Ark soundtrack album in 1995, there was some hope of a more complete release of the Temple of Doom score. This was eventually realized in November 2008 by the Concord Music Group as part of a five-CD boxed set that also included the soundtracks for Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

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Track listing

1984 Polydor Album

No.	Title	Note(s)	Length
1.	"Anything Goes"	Written by Cole Porter; arranged by John Williams; sung in Mandarin by Kate Capshaw	2:49
2.	"Fast Streets of Shanghai"		3:38
3.	"Nocturnal Activities"		5:53
4.	"Short Round's Theme"		2:27
5.	"Children in Chains"		2:42
6.	"Slalom on Mt. Humol"		2:22
7.	"The Temple of Doom"		2:57
8.	"Bug Tunnel and Death Trap"		3:29
9.	"Slave Children's Crusade"		3:22
10.	"The Mine Car Chase"		3:38
11.	"Finale and End Credits"		6:16
Total length:			39:33

Subsequent releases

The Indiana Jones Trilogy

Silva released a new version of Williams' Indiana Jones music entitled "The Indiana Jones Trilogy"^[1] on January 21, 2003. It features various cues from the entire trilogy, with five from The Temple of Doom. However, although they use the original manuscripts, this is a re-recording performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Helen Hobson provides both the Cantonese and English lyrics for "Anything Goes" in these recordings.

No.	Title	Note(s)	Length
8.	"Anything Goes"	Written by Cole Porter; arranged by John Williams; sung in Mandarin by Helen Hobson	2:58
9.	"Nocturnal Activities"		2:01
10.	"The Mine Car Chase"		3:32
11.	"Finale & End Credits"		6:30
16.	"Anything Goes"	Written by Cole Porter; arranged by John Williams; sung in English by Helen Hobson	3:04
Total length:			18:05

Indiana Jones: The Soundtracks Collection

The soundtrack to Temple of Doom was re-released on CD in November 2008 with expanded and remastered versions of Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade. The set includes material never before issued from the original albums.^[2]

2008 Concord Set

Disc Two

No.	Title	Note(s)	Length
1.	"Anything Goes"	Written by Cole Porter; arranged by John Williams; sung in Mandarin by Kate Capshaw	2:51
2.	"Indy Negotiates"	Previously Unreleased	3:59
3.	"The Nightclub Brawl"	Previously Unreleased	2:32
4.	"Fast Streets of Shanghai"		3:39
5.	"Map/Out of Fuel"	Previously Unreleased	3:22
6.	"Slalom on Mt. Humol"		2:24
7.	"Short Round's Theme"		2:28
8.	"The Scroll / To Pankot Palace"	Previously Unreleased	4:26
9.	"Nocturnal Activities"		5:54
10.	"Bug Tunnel / Death Trap"		3:30
11.	"Approaching the Stones"	Previously Unreleased	2:39
12.	"Children in Chains"		2:42
13.	"The Temple of Doom"		2:58
14.	"Short Round Escapes"	Previously Unreleased	2:22
15.	"Saving Willie"	Previously Unreleased	3:35
16.	"Slave Children's Crusade"		3:23
17.	"Short Round Helps"	Previously Unreleased	4:49
18.	"The Mine Car Chase"		3:41
19.	"Water!"	Previously Unreleased	1:55
20.	"The Sword Trick"	Previously Unreleased	1:05
21.	"The Broken Bridge / British Relief"	Previously Unreleased	4:47
22.	"End Credits"		6:19
Total length:			75:22

Disc Five

No.	Title	Note(s)	Length
4.	"Indy and the Villagers"	Previously Unreleased	3:54
5.	"The Secret Passage"	Previously Unreleased	3:31
12.	"Return to the Village / Raiders March"	Previously Unreleased	3:27
Total length:			10:52

Indiana Jones: The Complete Collection Box Set

The soundtrack was reissued by Walt Disney Records and released alongside the other four film soundtrack albums from the series in a collective 5-CD box set on March 27, 2024.^[3]

Missing music

Several cues from Temple of Doom have yet to be released.

1. "Anything Goes Playoff"
2. "A Tribute to Vernon"
3. "Once in a Vial (Dance Orchestra)"
4. "The Indian Village"
5. "The Old Priest's Tale"
6. "The Child Returns"
7. "To Pankot Palace" (the version presented on the Concord set is not the film version)
8. "Entrance of the Boy King"
9. "Palace Source"
10. "The First Supper"
11. "Exchange of Glances"
12. "Moloram's Speech"
13. "The Evil Potion"
14. "Willy in the Fryer"
15. "The Rope Bridge"
16. "End Credits" (the version presented in all sets is an abridged version combining the opening of "Return to the Village/Raiders March" with the majority of this cue)

References

1. allmusic ((( Indiana Jones Trilogy > Overview )))
2. "Indiana Jones: The Complete Soundtracks Collection". Allmusic. Retrieved 2023-08-16.
3. "Indiana Jones: The Collection Box Set Announced". filmmusicreporter.com. November 22, 2023. Retrieved June 11, 2024.