Fun, adventure, sentiment, action… all appear in premiere release of Bruce Broughton score for 1994 John Hughes production! Joe Mantegna, Lara Flynn Boyle, Joe Pantoliano star, John Hughes scripts, Patrick Read Johnson directs. Bennington Austin “Bink” Cowell IV is kidnapped… and he’s just an infant! So sets in motion this both zany and sentimental adventure with antics and hijinks, perils and pratfalls, chases and rescues galore. Enter Bruce Broughton and his 100-plus musicians, leading step all the way! Wall-to-wall. In fact, some 80-minutes of this 99-minute movie carry music! A particular favorite of Broughton’s, the music features a lavish waltz in grand manner during the latter half of the picture as well as always-elegant “classically” drawn main themes that launch the adventure and bring it to a close. In between are ideas by turns sweet (“Homesick”) and exciting (“Bink Finds A Bus”). There’s even a four-note secondary idea, distinctive by its tritone interval, that assumes an important role, underlining the action throughout. It’s fun to hear this score begin in unassuming fashion with just animated violins under solo oboe, then expand into numerous themes and styles, ever symphonic, always melodic, richly harmonic. Bink gets the friendly melody, three robbers get the darker theme. Every instrument in the orchestra has plenty to say. Lengthy sequence at construction site deserves spotlight but two additional highlights earn attention: “The Department Store”, “Street Crossing”. Both cues offer Broughton in rousing major-key adventure mode. The composer at his most resplendent. Entire 80-minute CD mastered from two-track digital scoring session mixes made by Armin Steiner at 20th Century Fox Studios in May & June 1984, all courtesy Fox. Flipper-style booklet designed by Kay Marshall, informative notes by Julie Kirgo highlight handsome package. Triple-threat team of Broughton, Douglass Fake and Nick Redman supervise production. Bruce Broughton composes, orchestrates, conducts. Intrada Special Collection CD available while quantities and interest remain!
01. Main Title (2:26)
02. The Boo Boo Book (1:16)
03. The Three Furies (1:22)
04. The Boys Arrive (1:18)
05. Garment Du Jour (2:41)
06. Stealing Bink (1:43)
07. Changing Bink (1:23)
08. FBI Arrives (0:39)
09. Bink Starts Off (2:55)
10. Baby On The Roof (2:21)
11. Bink Finds A Bus (4:18)
12. The Fat Lady (1:43)
13. The Department Store (2:14)
14. The Taxi (1:48)
15. Not Bink (1:30)
16. Street Crossing (2:15)
17. Baby Tracks (1:11)
18. The Shoelace (1:41)
19. The Mop Bit (1:31)
20. Up In Arms (2:09)
21. The Kid’s Gone Again (1:15)
22. Homesick (1:50)
23. The Rabbit Hole (2:40)
24. Summer Barbecue (4:51)
25. In The Nursery (1:47)
26. The Construction Site (7:28)
27. Veeko’s Next (3:02)
28. Quitting Time (4:41)
29. I Know Where He Is (3:23)
30. Boo Boo At The Tick Tock (1:30)
31. He’s Back (3:30)
32. End Credits (5:03)
Tech Talk From The Producer…
We have mastered this premiere release of Bruce Broughton’s tuneful and energetic score for Baby’s Day Out from the digital two-track scoring session mixes made by Armin Steiner at Twentieth Century Fox Studios in May and June of 1994. The entire production of this CD, from initial mock-ups to final sequencing and mastering, was supervised by Mr. Broughton, for whom this score is a personal favorite.
Surprising all concerned during the production of this album was the fact that the finished score ran a full 80 minutes, a considerable amount of music for a picture running just 19 minutes longer. In a picture like this, the term wall-to-wall scoring most surely applies. In this happy case, it is delightful music from end to end!
—Douglass Fake
Composed and Conducted by Bruce Brougton. Baby’s Day Out Recorded on May 23, 24, 25, 26,and June 2, 3, and 7,1994 at Twentieth Century Fox Studios.
VIOLIN Bruce Dukov
Endre Granat
Kathleen Lenski
Jennifer J. Bellusci Johnson
Dixie Blackstone
Robert L. Brosseau
Rebecca Bunnell Barr
Nicole M. Bush
Eve Butler Sprecher
Andrea Byers
Assa Drori
Charles H. Everett
Michael J. Ferril
Kirstin Fife
Pamela Gates
Jeffrey Gauthier
Harris Goldman
Tiffany Yi Hu
Karen Jones
Leslie Katz
Peter Kent
Razdan Kuyumjian
Norma Leonard
Robin Lorentz
Joy Lyle Yoko Matsuda
Liane Mautner Reynolds
Cynthia L. McGurtyMoussas
Constance Meyer
Dennis Molchan
Lisa Monte
Carolyn Osborn
Barbra Porter
Christopher Reutinger
Robert Schumitzky
Kwihee Shamban Kahng
Jean Sudbury
Hugo Robert
Sushel Kimiyo
Takeya Florence Titmus
Pamela Tompkins
Olivia Yi
Tsui Miwako Watanabe
Elizabeth Wilson
Vivian Wo
FLUTE Susan Greenberg
David Shostac
Sheridon W. Stokes
Cynthia Ellis
Gary Foster
Stephen Kujala
VIOLA Laura Kuennen-Poper
Evan N. Wilson
Brian Dembow
Steven A. Gordon
Miriam Granat Meyer
Peter Hatch
Scott Haupert
Carole Kleister-Castillo
Renita Koven
Linda S. Lipsett
Jorge Moraga
Carole S. Mukogawa
Simon Oswell
Karie L. Prescott
Jody Rubin
John Scanlon K
Kimberly Wilkins
Herschel Wise
CELLO Ronald Leonard
Frederick Seykora
Delores Bing
Virginia Burward-Hoy
Larry Corbett
Stephen P. Erdody
Christine Ermacoff
Judith Henderson Johnson
Timothy E. Landauer
Roger Lebow
Earl Madison
Michael Mathews
David Shamban
Daniel W. Smith
OBOE John Ellis
Jon Clarke
Barbara Northcutt
Kathleen T. Robinson
Joel Timm
CLARINET Emily Bernstein
Gary G. Gray
Debra Lee Kanter
Steven A. Roberts
Ralph Williams
BASSOON David W. Riddles
Carol Greenfield
Michele Grego
Patricia Kindel-Heimerl
FRENCH HORN Jerry Folsom
John A. Reynolds
Mark L. Adams
James Atkinson
Carol Bacon Drake
Steve Durnin
Joseph G. Meyer
TRUMPET Robert W. Frear
Kevin Brown
Mario Guarneri
David W. Washburn
TROMBONE William Broughton
William C. Booth
James Sawyer
Craig E. Ware
TUBA Norma Pearson
BASS Timothy C. Barr
David Young
Constance Deeter
Peter Doubrovsky
Steve Edelman
Donald V. Ferrone
Richard Feves
Jay Grauer
Christian C. Kollgaard
Frances Liu Wu
Norman Ludwin
Barry Newton
PERCUSSION Kenneth E. Watson
Jerry D. Williams
Dale L. Anderson
Wade C. Culbreath
Tommy Vig
Donald J. Williams
HARP Marcia Dickstein
Lou Ann Neill
KEYBOARDS Bruce Broughton
Ralph E. Grierson
David Loeb
Rick Marvin
Thomas Ranier
Chet Swiatkowski
COPYISTS Stuart Balcomb
Julian Bratolyubov
Philip W. Azelton
Sarah Bonebrake
Terence A. Bonnell
Jack DuLong
Judy Dvorak
Stacey Gillingham
Zinovy Goro
Wendy L. Hall
Steven Juliani
Jon K. Marquart
Dean Mora
Mikhail Morgovsky
Randolph Rayburn
Kendall Schmidt
Robert G. Skinnell
Ronald Vermillion
Terry O. Wolff
Lev Yevstiefyev
