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Planes Trains & Automobiles Song?

I was in a store the other day that was playing satellite radio and a song came on called Candy Man and I am positive that the opening riff (maybe it's not the opening riff but it's definitely in the song somewhere) was the same exact riff you hear in Planes, Trains when Steve Martin realizes that his car is not in space V-5 in the car rental lot. It's a bluesy, harmonica type sound.

I've searched everywhere on the web and I can't find that version of Candy Man. It's the Candy Man made famous by Roy Orbison (written by Fred Neil) not the one by Sammi Davis or Mississippi John Hurt and its making me crazy because not only was it a great version (which I'd like to download) but I need to know if that little riff in the movie came from that song...

I've never seen any reference to this song being in the movie so I could be mistaken and it's very difficult to search for a song with 'Candy' in the title when one of the stars of the movie is named Candy... so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks :-)

thwizzit, April 10, 2010; 7:28 PM

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What you are hearing in the movie is not a song, but a score cue -- any similarity to the "Candy Man" song is coincidental. The score was composed by Ira Newborn, and it is unreleased. He used that theme at least two other times in the film as well.

tharpdevenport, April 11, 2010; 8:24 PM


I love that music. To bad it's just a film score...

kbskyle, April 20, 2010; 9:15 PM


Now, if either of you want to contact me about that piece...

moc.liamtoh@naggobnitsuj

(reverse it; trying to fight spam here)

EDIT: PM me at maintitles.net or jerrygoldsmithonline.com/forum

tharpdevenport, March 26, 2015; 1:13 AM

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