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Road to Perdition is the soundtrack

Soundtrack

A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...

, on the Decca Records

Decca Records

Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....

label, of the 2002 Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated film

Film

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Road to Perdition
Road to Perdition
Road to Perdition is a 2002 American crime film directed by Sam Mendes. The screenplay was adapted by David Self, from the graphic novel of the same name by Max Allan Collins. The film stars Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, and Daniel Craig...

starring Tyler Hoechlin

Tyler Hoechlin

Tyler Lee Hoechlin is an American actor who got his big break starring as Tom Hanks' son in the film Road to Perdition...

, Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks

Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks is an American actor, producer, writer, and director. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies, gaining wide notice in 1988's Big, before achieving success as a dramatic actor in several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, the title...

, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Jennifer Jason Leigh is an American film and stage actress, best known for her roles in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Single White Female, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Georgia and Short Cuts...

, Jude Law

Jude Law

David Jude Heyworth Law , known professionally as Jude Law, is an English actor, film producer and director.He began acting with the National Youth Music Theatre in 1987, and had his first television role in 1989...

, Daniel Craig

Daniel Craig

Daniel Wroughton Craig is an English actor. His early film roles include Elizabeth, The Power of One, A Kid in King Arthur's Court and the television episodes Sharpe's Eagle, Zorro and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Daredevils of the Desert...

and Paul Newman

Paul Newman

Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver and auto racing enthusiast...

. The original score was composed by Thomas Newman

Thomas Newman

Thomas Montgomery Newman is an American composer and conductor, best known for his many film scores. He is one of the more respected and recognized composers for modern film and has scored over fifty feature films in a career which spans nearly three decades.Newman has received a total of ten...

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The album was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score

Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for Original Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.-Superlatives:...

, but lost to the score of Frida
Frida (soundtrack)
Frida is the original soundtrack album, on the Universal label, of the 2002 Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning film Frida starring Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Mía Maestro and Ashley Judd. The original score was composed by Elliot Goldenthal...

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Track listing

"Rock Island, 1931" – 3:22
"Wake" – 1:55
"Just the Feller" – 2:44
"Mr. Rance" – 1:38
"Bit Borrowers" – 2:25
"Murder (in Four Parts)" – 7:54
"Road to Chicago" – 3:06
"Reading Room" – 1:25
"Someday Sweetheart
Someday Sweetheart
"Someday Sweetheart" is a jazz standard written by Los Angeles-based musicians John and Reb Spikes in 1919. It was the biggest hit the brothers wrote, and was performed by many recording artists of the period. The first one to record the tune was blues singer Alberta Hunter...

" – 3:06
- Performed by The Charleston Chasers
"Meet Maguire" – 1:44
"Blood Dog" – 1:06
"Finn McGovern" – 2:11
"The Farm" – 2:09
"Dirty Money" – 3:10
"Rain Hammers" – 2:41
"A Blind Eye" – 2:27
"Nothing to Trade" – 2:25
"Queer Notions" – 2:46
- Performed by Fletcher Henderson
  Fletcher Henderson
  James Fletcher Hamilton Henderson, Jr. was an American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer, important in the development of big band jazz and swing music. His was one of the most prolific black orchestras and his influence was vast...
  
  & His Orchestra
"Virgin Mary" – 1:34
"Shoot the Dead" – 2:25
"Grave Drive" – 1:20
"Cathedral" – 2:40
- Performed by Choir of King's College
"There'll Be Some Changes Made
There'll Be Some Changes Made
"There'll Be Some Changes Made" is a popular song with music by Benton Overstreet and lyrics by Billy Higgins, published in 1921. The song is a jazz standard, with many recordings having been made.-References in popular culture:...

" – 2:59
- Performed by the Chicago Rhythm Kings
"Ghosts" – 3:40
"Lexington Hotel, Room 1432" – 1:45
"Road to Perdition" – 3:55
"Perdition – Piano Duet" – 1:39
- Performed by Tom Hanks
  Tom Hanks
  Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks is an American actor, producer, writer, and director. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies, gaining wide notice in 1988's Big, before achieving success as a dramatic actor in several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, the title...
  
  and Paul Newman
  Paul Newman
  Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver and auto racing enthusiast...

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