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“Jack’s Lament” is the eerie but romantic “I am” song for Jack Skellington,
the Pumpkin King, in the stop-motion film The Nightmare Before
Christmas (1993). Danny Elfman, who wrote the haunting song, did the
singing vocals for Jack as he strolls through a cemetery and admits to himself
that he finds the thrill of Halloween is gone and he hopes for more out
of life than the usual sounds of screams.
“John Colter” is the cowboy ballad written by George Bruns (music) and
Tom W. Blackburn (lyric) for the adventure movie Westward Ho the Wagons!
(1956), about pioneers traveling the Oregon Trail. To entertain the
members of a wagon train at night, Dr. John Grayson (Fess Parker) plays
his guitar and sings this narrative ballad about the brave mountain man
John Colter, who was captured by Indians while trapping in the wilderness,
but escaped and ran three miles to safety. The song, which is sometimes
listed as “The Ballad of John Colter,” is both a tall tale and a sincere tribute
to the legendary trapper.
“Johnny and the Sprites” is the tuneful title song for the 2005 television
series about a musician who moves into a secluded house in the woods
where he is the only one able to see invisible sprites. Stephen Schwartz
wrote the pleasing number, in which Johnny (John Tartaglia) sings about
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