Beyond the Forest-Steiner-built around Chicago tune

First to Fight-Fred Steiner-has a lot of good original music, but several themes in the film-are based on As Time Goes By-by Hupfeld and used by Max in Casablanca. It is seen in the film and the love themes and "cowardly" scenes use this theme. Very effective in the scenes where Chad Everett turns "chicken" and the tune is overlaid with some good suspense music

Ry Cooder's score for Geronimo is built around the "Southern Harmony" traditional tune of the Old South-works well

Goldsmith's use of Valkyries music in King Solomon's Mines-very good arrangement for the silly comedy-adventure for the inept Germans

Newman's use of the Auld Ayne Syne-New Year's Eve tune in many of his early scores
Friedhofer's use of the classical piece "everyone uses" in Between Heaven and Hell in the main title music. Fried uses this in some of his horror music and Bernstein uses it some too especially in Marie Ward and others

Steiner's Searchers score built around the traditional song heard all through the film

Newman's use of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair and another traditional song in Come and Get It

And in lots of war docs and WWII films by Newman and others, the use of the German traditional song representing that country

Many others. Best, John.

A few years ago, the movie One Fine Day used the old 60’s song of the
same title for parts of its score. Howard Shore incorporated the melody
to Heart and Soul into his score for Big, not just in the jumping piano part
but also in the end credits. Today on AMC, I could hear parts of North’s
Cheyenne Autumn in the background, and he used several folk songs in
his underscore.

The James Stewart movie Shenandoah with music by Frank Skinner uses
that main song (which I assume wasn’t by Skinner) throughout the whole
picture. (What a tear jerker.) What about How The West Was Won? I know
Newman did the fabulous music, but I always thought some of Reynold’s songs
(Greensleeves for instance) and We Are Bound For The Promise Land were source
music, not Newman’s. He frequently uses those melodies in his underscore.