Home Alone (soundtrack)

Home Alone: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Film score by
ReleasedDecember 4, 1990
RecordedSeptember – November 1990
Studio20th Century Fox Scoring Stage
Genre
Length56:58
LabelCBS Masterworks
John Williams chronology
Stanley & Iris
(1990)
Home Alone: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(1990)
Hook
(1991)
Home Alone chronology
Home Alone
(1990)
Home Alone 2
(1992)
Singles from Home Alone: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
  1. "Somewhere in My Memory"
    Released: 1990

Home Alone: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack of the 1990 film of the same name. The score was composed and conducted by John Williams, performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score; the film's signature tune "Somewhere in My Memory" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media.

"Somewhere in My Memory" was written to "run alongside the film" by Williams, with lyrics by Leslie Bricusse. It can be heard in numerous sections of the film, either in full length or fragments, forming the backbone for the film's soundtrack. "Somewhere in My Memory" is performed in many Christmas concerts in schools or professional orchestras and choirs alike across the globe. A version in Spanish was recorded in Spain for the ending credits of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. This version was performed by singer Ana Belén and is entitled "Sombras de otros tiempos" ("Shadows of Other/Former Times"). Making the Plane is inspired by Trepak by Tchaikovsky.