[1] Badalamenti also composed scores for such films as National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), The City of Lost Children (1995), Holy Smoke!

(1999), and A Very Long Engagement (2004), and recorded songs with artists including Julee Cruise (in collaboration with Lynch), Nina Simone, Shirley Bassey, Pet Shop Boys, Dusty Springfield, Marianne Faithfull, David Bowie, Tim Booth, Siouxsie Sioux and Dolores O'Riordan.

By the time Badalamenti was a teenager, his aptitude at the piano earned him a summer job accompanying singers at resorts in the Catskill Mountains.

[12] After scoring a variety of mainstream films, including A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors[7] and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Badalamenti again collaborated with Lynch in scoring Lynch's television show Twin Peaks, featuring Cruise's vocals on the leading song "Falling".

Other Lynch projects Badalamenti worked on include the movies Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Lost Highway, The Straight Story, Mulholland Drive (in which he has a small role as a gangster with a finicky taste for espresso), and Rabbits, and the television shows On the Air and Hotel Room.

[20] He also worked on the soundtrack for the video game Fahrenheit (known as Indigo Prophecy in North America), and wrote the music for Paul Schrader's films Auto Focus, The Comfort of Strangers, and Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist.

[20] In 1995, he asked Marianne Faithfull to write lyrics for a song for the soundtrack of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's The City of Lost Children; the result was "Who Will Take My Dreams Away".

[1] That night, he performed a concert at the piano with the Brussels Philharmonic orchestra directed by Dirk Brossé, with Siouxsie Sioux and Beth Rowley on vocals.

[27] On July 23, 2011, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers gave Badalamenti the Henry Mancini Award for his accomplishments in film and television music.

In 1964, he contributed to Beatlemania by arranging, conducting, and co-writing a Christmas novelty single, "Santa, Bring Me Ringo", which was performed by Christine Hunter.

[7] In 1967, using the name Andy Badale, he co-wrote a song, "Pioneers of the Stars", for Perrey and Kingsley's next album, Kaleidoscopic Vibrations: Electronic Pop Music From Way Out.

[34] Badalementi conceived entire albums with singers such as Julee Cruise, Marianne Faithfull and Tim Booth of the band James.

[35] Also in 1993, he collaborated with thrash metal band Anthrax on the Twin Peaks-inspired track "Black Lodge" from the album Sound of White Noise.

The performance was held at Ace Hotel Los Angeles and included Julee Cruise and other artists known for collaborating with Lynch.