Learning that Erickson "got paid to put cool old songs in movies," she begged to be her assistant, and moved back to Los Angeles.
[1] In 1992, producer Stacey Sher introduced Rachtman to Quentin Tarantino, who was working on his feature-length debut, Reservoir Dogs.
[1] He was determined to use the Stealers Wheel song "Stuck in the Middle With You" for a pivotal scene, and the music supervisor on the film had been unable to secure the necessary rights.
[12] Rachtman brought the soundtrack album to MCA,[13] and the resulting record deal paid for the music that was ultimately used in the film.
"[15] In 1994, Rachtman worked on 15 films, including two, simultaneously: Reality Bites, with director Ben Stiller, and Pulp Fiction with Tarantino.
[12] The Reality Bites soundtrack was one of the biggest records of the year; its lead single, Lisa Loeb's "Stay (I Missed You)," was the first song by an independent artist to hit #1 on the Billboard Pop Charts.
[18][19][20] By the end of the 1990s, Rachtman had music supervised or executive produced soundtracks for Clueless, Get Shorty, [21] The Basketball Diaries, Romeo + Juliet, Grace of My Heart, Boogie Nights, Bulworth and The Rugrats Movie, among others.
[22] She had worked closely with Amy Heckerling, Baz Luhrmann, Paul Thomas Anderson, Warren Beatty, Allison Anders and Robert Rodriguez, and become one of the most sought-after music supervisors in the film industry.
[29] After leaving Interscope, Rachtman once again worked independently, subsequently music supervising films including Laurel Canyon, North Country, Holes and the SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
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