The score was orchestrated by Williams, Herbert W. Spencer, Alexander Courage, Angela Morley and Arthur Morton.
It is also referenced in Jerry Goldsmith's score to the 1984 film Supergirl during a scene in which the title character sees a poster of Superman.
Blake Neely, the composer for the Arrowverse crossover "Crisis on Infinite Earths", incorporated the march theme and "Can You Read My Mind?"
[5] Gunn later confirmed that the theme would also be included in John Murphy's score of the film itself, as a tribute to when he first heard it as a child.
These are regularly performed in symphony and pops concerts, including those by composer John Williams, and have also been featured in re-recordings for various CD compilations.
When extensive efforts to locate them failed, a team of orchestrators reconstructed the music from John Williams' 8-12 stave composer sketches; thus there are subtle differences which may be noted in a number of the cues when compared to their original counterparts.
This release restores the complete score from newly discovered high quality original masters and includes previously unreleased material.
Unlike the prior Rhino Records release, this version of the soundtrack did not include any of the source music cues.
The recording engineer was John Richards, assisted by Tim Pennington and James Abramson, and the music editor was Bob Hathaway.
[citation needed] Ken Thorne was given a freer hand in the scoring of Superman III in accordance with the series' change in direction and more comedic tone.
Thorne also supplied a love theme for Lana Lang and Clark Kent, based on a melody written for the film by Giorgio Moroder.
These included three sung versions (with lyrics by Keith Forsey) of songs heard as source music in the film, plus Moroder's love theme for Clark Kent and Lana Lang (used by Thorne as the basis for his own theme), and ending with a completely synthesized version of the Superman II main title march.
Additional recording took place May 23 – June 2, 1987, at CTS Studios (The Music Centre) in Wembley, Middlesex, England, performed by the National Philharmonic Orchestra.
[citation needed] John Williams composed three new themes for Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, attaching to three new characters.
At the urging of visual effects supervisor Harrison Ellenshaw, two action scenes were reinstated for the international version, which ran 92 minutes and was later shown on U.S. television.
As a result of this cutting of running time, much of the music was not heard and "Jeremy's Theme" in particular was virtually undetectable in the final version.
As with Superman III, it was to contain several songs (by Paul Fishman of Re-Flex) and a small sampling of the score by Alexander Courage (adapting John Williams' themes).
Also included were all of Paul Fishman's songs created for the deleted Metro Club disco and other scenes in the film.
Tracks in italics were intended to be released on the cancelled soundtrack album (Jerry Lee Lewis's "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On", heard in the film, would also have been included).
The score was composed by John Ottman, conducted by Damon Intrabartolo, with orchestrations provided by Ottman, Intrabartolo, Rick Giovinazzo, Kevin Kliesch, Frank Macchia, Lior Rosner, Jeffrey Schindler and John Ashton Thomas and was performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony.
Director Bryan Singer originally wanted John Williams to score the film, but Williams declined due to working on Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith at the time; he had also turned down an offer to score Richard Donner's version of Superman II for the same reason.
Director Zack Snyder's 2013 reboot of the series, Man of Steel, is scored by Hans Zimmer, and is the first Superman film not to use any of Williams' themes.
The TV theme for the 1950s series Adventures of Superman, starring George Reeves, had the unusual lead-in of a harp playing a kind of stringed "drumroll" as the camera moved through space, segueing into a dramatic brass triad accompanied by cymbals, drums, etc., at the moment when a shooting star explodes on the screen and the title card appears.
One particularly notable instance was a cue called "Tumult and Commotion", extracted from Miklos Rozsa's "Theme, Variations, and Finale", Op.
This short-lived series (13 episodes) was distinctive for its "Superman's Family Album" vignettes, which each presented an event from some point during Clark Kent's Smallville upbringing.