Various Artists - A Tribute to Martin Scorsese : The Finest Selection of Martin Scorsese's Soundtracks (2026)

Scorsese Sounds: A Tribute to Martin Scorsese is a curated compilation released by French independent label Wagram Music in April 2026 as a double vinyl LP. The collection gathers the key tracks associated with the films of Martin Scorsese — a director for whom music is not decoration but the very grammar of cinematic storytelling.
Scorsese transformed the needle drop into a high art form. Since Mean Streets (1973), where he spent a significant portion of his modest budget licensing rock hits, he has consistently used pre-existing recordings to shape meaning rather than merely underscore it. His approach — selecting songs that comment on a scene "in an oblique way," as he once described it — became one of the defining hallmarks of American cinema over the following fifty years, influencing filmmakers from Quentin Tarantino to Wes Anderson.
The tracklist reads as a guided tour through his filmography. Tony Bennett's "Rags to Riches" exploded over the opening credits of GoodFellas (1990), fusing the glamour of lush brass with Henry Hill's criminal ascent. Howlin' Wolf's "Smokestack Lightning" turned the payday debauchery of Jordan Belfort's office in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) into something primal and nightmarish. Ray Charles' "Come Rain or Come Shine," Santo & Johnny's "Sleep Walk," Muddy Waters' "Hoochie Coochie Man" — each track carries the imprint of a specific scene, a specific moral turning point.
Spanning Glenn Miller's prewar jazz, Benny Goodman's swing, 1950s doo-wop from The Harptones, early R&B, and the raw energy of The Cramps, the compilation mirrors the jukebox logic of Scorsese's soundtracks: tracks are chosen not by genre but by emotional truth. More than a tribute, this double LP is an archaeology of a singular cinematic ear.

Tracklist:
1-1 Dean Martin - You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You [2:12]
1-2 Tony Bennett - Rags to Riches [2:49]
1-3 The Ink Spots - Whispering Grass (Don't Tell the Trees) [2:38]
1-4 The Shirelles - I Met Him on a Sunday (aka "Da Doo Ron Ron") [2:14]
1-5 Robert & Johnny - You're Mine [2:34]
1-6 Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning [3:05]
1-7 The Cramps - The Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon [3:09]
1-8 Jimmy Smith - Walk on the Wild Side [5:54]
1-9 Jimpson & Group - The Murderer's Home [0:48]
1-10 Santo & Johnny - Sleep Walk [3:11]
1-11 Lonnie Johnson - Tomorrow Night [3:05]
1-12 Glenn Miller - Moonlight Serenade [3:19]
1-13 Muddy Waters - Hoochie Coochie Man [2:49]
1-14 Johann Strauss I;The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra - Radetzky March [2:49]
1-15 The Harptones - Life Is but a Dream [2:40]
1-16 Bing Crosby With Victor Young's Orchestra - Just One More Chance (1931 Single Version) [3:27]
1-17 Charlie Parker - I'll Remember April [3:02]
1-18 Johnnie Ray - Cry [3:02]
1-19 Benny Goodman;Benny Goodman Sextet - Moonglow [3:25]
1-20 Lavern Baker;LaVern Baker - Tweedlee Dee [3:07]
1-21 Frankie Carle - I Want a Girl (Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad) [2:50]
1-22 Ray Charles - Come Rain or Come Shine [3:37]
1-23 Bo Diddley;BO DIDDLEY - Road Runner [2:45]
1-24 Brenda Lee - I'm Sorry [2:12]
1-25 The Marvelettes - Please Mr. Postman [2:28]
1-26 Jackie Gleason - Melancholy Serenade [3:15]
1-27 The Hot Club of France;Django Reinhardt - What Is This Thing Called Love [2:06]
1-28 The Danleers - One Summer Night [2:39]