SOUNDTRACK TRIVIA

The love theme, "Can You Read My Mind", was a Top 40 hit for Maureen McGovern (then the Queen of Movie Themes, having hit the charts earlier with "The Morning After (Song from "The Poseidon Adventure")", and "We May Never Love This Way Again (from "Towering Inferno"). Her version, however, does not appear in the movie or its soundtrack.

Another pop song does appear in "Superman" - in the extended version, Gene Hackman sits at the piano and performs "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" just as Miss Teschmacher is lowered into the alligator pit.

Two "source songs" (that is, previously released or recorded songs that are heard in the background), Bill Haley and the Comets' "Rock Around The Clock" and the Platters' "Only You" (heard in the Superboy/Smallville sequences) can only be found in the theatrical version.

All versions feature a third "source song", "Give A Little Bit" by Supertramp, a ten-second segment being heard just before the earthquake hits in the second half of the film. Though also not on the soundtrack album, it can be found on Supertramp's 1977 album "Even In The Quietest Moments".

The original recording of John Williams superb score, as it appears on the double record vinyl release and on the SUPERMAN THE MOVIE soundtrack itself, was supposed to have upset Mr. WIlliams considerably, and with good reason: the sound quality was awful. The London Symphony Orchestra ain't no small elementary school marching band, yet they sound that way on the recording: shrill, compressed, and full of audio drop-outs. The CD release in 1990 was a tremendous improvement, but the audio was not improved for the widescreen release on laserdisc.

Most of the cues on the LP didn't appear in the theatrical release version of the film, but ended up in the expanded version. For example, "Destruction Of Krypton" is actually the first part of the cue for the title scene. The last section of the LP cue itself(as well as other music cues heard on the album) did not appear in the film, but can be heard in the EXPANDED VERSION of the movie.

The March Of The Villains is a concert arrangement and is not in the movie.

The Main Title on the LP was especially done for the LP. (If you listen to the Movie Main title, you can hear the difference with the LP version).

The second part of the End Title, (March section) is actually the film version of the "Main Title".

The Love Theme from Superman is the second part of the END TITLE in the actual movie in edited form.

The drum roll and BOOM at the end of "Superfeats" on the original LP and CD actually was meant to underscore Krypton's explosion, in the Expanded version of Superman this is heard in its proper place.

Part of "Lex Luthor's Lair" (featured on the original double LP and not on the CD) can be heard in it's proper place in the expanded version of the movie.