Jack's Lament | Demo | Danny Elfman | The Nightmare Before Christmas

Here's the demo to "Jack's Lament" from The Nightmare Before Christmas as sung by composer and lyricist Danny Elfman. The final animation has been synced to match the recording.
The sixth collaboration between Elfman and the film's producer Tim Burton, Elfman has since described the project as "one of the easiest jobs I've ever had." Working without a screenplay, according to Elfman, “Tim would show me sketches and drawings, and he would tell me the story, describe it in bits of phrases and words. And I would say, ‘Yeah, I got it.’ Three days later, I had a song.” ("Danny Elfman can relate to ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’ hero Jack Skellington." LA Times.)
The ease may have been due to his own life at the time, with his relationship with Oingo Boingo, the band he had been the frontman of for nearly twenty years, nearing it's end, telling the LA Times in 2015, “It was exactly the time of my life where I was saying to the band that this might be my last year. They didn’t believe me, but I felt like Jack from where I was in life… I was writing from my own feelings of being the king of my own world and from which I wanted out.”
Elfman would go on to provide the singing voice of Jack Skellington in the film, though according to director Henry Selick, "When Danny tried to do the speaking voice of Jack as well as the singing voice, it just wasn’t up to the level of his singing, so we got Chris Sarandon to do Jack’s speaking voice. Tim and Danny have mended fences over the years, but it really upset Danny when I had to replace his speaking voice, and I had to go to Tim to do it." ("Henry Selick on Directing ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’." The Daily Beast.)
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[@protomenfan200x]

It’s ironic that the demo version more like an Oingo Boingo song, with the synth sounds in place of the real orchestra

[@GabePickles3837]

It also gives off Thomas and Friends vibes to me. Not surprised because Danny Elfman used the E-mu Proteus 2 for the orchestral sounds here.

[@maxwellwalcher1441]

try Town meeting song soundtrack version.

[@Pedram_Aphotic]

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