Editing Once Upon a Time in America (section)

=== Music ===
The [[film score|musical score]] was composed by Leone's longtime collaborator [[Ennio Morricone]]. "Deborah's Theme" was written for a [[Franco Zeffirelli]] film but was rejected.{{sfn|Frayling|2012|page=427}} The score is also notable for Morricone's incorporation of the music of [[Gheorghe Zamfir]], who plays a [[pan flute]].{{sfn|Frayling|2012|page=427}} Zamfir's flute music was used to similar effect in [[Peter Weir]]'s ''[[Picnic at Hanging Rock (film)|Picnic at Hanging Rock]]'' (1975).{{sfn|Hughes|2006|page=163}}<ref>{{cite web |first=Messrob |last=Torikian |url=http://www.soundtrack.net/albums/database/?id=1894 |title=Once Upon a Time in America (1984) |publisher=Soundtrack |date=August 25, 2003 |access-date=May 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007004241/http://www.soundtrack.net/albums/database/?id=1894 |archive-date=October 7, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> Morricone also collaborated with vocalist [[Edda Dell'Orso]] on the score.

{{Infobox album
| name       = Once Upon a Time in America
| type       = soundtrack
| artist     = [[Ennio Morricone]]
| cover      =
| alt        =
| released   = {{Plainlist|
*June 1, 1984
*October 17, 1995 <small>(Special edition)</small>
}}
| recorded   = December 1983
| venue      =
| studio     = [[Forum Music Village|Forum Studios]], Rome
| genre      = [[Contemporary classical music|Contemporary classical]]
| length     =
| label      = [[Mercury Records]]
| producer   = Ennio Morricone
| prev_title =
| prev_year  =
| next_title =
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| misc       = {{Extra album cover
 | header  = Special Edition cover
 | type    = soundtrack
 | cover   =
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 | alt     =
 | caption = 1995 Special Edition
}}
}}

Besides the original music, the film used [[source music]], including:{{sfn|Hughes|2006|page=162}}
* "[[God Bless America]]" (written by [[Irving Berlin]], performed by [[Kate Smith]] – 1943) – Plays over the opening credits from a radio in Eve's bedroom and briefly at the film's ending.
* "[[Yesterday (Beatles song)|Yesterday]]" (written by [[Lennon–McCartney]] – 1965) – A [[Elevator music|Muzak]] version of this piece plays when Noodles first returns to New York in 1968, examining himself in a train-station mirror. An instrumental version of the song also plays briefly during the dialogue between Noodles and "Bailey" near the film's end.
* "[[Summertime (George Gershwin song)|Summertime]]" (written by [[George Gershwin]] – 1935) An instrumental version of the [[aria]] from the [[opera]] ''[[Porgy and Bess]]'' is playing softly in the background as Noodles, prior to leaving, explains to "Secretary Bailey" why he could never kill his friend.
* "[[Amapola (song)|Amapola]]" (written by [[Joseph Lacalle]], American lyrics by [[Albert Gamse]] – 1923) – Originally an opera piece, several instrumental versions of this song are played during the film; a jazzy version, which plays on the [[Phonograph|gramophone]] danced to by young Deborah in 1918; a similar version performed by Fat Moe's jazz band in the 1930s [[speakeasy]]; and a string version, during Noodles's date with Deborah. Both versions are available on the soundtrack.
* Part of the third theme from the overture to ''[[La gazza ladra]]'' ([[Gioachino Rossini]] – 1817) – Used during the baby-switching scene in the hospital.
* "[[Night and Day (song)|Night and Day]]" (written and sung by [[Cole Porter]] – 1932) – Played by a jazz band during the beach scene before the beachgoers receive word of Prohibition's repeal, and during the party at the house of "Secretary Bailey" in 1968.
* "[[St. James Infirmary Blues]]" is used during the Prohibition "funeral" at the gang's speakeasy.

A [[soundtrack album]] was released in 1984 by [[Mercury Records]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Once Upon a Time in America (1984) Soundtrack |url=http://www.soundtrack.net/album/once-upon-a-time-in-america-morricone/ |website=[[Soundtrack.Net]] |access-date=March 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402143747/http://www.soundtrack.net/album/once-upon-a-time-in-america-morricone/|archive-date=April 2, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> It was followed by a special-edition release in 1995 featuring four additional tracks.<ref>{{cite web |title=Once Upon a Time in America [Special Edition] – Ennio Morricone |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/once-upon-a-time-in-america-special-edition-mw0000473231 |website=[[AllMusic]] |publisher=[[All Media Network]] |access-date=March 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151122080626/http://www.allmusic.com/album/once-upon-a-time-in-america-special-edition-mw0000473231|archive-date=November 22, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

{{Track listing
| headline    = Side one
| title1      = Once Upon a Time in America
| length1     = 2:11
| title2      = Poverty
| length2     = 3:37
| title3      = Deborah's Theme
| length3     = 4:24
| title4      = Childhood Memories
| length4     = 3:22
| title5      = Amapola
| length5     = 5:21
| title6      = Friends
| length6     = 1:34
| title7      = Prohibition Dirge
| length7     = 4:20
}}
{{Track listing
| headline    = Side two
| title8      = Cockeye's Song
| length8     = 4:20
| title9      = Amapola, Part II
| length9     = 3:07
| title10     = Childhood Poverty
| length10    = 1:41
| title11     = Photographic Memories
| length11    = 1:00
| title12     = Friends – Reprise
| length12    = 1:23
| title13     = Friendship & Love
| length13    = 4:14
| title14     = Speakeasy
| length14    = 2:21
| title15     = Deborah's Theme – Amapola
| length15    = 6:13
}}

{{Track listing
| headline    = Bonus tracks (1995 Special Edition)
| title16     = Suite from Once Upon a Time in America (Includes Amapola)
| length16    = 13:32
| title17     = Poverty (Temp. Version)
| length17    = 3:26
| title18     = Unused Theme
| length18    = 4:46
| title19     = Unused Theme (Version 2)
| length19    = 3:38
}}