Episode Music
Season 1
Episode 1.01: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Closing Song: On the Street Where You Live (from My Fair Lady)
Episode 1.02: Ladies Room
Featured: I Can Dream, Can’t I, The Andrews Sisters
Closing Song: The Great Divide, The Cardigans
Episode 1.03: The Marriage of Figaro
Closing Song: PS, I Love You, Bobby Vinton
Episode 1.04: New Amsterdam
Closing Song: We’ll Take Manhattan, Ella Fitzgerald
Episode 1.05: 5G
Featured: Blue in Green, Miles Davis
Episode 1.06: Babylon
Closing Song: Babylon, Original Cast Recording (Written by Don McLean)
Episode 1.07: Red in the Face
Closing Song: Botch-A-Me (Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina), Rosemary Clooney
Episode 1.08: The Hobo Code
Featured:The Twist, Chubby Checker
Episode 1.09: Shoot
Closing Song: My Special Angel , Bobby Helms
Episode 1.10: Long Weekend
Featured: Volare, The McGuire Sisters
Episode 1.11: Indian Summer
Featured: Agua de Beber, Astrud Gilberto
Episode 1.12: Nixon vs. Kennedy
Featured: Metro Polka, Frankie Laine
Episode 1.13: The Wheel
Closing Song: Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright, Bob Dylan
Season 2
Episode 2.07: The Gold Violin
Closing Song: Break it to Me Gently, Brenda Lee
Season 3
Episode 3.03: My Old Kentucky Home
My Old Kentucky Home is sung by Roger during the episode
Paul and Jeff sing Hello My Baby
Episode 3.04: The Arrangements
Closing Song: Over There
Episode 3.06: Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency
Shortly before the lawnmower scene: Come on Twist, Jody Reynolds
Closing Song: Song to Woody, Bob Dylan
Episode 3.08: Souvenir
Closing Song: There’s a Small Hotel
Episode 3.09: Wee Small Hours
Closing Song: Prelude to a Kiss
Episode 3.11: The Gypsy and the Hobo
Closing Song: Where is Love, Oliver!
Episode 3.12: The Grown-Ups
Cosing song: The End of the World, Skeeter Davis (1962)
Ep 3.13: Shut the Door. Have a Seat
Closing song: Shahdaroba, Roy Orbison
Season 4
Ep 4.01: Public Relations
Closing song: Tobacco Road, The Nashville Teens
Ep 4.02: Christmas Comes But Once a Year
Closing song: I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, Teresa Brewer
Ep 4.03: The Good News
Featured: Sidewalk Surfin’, Jan and Dean
Featured: Old Cape Cod, Patti Page
Sung by a character: The House of the Rising Sun
Ep 4.05: The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Closing song: I Enjoy Being a Girl sung by Doris Day
Ep 4.06: Waldorf Stories
Closing song: Up the Ladder of Success, Skeeter Davis
Ep 4.07: The Suitcase
Closing song: Bleecker Street, Simon and Garfunkel
Ep 4.08: The Summer Man
Featured song: Satisfaction, The Rolling Stones
Featured song: The Big Rock Candy Mountain (while the children play musical chairs)
Ep 4.09: The Beautiful Girls
Stan Rizzo sings Petula Clark’s Downtown.
Petula Clark’s I Know a Place was heard in the PJ Clarke’s scene.
Ep 4.10: Hands and Knees
Closing song: Do You Want To Know a Secret?, The Beatles (a non-Beatles instrumental version)
Ep 4.11: Chinese Wall
Closing song: Welcome to My World, Jim Reeves
Ep 4.12: Blowing Smoke
Closing song: Trust in Me, Etta James
Ep 4.13: Tomorrowland
The song that Megan teaches the children is Il était un petit navire ( There Was A Little Ship), discussed here.
Featured (when Don jumps into the pool): Hot Dog, Here He Comes, Tri-Lites.
Featured (in the California diner): The Name Game, Shirley Ellis
Closing song: I’ve Got You, Babe, Sonny and Cher
Season 5
Ep 5.01: A Little Kiss Part 1
Featured (played as an instrumental at a party): The In Crowd
Featured (sung by Megan): Zou Bisou Bisou, by Gillian Hills
Ep 5.02: A Little Kiss Part 2
Closing song: You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, Dusty Springfield.
Ep 5.03: Tea Leaves
Closing song: Sixteen Going on Seventeen, from The Sound of Music.
Ep 5.04: Mystery Date
Closing song: He Hit Me and It Felt Like a Kiss, by The Crystals (written by Carol King and Gerry Goffin).
Ep 5.05: Signal 30
Featured: Beethoven’s 9th, 2nd movement, the scherzo, played by Pete on his new stereo.
Closing song: Beethoven’s 9th, Ode to Joy.
Ep 5.06: Far Away Places
Featured: The Beach Boys, “I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times,” played at the LSD party.
Featured: The Beatles, “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”—Don whistles it in his flashback of coming home from Disneyland.
Ep 5.08: Lady Lazarus
Featured: September in the Rain, performed by The Wedgewoods, was suggested by Ken as a substitute for the Beatles for the Chevalier Blanc ad.
Featured: Don listens to Tomorrow Never Knows from Revolver (The Beatles).
Closing Song: Tomorrow Never Knows continues.
Wahoo! Thanks for this. The music is sometimes the uncredited co-star of MadMen,
Ladies, that wasn't Jimmy Boyd singing I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus in Ep. 4.02. His version was more nasal and country sounding. He was also young enough to have trouble with the letter S so he slurred some of the words. I think this is a recording done by thirteen year old Molly Bee.
It was Teresa Brewer singing I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.
She recorded the song in 1958.
You can tell it is her by the way she sing "tickle." :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTQa8YdIEkA
Thanks, fixed.
Does anyone know what music is playing at the party Peggy went to with Joyce in Episode 4 ("The Rejected)? My friend claims it dates from a later period and is all wrong — "no one played guitar like that in 1965." I can't imagine Matt W making that kind of error. Please advise.
Sally,
It sounded like the Animals to me, but I can't figure out what song. I would love to know though as I would like to hear it again.
What was the closing song in Episode 4.03???
Took me nearly 2 years to find the answer- It’s David Carbonara’s “Pacific Coast Highway”!!!
Does anyone know where/how I could purchase this song for my music library??
Maybe someone could post this to the above list… xxxx
Someone will when someone has free time.
Ep 1.01 also features "Caravan" by Gordon Jenkins (as Don takes the train home at the end). I think the version of "On the Street Where You Live" is by Vic Damone
On Aug 19 Sally D asked: Does anyone know what music is playing at the party Peggy went to with Joyce in Episode 4 (“The Rejected)?
I noticed the song immediately; It is called Signed DC by Love. Love was an LA group that played on Sunset Strip and released albums in the mid sixties along with The Doors and Buffalo Springfield. Their eponymous first album was released in March '66 on Elecktra. http://www.discogs.com/Love-Love/release/1807187
BTW, the guitar player was Bryan MacLean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_MacLean
and he was amazing.
Re: Episode 4's usage of Signed D.C. (a handle I've been using for ages since those are my initials)…as Richard43 states, the song was originally by Love, but my ears told me and my garage-rock-lovin' husband and friends that the version used in the show is a cover. I wasn't sure who it was when I heard it because we don't have the compilation on which the cover appears, but according the the "Music of Mad Men" blog, apparently the band was the Brave New World. The track appears on a comp called Northwest Battle of the Bands Vol. 1.
http://mediocremusicblog.com/2010/07/the-music-of…
You can hear the track on the band's myspace page. I'm not 100% convinced it's them yet, I'll have to go back to the episode to compare & contrast to be sure.
http://www.myspace.com/thebravenewworld1966
No matter whose cover it is though, since it wasn't released in any form until '66, its usage was a major anachronistic boo-boo!!!
What I couldn't recognize at all was the almost Middle-Eastern- droney/Velvetsy stuff playing at the beginning of the loft party as Peggy arrived. Has anyone identified that, or is it a deliberate Carbonara-composed VU pastiche?
Ep 4:05 — version of "I Enjoy Being a Girl" is sung by Doris Day.
Re: Signed D.C. again…I did my compare and contrast, and now I do believe the “Music of Mad Men” blog is correct about it being Brave New World’s version. According to the Garage Comp Database at ugly-things.com, it was released in February of ’67, making this an even bigger musical ooops!!!
Episode 3.03 My Old Kentucky Home closed with Ben Webster’s wonderful rendition of “Memories Of You” …
What was the music in the final scene of episode 9?
The romantic piece?
Anyone?
@Summer Man, it sounds like a period piece but no one seems to any idea what the song during the closing credits was. It’s as if it was tailored for the mood of the episode, too. So maybe a new original piece by David Carbonara? I hope not, because it would mean that we’ll have to wait until they issue a new soundtrack.
I need to know: what was the song during the closing credits of “Out of Town” (season 3, episode 1)? It was so good.
The instrumental version of “Do You Want to Know a Secret?” is actually by the Italian American brothers, Santo & Johnny.
In Ep 4.03: The Good News, the club singer (whose Mom says will be the next Bob Dylan) sang “House of the Rising Sun”.
It was originally a British folk song and the version by The Animals was a big hit, which was heard a lot on radio, beginning in the Spring of 1964.
Smiler, God knows I appreciate the contributions, but House of the Rising Sun was already there.
When we update the page with everyone’s contributions, we’ll be deleting comments, so no one panic.
S2-Ep12- The closing credits goes out with George Jones singing Cup Of Loneliness.
i’m not quite sure but I think during the one of the party scenes in Nixon vs. Kennedy, they play Hot Dog, Here He Comes by the Tri-Lites. It’s in the background but I think it’s that song.
Also, does anybody know the jazz song that plays during My Old Kentucky Home?
Does anyone know the Pop-music played in S4E4 while Peggy smoke the pot in the party (joyce kissed she).
not the Signed DC
thanks！
In episode 1:01 Who sang “On the Street Where you live”
I think that was Vic Damone’s hit version.
Season 2/Ep2 should list the Opening Song as “Leavin’ on a Jet Plane.”
“I’ve Got You Babe” is of course the recurring wake up song in Groundhog Day. Don’s awakening to the song in Tomorrowland’s final scene is either meaningful or a homage to the very clever movie.
signed dc and arp:i’m also looking for that track madly!is there a way to find out?
i found it!it’s micky moody – ruby in the dust!can’t get to download it tough..
Does anyone know what’s the Song in the Closing Credits of Season 4 Episode 4 “The Rejected ” ??? It’s intrumental…I ‘ve been looking everywhere and noone seems to have even noticed of it , even though it excited me from the very first moment…Please, if you have a clue…
I’m also trying to find the song played while peggy smoke’s the pot at the party! (Not the song: signed d.c.!)
My iPhone app ‘Shazam’ says its: Micky Moody – Ruby in the Dust. But I cant find, download or buy the song anywhere!
Someone please help
As I recall from discussion at the time, it is not available, Steven, sorry.
His band might have called been The RoadRunners back then, and they did play at happenings and such, but they might not have recorded much.
Although “A Little Kiss” was a little flat and the sound was noisy and ‘tinny’, closing with Dusty Springfield was a saving grace for me. What an icon of the times…
This is a great website. I am struggling trying to find the opening music on Season 5 episode 3, when Sally wakes up listening to that cool instrumental song on her radio. Do you know what song it is? Thank you for your help.
We haven’t found it yet. It may be a David Carbona original.
No, it’s “Ebb Tide” by Ken Griffin
I believe at the party from A Little Kiss the band also plays “Walk on By.” This version of the Dionne Warwick hit begins after the commercial break and the return to the party,. The band plays a portion of a song before “The In Crowd,” which I can’t identify.
In 5.07, Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Meditation” is playing as Don and Emile carry the bags.
Good catch. I will have to re-watch that part. Thanks.
Perfect, wonderful and confirmed. Thank you so much.
Ever since it first aired, I’ve been trying to figure out the song playing in the Greek diner on Muzak, when Don and Peggy are there, in The Suitcase. The style reminds me of country/pop pianist Floyd Cramer, but I just couldn’t put a title to it.
Now, in S-5, what sounded like a brief fragment of it was heard at the Ho-Jo, when Don was dashing around, trying to track Megan down, in Far Away Places.
I think I may have the title, but I don’t know how/where to confirm it. The song in question sounds an awful lot like an instrumental version of Dean Martin’s 1964 vocal, “The Door Is Always Open To My Heart”.
In the grand scheme of things it’s not a big deal, but it’s been bugging me since S-4, so if anyone knows how to find out for sure, please post.
I agree, I want to know all the music played during all episodes of Mad Men. So hard to pin it down sometimes and so frustrating as well.
Cant wait to find out song at the end of At the Codfish Ball while everyone sitting at the table and music over closing credits. Thank you.
Me too!
I want to know about that music too. They played it at least 3 times in the episode: when Megan took the cigarettes from her sleeping mother, after they get the Heinz account, and at the table tableau. It was almost farcical, and yet melancholy. What was the common theme that was being expressed in these scenes?
I am glad I am not alone S. Lynch.
Took me nearly 2 years to find the answer- It’s David Carbonara’s “Pacific Coast Highway”!!!
Does anyone know where/how I could purchase this song for my music library??
Sidney – it is the most frustrating process to figure out some of the songs of MM. I have 4 MM CD’s and not one has Pacific Coast Highway. There are a few David Carbonara songs on these 4 CD’s but not all. David needs to bring out his own CD with all music that he has played for MM. I am sure this wont happen any time soon as there are probably copy write issues. Who knows who owns this music AMC – Lionsgate – Matt Weiner??
That one season 2 song looks a little lonely. Let’s give it some company!
2.01 – Chubby Checker – “Let’s Twist Again” (opening medley)
2.01 – Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Song of the Indian Guest” (from Sadko) (when Betty descends the stairs, and again over the end credits)
2.02 – Kyu Sakamoto – “Ue o Muite Arukō (The Sukiyaki Song)” (Japanese restaurant when Don fires Mohawk and eyes the waitress)
2.02 end creits – George McGregor & the Bronzettes – “Temptation Is Hard To Fight”
2.03 end credits – Jack Jones – “Lollipops & Roses”
2.05 – Percy Faith & HIs Orchestra – “Theme from a Summer Place” (Don and Bobbie drive)
2.08 end credits – Colin Hanks – “Early in the Morning” (originally by Peter, Paul & Mary)
2.09 end credits – Marilyn Monroe – “I’m Through with Love”
2.10 end credits – The Tornados – “Telstar”
2.11 end credits – Johnny Mathis – “What’ll I Do?”
2.12 end credits – George Jones – “Cup of Loneliness
Also, 2.06 – “The Infanta” by the Decemberists.