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 2.01: For Those Who Think Young
Opening Song: Let’s Twist Again, Chubby Checker
Featured: Song of the Indian Guest, from “Sadko,” by Rimsky-Korsakov plays when Betty descends the stairs.
Closing Song: Again, Song of the Indian Guest, Rimsky-Korsakov
Episode 2.02: Flight One
Featured: Ue o Muite Arukō (The Sukiyaki Song), Kyu Sakamoto, in the Japanese restaurant
Closing Song: Temptation Is Hard To Fight, George McGregor & the Bronzettes
Episode 2.03: The Benefactor
Closing Song: Lollipops and Roses, Jack Jones
Episode 2.05: The New Girl
Featured: Theme from a Summer Place, Percy Faith and His Orchestra, on the radio as Don and Bobbi drive
Episode 2.06: Maidenform
Opening Song: The Infanta, the Decemberists
Episode 2.07: The Gold Violin
Closing Song: Break it to Me Gently, Brenda Lee
Episode 2.08: A Night to Remember
Closing Song: Early in the Morning, by Paul Stookey, performed by Colin Hanks
Episode 2.09: Six Month Leave
Closing Song: I’m Through With Love, Marilyn Monroe
Episode 2.10: The Inheritance
Closing Song: Telstar, The Tornadoes
Episode 2.11: The Jet Set
Closing Song: What’ll I Do?, Johnny Mathis
Episode 2.12: The Mountain King
Closing Song: Cup of Loneliness, George Jones
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
Closing Song: “Memories of You,” Ben Webster
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
Closing Song: “Pacific Coast Highway” by David Carbonara
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 Sally wakes up and wanders through the apartment) Ebb Tide, played by Ken Griffin
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 5.07: At the Codfish Ball
Featured: “Meditation,” Antonio Carlos Jobim, as Don and Emile carry the bags.
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.
Ep 5.09: Dark Shadows
Closing song: Sweeping the Clouds Away, performed by Maurice Chevalier.
Ep 5.10: Christmas Waltz
Featured: The Christmas Waltz, performed by Doris Day, in the bar as Don and Joan talk.
Closing song: The Christmas Waltz, performed by Nellie McKay.
Ep 5.11: The Other Woman
Closing song: Girl, You Really Got Me Now, The Kinks.
Ep 5.12: Commissions and Fees
Closing song: Butchie’s Tune, The Lovin’ Spoonful
Ep 5.13: The Phantom
Closing song: You Only Live Twice, by John Barry and Leslie Bricusse, performed by Nancy Sinatra
Season 6
Episode 6.01/6.02: The Doorway
Featured: The Francis women attend the Nutcracker
Featured: Sandy plays Chopin’s “Nocturne in E Flat Major, Op. 9. No 2” on the violin
Closing Song: Hawaiian Wedding Song, Elvis Presley
Episode 6.03: The Collaborators
Featured: Aria during Don and Sylvia’s love scene is “Casta Diva” from Norma by Bellini.
Closing Song: Just a Gigolo, Bing Crosby
Episode 6.04: To Have and To Hold
Featured: Friends I Haven’t Met Yet, by Blue Sandalwood Soap, plays while Don and Stan get stoned.
Featured: Bonnie and Clyde by Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot plays in the Electric Circus while Joan and Kate get their groove on.
Episode 6.05: The Flood
Closing Song: Love is Blue by Paul Mauriat
Episode 6.06: For Immediate Release
Featured: Baby Jane by Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels; at General Motors before the presentations.
Episode 6.07: Man With a Plan
Closing Song: Reach out in the Darkness, Friend and Lover
Wahoo! Thanks for this. The music is sometimes the uncredited co-star of MadMen,
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.
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?
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!!!
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.
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.”
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.
You guys are a godsend! Look up “Ruby in the Dust” here: https://www.extrememusic.com/
It’s published on an album called Psychedelia.
Cheers
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…
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.
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.
OMG I can’t find it either. i guess it wasn’t significant enough to list or something/ as a music lover i would think the musicians/composers whomever would want people to have that information if even uncredited
ugh
When you can’t find a song, it’s generally a David Carbona original composition for the score.
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??
Hey, does anyone know the name of the song played during the staircase scene right before roger pukes in s1e7-red in the face? I’ve heard it in another episode but can’t place it.
Hi i’m searching everywhere for the song from this great scene.You can hear it first at 40seconds and then 1.50 and several times through the video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzsJsbGLTUY Please if anyone can name this, you would bring so much relief to me as I unfortunately have this tiny snippet of beautiful music incessantly looping in my head.
Sorry I was wrong about “Night and Day” I thought I had it right for some reason. Is this not the most annoying thing, not being able to ID the music. Nice to know someone else is as obsessed about naming all the music as I am.
It’s a Carbonara piece called ‘The Men of Sterling Cooper’. You can find it in Mad Men: Original Score Vol. 1.
Thank you so much, this was it!!! Yay! I’ve been looking for it everywhere, I’m so relieved and I thank you profusely!!
From “Flight 1″ in the second season – Paul Kinsey’s apartment in Montclair, NJ.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXmEE-jL6Ns
George McGregor & The Bronzettes – “Temptation is Hard to Fight”
The song is actually from 1967, but it fit the scene so well!
Thanks Mike. I also have playing at Kinsey’s party:
Baby Washington – Congratulations Honey and Edd Henry – Crooked Woman. Correct me is I am wrong.
Has anyone else noticed that Waltzing Matilda was playing at the restaurant when Greg announced his decision to re-enlist? Check out this link on the song:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltzing_Matilda
” German soldiers commonly referred to their greatcoats as “Matilda”, supposedly because the coat kept them as warm as a woman would. Early German immigrants who “went on the waltz” would wrap their belongings in their coat, and took to calling it by the same name their soldiers had used.
The National Library of Australia states:
Matilda is an old Teutonic female name meaning ‘mighty battle maid’. This may have informed the use of ‘Matilda’ as a slang term to mean a de facto wife who accompanied a wanderer. In the Australian bush a man’s swag was regarded as a sleeping partner, hence his ‘Matilda’
Furthermore, the song tells a story of soldiers trying to force a wanderer to accompany them. “You’ll go a waltzing matilda with me”
Greg tries to force Joan to remain with him through his military career, to go “a waltzing matilda” with him.
The man in the song refuses to be forced, but instead runs to a waterhole, jumps in, and drowns himself, exercising an “nuclear option” rather than accompany the soldiers.
Joan exercises a “nuclear option” of her own by choosing to end the relationship rather than give in to Greg’s demand.
Still hoping somebody can answer the question about the gorgeous piece of music that bookends Season 3 Episode 1, “Out of Town.” It’s all instrumental, and ends the episode as Don fails to tell Sally the story of her birth, leaving Betty to take over. Breathtaking.
David Carbonara – “Sally’s Song”
Track Number – 7
http://strongplacemusic.com/scores/mad-men
Sorry – Meant to say “Sally’s Story”
You’re incredible. Thanks!
Welcome. Those David Carbonara songs are hard to pin down sometimes. I wish he would make a CD with all his songs done on Mad Men and no other fillers.
I was wondering if anyone could help me find the background music that played when the Partners were clearing out Sterling Cooper in the Season 3 finale “Shut the Door. Have a Seat”. Ive been searching everywhere but to no avail…
I believe it’s a David Carbona original.
Thanks for your work on this, Deborah. And to all the others who have responded with answers to questions. Here’s my question:
>Season 4, Episode 10, Hands and Knees: the Beatles tune was obvious at the end.
But what about the hard bop jazz in the Playboy Club scene?
Season 2: Last episode I think when Betty has her own little quickie wasn’t it Acker Bilk’s Stranger on the shore playing?
I have the Mad Men albums just for David Carbonara’s music. I wish they would release an album of just his music
Agreed!!
How about the two Hawaiian songs during Don and Megan’s stay in Waikiki?
And also the song as Betty is in the village hangout looking for Sandy?
One of the hawaiian songs is called Blue Hawaii by All Star Hawaiian Band. The village-Betty song is What’s Happening by Phil and the Frantics
Does anyone know what song was playing in season 6, episode 4 during the scene when Joan and her friend were at the bar on the sofa?
It sounded vaguely like Nico and the Velvet Underground but I would be surprised if it were.
I too would also like to know song played on tonight’s episode where Joan & friend are at a club thks
Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot’s Bonnie and Clyde
The songs from last night’s episode are I See Her Pretty Face-The Grand Prix’s, Friends I Haven’t Met Yet-Blue Sandlewood Soap, The Devastator-Stormy, A Teenager Feels It Too-Denny Reed, and Bonnie & Clyde-Serge Gainsbourg/Brigitte Bardot. Can someone help with these – the instrumental playing in “Flight 1″ when Don and Betty are playing cards, who is singing the version (I think?) of “More Than You Know” played in “Public Relations during the Thanksgiving dinner scene, the jazz number playing at the Playboy Club in “Hands and Knees” and the song playing in the background when Ted hires Peggy in the diner (“The Other Woman”).
Does anyone know what last nights (April 28) closing credit song was?
It was an instrumental song that I remember was a favorite of my mothers.
Love Is Blue – Paul Muriat
Of course!
I had that on the tip of my tongue…and voila!
Funny …I had the word ‘blue’ but couldn’t think of the title…
I can see the 45 rpm record spinning on the record player now.
Thanks
Final song during credits season 6 episode 6?
Tropicando by Les Baxter & 101 Strings Orchestra – music playing while Peggy types the release statement and over closing credits.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=OmrheW5pQTo
The end-credit music is not Tropicando. I’d love to know what it is, but it clearly is not the widely misreported Tropicando.
Song playing when Pete sees his father-in-law in the brothel: “Get Back to the Westside” by The Steam Machine
Another song featured in 506: Connie Conway, “I Should Not Be Seeing You”
See the Fervor Records site for info:
http://www.fervorvintage.com/fervor-vintage-tv/fervor-vintage-music-featured-in-mad-men/
Closing song for episode 606 “For Immediate Release” is Autumn Leaves by Cannonball Adderley.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u37RF5xKNq8
Nice!
Thank you for clarifying
Does anyone know the song that played in Season 6, Episode 6 when Peggy and her boyfriend were kissing while she imagined him being her boss?
The Crash (Season 6 Episode 8)
Featured song: “Going Out Of My Head” by Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66
(As Don puts his ear to Sylvia’s door to listen in)
Closing credits: “Words Of Love” by The Mamas & The Papas
Episode 609 – The Better Half
Always Something There to Remind Me – Lou Johnson
The song was credited to Burt Bacharach according to his IMDb page. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000820/
Looking for the music in Season 4, episode 2: Christmas comes but once each year…does this actual song play in the episode? There is a lot of music in this episode, but only the closing song is credited above. Thanks!
I’ve been scouring the internet trying to figure out which episode “How Mable Get Sable Cha Cha” (from the second soundtrack album) is used in, and no luck. Any ideas?
“Maidenform” S2 E6. Song plays when Peggy goes to the strip club.
Songs in S6 E10:
Jeannie C. Riley, “Harper Valley PTA”
Fly-bi-Nites, “Found Love”
And of course “Piece of My Heart”
The LA party scene in Mad Men “A Tale of Two Cities,” featured in no particular order: A variation on Paul Simon’s character (Tony) in “Annie Hall”, the drug-trippiness of the Hollywood house party in Hal Ashby’s “Shampoo.” And even though the death-laced vibe of The Beatles’ “She Said, She Said”… (“I know what it’s like to be dead…”) wasn’t playing the background, you could feel it. I’m sure the Mad Men producers balked at spending another $250,000 for the rights to use another Beatles song and discovered they could obtain the obscure “Found Love” by the Fly-Bi-Nites for a whole lot less coin. It worked perfectly. And the evening ended up with a dark homage to the dead-guy floating in the pool from “Sunset Boulevard.”
Trippy man!
Episode 11: Favors
Why oh Why – Little Alice (playing in background at dinner with Ted, Pete and Peggy.)
Stranger on the Shore (playing in background at bar with Don drinking)
Season 6 / Episode 12 Closing song:
Porpoise Song (Theme from the movie “Head”)
by The Monkees. I gotta admit I didn’t see that
one coming? It did come out in 1968. And another connection…
The Monkees were a commercial success but basically a fraudulent
act.. Kinda like Don Draper?