Editing Animal House (section)

==Soundtrack and score==
{{Infobox album
| name       = <small>Original Motion Picture Soundtrack:</small><br>National Lampoon's Animal House
| type       = soundtrack
| artist     = various artists
| cover      =
| alt        =
| released   = 1978
| recorded   = RCA Studios, New York and Sound Factory West, Hollywood
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Rock and roll]], [[Rhythm and blues|R&B]], [[film score]]
| length     = 36:23
| label      = [[MCA Records|MCA]]
| producer   = [[Kenny Vance]]
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}}
The soundtrack is a mix of [[rock and roll]] and [[rhythm and blues]] with the original score created by film composer [[Elmer Bernstein]], who had been a Landis family friend since John Landis was a child.<ref name="Kenny">{{cite news | last = Kenny | first = J.M | title = The Yearbook: An ''Animal House'' Reunion | work = Animal House: Collector's Edition DVD | publisher = [[Universal Pictures|Universal Studios]] | year = 1998 }}</ref> Bernstein was easily persuaded to score the film, but he was not sure what to make of it. Similar to his preferring dramatic actors for the comedy, Landis asked Bernstein to score it as though it were serious. He adapted the "Faber College Theme" from the ''[[Academic Festival Overture]]'' by [[Brahms]], and he said that the film opened yet another door in his diverse career:  scoring comedies.<ref name="Kenny"/>{{r|neumer2003}}

The soundtrack was released as an [[LP record|LP]] in 1978 and on compact disc in 1998. In the late 2000s, the very first song on the soundtrack, the "Faber College Theme", came to prominence due to its purported resemblance to the [[National Anthem of Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnian national anthem]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-BGMDwAAQBAJ&q=%22Animal+House%22+%22Elmer+bernstein%22+%22Bosnia%22&pg=PA181|page=181|title=Anthems and the Making of Nation States: Identity and Nationalism in the Balkans|first1=Aleksandar|last1=Pavkovic|first2=Christopher|last2=Kelen|date=October 28, 2015|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=9780857726421|via=Google Books|access-date=October 15, 2020|archive-date=December 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201207150504/https://books.google.com/books?id=-BGMDwAAQBAJ&q=%22Animal+House%22+%22Elmer+bernstein%22+%22Bosnia%22&pg=PA181|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P9U3DAAAQBAJ&q=%22Republic+or+Death!+Travels+in+Search+of+National+Anthems%22|title=Republic Or Death!: Travels in Search of National Anthems|first=Alex|last=Marshall|date=May 5, 2016|access-date=May 5, 2016|publisher=Penguin Random House|isbn=9780099592235|via=Google Books|archive-date=December 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201213192237/https://books.google.com/books?id=P9U3DAAAQBAJ&q=%22Republic+or+Death!+Travels+in+Search+of+National+Anthems%22|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=bbc>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34052000|title=How many national anthems are plagiarised?|access-date=April 24, 2019|date=August 26, 2015|publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation|location=United Kingdom|archive-date=January 31, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131010449/https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34052000|url-status=live}}</ref>

;Soundtrack album listing
{{track listing
| collapsed       =
| headline        = Side one
| extra_column    = Performed by
| title1          = Faber College Theme
| writer1         = [[Johannes Brahms]], adapted by [[Elmer Bernstein]]
| extra1          = Elmer Bernstein
| length1         = 0:35
| title2          = [[Louie Louie]]
| writer2         = [[Richard Berry (musician)|Richard Berry]]
| extra2          = [[John Belushi]]
| length2         = 2:56
| title3          = [[Twistin' the Night Away]]
| writer3         = [[Sam Cooke]]
| extra3          = Sam Cooke
| length3         = 2:39
| title4          = [[Tossin' and Turnin'|Tossin' and Turnin{{'-}}]]
| writer4         = [[Ritchie Adams]], Malou Rene
| extra4          = [[Bobby Lewis]]
| length4         = 2:49
| title5          = [[Shama Lama Ding Dong]]
| writer5         = [[Mark Davis (producer)|Mark Davis]] 
| extra5          = Lloyd Williams ([[Otis Day and the Knights]])
| length5         = 2:48
| title6          = [[Hey Paula (song)|Hey Paula]]
| writer6         = Raymound Hildebrand
| extra6          = [[Paul & Paula]]
| length6         = 2:47
| title7          = Animal House
| writer7         = [[Stephen Bishop (singer)|Stephen Bishop]]
| extra7          = Stephen Bishop
| length7         = 3:41
}}

{{track listing
| headline        = Side two
| extra_column    = Performed by
| title1          = Intro ([[The Riddle Song]])
| writer1         = Traditional
| extra1          = Stephen Bishop
| length1         = 0:49
| title2          = [[Money (That's What I Want)]]
| writer2         = [[Berry Gordy|Berry Gordy Jr.]], [[Janie Bradford]]
| extra2          = John Belushi
| length2         = 2:31
| title3          = [[Let's Dance (Chris Montez song)|Let's Dance]]
| writer3         = Jim Lee
| extra3          = [[Chris Montez]]
| length3         = 2:28
| title4          = Dream Girl
| writer4         = Stephen Bishop
| extra4          = Stephen Bishop
| length4         = 4:34
| title5          = [[Wonderful World (Sam Cooke song)|(What a) Wonderful World]]
| writer5         = Sam Cooke, [[Herb Alpert]], [[Lou Adler]]
| extra5          = Sam Cooke
| length5         = 2:06
| title6          = [[Shout (Isley Brothers song)|Shout]]
| writer6         = [[Ronald Isley]], [[Rudolph Isley]], [[O'Kelly Isley, Jr.|O'Kelly Isley]]
| extra6          = Lloyd Williams ([[Otis Day and the Knights]])
| length6         = 5:04
| title7          = Faber College Theme
| writer7         = Elmer Bernstein
| extra7          = Elmer Bernstein
| length7         = 1:16
}}

;Additional music in the film
* "[[Theme from A Summer Place]]", composed by [[Max Steiner]]; performed by [[Percy Faith]] and his Orchestra
* "[[Who's Sorry Now? (song)|Who's Sorry Now?]]", written by [[Ted Snyder]], [[Bert Kalmar]] and [[Harry Ruby]]; performed by [[Connie Francis]]
* "[[The Washington Post (march)|The Washington Post March]]", composed by [[John Philip Sousa]]
* "[[Tammy (song)|Tammy]]", by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans