Editing Ferris Bueller's Day Off (section)

==Music==

===Limited edition fan club soundtrack===
An official soundtrack was not originally released for the film, since director [[John Hughes (filmmaker)|John Hughes]] felt the songs would not work well together as a continuous album.<ref>{{cite news | first=William | last=Ham | title=John Hughes: Straight Outta Sherman | url=http://www.lollipop.com/issue47/47-02-03.html | work=Lollipop Magazine | access-date=December 12, 2009 | archive-date=August 19, 2000 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000819144335/http://www.lollipop.com/issue47/47-02-03.html | url-status=live }}</ref> However, according to an interview with ''Lollipop'' Magazine, Hughes noted that he had sent 100,000 7" vinyl singles containing two songs featured in the film to members of his fan mailing list.<ref name="lollipop">''Lollipop'' Magazine article: "[http://www.lollipop.com/issue47/47-02-03.html John Hughes – Straight Outta Sherman] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000819144335/http://www.lollipop.com/issue47/47-02-03.html |date=August 19, 2000 }}" By William Ham.</ref> Hughes gave further details about his refusal to release a soundtrack in the ''Lollipop'' interview:

{{blockquote|The only official soundtrack that ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'' ever had was for the mailing list. [[A&M Records|A&M]] was very angry with me over that; they begged me to put one out, but I thought "who'd want all of these songs?" I mean, would kids want "[[Danke Schoen]]" and "[[Oh Yeah (Yello song)|Oh Yeah]]" on the same record? They probably already had "Twist and Shout", or their parents did, and to put all of those together with the more contemporary stuff, like the (English) Beat—I just didn't think anybody would like it. But I did put together a seven-inch of the two songs I owned the rights to—"Beat City" on one side, and... I forget, one of the other English bands on the soundtrack... and sent that to the mailing list. By '86, '87, it was costing us $30 a piece to mail out 100,000 packages. But it was a labor of love.<ref name="lollipop" />}}

===Songs in the film===
Songs featured in the film include:
* "[[Love Missile F1-11]]" (extended version) by [[Sigue Sigue Sputnik]]
* "Jeannie" (theme from ''[[I Dream of Jeannie]]'')
* "Beat City" by [[The Flowerpot Men]]
* "Main Title / Rebel Blockade Runner" by [[John Williams]] (from ''[[Star Wars]]'')
* "[[Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want]]" (instrumental) by [[The Dream Academy]] (a cover version of a song by [[The Smiths]])
* "[[String Quintet in E major, Op. 11, No. 5 (Boccherini)|The Celebrated Minuet]]" by [[Luigi Boccherini]] (performed by the Zagreb Philharmonic Chamber Studio)
* "Danke Schoen" by [[Wayne Newton]]
* "[[Twist and Shout]]" by [[The Beatles]]
* "Radio People" by [[Zapp]]
* "I'm Afraid" by Blue Room
* "Taking the Day Off" by [[General Public]]
* "The Edge of Forever" by The Dream Academy
* "March of the Swivelheads" (a remix of "Rotating Heads") by [[The Beat (British band)|The Beat]]
* "[[Oh Yeah (Yello song)|Oh Yeah]]" by [[Yello]]
* "BAD" by [[Big Audio Dynamite]]

"Danke Schoen" is one of the recurring [[Motif (music)|motifs]] in the film and is sung by Ferris, Ed Rooney, and Jeanie. Hughes called it the "most awful song of my youth. Every time it came on, I just wanted to scream, claw my face. I was taking German in high school—which meant that we listened to it in school. I couldn't get away from it."<ref name="DVDCommShoot" /> According to Broderick, Ferris's singing "Danke Schoen" in the shower was [[Improvisation|his idea]]. "Although it's only because of the brilliance of John's deciding that I should sing "Danke Schoen" on the float in the parade. I had never heard the song before. I was learning it for the parade scene. So we're doing the shower scene and I thought, 'Well, I can do a little rehearsal.' And I did something with my hair to make that Mohawk. And you know what good directors do: they say; 'Stop! Wait until we roll.' And John put that stuff in."<ref name="hughesactors">{{cite magazine | date=March 20, 2010 | first=David | last=Kamp | title=John Hughes' Actors on John Hughes | url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2010/03/actors-on-john-hughes-201003 | magazine=Vanity Fair | access-date=August 27, 2020 | archive-date=September 18, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918074031/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2010/03/actors-on-john-hughes-201003 | url-status=live }}</ref>

Wayne Newton told the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' he was thrilled to have his song featured in the film. "It was really cool because I thought, okay, 'Danke Schoen' had run its gamut. When I saw [Broderick] doing an impression, lip syncing to my version of the song, I thought that was the coolest thing I had ever seen."<ref name="YouTube 2014">{{cite web | title=Wayne Newton on Ferris Bueller and Bobby Darin | website=Chicago Sun-Times | date=June 18, 2014 | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcZL0rUsIVc | access-date=October 20, 2022 | archive-date=January 21, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230121054517/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcZL0rUsIVc | url-status=live }}</ref> ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'' propelled the Beatles' 1963 recording of "Twist and Shout" back onto the ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' [[Hot 100]] chart, where it peaked at No. 23 on September 27, 1986, 22 years after its original issue in the US.

===2016 soundtrack===
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The soundtrack for the film, limited to 5,000 copies, was released on September 13, 2016, by La-La Land Records. The album includes [[New wave music|new wave]] and [[pop music|pop]] songs featured in the film, as well as [[Ira Newborn]]'s complete score, including unused cues.<ref name="pitchfork">{{cite web |last=Yoo |first=Noah |title=Ferris Bueller's Day Off Soundtrack to Get First Official Release |url=http://pitchfork.com/news/68069-ferris-buellers-day-off-soundtrack-to-get-first-official-release |website=Pitchfork.com |date=September 6, 2016 |access-date=6 September 2016 |archive-date=September 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160907015748/http://pitchfork.com/news/68069-ferris-buellers-day-off-soundtrack-to-get-first-official-release/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Due to licensing restrictions, "Twist and Shout," "Taking The Day Off," and "March of the Swivelheads" were not included, but are available elsewhere. The Flowerpot Men's "Beat City" makes its first official release on CD with a new mix done by The Flowerpot Men's Ben Watkins and Adam Peters that differs from the original 7" fan club release.<ref name="pitchfork" /><ref>{{cite web |last=O'Neal |first=Sean |title=Ferris Bueller's Day Off soundtrack arrives after skipping the past 30 years |url=http://www.avclub.com/article/ferris-buellers-day-soundtrack-arrives-after-skipp-242198 |website=[[The A.V. Club]] |access-date=6 September 2016 |date=6 September 2016 |archive-date=September 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160907140741/http://www.avclub.com/article/ferris-buellers-day-soundtrack-arrives-after-skipp-242198 |url-status=live }}</ref>