Editing Dawn of the Dead (1978 film) (section)

==== Music ====
{{See also|Dawn of the Dead (soundtracks)}}
The film's music varies with Romero's and Argento's cuts. For Romero's theatrical version, musical cues and selections were chosen from the [[De Wolfe Music]] [[Library]], a compilation of [[stock music]] scores and cues. In the montage scene featuring the hunters and National Guard, the song played in the background is {{"'}}Cause I'm a Man" by the [[Pretty Things]]. The song was first released on the group's LP ''Electric Banana''.<ref>[http://www.moviegrooves.com/shop/raveupwiththeelectricbanana.htm "Rave Up With The Electric Banana"]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080502064456/http://www.moviegrooves.com/shop/raveupwiththeelectricbanana.htm |date=May 2, 2008 }}. ''Movie Grooves''.</ref> The music heard playing in a sequence in the mall and over the film's end credits is an instrumental titled "The Gonk"—a polka style tune from the De Wolfe Music Library written by [[Herbert Chappell]], with a chorus of zombie moans added by Romero.<ref>[http://www.dewolfe.co.uk/musicsearch/track_detail.php?primaryid=27987 "The Gonk"]. De Wolfe. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071215061620/http://www.dewolfe.co.uk/musicsearch/track_detail.php?primaryid=27987 |date=December 15, 2007 }}.</ref>

For Argento's international cut, the Italian director used the band [[Goblin (band)|Goblin]] (incorrectly credited as "The Goblins") extensively. Goblin is a four-piece Italian [[progressive rock]] band that mostly provides contract work for film soundtracks. Argento, who received a credit for original music alongside Goblin, collaborated with the group to get music for his cut of the film. Romero used three of their pieces in his theatrical release version. The Goblin score would later find its way onto a ''Dawn of the Dead''-inspired film, ''[[Hell of the Living Dead]]''. Many tracks would also appear in the [[Tsui Hark]] film ''[[Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind]]''. The version of ''Dawn'' released on video in the mid-nineties under the label "Director's Cut" does not use most of the Goblin tracks, as they had not been completed at the time of that edit.