Original Music The Cruel Sea

(cast) Band The Music Makers - Vivian Goulding John Haberecht William Kosseris Barry Stutsel

Original Music Composed, Performed and Produced by James Cruickshank Jim Elliot Ken Gormly and Dan Rumour

Recorded at Megaphon Recording Studios, Sydney Co-producer/Engineer Paul McKercher Assistant Engineer Matt Crosbie Composers courtesy of PolyGram Music Publishing and Polydor Records Australia

Music Supervisor Christine Woodruff

CRAZY CRAZY EYES Written by Hard-Ons (Hard-Ons Music) Performed by Hard-Ons Courtesy Waterfront Records/Festival Records

HOLIDAY IN CAMBODIA Written by Dead Kennedys (Upright Music/Festival Music Pty Ltd) Performed by Dead Kennedys Courtesy Decay Music

MOMENT OF AWAKING Written by Chung Zhi ing Yeh (Tanabe Music Publishing Co Ltd) Performed by Yolinda Yan Courtesy Sony Music

HANGING FIVE Written by Ben Acton (Joye Publishing) Performed by the Delltones Courtesy Festival Records

IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME (R. Shields/G. Evans) Performed by The Music Makers, Mudgee

TOO YOUNG Written by Sylvia Dee/Sid Lippman (Aria Music Company) Used by permission Campbell Connelly (Australia) Pty Ltd Performed by The Music Makers

GRANDE GRANDE GRANDE Written by T. Renis/A. Testa/Spanish words J. Iglesias (Southern Music Publishing Co./S.I.A.E.) Performed by Courtesy Sony Music

Music in the film:

The key cast argue about music and bob along to assorted tracks on the ambulance cassette player, but there’s only one band that appears in the film, and that’s in the climactic country Rose “birthday party/barn dance”: Composer:

Curiously, though the band is the well-known The Cruel Sea - the band collectively composed and performed the soundtrack score, there doesn’t seem to have been any release of the soundtrack on CD.

The band, which formed in 1987, is too well-known to detail at length here. It has a relatively detailed wiki listing here. Also curiously at time of writing, the soundtrack isn’t listed in the wiki.

(Below: the band - because the film score was instrumental, lead singer Tex Perkins didn’t appear and didn’t score a credit in the film).

(Below: the album that really broke the band wide came after the film in 1995 with Three Legged Dog).