So we’ve covered the L.A. Noire Soundtrack and L.A. Noire Remixed Soundtrack in the previous post. Many people including myself are searching for a list of the L.A. Noire licensed music. I have yet to find one, and no official music list has been released apart from those already mentioned. So I took it upon myself to start a list. Working from tracks that I knew right off the bat and then searching for song titles based on the ones that I knew lyrics from. The difficulty in compiling an L.A. Noire licensed music list is that, first, it’s easy to get “lost” in just playing the game. I am immersed in the stories and cases I’m working and forget to write things down. The second factor is that the radio tracks are fairly rare throughout the game as the games’ excellent musical score takes over at many points. Other times the dialog between the lead character and whoever happens to be in the car over-rides the song. It is also infrequent that you enter a car when the radio announcer is introducing a song with title and artist. So this list is very incomplete. I will slowly add to it as a recognize or research songs. Feel free to leave comments with other songs you recognize and I will try to confirm and add them. Here’s the L.A. Noire Music List:
You can get the majority of these tracks from the iTunes album The Radio Tracks From L.A. Noire by Various Artists. All Links updated 10/2013
Artist/s | Track Title |
Amos Wilburn | Wolf on the River |
Big Joe Turner | Battle of the Blues Part 1 |
Billie Holiday | That Old Devil Called Love |
Bing Crosby | My Heart is a Hobo* (Youtube) |
Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters | Pistol Packin Mama |
Count Basie | One O’Clock Jump |
Dinah Shore | “Murder”, He Says |
Dinah Washington | A Slick Chick (On the Mellow Side) |
Dizzy Gillespie | Monteca (Yotube Live) |
Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker | Oop-Pop-a-Da |
Duke Ellington | Maybe I Should Change My Ways |
Ella Fitgerald & Louis Jordan | Stone Cold Dead in the Market |
Ella Fitzgerald with The Ink Spots | Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall |
Evelyn Knight | A Little Birdie Told Me (Youtube) |
Frankie Lane | Black and Blue |
Gene Krupa | Sing! Sing! Sing! |
Hank Williams | Move it on Over |
Cootie Williams | Juice Head Baby |
Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra | Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop |
Louis Armstrong | Before Long |
Louis Jordan | Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens |
Margaret Whiting | You Do |
Martha Tilton | That’s My Desire |
Maxine Sullivan | It Was a Lover and His Lass |
Peggy Lee | I’m Confessin’ (That I Love You) |
Sammy Kaye | Red Silk Stockings and Green Perfume |
Stan Kenton | Eager Beaver |
T-bone Walker | Bobby Sox Blues |
Tex Williams | Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) |
The Andrews Sisters | Near You |
Thelonious Monk | Humph |
Vaughn Monroe | Seems Like Old Times |
This music list appears to be complete now, let me know if I missed anything.
* Appears to be Bing Crosby version of the song – no iTunes
For more Noire related content, check out the L.A. Noire Film Review Project