Track listing

First release on LP by 20th Century Records. For the original soundtrack, Williams selected 75 minutes of music out of the 88 minute score. To provide musical variety, it did not follow the film's chronological order.

This track listing is also shared by Sony Classical's LP release in 2016, and Walt Disney Records' LP and CD releases in 2017 and 2018, respectively.

Personnel

Release history

1986 release

First release on CD by Polydor Records in 1986. It is identical in content and packaging to the LP release.

Disc one

1. "Main Title" – 5:21
2. "Imperial Attack" – 6:16
3. "Princess Leia's Theme" – 4:22
4. "The Desert and the Robot Auction" – 2:52
5. "Ben's Death and TIE Fighter Attack" – 3:46
6. "The Little People Work" – 4:01
7. "Rescue of the Princess" – 4:46
8. "Inner City" – 4:13
9. "Cantina Band" – 2:45

Disc two

1. "The Land of the Sandpeople" – 2:49
2. "Mouse Robot and Blasting Off" – 4:01
3. "The Return Home" – 2:45
4. "The Walls Converge" – 4:32
5. "The Princess Appears" – 4:03
6. "The Last Battle" – 12:06
7. "The Throne Room and End Title" – 5:27

Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Soundtrack Anthology

In 1993, 20th Century Fox Film Scores released a four-CD box set containing music from the original Star Wars trilogy. This release marked the first time that the complete contents of the original double-LP releases of the scores from the first two films became available on CD. Disc one in the set was devoted to Star Wars, with further tracks on disc four.

Since every cue is recorded several times, usually with varying orchestral differences, the final decisions on what takes of cues are used and/or how they are edited to create the tracks was decided by the music editor Kenneth Wannberg. In the time between the original LP release and the Anthology's release, this breakdown was lost. Because of this, many takes of cues used on the Anthology are not the same. This is most obvious on the cue "The Throne Room".^{[citation needed]} Also, the tracks were re-arranged to better follow their chronological order in the film.

The alternate version of the Star Wars Main Title can be heard in the end credits for Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, and is included in the film's soundtrack.

1997 and 2004 Special Edition reissues

The 1997 and 2004 releases include the complete film score, including expanded and unreleased tracks.

2017 and 2018 Disney reissues

Walt Disney Records reissued the original 1977 soundtrack album in digital formats and streaming services on January 1, 2017, and on LP record on December 1, 2017, to coincide with the film's fortieth anniversary that same year. The LP reissue featured a remastered soundtrack, hand-etched hologram art, and a 48-page book containing production photographs, liner notes, and essays on John Williams and the music of Star Wars.^[3]

Disney released a newly remastered edition of the original 1977 album program on CD, digital download, and streaming services on May 4, 2018. This remaster was newly assembled by Shawn Murphy and Skywalker Sound from the highest-quality master tapes available, rather than sourced from the existing 1977 album masters.^[4] On these reissues, the final track ("The Throne Room and End Title") is presented at the correct speed and pitch, having been sped up slightly on the original LP, CD, and 2016 Sony releases.

Charts

Certifications

Cue list

• R1P2 Star Wars (March 5, 1977)
• R1P3 Imperial Attack Pt. II (The War*) (March 8, 1977)
• R1P4-R2P1 Imperial Attack (The Escape Hatch*) (March 12, 1977)
• R2P2 The Desert (R1P5-R2P1 Desert Song*) (March 12, 1977)
• R2P2 The Little People (Not Recorded)
• R2P3N The Little People (March 15, 1977)
• R2P3 More Little People (Not Recorded)
• R2P5R More Little People (March 15, 1977)
• R2P4 R-2 (Not Recorded)
• R2P4R R-2 (March 11, 1977)
• R3P1 The Princess Appears (Not Recorded)
• R3P1R The Princess Appears (March 5, 1977)
• R3P2 Lost R2 (Not Recorded)
• R3P2R Lost R2 (March 8, 1977)
• R3P2N (March 15, 1977)
• R3P3 The Sand Speeder (Not Recorded)
• R3P3R The Land of the Sand People (March 11, 1977)
• R3P4-R4P1 The Sandman Attacks (Not Recorded)
• R3P4-R4P1R Land of Sand People Pt. II (March 16, 1977)
• R4P2 Obi-Wan Kenobi (March 9, 1977)
• R4P2A The Force (March 9, 1977)
• R4P3 The Princess Reappears (March 11, 1977)
• R4P4 A Home Destroyed (March 11, 1977)
• R4P4R The Return Home (March 9, 1977)
• R5P1 A Hive of Villainy (Not Recorded)
• R5P1R A Hive of Villainy (March 15, 1977)
• R5P4-R6P1 Monkey Band (R5P3-3A Jolly Jazzers*) (March 10, 1977)
• R5P6 The Inner City (Not Recorded)
• R5P6R The Inner City (March 12, 1977)
• R6P1 Blasting Away (March 16, 1977)
• R6P5N The Destruction of Alderon (March 12, 1977)
• R7P1N Is It a Bird? (R6P3*) (March 5, 1977)
• R7P1 The Hatch Opens (Not Recorded)
• R7P2N The Hatch Opens (March 11, 1977)
• R7P2 The Mouse Robot (March 9, 1977)
• R8P2N More Rescue (March 12, 1977)
• R8P2 The Rescue (Not Recorded)
• R8P2R The Rescue (New Intro) (March 8, 1977)
• R8P3 The Water Snake (Not Recorded)
• R8P3R The Water Snake (March 11, 1977)
• R8P4 The Walls Converge (March 11, 1977)
• R9P1 Ben Creeps Around (March 8, 1977)
• R9P2 The Swashbucklers (March 5, 1977)
• R9P3-R10P1 Ben's Death (March 5, 1977)
• R10P2 The Fighters Attack (Here They Come*) (March 11, 1977)
• R10P3-R11P1 Standing By (Stand By*) (March 12, 1977)
• R11P2 Approaching the Target (Not Recorded)
• R11P2R The Last Battle Pt. II (March 11, 1977)
• R12P1 (March 15, 1977)
• R12P2 The Throne Room and End Title (End Titles*) (March 12, 1977)
• R12P2X (March 16, 1977)
• The Princess Theme (March 8, 1977)

*Original cue number/title before revisions

Original recording log

The score for Star Wars was recorded over the span of eight days in the month of March 1977. The 1997 Special Edition soundtrack release by RCA Victor included a detailed look at the recording log for all the cues in the film.