Soundtracks for
Manhattan Melodrama (1934) More at IMDbPro »

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• "The Bad in Every Man (Blue Moon)"
  (1934) (uncredited)
  Music by Richard Rodgers
  Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
  Sung by Shirley Ross at the Cotton Club
  Reprised as background music for the death house scene
  
  
  
• "What's the Matter With Father"
  (1910) (uncredited)
  Lyrics by Harry Williams
  Music by Egbert Van Alstyne
  Played aboard the steamboat in the first scene
  
  
  
• "Sidewalks of New York"
  (1894) (uncredited)
  Music by Charles Lawlor
  Lyrics by James W. Blake
  Played aboard the steamboat and danced by the patrons
  
  
  
• "Long, Long Ago"
  (1883) (uncredited)
  Written by Thomas Haynes Bayley
  Played as background music when the 1907 intertitle is shown
  
  
  
• "Academic Festival Overture in C, Opus 80"
  (uncredited)
  Written by Johannes Brahms
  Played as background music when Jim Wade gets his law degree
  
  
  
• "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
  Traditional children's melody
  Played as background music in the montage showing years going by
  
  
  
• "The Man That Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo"
  (uncredited)
  Written by Fred Gilbert
  Played as background music for the first scene in the casino
  
  
  
• "Heart's Wounds"
  from "Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34"
  Music by Edvard Grieg
  Played when Eleanor tells Jim she has to leave him
  

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