Music played a huge role in defining the filmmaker’s distinctive atmosphere on the big and small screens. Hear 13 examples.

Daniels recently appeared on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" and performed a song he wrote about the curse and Lions' turnaround. It's called "The Curse of Bobby Layne" and he cut the ...

He wanted it for Blue Velvet and couldn't afford the rights, but commissioned Badalamenti to make a song that sounded like it. The composer hired the singer Julee Cruise as the vocalist ...

The popular 1963 version of "Blue Velvet" by Bobby Vinton, a song Lynch previously said he never really liked, was the seed ...

His sinister, surreal vision of America made him a leading counterculture auteur — with movies such as Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart and Mulholland Drive, and the groundbreaking TV series Twin Peaks.

For many years, one of Lynch's white-whale music syncs was This Mortal Coil's version of Tim Buckley's "Song to the Siren," a track he cited often as one of his favorites. He wanted it for Blue Velvet ...

Films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” aren’t always easy to explain, but they live on in your mind and burrow under your skin. By Esther Zuckerman David Lynch, whose death ...

Bobby Damato, of Floral Park, celebrates the music of other Bobbys — think Darin, Rydell, Vinton and the like ... but they remember every word to every song I sing.” Bobby Damato (known ...