Music rights altogether cost nearly $250,000 above the films budget of $350,000. The ending movie credits show songs by The Clash, Culture Club, Bananarama, and the Jam, but songs by these artists didn’t make the final film edit as problems arose in acquiring the music rights. They ended up winning the Grammy for Best New Artist in 1983. Originally released on the multi-platinum album Business As Usual in 1982 in the US.
In 1994, Rhino Records finally released what had been planned as the original movie soundtrack eleven years after the film had been released. The most common counterfeit version is misspelled, reading “ Vally Girls” instead of “ Valley Girls.” This early EP is so valuable that it has been counterfeited quite a bit. It was never commercially released however, but a few copies were leaked and are highly valued collector’s items. Instead a short six song EP on the small Atlantic subsidiary label, Roadshow Records, was planned. Originally, there had been an original motion picture soundtrack planned on Epic Records, however it’s release was cancelled due to music rights access and budget concerns. While Deborah Foreman did appear in a few other movies after Valley Girl, including Real Genius, her career was essentially over by the late 80s. This was Cage’s big screen debut, and he had yet to adopt the screen name of “Cage.” Film credits listed him as Nicolas Coppola. Cage had a small part in Fast Times, working as a short order cook under Judge Rienhold’s manager character at Bronco Burger. He also appeared in several other 80s cult-teen movies including, Rumble Fish, Raising Arizona, and the teen movie that started them all – Fast Times At Ridgemont High, written by Cameron Crowe. Cage, of course, became a huge movie star after Valley Girl, starring in nearly 100 feature length films. Valley Girl was the first starring role for both Nicolas Cage and Deborah Foreman. Most of their other movies were of the B-horror types, such as Night of the Comet, Barracuda, and Snake Island. This was arguably one of their most successful screenplays. Produced and written by Wayne Crawford and Andrew Lane, the plot was loosely based on Romeo and Juliet.
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She also has directed episodes for several TV series, including Sex And The City, Weeds, and Madam Secretary. Other movies that she directed include another 80s teen cult-classic, Real Genius (1985), The Twilight Zone (1986), and Lost In Yonkers (1993), among others. She was the first president of the Director’s Guild of America 2002-2003. She got her start working for Francis Ford Coppola, and is credited for helping launch Nicolas Cage’s career (who is Coppola’s nephew).
Valley Girl was a 1983 teen movie directed by Martha Coolidge. Each Monday at 4pm Kris stops by KXCI’s studio to give us insight on this classic album at 91.3FM and. The Classic Pick is a weekly feature at 4pm M-F on The Home Stretch, sponsored by the Good Oak Bar and curated by Kris Kerry. Music rights access and budget overruns prevented a soundtrack to be released with the low-budget 1983 movie, however in 1994 the soundtrack as originally planned was finally released. One of the earliest and most influential 80s teen flicks featured a killer soundtrack that serves as a primer in new wave. VARIOUS ARTISTS – VALLEY GIRL: MUSIC FROM THE SOUNDTRACK