Anchorman: Music from the Motion Picture

Anchorman: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack album to the 2004 film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. The album is a compilation of the songs used in the film. Will Ferrell, in character as Ron Burgundy, gives a brief introduction to each song, and can be heard crying throughout "Shannon".[2]

Anchorman: Music from the Motion Picture
Soundtrack album by Various artists
Released	2004
Genre	Rock
Length	55:06[lower-alpha 1]
Label	Universal, Republic[1]
Producer	Adam McKay, Will Ferrell, Shauna Robertson, Judd Apatow, Avery Lipman, Monte Lipman

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Artist	Length
1.	"Legendary Anchor Ron Burgundy Welcomes You To His Album: A Life, A Song"	Ferrell	Will Ferrell (in character as Ron Burgundy)	1:21
2.	"Ride Captain Ride"	Mike Pinera, Frank Konte	Blues Image	4:08
3.	"Sunshine (Go Away Today)"	Edwards	Jonathan Edwards	2:41
4.	"Treat Her Like a Lady"	Eddie Cornelius	Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose	3:21
5.	"Groovy Situation"	Russell Lewis, Herman Davis	Gene Chandler	3:43
6.	"Carry On Wayward Son"	Kerry Livgren	Kansas	5:46
7.	"Grazing in the Grass"	Harry Elston, Philemon Hou	The Friends of Distinction	3:22
8.	"Cherry, Cherry"	Diamond	Neil Diamond	3:10
9.	"That Lady"	Rudolph Isley, Ronald Isley, O'Kelly Isley Jr.	The Isley Brothers	6:03
10.	"Shannon"	Gross	Henry Gross	4:13
11.	"Use Me"	Withers	Bill Withers	4:00
12.	"Help Yourself"	Carlo Donida, Jack Fishman	Tom Jones	3:06
13.	"She's Gone"	Daryl Hall, John Oates	Hall & Oates	5:16
14.	"Afternoon Delight"	Bill Danoff	The Channel 4 News Team (Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, and David Koechner, in character as Ron Burgundy, Brian Fantana, Brick Tamland, and Champ Kind, respectively)	3:09
15.	"Ron Burgundy's Sign Off"	Ferrell	Will Ferrell (in character as Ron Burgundy)	1:47
Total length:				55:06

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Other songs in the film

Songs in the film but not in this soundtrack include:[3]

• "Deep Burgundy" - Marc Ellis
• "El Paso" - Marty Robbins
• "If" - Bread
• "Baby Making Flute Solo" - Marc Ellis and Katisse Buckingham; includes a portion of the melody of "Aqualung" by Jethro Tull[4][5]
• "Bread and Butter" - The Newbeats
• Mexican hat dance

Notes

1. The track lengths used here are from the album packaging, but some sources, such as,[1] list various tracks as being one second longer or shorter.

References

1. "Anchorman Music From The Motion Picture". Discogs. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
2. Spence D. "Anchorman: Music from the Motion Picture". IGN. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
3. Anchorman: Music from the Motion Picture at IMDb
4. "Anchorman and Jazz Flute: Katisse Buckingham is Ron Burgundy". Beaumont Music. Thea Paraskevaides. Archived from the original on 22 June 2020. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
5. Mary Grace Cerni (19 November 2013). "This Guy Played Will Ferrell's Jazz Flute Solo in Anchorman". LA Weekly. Archived from the original on 21 April 2020. Retrieved 24 June 2020.