In the 1994 film "The Shawshank Redemption", the song featured in the beginning of the film is 'If I Didn't Care'. This song was sung and recorded by The Ink Spots. They were an American pop vocal group who gained international fame in the 1930s and 1940s.

This movie's entire original motion picture score was composed by Thomas Newman and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1994, which was his first Oscar nomination. The majority of the film's music score consists of dark piano music. It is played in conjunction with the main character's role at Shawshank. The main theme ("End Titles" on the soundtrack album) is perhaps best known with today's audiences as the inspirational music coming from many movie trailers dealing with inspirational, dramatic, or romantic films. It is used in a manner just like James Horner's driving music from the end of "Aliens" is used in movie trailers for action films. A main scene in "The Shawshank Redemption" features the "Letter Duet" ("Canzonetta sull'aria") from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.

Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman), an inmate at Shawshank Prison in Maine, narrates the story of Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), a banker wrongly sentenced to life for shooting his wife and her lover. Over the years, Andy eventually gains the respect of his fellow inmates; he becomes influential within the prison but never gives up his hope of freedom. The soundtrack here skillfully supports the entire plot.

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