Born in Los Angeles, he entered the film industry in 1976, initially as an actor. He made his film scoring debut in 1980 for the film Forbidden Zone directed by his older brother Richard Elfman. He has since been nominated for four Academy Awards and won a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media for Tim Burton's Batman and an Emmy Award for his Desperate Housewives theme. Elfman was honored with the prestigious Richard Kirk award at the 2002 BMI Film and TV Awards. The award is given annually to a composer who has made significant contributions to film and television music.
He is the son of novelist Blossom Elfman and the brother of director Richard Elfman.
Elfman was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Blossom Elfman (nรฉe Bernstein), a writer and teacher, and Milton Elfman, a community in the Baldwin Hills area of Los Angeles. He spent much of his time in the local movie theatre, adoring the music of such film composers as Bernard Herrmann and Franz Waxman.
Stating that he hung out with the "band nerds" in high school, he started a ska band. After dropping out of high school, he followed his brother Richard to France, where he performed with Le Grand Magic Circus, an avant-garde musical theater group. Violin in tow, Elfman next journeyed to Africa where he traveled through Ghana, Mali, and Upper Volta, absorbing new musical styles, including the Ghanaian highlife genre which would eventually influence his own music. Elfman contracted malaria during his one-year stay and was often sick. Eventually he returned home to the United States, where he began to take Balinese music lessons at the CalArts. He was never officially a student at the institute, nonetheless, the instructor encouraged him to continue learning. Elfman stated, "He just laughed, and said, 'Sit. Play.' I continued to sit and play for a couple years." At this time, his brother was forming a new musical theater group, The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo. The group performed the music for Richard's debut feature film, Forbidden Zone. Danny Elfman composed his first score for the film and played the role of Satan. By the time the movie was completed, they had taken the name Oingo Boingo and begun recording and touring as a rock group.
In 1985, Tim Burton and Paul Reubens invited Elfman to write the score for their first feature film, Pee-wee's Big Adventure. Elfman was apprehensive at first because of his lack of formal training, but with orchestration assistance from Oingo Boingo guitarist and arranger Steve Bartek, he achieved his goal of emulating the mood of such composers as Nino Rota and Bernard Herrmann. In the booklet for the first volume of Music for a Darkened Theatre, Elfman described the first time he heard his music played by a full orchestra as one of the most thrilling experiences of his life.[citation needed] Elfman immediately developed a rapport with Burton and has gone on to score all but two of Burton's major studio releases: Ed Wood, scored by Howard Shore, which was under production while Elfman and Burton were having a fight, and Sweeney Todd, an adaptation of the 1979 Stephen Sondheim Broadway musical. He also, more recently, accompanied Tim Burton in the composition of music for "Almost Alice", the soundtrack for Alice in Wonderland.
Burton has said of his relationship with Elfman: "We don't even have to talk about the music. We don't even have to intellectualize โ which is good for both of us, we're both similar that way. We're very lucky to connect" (Breskin, 1997).
In 2021 he released "Big Mess", his first non-soundtrack album since 1984's "So-Lo", which is often considered to rather be an Oingo Boingo album due to the presence of many other band members.
Elfman has three children: Lola, born in 1979; Mali, born in 1984; and Oliver, born in 2005. On November 29, 2003, Elfman married film actress Bridget Fonda. In 1997 he scored A Simple Plan โ his only score for one of her films to date (although he did compose a cue for the film Army of Darkness, in which Fonda has a cameo). He is the uncle of actor Bodhi Elfman who is married to actress Jenna Elfman, known most notably in her role as Dharma in the TV series Dharma and Greg.
Ordinary Miracle
Danny Elfman Lyrics
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When everything is beautiful
It's just another ordinary miracle, today
The sky knows when it's time to snow
Don't need to teach a seed to grow
It's just another ordinary miracle, today
Wrapped up for you, every day
Open up and find a way
To give some of your own
Isn't it remarkable?
Like every time a raindrop falls
It's just another ordinary miracle, today
Birds in winter have their fling
And always make it home by spring
It's just another ordinary miracle, today
When you wake up, everyday
Please don't throw your dreams away
Hold them close to your heart
'Cause we are all a part of the ordinary miracle
Ordinary miracle
Do you want to see a miracle?
It seems so exceptional
That things just work out, after all
It's just another ordinary miracle, today
The sun comes up and shines so bright
And disappears again at night
It's just another ordinary miracle, today
It's just another ordinary miracle, today
In "Ordinary Miracle," Danny Elfman reflects on the beauty of everyday life and the ordinary things that we sometimes take for granted. In the first verse, Elfman talks about how everything can seem beautiful and how even snow can be a normal occurrence. He views life as a gift that we should cherish daily and encourages us to find a way to give back.
The second verse goes on to talk about how nature is filled with ordinary miracles, such as birds migrating or the sun rising and setting each day. Elfman suggests that these events, although they happen often, are still remarkable and we should take joy in them. He then ends by repeating that every day holds ordinary miracles, and he asks the listener if they want to see one.
The message of the song is clear - we should appreciate the small things in life and not get caught up in looking for grandiose events to give us joy. Elfman reminds us that every day is filled with small blessings that we should be grateful for.
Line by Line Meaning
It's not that unusual
The beauty of life is not rare or uncommon
When everything is beautiful
When everything in life is positive and bright
It's just another ordinary miracle, today
Today is just another day filled with wonderful, ordinary events
The sky knows when it's time to snow
The natural world has its own sense of timing
Don't need to teach a seed to grow
Nature has its own way of nurturing growth
Life is like a gift, they say
People compare life to a present
Wrapped up for you, every day
Each day offers new opportunities and experiences
Open up and find a way
Be open to new possibilities and ways of living
To give some of your own
Contribute your own unique gifts to the world
Isn't it remarkable?
Isn't it amazing?
Like every time a raindrop falls
The beauty of nature and its everyday occurrences
Birds in winter have their fling
Even in harsh conditions, life finds a way to continue
And always make it home by spring
And return to their familiar, comfortable place when the time is right
When you wake up, every day
Each new day presents new possibilities
Please don't throw your dreams away
Don't give up on your aspirations and desires
Hold them close to your heart
Value your dreams and keep them as a part of yourself
'Cause we are all a part of the ordinary miracle
Because we all play a role in the wonder and beauty of everyday life
Do you want to see a miracle?
Do you want to witness the beauty of the everyday world?
It seems so exceptional
It appears extraordinary
That things just work out, after all
That things have a way of falling into place
The sun comes up and shines so bright
The world is filled with everyday marvels, such as the sunrise
And disappears again at night
And these marvels are temporary and fleeting
It's just another ordinary miracle, today
Today is another day filled with ordinary, yet amazing events
Lyrics ยฉ BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Peermusic Publishing
Written by: Glen Ballard, David Stewart, David Allan
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Itโs not that unusual
์ด์ํ ์ผ์ด ์๋์ผ
When everything is beautiful
๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์๋ฆ๋ค์ด ๊ฑด
Itโs just another ordinary miracle today
์ค๋์ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ผ์์ ๊ธฐ์
The sky knows when itโs time to snow
ํ๋์ ์ธ์ ๋์ ๋ด๋ฆด์ง ์๊ณ
Donโt need to teach a seed to grow
์จ์์ ์ค์ค๋ก ์๋ ์ค ์์ง
Itโs just another ordinary miracle today
์ค๋์ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ผ์์ ๊ธฐ์
Life is like a gift they say
์ฌ๋๋ค ๋ง์ฒ๋ผ ์ถ์ด๋
Wrapped up for you everyday
๋งค์ผ ๋ ์ํด ํฌ์ฅ๋ ์ ๋ฌผ ์์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฑฐ์ผ
Open up and find a way
์ด์ด๋ณด๊ณ ๋ฒ ํธ๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์
To give some of your own
์ค์ค๋ก ํฐ๋ํด์ผ ํด
isnโt it remarkable?
๋๋์ง ์์?
Like every time a raindrop falls
์ธ์ ๋ ๋น๋ฐฉ์ธ์ด ๋จ์ด์ง๋ฏ
Itโs just another ordinary miracle today
์ค๋์ด๋ ํ๋ฃจ๋ ๊ทธ์ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ผ์์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ฑฐ์ผ
Birds in winter have their fling
๊ฒจ์ธ์ ์๋ ๋ ์๊ฐ์ง๋ง
But always make it home by spring
๋ด์ด ์ค๊ธฐ ์ ์ ์ธ์ ๋ ๋์์ค์ง
Itโs just another ordinary miracle today
์ค๋์ ๋๋ค๋ฅธ ์ผ์์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ด์ผ
When you wake up everyday
๋งค์ผ ์์นจ ์ผ์ด๋ ๋
Please donโt throw your dreams away
๊ฟ์ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ์ง ๋ง์ธ์
Hold them close to your heart
๋ง์์์ ๊ทธ ๊ฟ์ ํ๊ณ ์์ด
Cause we are all a part
์ฐ๋ฆฐ ๋ชจ๋
Of the ordinary miracle
์ผ์์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ด๋๊น
Ordinary miracle
์ผ์์ ๊ธฐ์
Do you want to see a miracle?
๊ธฐ์ ์ ๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ๋?
It seem so exceptional
That things just work out after all
๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋ชจ๋ ์ผ์ ์ด๋ฃจ์ด์ง๋ ๊ฒ ์ ๊ธฐํ์ง
Itโs just another ordinary miracle today
์ค๋์ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ผ์์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ด์ผ
The sun comes up and shines so bright
ํ์์ ๋ ์ค๋ฅด๊ณ ๋ฐ๊ฒ ๋น๋์ง
And disappears again at night
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ฐค์ด ๋๋ฉด ๋ค์ ์ฌ๋ผ์ง๊ณ
Itโs just another ordinary miracle today
์ค๋์ ๋๋ค๋ฅธ ์ผ์์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ด์ผ
Itโs just another ordinary miracle today
์ค๋์ ๋๋ค๋ฅธ ์ผ์์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ด์ผ.
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This is my cancer fighting song.When I was in the hospital I'd listen to this song and realize just how precious life is and it made me fight to live and be able to see how amazing and special the world is and appreciate life for all its worth.
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@SpursFanCanada
Thank you
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Hope you are well.
@sgtmalik311
I have a treatment for cancer
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Keep fighting no matter what โค๏ธ
@franklinporter4529
2020 That's we need today. An everyday miracle. Please don't throw your dreams away.
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Best paramount movie besides Sonic the Hedgehog
@sofianavarrete3268
BEATIFUL SONG
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Yes