20 Things You Somehow Missed In Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
3. All Those Radio Ads Are Actually REAL
Back to the many intriguing sounds heard during Tarantino's LA love letter now, and to the various radio advertisement sand tunes heard playing within the vehicles of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Again, you'd be forgiven for assuming the ads in particular were simply created specifically for the movie itself.
But the truth is, a ton of viewers were actually obliviously listening to some very real commercials and DJ intros & outros that the director and music supervisor Mary Ramos put together after listening to 14 hours of 93 KHJ radio from that 68-69 period.
In the end, Tarantino decided that all of the music, intros & outros, and commercials heard on the radios seen in his movie had to be stuff that had been heard on the station back then, too, because "if it didn't play on K.H.J. in that time it just felt like I was cheating." (via BBC)
And in the end, fans were gifted one of the greatest and most authentic driving soundtracks of all time.