Over the weekend, details from the soundtrack of Marvel's much-anticipated
Captain America: The First Avenger film were
revealed, listing the Alan Silvestri-composed original score chronologically. However, there was one oddball; a song titled
Star-Spangled Man, composed and written by Alan Menken & David Zippel. While the peice was expected to be used during the USO sequences of the film, David Zippel recently chatted with
Playbill confirming so.
"It's a montage, and it's before he's actually Captain America," Zippel said. "[He's] in the process of becoming him. It shows him in these war bond presentations around the country over a series of time. It's very period, and Alan and I had a really good time doing it."Don't worry, Captain America isn't singing in the movie."It's sort of the Army band [and] a USO group singing," Zippel said.
Captain America: The First Avenger focuses on the early days of the Marvel Universe when Steve Rogers volunteers to participate in an experimental program that turns him into the Super Soldier known as Captain America. As Captain America, Rogers joins forces with Bucky Barnes and Peggy Carter to wage war on the evil HYDRA organization, led by the villainous Red Skull. Starring Chris Evans, Sebastian Stan, Tommy Lee Jones, Hayley Atwell, Samuel L. Jackson, Stanley Tucci and Hugo Weaving, the film releases July 22, 2011.