How Ed Sheeran, Metallica and ‘The Godfather’ Songs Created Memorable Scenes for ‘Ted Lasso,’ ‘Stranger Things’ and ‘The White Lotus’

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Jon Burlingame A music supervisor has a big job, as defined by the TV Academy: She or he “creatively contributes to the story, character development and overall narrative of the program by engaging in song selection, guiding original song creation and production, overseeing on-camera music performances… contributing to the creation of a unique music aesthetic.” This year’s five nominees reflect those ideals: Frankie Pine, music supervisor for “Daisy Jones & The Six,” was hired five years ago; she was even part of the casting process for the rise-and-fall story of a ’70s rock band. “It was all-encompassing,” she says, “being able to do every aspect of music to help create that authenticity.” Pine submitted episode 8, which depicts the band touring the U.S. “We had all those on-cameras.

Everything was done to playback,” she reports, “but everything was also recorded live,” providing multiple options during post-production.

The choice of non-Daisy Jones songs from the ’70s was also critical: “It was such an incredible decade of music, the beginning of punk and disco and funk, that we really wanted to represent.” An on-camera performance is also central to the final episode of “Ted Lasso,” supervisor Tony Von Pervieux points out.

The team sings “So Long, Farewell” (from “The Sound of Music”) to departing coach Lasso, which required composer Tom Howe to arrange for the actors to record the song and prepare a backing track of the tune.