The "Theme from Lady in Red" is a beautiful Americana piece for acoustic guitars, flute and harp. For the "Main Title Music" Horner has arranged the song "42nd Street" in a Depression-era style for a small combo.

More Jazz Age sounds follow for the sprightly "First Bank Robbery" with nice horn playing from clarinet and trumpet.

Then there's a melancholy "slow dance" number for "Now That You Know", with lovely and sensitive playing from horns and reeds.

"Lonely" sounds like another dance number but at a slightly faster and more swaying mid-tempo.

A bit of exotica modality defines "The Garden Party", which has a consistent, mysterious "snake charmer" feel to it.

Then we get another "42nd Street" but it's "Juke Box Source" this time.

The harp returns for "Playing Baseball", a soaring and uplifting cue that's very pretty and also has nice guitar playing.

"Love Theme (Film Version)" is the main theme again but with piano and it's extended into the next cue "California".

So far the backdrop of crime has been absent from the music but it gets introduced with menacing piano ostinati and staccato horns in "Laying the Trap" Parts 1 and 2. The same motif recurs immediately with the addition of the "42nd Street" melody in "Dillinger's Death #1". "Dillinger's Death #2" starts out as the love theme and then crashes into somber and dissonant horn clusters.

Plaintive and sorrowful long tones from two reed instruments begin "Polly's Slap" and then the menacing horns and piano barge in.

For "The Getaway" Horner has a single piano note played monomaniacally and obsessively while the "42nd Street" melody is again worked into a dissonant and dangerous arrangement with aggressive horns.

The piano works with two notes and a slower tempo for "Eddie's Goodbye", which also has harp and some prettier embellishments to go along with the atmosphere of dread, which also dominates the next cue, "Pop's Death".

"42nd Street — The Eggs" is the "42nd Street" melody again, this time played by solo trombone. For the "End Title" we're back in the swinging jazz age again, a reprise of "First Bank Robbery".