The Pope of Greenwich Village premiered

June 22, 1984
The atmospheric black-comedy, The Pope of Greenwich Village, starring Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts, Daryl Hannah, and Geraldine Page, opened on this date.

Rickie Lee Jones had originally written and recorded an instrumental demo as a theme, but it was rejected in favor of Frank Sinatra’s Summer Wind. The demo, which retained the title Theme for the Pope (because of the movie), wound up on her 1984 album The Magazine.

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