The soundtrack recording sessions for this movie were held in Burbank, California on December 22 and December 23, 1975. Composer Bernard Herrmann was terminally ill with heart disease, and could not conduct the orchestra himself. That task was given to veteran arranger and conductor Jack Hayes, while Herrmann directed from the control booth. A few hours after the sessions wrapped, on the morning of December 24, Herrmann died in his sleep at the Sheraton Universal Hotel. His daughter Dorothy recalled, "I knew he was dying. He was just a shadow of his former self, and it was remarkable that he could have written 'Taxi Driver' under the circumstances. How he did it, I'll never know, but I think it must have had something to do with the fact that he wanted to keep working right up until the end of his life."

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