

I had Joachim on the phone, and he told me he listened to the extract, but doesn’t remember what it is… But I’m not sure he watched the right extract… From my point of view, Jean Francois Jenny-Clarke and Daniel Humair were part of the recording session for the movie, but not for that extract that’s not Humair drumming… I’m pretty sure they needed a kind of free-pop track and they took one from Joachim’s unreleased material with the Mad Rockers from 1969… Listen, it will take months before I’ll visit him, but I plan a journey this year (2013) to see him.

Kühn doesn’t remember, but it’s likely recorded by the Kühn brother’s Bloody Rockers or Mad Rockers (Joachim Kühn, Rolf Kühn, Günter Lenz, Stu Martin, Volker Kriegel) and then used in the film.

The theme of the song is the same as Gato Barbieri’s Maté, which appears on his double-album Latino America which is not to say that he composed it, nor that Maté was the original title… One of the performers of the recording used in the film (the organ-player) is identified by Marc Sarrazy as Joachim Kühn. Thanks to Marc, Phillip, Ed and all the others (see comments) we are very close to disclosure! What uncredited song is played on the record player following the butter scene in Last Tango in Paris? The sole purpose of this site was to find an answer to the following question:
