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The combination of the library’s cult status among record collectors and the increased availability of sampling since the eighties has also meant that many De Wolfe tracks appear regularly on commercial releases by internationally renowned artists. Beyoncé used a track for her song Woman Like Me from the 2006 film The Pink Panther, and Gorillaz used the intro from Dawn of the Dead to start their Demon Days album. However it’s in the Hip-Hop genre that De Wolfe samples are most prevalent, appearing on albums by the likes of Fat Joe, Jay-Z, Cam’Ron, Stereo MC’s, Mos Def, Ric-A-Che, The Nextmen, among others.
Having reached its centenary year in 2009, De Wolfe continues as both a family run company and an industry leader, with James de Wolfe as Chairman, Warren de Wolfe as Managing Director and Rosalind de Wolfe as Director along with senior members of staff, Alan Howe, Stephen Rosie, Frank Barretta and Chris Clarke, each of whom has been with the company more than 16 years. The company is the world’s largest independent production music library, with offices and agents based in forty countries from USA to Russia, and as far flung as South Africa, Australia and Japan. The company is represented in seven countries by EMI, and boasts an ever-expanding roster of composers. De Wolfe’s roll call includes some of the UK’s leading talents, both past and present: Jack Trombey, Simon Park, Tim Souster, Andy Quin, Alex Heffes, Stanley Myers, Stephane Grappelli, John Altman, Stanley Black, David Bradnum, Frank Mcdonald and Chris Rae, Paul Lawler, Frederic Talgorn, York Bowen, Johnny Hawksworth, Steve Sidwell, Ivor Slaney, Reg Tilsley, Ronald Binge, David Kelly, Hampton Hawes, Basil Kirchin, Alan Parker, Roger Webb, Ivor Novello, Colin Kiddy, Howie, David Hubbard, Nigel Mullaney, Danny Davies, Jonathan Jowett, Simon Stewart, Troy Banarzi, Ross Hardy, John Leach, Paul Leonard-Morgan, Terry Keating, Ian Boddy, Paul Lewis, Karl Jenkins, Terry Gadsden, Hermann Langschwert and Nick Ingman.
Selected credits include: Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (film); Brokeback Mountain; Grindhouse; Michael Moore’s Sicko; The Prestige; Adventureland (film); Octopussy; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; The Fourth Protocol; The Cider House Rules; Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas; The Living Daylights and the classic Emmanuelle. Similarly, De Wolfe music features on countless TV productions including Spitting Image; Coronation Street; Inspector Morse; Neighbours; kids favourite Balamory; Great British Journeys, Grumpy Old Men; Poirot; Churchill’s Bodyguard and Crimes and Trials of the 20th Century. All have been enhanced by production music from De Wolfe’s huge library, along with vast numbers of TV commercials, computer games and documentaries. Similarly, the corporate market has also benefited, from its early origins in those information movies of the 1950s, through slide projectors to “the audio visual show” and then video.
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