Music from "Night of the Living Dead"

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"Night of the living dead" (the original) is remembered partially for it's music. Much of the music is taken from the KPM library, a database of stock music, much of which is easily recognized from cartoons and commercials. One of the only KPM songs I recognize is "saw theme", a creepy song also used in spongebob, ren and stimpy, and others. My question here is if any of you know the names of some of the other KPM tunes used from night of the living dead. Here's the kpm website:

www.playkpmmusic.com

just enter the site as a guest.

"Teenagers from Outer Space" music is used a lot. The main theme for the movie (the music that starts and ends it) for one was used in this movie.

There's a scene in "Night of the Living Dead" that's nearly identical to a scene in "Killer Shrews" (1959) and it uses the same incidental music. In the "Killer Shrews", they are surrounded by these killer shrews trying to get into the isolated place where they are. Two main rivals develop, just like in Night of the Living Dead, and both have to leave the enclosure. When they rush back, the bad rival tries to lock the good one out, and when the good guy makes it in, he starts clobbering the bad guy and threatens to feed him to the shrews. He decides not to do this.