1. Cat Stevens: Trouble
2. Madonna & Mandy Patinkin: What Can You Lose
3. The Four Tops: Baby I Need Your Loving
4. Renaissance: Love the One
5. Badly Drawn Boy: Year of the Rat
6. Jeff Lynne: Blown Away
7. Eddie Roll & the Jets: Gee, Officer Krupke
8. Luis Enriquez Bacalov: The Grand Duel (Parte Prima)
9. Bryan Ferry: Don’t Ever Change
10. Sammy Davis Jr.: In the Ghetto
1. I had a lot of Cat Stevens in the house growing up, and I'm glad I had that influence. This is a great song. Very moving.
2. Speaking of moving, this is the saddest, loveliest little song. It's from the Dick Tracy soundtrack, which means it's a short, sad, lovely Stephen Sondheim song. Beautiful.
3. The first Top 10 hit from the Four Tops. Because of a life growing up hearing a lot of classic songs on commercials, it's easy to forget what a fantastic song this is. The Four Tops had passion.
4. Renaissance is a damn good prog band.
5. The video made me tear up every time. Idealistic, sure, but what's wrong with that? I love this song.
6. When I was about 13, I realized a great deal of the music I liked had something to do with Jeff Lynne, either as a producer or a band member or as ELO or whatever. This is from his solo album Armchair Theatre, which came out between the two Traveling Wilburys albums.
7. From the original cast recording of West Side Story. This was always one of my favorite songs in the musical, with the kids completely ripping apart all of the stereotypical reasons kids join gangs.
8. Quentin Tarantino finds a lot of great music to use in his films. This is off the Kill Bill: Vol. 1 soundtrack, a beautiful piece from the Spaghetti Western Storm Rider.
9. Apparently this is a cover of the Crickets (and a Goffin-King song). I've never heard any other version. This is a good track from Ferry's first solo album, These Foolish Things, which is all covers. And great.
10. Surprisingly sucky cover; Sammy tries to take Elvis's soaring (but kinda cheesy) ballad and turn it into something funky. I have this on Golden Throats 2, if that's any indication.
4 comments:
Here's something I did not know - there were THREE Dick Tracy soundtracks. I have the first - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tracy_(soundtrack) with a;l that 1930s music, while you have the third with Madonna.
Huh; I didn't know about the one you have. I have the Madonna album and the Danny Elfman score.
"In The Ghetto" was written by Mac Davis. I've got a soft spot in my heart for Elvis' version. Sammy Davis Jr. should have left it alone.
Cat Stevens wrote a surprising number of pop hits before having his own, then having his big religious fundamentalist meltdown.
Back in the day (late '70's) WXRT would occasionally play a Renaissance song.
And we were singing "Officer Krupke" at work a couple of weeks ago. Lots of theater people there.
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