Big Chill (2-Disc Deluxe Edition) (Bonus Tracks) (1983) (Reissued/Remastered)

Product Summary Label: Universal Music Group UPC: 00602498162286 Release Date: 3/23/2004 Buy.com Sku: 60628815 Item#: MPJGDL Buy.com Sales Rank: 25079 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye ~ Original Soundtrack 2. My Girl - The Temptations ~ Original Soundtrack 3. Good Lovin' - The Rascals ~ Original Soundtrack 4. Tracks Of My Tears, The - Smokey Robinson/The Miracles ~ Original Soundtrack 5. Joy To The World - 3 Dog Night ~ Original Soundtrack 6. Ain't Too Proud To Beg - The Temptations ~ Original Soundtrack 7. Natural Woman (You Make Me Feel Like A) - Aretha Franklin ~ Original Soundtrack 8. I Second That Emotion - Smokey Robinson/The Miracles ~ Original Soundtrack 9. Whiter Shade Of Pale, A - Procol Harum ~ Original Soundtrack 10. Tell Him - The Exiters ~ Original Soundtrack 11. Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival ~ Original Soundtrack 12. When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge ~ Original Soundtrack 13. In The Midnight Hour - The Rascals ~ Original Soundtrack 14. Gimme Some Lovin' - The Spencer Davis Group ~ Original Soundtrack 15. Weight, The - The Band ~ Original Soundtrack 16. Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beach Boys ~ Original Soundtrack 17. Strangers In The Night - Bert Kaempfert ~ Original Soundtrack 18. You Can't Always Get What You Want - (Church version) ~ Original Soundtrack 19. "J.T. Lancer" Theme ~ Original Soundtrack Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. It's The Same Old Song - The Four Tops ~ Original Soundtrack 2. Dancing In The Street - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas ~ Original Soundtrack 3. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye ~ Original Soundtrack 4. Too Many Fish In The Sea - The Marvelettes ~ Original Soundtrack 5. Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing - Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell ~ Original Soundtrack 6. What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted - Jimmy Ruffin ~ Original Soundtrack 7. Shotgun - Jr. Walker & The All Stars ~ Original Soundtrack 8. Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me A Little While) - The Isley Brothers ~ Original Soundtrack 9. Ask Any Girl - The Supremes ~ Original Soundtrack 10. You Don't Own Me - Lesley Gore ~ Original Soundtrack 11. Like To Get To Know You - Spanky & Our Gang ~ Original Soundtrack 12. Monday, Monday - The Mamas & The Papas ~ Original Soundtrack 13. Nights In White Satin - The Moody Blues ~ Original Soundtrack 14. Feelin' Alright - Joe Cocker ~ Original Soundtrack 15. Game Of Love - Fayne Fontana/The Mindbenders ~ Original Soundtrack 16. I Got You (I Feel Good) - James Brown ~ Original Soundtrack 17. We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet - Blues Magoos ~ Original Soundtrack 18. Time Of The Season - The Zombies ~ Original Soundtrack 19. Get It While You Can - Howard Tate ~ Original Soundtrack   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Producers include: Norman Whitfield, Smokey Robinson, The (Young) Rascals, Richard A. Podolor, Jerry Wexler. Compilation producer: Meg Kasdan. Includes liner notes by Lawrence and Meg Kasdan. Digitally remastered using 24-bit technology by Kevin Reeves (Polygram Studios). Includes liner notes by Kevin Filipski. Liner Note Author: Kevin Filipski. Arrangers: Chris Stainton; Jerry Ragovoy; Leon Russell; Arif Mardin; Stuart Scharf; The Grease Band; Tom Dowd; Bob Dorough. Motown scored big with this album, which contains ten 60s hits, from Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It through the Grapevine" to Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale," just the sort of thing the yuppie thirtysomethings in the movie loved, and music rediscovered by the audience that saw the film. ~ William Ruhlmann This digitally remastered reissue gives another generation a chance to experience one of the first major examples of baby boomer nostalgia. When THE BIG CHILL was first released, ex-hippies were just old enough to get nostalgic about their youth. It's soundtrack features both Motown R&B classics and pop-rock hits by the likes of the Rascals and Three Dog Night, all of which made the transition from counterculture touchstones to oldies radio staples right around the time this album first came out. With electronically enhanced sound and a more postmodern perspective, THE BIG CHILL soundtrack seems even more charming upon reissue than it did in the Reagan Era. By combining the ten songs from the original Big Chill soundtrack album with all but one song from The Big Chill: More Songs From the Original Soundtrack; three instrumental songs from the film; and 15 classic '60s rock and soul tracks that didn't appear on either of those soundtracks (or the film itself), Hip-O managed to fashion a two-CD, 38-song deluxe edition of the Big Chill soundtrack. It's big enough that some of the content is rather speciously related to the original film or soundtrack concept; as a phrase on the cover says, it's more "music from and inspired by The Big Chill" than it is an expanded version of the actual soundtrack. Regardless of how strongly particular tracks tie in to the movie that inspired all this packaging, it's amply stuffed with classic '60s music. Motown does form a bigger piece of the pie than anything else, with 14 of the tracks coming from the company's vaults. But it doesn't actually dominate: there's plenty of other stuff, including great hits by the Rascals, Aretha Franklin, Procol Harum, Percy Sledge, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Beach Boys, the Spencer Davis Group, Lesley Gore, the Mamas & the Papas, Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders, James Brown, and the Zombies. True, there's not much that doesn't get played to death on oldies radio anyway, with Howard Tate's "Get It While You Can" and the Supremes B-side "Ask Any Girl" about the only exceptions. Because of that, there's little reason for collectors to pick it up, other than to get something for their significant other that they can stand listening to together. For a general public divorced from the snobbish record-collecting community, however, it's an excellent and varied scoop of classics from the era, to be filed right next to the two-CD edition of the Forrest Gump soundtrack no doubt. Note, however, that one of the songs from The Big Chill: More Songs From the Original Soundtrack -- the Steve Miller Band's "Quicksilver Girl" -- has been omitted from this deluxe edition, for reasons unexplained. ~ Richie Unterberger   Technical Info Release Date : 03/23/2004 Original Release Date : 1983 Catalog ID : 000194002 Label : Hip-O Records Number of Discs : 2 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00602498162286    Product Image