Living Out Loud (1998) (Queen Latifah/Anderson/James )

Product Summary Label: Bmg/rca Victor UPC: 00090266336326 Release Date: 11/10/1998 Buy.com Sku: 60155465 Item#: MTGR6C Buy.com Sales Rank: 24555 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Lush Life - Queen Latifah ~ Original Soundtrack 2. Give Me Something Real - Clark Anderson ~ Original Soundtrack 3. Goin' Out Of My Head - Queen Latifah ~ Original Soundtrack 4. At Last - Etta James ~ Original Soundtrack 5. If You Love Me - Brownstone ~ Original Soundtrack 6. Be Anything (But Be Mine) - Queen Latifah ~ Original Soundtrack 7. They Can't Take That Away From Me - Danny De Vito ~ Original Soundtrack 8. Born To Be Blue - Mel Torme ~ Original Soundtrack 9. You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You - Dean Martin ~ Original Soundtrack 10. Low Key Lightly - George Fenton ~ Original Soundtrack 11. Hot Fun In The Summertime - Sly & The Family Stone ~ Original Soundtrack 12. She's 34 ~ Original Soundtrack 13. I'm The Gutter Type ~ Original Soundtrack 14. Ecstacy ~ Original Soundtrack 15. Okay To You Paying My Debts ~ Original Soundtrack   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Original score composed by George Fenton. Producers include: Mervyn Warren, George Fenton. Engineers include: Jess Sutcliffe, Frank Wolf, Geoff Young. Includes liner notes by Richard LaGravenese. You may not have caught this 1998 film, which starred Holly Hunter, Danny DeVito, Queen Latifah and Martin Donovan, but a number of the songs performed on this soundtrack will certainly be familiar--as are the performers. Dean Martin, Etta James and Mel Torme are all featured with vintage recordings, while rapper/actress Queen Latifah shows her range when she takes a shot at singing jazz. Latifah gives the notoriously difficult-to-sing jazz standard "Lush Life" a decent reading, winningly essays a laid-back reading of "Goin' Out of My Head" and lays down an engagingly sweet version of Irving Gordon's "Be Anything (But Be Mine)." Perhaps most suprising of all is the decision to hand the mic to the film's star Danny DeVito for the chestnut "They Can't Take That Away From Me." DeVito's shot-and-a-beer singing style has its own charm, but it's plain cruel to stack that song next to Mel Torme's bell-tone perfect rendition of "Born to Be Blue."   Technical Info Release Date : 11/10/1998 Original Release Date : 1998 Catalog ID : 63363 Label : RCA Victor Records (USA) Number of Discs : 1 Runtime : 54m : 5s Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00090266336326   Professional Reviews Entertainment Weekly (1/8/99, p.66) - "...DeVito almost comes within a spitting distance of carrying a tune, albeit bested by Queen Latifah's creditable three-tune turn as lounge diva..." - Rating: B    Product Image