| Product Summary | | Label: Cbs/epic/wtg Records | | UPC: 00827969091128 | | Release Date: 12/16/2003 | | Buy.com Sku: 60622615 | | Item#: M92SH3 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25050 | Format:  CD |
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(C) This Compilation (P) 2003 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
| Appropriately enough, the romantic comedy Something's Gotta Give's soundtrack features a smooth and sophisticated set of mature love songs that range from vocal jazz to standards to bossa nova. Included are songs like, The Flamingos' "I Only Have Eyes for You," and Louis Armstrong's "La Vie en Rose."
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | The romantic comedies of writer/directors Nancy Meyers and Nora Ephron always seek to find contemporary equivalents for traditional sentiments, and as a result they tend to use popular music of a certain vintage on their soundtracks. Louis Armstrong, crooning some love lyric in his gravelly voice, is always a favorite, that is, when a similar reading by, say, Jimmy Durante isn't used. Meyers, who filled her last movie, What Women Want, with Frank Sinatra ballads, gives a French twist to Something's Gotta Give, and not surprisingly she starts out with Armstrong rasping his way through the Edith Piaf signature song "La Vie en Rose." Then, it's on to the gravelly voiced Steve Tyrell singing a Gershwin standard and the Flamingos' dreamy '50s revival of "I Only Have Eyes for You," before listeners settle into a series of sambas sung in French and numbers by the likes of Charles Tr?net and Eartha Kitt. So far, so dull. The album ends unfortunately with a reprise of "La Vie en Rose" sung by the film's star, Jack Nicholson, who wisely has been prevented from singing in the movies since he had a number cut from On a Clear Day You Can See Forever in 1970 and was an embarrassment in the 1975 film version of Tommy. No doubt his rendition is supposed to be funny (in the sense of a light chuckle on the way out of the theater), but it serves as a misguided tag to a soundtrack that wasn't very interesting to begin with. ~ William Ruhlmann | | Appropriately enough, the December-December romantic comedy Something's Gotta Give's soundtrack features a smooth and sophisticated set of mature love songs that range from vocal jazz to standards to bossa nova. Bookended by two versions of "La Vie en Rose" -- a sassy yet sentimental version by Louis Armstrong and slick yet strangely heartwarming rendition by one of the film's stars, Jack Nicholson -- the collection keeps it light and fun, including a few moments of greatness along the way. The Flamingos' "I Only Have Eyes for You," Astrud Gilberto's "So Nice (Summer Samba)," Charles Trenet's "Que Reste-T'Il de Nos Amour," and Django Reinhardt's "Brazil" are undoubtedly nostalgic, but still sound as freshly romantic as they did when they were freshly minted. Coralie Cl?ment's "Samba de Mon Coeur Qui Bat" and Eartha Kitt's "C'Est Si Bon" are two other highlights; along with tracks by Deon Jackson and Heitor Pereira, they help make Something's Gotta Give a surprisingly refreshing and genuinely romantic soundtrack. ~ Heather Phares | | The 2003 film SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE stars Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson and chronicles the humorous romantic travails of the past-50 pair (past 60 in the latter's case). Just as the film was praised for its disregard of the youth-culture imperative, so the soundtrack offers a remarkably sophisticated selection of songs. Sporting a mix of jazz vocals, doo-wop, Brazilian, and French music, the disc is unremittingly romantic. | | Things kick off with the inimitable trumpet and voice of Louis Armstrong on "La Vie En Rose." Eventually, the listener moves through everything from the Flamingos' moody 1950s classic "I Only Have Eyes For You" to bossa nova queen Astrud Gilberto shifting into samba mode for "So Nice (Summer Samba)," and French crooner Charles Trenet cooing sensually on "Que Reste-T'il De Nos Amour." A second version of "La Vie En Rose" closes out the album, by a vocalist easily as distinctive as Armstrong, if not quite as accomplished--a promising young talent named Jack Nicholson. |
Producer: Hans Zimmer |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 12/16/2003 | | Original Release Date : 2003 | | Catalog ID : 90911 | | Label : Sony Music Distribution (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00827969091128 |
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