That Thing You Do! (1996) ( )

Product Summary Label: Sony/columbia UPC: 00074646782828 Release Date: 9/24/1996 Buy.com Sku: 60106447 Item#: M9LYQP Buy.com Sales Rank: 24793 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Lovin' You Lots And Lots - Norm Wooster Singers ~ Original Soundtrack 2. That Thing You Do! - The Wonders ~ Original Soundtrack 3. Little Wild One - The Wonders ~ Original Soundtrack 4. Dance With Me Tonight - The Wonders ~ Original Soundtrack 5. All My Only Dreams - The Wonders ~ Original Soundtrack 6. I Need You (That Thing You Do) - The Wonders ~ Original Soundtrack 7. She Knows It - The Heardsmen ~ Original Soundtrack 8. Mr. Downtown - Freddy Fredrickson ~ Original Soundtrack 9. Hold My Hand, Hold My Heart - The Chantrellines ~ Original Soundtrack 10. Voyage Around The Moon - The Saturn 5 ~ Original Soundtrack 11. My World Is Over - Diane Dane ~ Original Soundtrack 12. Drive Faster - The Vicksburgs ~ Original Soundtrack 13. Shrimp Shack - Cap'n Geech & The Shrimp Shack Shooters ~ Original Soundtrack 14. Time To Blow - Del Paxton ~ Original Soundtrack 15. That Thing You Do! - The Wonders (live) ~ Original Soundtrack   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Includes liner notes by A.M. White. The soundtrack to Tom Hanks' exuberant movie about a one-hit-wonder rock band from the '60s called the Wonders is a nearly-perfect study of early-'60s rock style. The bands on it are all fake, but the sounds are authentic, from the vintage wall-of-sound production of "Hold My Hand, Hold My Heart," performed by a girl-group called the Chanterellines, to the epically sad Burt Bacharach homage "My World Is Over," by Diane Dane, to the outer-space surf guitar of the Saturn 5's "Voyage Around The Moon." The Wonders themselves sound like they could have had at least two or three hits from the evidence here, but there's no arguing with the one they got. "That Thing You Do!," written in real life by Adam Schlesinger of the New York rock band Fountains Of Wayne and sung by Mike Viola of the Candy Butchers (and now a pop hit in real life, to boot) is a Beatles homage that ranks with anything by the Rutles or Badfinger. The "I Want To Hold Your Hand" beat, the wistful power-pop melody, the sweet'n'sour harmonies, the dizzy middle-eight--it's all so blissfully dead-on that we have to assume they ended with a 7th chord, instead of a Beatlesque 6th, just to avoid litigation. This pop is so perfect it's actionable. Producer: Tom Hanks   Technical Info Release Date : 09/24/1996 Original Release Date : 1996 Catalog ID : 67828 Label : Epic Soundtrax Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00074646782828   Professional Reviews Entertainment Weekly (11/15/96, p.73) - "...captures the infectiously zany spectrum of '60s pop. But outside the film's period trappings, the Wonders' title cut sounds more like the Knack than a Merseybeat chestnut." - Rating: B    Product Image