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| | L. A. Confidential (1997 Film) | | | Music Style : | | Traditional Vocal Pop | | Record Label : | | Restless Records | | Release Date : | | 1997-08-26 | | Store Price : | | $11.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $11.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Badge of Honor - Jerry Goldsmith
2. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive - Johnny Mercer
3. Christmas Blues - Dean Martin
4. Look for the Silver Lining - Chet Baker
5. Makin' Whoopee - Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan Quartet
6. Hit the Road to Dreamland - Betty Hutton
7. Oh! Look at Me Now - Lee Wiley
8. Lady Is a Tramp - Gerry Mulligan Quartet
9. Wheel of Fortune - Kay Starr
10. But Not for Me - Jackie Gleason
11. How Important Can It Be? - Joni James
12. Looking at You - Lee Wiley
13. Powder Your Face With Sunshine (Smile! Smile! Smile!) - Dean Martin
14. L.A. Confidential - Jerry Goldsmith
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 RETURN TO GOOD TIMES
Submitted on: 2008-05-14 |
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THIS CD IS A GREAT RETURN TO GOOD TIMES BY WAY OF GREAT SONGS FROM THE ERA. THE MOVIE WAS WELL DONE AND JUST HAD TO HAVE THE MUSIC TO BRING
ME BACK. |
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 One of the Great Soundtrack Albums !
Submitted on: 2007-02-24 |
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If you could buy only one CD this year, I have NO IDEA what it should be. Maybe you should get a second job, you deadbeat. But if you buy two CDs (without having to work in a salt mine, or sell Uncle Bob, piece by piece, for experiments), it should be two soundtracks: L.A. Confidential and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
Dark, ethereal, and moody, these albums have presence, and hold together on their own as great albums, able to stand apart and peer out from beneath the long, great shadows cast by their respective impressive film counterparts.
** As with all soundtracks, make sure you see the songs listed on the back and not simply "original score." Don't go home with orchestral, background music when you want classic songs and vocals.
L.A. Confidential has the period songs by the period's artists, including Johnny Mercer's FANTASTIC "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive." Jerry Goldsmith gets two pieces of his powerful score on the CD, the title track and the even better "Badge of Honor."
The period songs are great, the sweet voice of Kay Starr and Lee Wiley are terrific, and even the instrumentals are good here. Johnny Mercer, as mentioned before, is great here, but the stand-out on this album is Dean Martin's "Christmas Blues." In all his swagger-voiced, king-of-cool splendor, Dino brings us one of the greatest (and least heard) Christmas songs of all time.
Worth the price of admission itself.
My suggestion: get both CDs, dim the lights, pour yourself a beverage or four, and listen to these two albums back to back.
Repeat as necessary.
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RATING: A |
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Captures the essence
Submitted on: 2006-01-07 |
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I enjoy compilation soundtracks, because if you don't like the song you're listening to, you may like the next. But that's not a problem with this collection anyway, as each vintage recording from the 50s perfectly underscores every scene in the film and the 50s period itself. I can easily recapture each scene in my mind as I'm listening to Gerry Mulligan, Kay Starr, Johnny Mercer, Chet Baker, Lee Willey, Joni James, Jackie Gleason, and Betty Hutton - all household names at the time and musical kingpins in this award-winning, romantic crime thriller. It was Jackie Gleason who was perhaps the first to introduce "mood" music - music for lovers - and it caught on big-time during most of the 50s. Picture long flowing hair on the women, cool martinis, a black and white legal system, racial tension between the haves and have-nots - and this soundtrack captures it almost perfectly. As a bonus, there are two tracks of the original motion picture score by Jerry Goldsmith, including the emotionally evocative closing credits with the understated trumpet lead. I've listened to this CD repeatedly over the years and it's a keeper in my permanent library. |
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When the Soundtrack is better than the movie
Submitted on: 2004-12-27 |
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| Excellent Soundtrack full of old classics, evokes the mood, the scene without even watching the film. AS good as the soundtrack to French Kiss and thats high praise. |
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Delight
Submitted on: 2003-03-10 |
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| What a delightful CD. It exposed me to a world of music I never knew existed being only 20 years of age. Now I am a growing fan of Jazz all thanks to this CD's wonderful mix of Jazz and 50's classics. |
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