Movie Soundtracks (in the order of the movies)

Mona 2022-12-09 22:17:52

A soundtrack in which the songs are chosen mostly because they are consistent with the particular moment of the movie or the character who sings them; as Delilah used as a comment for the betrayal of teh wife of Bo, or Red Headed Woman by Bruce Springsteen dedicated to Tula. Specific of the film they are a romantic Italian song by Anna Identici (Quando m'innamoro performed both in Italian and in English) and the apotheosis during the soul classic Piece Of My Heart.



Piece


Performer


Author


Editor


Notes

A Man without Love


Engelbert Humperdinck


Barry Mason (as John Barry Mason), Daniele Pace, Mario Panzeri & Roberto Livraghi


Decca Music Group Limited




Answer Me, My Love


Gene Ammons


Fred Rauch, Carl Sigman and Gerhard Winkler


Prestige Records/Fantasy, Inc.




Samson & Delilah Theme


Soundtrack


Victor Young


Paramount Pictures Corporation




El cuarto de Tula


Buena Vista Social Club


Sergio Gonzales Siaba


Nonesuch Records/World Circuit


A piece taken from teh famous album Buena Vista Social Club and the succesfull eponymous film by Wim Wenders.

Piece of My Heart


Dusty Springfield


Bert Berns and Jerry Ragovoy


Mercury Records Limited


The soul classic song was firstly a success by the british soul singer Dusty Spriengfield. Even most famous after the passional interpretations by Janis Joplin in the late sixties. Often cited as "Take Another Little Piece Of My Heart".

Piece of My Heart


Janis Joplin


Bert Berns and Jerry Ragovoy


Columbia Records




Piece of My Heart


Erma Franklin


Bert Bern and Jerry Ragovoy


Epic Records


The first interpretation (1967, top-10 US) of the famous song was, however, by Erma Franklin, sister of the "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin, also a good singer, though less well known. And this is, if we are not mistaken, the version sung (in playback) by Susan Sarandon in the climax scene of the film.

Trouble


Elvis Presley


Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller


BMG Strategic Marketing Group




Hot Pants


Bobby Cannavale (James Brown)


James Brown and Fred Wesley





A success of the 1971 by James Brown commenting the worldwide success of the "hot pants", the very brief skin-tight shorts to be worn with the tights even at office, which supplanted the miniskirts in the first seventies.

Prisoner of Love


Cindy Lauper


Russ Columbo, Clarence Gaskill and Leo Robin


GaRelila, Inc.


An explicit citation of the classic musicalLes parapluies di Cherbourg.

Delilah


Tom Jones


Les Reed and Barry Mason


Chrysalis Copyrights Limited


During the ballet commenting the betrayal of the wife of Bo, the cousin of kitty.

I Want Candy


Mandy Moore, Aida Turturro and Mary-Louise Parker


Bert Berns, Robert Feldman, Gerald Goldstein and Richard Gottehrer





The punk band of the three daughters perform a song of Bow Wow Wow, a british group of the 80s.

Scapricciatiello (Do You Love Me Like You Kiss Me)


Connie Francis


Vento, Albano, Manning, Hoffman.


Universal Records


During the meeting in hotel between Nick and Tula. An almost Italian song.

Red Headed Woman


Bruce Springsteen


Bruce Springsteen


Columbia Records


For the red heade Kate Winslet - Tula.

Little Water Song


Ute Lemper


Nick Cave and Bruno Pisek


Decca Music Group Limited




It's a Man's Man's Man's World


James Brown


James Brown and Betty Newsome


Universal Records


A new consciousness for Nick, he's discovering the importance of the family.

It Must Be Him


Vikki Carr


Maurice Vidalin, Gilbert Bécaud and Mack David


EMI Records




The Girl That I Marry


James Gandolfini and Susan Sarandon


Irving Berlin







Quando m'innamoro


Anna Identici


Daniele Pace, Mario Panzeri and Roberto Livraghi


BMG Italy




Ten Commandments of Love


Harvey & The Moonglows


Marshall Paul


MCA Records




I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now


Ray Charles (Aida Turturro)


Music Joseph E. Howard and Harold Orlob / William M. Hough (as Will M. Hough) and Frank R. Adams







Banks of the Ohio


David Patrick Kelly and Katherine Borowitz


Traditional







When the Saviour Reached Down for Me


The R&C Choir


Traditional / Arrangement by Paul Chihara






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  • Rosebud: [singing] We are beautiful. We are not ugly.

    ConstanceBabyRosebud: We are angry!

  • Kitty Kane: [reading from a piece of paper] "If God's gift of grace, Or the light on your face, Could make me forget, Your vagina is wet."

    Nick Murder: Let me see that.

    Kitty Kane: "To Tula, my Tula, my red flower of love."

    Nick Murder: What are you, a private dick?

    Kitty Kane: How different could it be, huh? It's just a hole.

    Nick Murder: You can't incriminate a man over some words.

    Kitty Kane: What do you think you're gonna find there? Peanuts?

    Nick Murder: It's poetry!