The Color of Money - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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The Color of Money - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack by various artists

Publication
(s)

17th October 1986

Label (s) MCA

Format (s)

CD , LP , MC

Genre (s)

Pop rock

Title (number)

10

running time

36:11

occupation

The Color of Money - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is a soundtrack album of various blues - and rock musician for the hit movie The Color of Money in 1986. The songwriter Robbie Robertson (formerly The Band ) presented the soundtrack of this movie by Martin Scorsese together which allowed him to work with both Willie Dixon and Gil Evans ;

History of origin

After David Geffen feared that Robertson was neglecting the work on his first solo album and forbade it to stand out clearly in the film music, Robertson got songs from prominent musicians. Contributions from BB King, Don Henley, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Robert Palmer, Warren Zevon and Willie Dixon are represented on the album. Evans, who had drawn up numerous sketches for the film's music, was ultimately only responsible for arranging Robertson's two own contributions. In the film itself, significantly more pieces are used than were ultimately released on the phonogram - including “It's My Life Baby”, implemented by Eric Clapton with the Big Town Playboys .

publication

On 17 October 1986, the soundtrack album was released under the label MCA Records. The company decided to initially only publish the compilation on record and compact cassette. Clapton's contribution It's in the Way That You Use It was released as a single and in November of the same year on his album August . On October 25, 1990, The Color of Money - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was also released on compact disc under catalog number DMCG 6023.

Reception and chart success

Critic William Ruhlmann of the music website Allmusic finds that while Eric Clapton contributed the hit single It's in the Way That You Use It , blues greats like BB King, Willie Dixon, Don Henley and (allegedly three times) Robert Palmer also contributed are included in the publication. Ruhlmann awarded 3 of the 5 evaluation units for the soundtrack album. The work was ranked 100th on the Billboard 200 in 1987. The song Who Owns This Place? reached position 3 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs hit parade.

Title list with producers

No. title text music Producers length
1. Who Owns This Place? (Don Henley) Charles Singleton • Eddie Snyder Bert Kaempfert Kortchmar • Don Henley • Greg Ladanyi 4:58
2. It's in the Way That You Use It (Eric Clapton) Eric Clapton • Robbie Robertson Eric Clapton Tom Dowd 3:00
3. Let Yourself in for It (Robert Palmer) Lawrence Lucie Herman Brightman Robert Palmer 5:21
4th Don't Tell Me Nothin ' (Willie Dixon) Willie Dixon Robbie Robertson Robbie Robertson 4:41
5. Two Brothers and a Stranger (Mark Knopfler) Mark Knopfler Mark Knopfler Mark Knopfler 2:40
6th Standing on the Edge of Love (BB King) Jerry Lynn Williams Jerry Lynn Williams Jerry Lynn Williams • Ira Newborn 3:59
7th Modern blues Robbie Robertson Robbie Robertson Robbie Robertson • Gil Evans 2:56
8th. Werewolves of London (Warren Zevon) LeRoy Marinell • Robert Wachtel Warren Zevon Jackson Browne • Robert Quail 3:23
9. My Baby's in Love With Another Guy (Robert Palmer) Lawrence Lucie Herman Brightman Robert Palmer 2:28
10. The main title Robbie Robertson Robbie Robertson Robbie Robertson • Gil Evans 2:45
Overall length: 36:11

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ not highlighted on the front of the cover
  2. ↑ a b The Color of Money - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on Allmusic (English)
  3. ↑ Soundtrack Album The Color of Money (The Band)
  4. ↑ Stephanie Stein Crease: Gil Evans: Out of the Cool - His life and music. A Cappella Books / Chicago Review Press, Chicago 2002, pp. 313, 370
  5. ↑ The Color of Money (1986) - Soundtracks - IMDb. In: imdb.com. Retrieved December 25, 2017 .
  6. ^ The Color of Money. Where's Eric !, accessed June 7, 2015 .
  7. ↑ CD booklet.