That Thing You Do!: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Composer: Various ArtistsEdition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1996-09-24
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Lovin' You Lots and Lots - Hanks, Tom
- That Thing You Do! - Schlesinger, Adam [
- Little Wild One - Gibbs, Darryl
- Dance With Me Tonight - Rogness, S.
- All My Only Dreams - Rogness, S.
- I Need You (That Thing You Do) - Rogness, S.
- She Knows It - Rogness, S.
- Mr. Downtown - Hanks, Tom
- Hold My Hand, Hold My Heart - Hanks, Tom
- Voyage Around the Moon - Hanks, Tom
- My World Is Over - Piccirillo, Mike
- Drive Faster - Rogness, S.
- Shrimp Shack - Piccirillo, Mike
- Time to Blow - Tyrell, Steve
- That Thing You Do! - Schlesinger, Adam [
Music reviews of That Thing You Do!: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Music Review: A Playtone Release! That Thing You Do soundtrack
Rating: 5 Stars
Absolutely delightful. The Wonders (One-ders?) tracks are short and sweet: Dance with me tonight, I need you (that thing you do), That thing you do
Its not to be taken seriously. Hence you have a truly bad song shooting off the album; even worse than the Brothers Four! But "Lovin you lots and lots" is a satire of all the banal pop of the time (at least till those one hit Wonders came along!)
So you get all styles, even in the Wonders! All My Only Dreams is a perfect B-side to That Thing You Do, indeed it could be a better song (though not as snappy!) - its a nice change of pace to the rock
Mr Downtown, Time to Blow, Drive Faster - you got r&b, jazz, surf
Of course its a Play Tone release - a nice collection of their Galaxy of Stars
Just play it through. It'll grow on you. Even the stinker at the start (the horrid Norm Wooster Singers track) might even grow on you, though lyrically it doesn't really go anywhere
The best song on the album is probably I Need You (That Thing You Do)(played over the closing credits). Though the rest of the Wonders material is so catchy its ridiculous..
Absolutely wonderful. Buy it buy it!
Oh yeah, the extended cut of the film is One-
der ful too! (half hour longer - whoo hoo!
Description of That Thing You Do!: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
The early-'60s pop group The Wonders never existed outside of That Thing You Do, Tom Hanks' feature-film directorial debut--but a lot of bands like them sure did. If you've seen the movie, I defy you to resist the title song--a perfect pop confection that captures the musical spirit of the era (and the high spirits of the movie) with cleverness and glee. (The deadpan "historical" liner notes are priceless.) The first song, "Lovin' You Lots and Lots" (written by Hanks himself) is a hilariously awful example of the insipid "grown-up" pop Muzak of the mid-'60s (performed by the Ray Coniff-like "Norm Wooster Singers"), but the element of parody in these tracks is suffused with affection. And, dammit, these are some really catchy toe-tappers! In addition to some other Wonders hits (not the least of which is "Shrimp Shack," from their first movie appearance in Weekend at Party Pier), there's also a girl-group single ("Hold My Hand, Hold My Heart" by the Chantrellines); a teen hearbreak anthem ("My World is Over" by Diane Dane); "one of the seminal jazz recordings of 1958" ("Time To Blow," by Del Paxton) ... and much, much more! --Jim EmersonGeneral CDs
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