Something's Gotta Give

by Something's Gotta Give / O.s.t.

Overview

The romantic comedies of writer/directors Nancy Meyers and Nora Ephron always seek to find contemporary equivalents for traditional sentiments, and as a result they tend to use popular music of a certain vintage on their soundtracks. Louis Armstrong, crooning some love lyric in his gravelly voice, is always a favorite, that is, when a similar reading by, say, Jimmy Durante isn't used. Meyers, who filled her last movie, What Women Want, with Frank Sinatra ballads, gives a French twist to Something's Gotta Give, and not surprisingly she starts out with Armstrong rasping his way through the Edith Piaf signature song "La Vie en Rose." Then, it's on to the gravelly voiced Steve Tyrell singing a Gershwin standard and the Flamingos' dreamy '50s revival of "I Only Have Eyes for You," before listeners settle into a series of sambas sung in French and numbers by the likes of Charles Trenet and Eartha Kitt. So far, so dull. The album ends unfortunately with a reprise of "La Vie en Rose" sung by the film's star, Jack Nicholson, who wisely has been prevented from singing in the movies since he had a number cut from On a Clear Day You Can See Forever in 1970 and was an embarrassment in the 1975 film version of Tommy. No doubt his rendition is supposed to be funny (in the sense of a light chuckle on the way out of the theater), but it serves as a misguided tag to a soundtrack that wasn't very interesting to begin with. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	12/16/2003
Label:	Sony Music Distribution
UPC:	0827969091128
Rank:	59722

Tracks

1. La Vie en Rose
2. I've Got a Crush on You
3. I Only Have Eyes for You
4. So Nice (Summer Samba)
5. Remember Me
6. Samba de Mon Coeur Que Bat
7. Que Reste- T'Il de Nos Amour
8. Assedic
9. Je Cherche un Homme (I Want a Man)
10. C'Est Si Bon
11. Brazil
12. Sweet Lorraine
13. Love Makes the World Go Round
14. La Vie en Rose

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Ike Isaacs   Primary Artist
Eartha Kitt   Primary Artist
The Flamingos   Primary Artist
Django Reinhardt   Primary Artist
Deon Jackson   Primary Artist
Coralie Clement   Primary Artist
Les Escrocs   Primary Artist
Louis Armstrong   Primary Artist
Astrud Gilberto   Primary Artist
Jack Nicholson   Primary Artist
Isla Eckinger   Primary Artist
Charles Trenet   Primary Artist
Stephane Grappelli   Primary Artist
Heitor Pereira   Primary Artist
Steve Tyrell   Primary Artist
Diz Dizley   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Al Dubin   Composer
Benjamin Biolay   Composer
Marcos Valle   Composer
Harry Warren   Composer
Hans Zimmer   Composer,Producer
Norman Gimbel   Composer
Marcel Louiguy   Composer
Nancy Meyers   Soundtrack Executive Producer
Andre Hornez   Composer
Henri Betti   Composer
Mitchell Parish   Composer
Ary Barroso   Composer
Lia Vollack   Executive in Charge of Music
Jerry Seelen   Composer
Deon Jackson   Composer
Ira Gershwin   Composer
George Gershwin   Composer
Mack David   Composer
Clifford R. Burwell   Composer
Edith Piaf   Composer
Bonnie Greenberg   Executive Producer
Bob Russell   Composer
Paulo Sergio Valle   Composer
Allan Clarke   Composer
Terry Sylvester   Composer