It is right now climbing the singles charts rapidly.īut the LP is really a potpourri, and too much of the music here is in the glossy, corporate dance-rock idiom that gluts the airwaves these days.
What a Feeling,'' sung by Irene Cara in a manner directly evocative of her big hit, ''Fame,'' still possesses a buoyant energy of its own. The two best features of those songs are the title track and Giorgio Moroder. The disk cannot provide the sensuous appeal of Jennifer Beals in the main role and the often arresting imagery of the director, Adrian Lyne. But it does offer a series of dance numbers that in turn provide an excuse for a wide range of popular songs, and these are gathered together on the soundtrack (Casablanca 811492-1 M-1). That happened a few years ago with ''FM,'' the soundtrack of which reportedly made more money than the film it served to ''accompany.''Ī similar phenomenon may be taking place right now with the soundtrack for ''Flashdance.'' The film itself is a dance-musical: The plot, about a young woman's dream to succeed as a dancer, is full of awkward improbabilities and a kind of unfocused vulgarity. Perhaps the crassest way to salvage a not-very-good film is to assemble a soundtrack of otherwise unavailable songs by well-known recording stars and use it both to publicize the film and to make money on its own. Three examples for the past couple of months help illuminate the shifting relationships between musical films and their aural documentation. Partly for this reason, and partly from a renewed interest by directors and producers in the musical as a cinematic form, we have been deluged recently with film soundtrack albums. Tags 101 Strings Aaron Copland Accept Adventures in Sound Aerosmith Al Caiola Alex North Alfred Newman André Previn Antal Doráti Aretha Franklin Arthur Fiedler Arthur Lyman Bernard Herrmann Bert Kaempfert Bill Conti Billy May Black Sabbath Bobby Hackett Bronislau Kaper Burt Bacharach Cal Tjader Charles Gerhardt Chet Atkins Claude Bolling Claus Ogerman Composer Count Basie Dave Grusin David Carroll David Rose Deep Purple Deutsche Grammophon Dick Hyman Dimitri Tiomkin Dmitri Shostakovich Doc Severinsen Don Costa Don Sebesky Earl Klugh Eddie Heywood Elmer Bernstein Elvis Presley Ennio Morricone Enoch Light Erich Wolfgang Korngold Eumir Deodato Everest Records Francis Bay Frank De Vol Frank Zappa Franz Joseph Haydn Franz Waxman Fred Steiner Gabor Szabo Gary McFarland Geoff Love Georges Delerue Gerry Mulligan Hans J.Even in this age of record-business recession, the presence of a commercially viable soundtrack LP can bolster the financial fortunes of a film.
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