Movie Song Book [Import]

Sharleen Spiteri | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 2, 2010)
• Original Release Date: 2010
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: 101 DISTRIBUTION
• ASIN: B0031RG4Q8
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #132,996 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Xanadu

2. If I Can't Have You

3. God Bless The Child

4. Between The Bars

5. The Sound Of Silence

6. What's New Pussycat?

7. The Windmills Of Your Mind

8. Take Me With You

9. Cat People (Putting Out Fire)

10. Many Rivers To Cross

11. Oh, Pretty Woman

12. This One's From The Heart

13. Take My Breath Away

Editorial Reviews

The Movie Songbook is the follow up to Sharleen Spiteri's top three debut solo album Melody, and the ninth studio album from a 21 year recording career. A collection of Sharleen s favourite soundtracks, the album is a musical journey from pop to country via disco, bossa-nova, folk, rockabilly and jazz. Phil Ramone (who has produced various Hollywood legends from Marilyn Monroe to Frank Sinatra via Liza Minnelli and Barbra Streisand) is on production duties for the album , which includes God Bless The Child , Xanadu , Cat People (Putting Out Fire) and The Sound Of Silence .

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spiteri Scores Again With MOVIE SONGBOOK!, March 9, 2010

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Laurie A. Hunter "Laurie Ann Hunter" (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Movie Song Book (Audio CD)

Okay, I'm like every other Texas fan...I've been listening to Sharleen Spiteri rock the house for the last twenty years. I feel that I know her voice well enough to single her out in Grand Central Station! So, I was delighted with her first solo effort, "Melody".

When I heard the news regarding Songbook, I thought, "An album of soundtracks? In a Lady Gaga kinda decade? Wow, what a ballsy chick!" Well, I really don't share Sharleen's love of movie soundtracks but I bought the cd anyway...well, because....that's what fans do.

I can't tell you how happy I am that Ms. Spiteri has the mondo-sized cojones that she does!:) The album is killer! The music is lush and as always, Sharleen's voice is exquisite. HOWEVER, what stole my heart is the range of songs that she choose and how she presents them. This is no ordinary cover album! She puts her own spin and personality into each and every selection. She's coy and tongue-in-cheek with, "Pretty Woman" and "What's New Pussycat?". Something for the girls.:) "If I Can't Have You" is better than the original (by far) and "Many Rivers To Cross" is just beautiful! "God Bless The Child", "This One's From The Heart" and "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" all make me want to pour myself a dry martini (shaken, not stirred) and hang out in a piano bar. But my favorite track is "Sound of Silence". I've always loved that song and once wrote the lyrics in my journal in a moment of teenage angst. Sharleen Spiteri's rendition made me remember that moment in vivid detail. I swear, if I didn't mind poverty, I'd quit my job and follow her tour around the country shouting, "More, MORE!"

Now, don't get me wrong, this isn't an annoying pop album that you shove into the car cd player and bebop on down the road. No, this is a grown-up's album, best enjoyed on surround-sound, sipping a glass of wine with candle-light (lover/bubble-bath optional). Any less of an atmosphere will rob "Movie Songbook" of it's greatest effect! Buy this album...or,trust me...one day you'll think, "This is a PERFECT moment for Songbook! Why didn't I buy it when I had the chance?" :)

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not ground breaking..., March 3, 2010

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Nse Ette (Lagos, Nigeria) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Movie Song Book (Audio CD)

Sharleen Spiteri's 2008 solo debut "Melody" was heavily influenced by the sixties; Dusty Springfield, Shirley Bassey, and Motown especially. She says she found it hard going back to writing Soft Rock songs with her band Texas, and so we get the follow-up which is a Phil Ramone-produced album of covers of songs from movies.

It is a hit and miss affair really, Yvonne Elliman's "If I can't have you" is a bit soft and sounding older than the original, while "Xanadu" was bad enough the first time around.

When it takes off is when she does lush Jazz numbers; "God bless the child", "Between the bars", or "This one's from the heart", or when she takes a few liberties like a Rockabilly reworking of David Bowie's "Cat people", or a bouncy Folk reworking of Berlin's "Take my breath away".

Standout has got to be the simply beautiful Bossa Nova "Windmills of your mind", alone worth the price of this otherwise barely average CD.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars what's this?????, March 21, 2010

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Discollector (Paris, France) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Movie Song Book (Audio CD)

I agree with the first reviewer and i should have read it twice before spending money on this disappointing second solo album. Sharleen Spiteri has one of the most beautiful voices of the british pop still she sabotages herself entirely with this new album. Not only the choice of songs is takky but the she sings like she thinks she's Marylyn Monroe sighing to JFK. I only gave it 2 stars because of her past wonderful records.