Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield - Sparkle: Music From The Warner Bros. Motion Picture
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Artist: Aretha Franklin, Curtis MayfieldEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1992-10-13
Music Label: Atlantic / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Sparkle
- Something He Can Feel
- Hooked On Your Love
- Look Into Your Heart
- I Get High
- Jump
- Loving You Baby
- Rock With Me
Free Music Notes for Sparkle: Music From The Warner Bros. Motion Picture
Free Music Review: I LITERALLY cannot get ENOUGH!
Hit: 5 Stars
Phooey! My father always tells me that he wishes I would have been living in the 1970s because it was such a memorable and enjoyable decade. I recently saw the movie, "Sparkle" and I loved it, especially the music. I'm young (born in 1985), so I had no idea that En Vogue's renditions of "Giving Something He Can Feel" and "Hooked on Your Love" were not the originals! Rather, they got these two songs from "Sparkle." I always felt that "Waiting to Exhale" was the best soundtrack ever, but this soundtrack is up there with it. It is magnificent, amazing, incredible, moving, beautiful, spectacular! Listen to me, I cannot stop listening to this soundtrack. I love meaningful lyrics, LIVE instruments and a beautiful voice and this soundtrack provides all of the above and the finished product is great. I liked the versions of the songs performed by the actresses in the movie, but Aretha impressed me with her versions as well.
"Hooked On Your Love" is one of the best songs ever, there is no arguing that point. The production is unique, the lyrics are so great and the melody matches wonderfully. Curtis Mayfield produced and wrote this music, therefore, he is a musical genius! "Look Into Your Heart" and "Loving You Baby" are also beautiful and helped to give this soundtrack the 5-star rating I granted it. "Sparkle" and "I Get High" are also nice, very nice. This album is just so short: Either you're going to wish there were more tracks, or you're going to play the album 2-3 times in one sitting.
You already know what is next. I want you to pick this album up as soon as you can so that you too can revel in this musical masterpiece. Your ears will love you for it!
Mikeisha's Top 5
1. "Hooked On Your Love"
2. "Loving You Baby"
3. "Look Into Your Heart"
4. "Sparkle"
5. "Something He Can Feel"
Sparkle: Music From The Warner Bros. Motion Picture Poster
Though she'd already been hailed as the Queen of Soul for her run of sultry '60s hits for Atlantic, Aretha Franklin split her time in the '70s between explorations of her gospel roots and flirtations with the pop mainstream, often with diminishing results. But, just as the music she had so long epitomized was evolving into rhythmic funk and nascent disco, Franklin teamed with fellow soul vet Curtis Mayfield to produce the soundtrack for this otherwise unremarkable film project, a collaboration that retrenched her successfully in the dramatic, gospel-rooted musical framework of a decade earlier. Thanks in no small part to Mayfield's focused, stripped-to-the-essentials production, Franklin frees herself to turn in remarkably consistent performances throughout, from the effervescent title track and romantic anthem "Something He Can Feel" to the soaring vocal showcase "I Get High" and infectious R&B groove of "Loving You Baby." --Jerry McCulleyJapanese pressing packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. Vivid. 2006.
Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.
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