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Edition: Music CDAudio: English (Original Language)
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2003-04-22
Music Label: Rhino
Soundtracks:
- Fame
- Out Here on My Own
- Hot Lunch Jam
- Dogs in the Yard
- Red Light
- Is It OK If I Call You Mine?
- Never Alone
- Ralph and Monty (Dressing Room Piano)
- I Sing the Body Electric
- Miles from Here [#][*]
- Out Here on My Own [*][Instrumental]
- Fame [*][Instrumental]
Free Music Notes for Fame
Free Music Review: An ageless classic soundtrack.
Hit: 5 Stars
A favorite soundtrack of the 80's gets a sparkling remaster from Rhino on this near-immaculate version released just a few weeks ago. Comparing this to the quite-old previous disc reveals a wealth of detail, vocal nuances, and particularly crisp strings (whether on a guitar or in an orchestra).It's a soundtrack with no filler...even the single instrumental "Ralph and Monty" feels part of a whole. The brisk uptempo tunes, like the title track, "Hot Lunch Jam" with it's irresistible piano line and the driving gospel of "Never Alone" balance the quiet "Out Here On My Own" and the anthemic "I Sing The Body Electric".
If you are familiar with the TV show, "ER", and unaware that Paul McCrane ("Rocket" Romano on ER) is a significant character in "Fame", you are in for a shock. His songs, "Dogs In The Yard" and "Is It OK If I Call You Mine?" form the emotional core of the soundtrack...the latter song is his composition performed solo on guitar.
Seriously, the sweet tender songsmith here and the testosterone ramrod from ER...the same guy? Staggering.
His previously unreleased song is a welcome addition, but the other extras are skippable.
This soundtrack does not sound dated at all. Compared to "Flashdance" and "Footloose" (which sorta define an 80's sound...), "Fame" is an ageless classic.
Fame Poster
Remastered for the first time since it debuted in 1980! 2003 reissue include three bonus tracks, 'Out Here On My Own' (Instrumental Version), 'Fame' (Instrumental Version), & the previously unreleased, 'Miles From Here'. Rhino.We don't know whether Fame will, like its iconic, Irene Cara-sung title song insists, "live forever." But director Alan Parker's vibrant, ambitious 1980 tale of New York's High School of the Performing Arts has been remarkably influential, spawning a TV series, stage musical, and helping cast the mold--for better or worse--for the decades of pop-song dominated soundtracks that followed in its wake. But the innocent, urgent charms of the original won't be denied, and this release marks the album's first digital remastering, an edition supplemented by three previously unreleased bonus tracks (the wistful ballad "Miles From Here," as well as instrumental versions of the title track and Top 20 Cara hit, "Out Here on My Own," that underscore composer Michael Gore's pop-disco inspirations). --Jerry McCulley
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