Kevin Spacey - Beyond the Sea
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Artist: Kevin SpaceyEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2004-11-23
Music Label: Rhino
Product features:
- Beyond The Sea OST
- Hello Young Lovers
- Once Upon a Time
- Fabulous Places
- Simple Song of Freedom
- The Curtain Falls
- Beyond the Sea
- By Myself/Lover Has Gone
- Some of these Days
- Change
- If I Were A Carpenter
- Artificial Flowers
- That's All
- As Long as I'm Singing
- Lazy River
- Charade
- Dream Lover
- Mack The Knife
Free Music Notes for Beyond the Sea
Free Music Review: A Great Album...Richly Deserves Its Grammy Nomination
Hit: 5 Stars
Will you think this is Bobby Darin? Probably not...but if you get into the spirit of it AT ALL, you'll have so much fun with it that you won't care. In the movie, "Beyond The Sea," Kevin Spacey did a fantastic job of capturing the enthusiasm, style, and passion for life that Darin put into every part of his all-too-short life...and it comes through brilliantly in this album of songs from that movie. In fact, as with most great soundtracks, this includes many songs that either didn't appear at all in the film or were cut short to fit particular scenes.
Kevin Spacey is especially good here at portraying Darin's unique dash and verve in "Hello Young Lovers," "Dream Lover," "The Curtain Falls," and, one of my favorites, "Simple Song of Freedom." I particularly like that last song because I had forgotten all about it, and Spacey does a spot-on job of capturing not just Darin's voice and inflections, but the attitude he had toward the world at that point in his career and life.
Also notable is the exceptional work of John Wilson & The Orchestra on this album. With all due respect to Darin's line-up, Wilson's players don't just mimic the original performances, they improve on them in song after song. The magic this orchestra brought to popular favorites on their 2004 "Symphonic Rock" album was obviously great practice for this perfectly executed biopic soundtrack.
I highly recommend this album. It's not quite the real Darin, but between Kevin Spacey's incredible performance and the vast improvements in recording technology since Darin's untimely death, it's a damn good way to forget the workday and swing into the weekend. Feels good...yeah!
Beyond the Sea Poster
Among only a handful of entertainers who bridged the gap between '50s rock fans and their Sinatra-loving parents, Bronx-born pop legend Bobby Darin's life and career were short but extraordinary. In 1959 the singer/composer rocketed to stardom with 2 Grammy Awards-Best New Artist and Record of the Year for the #1 smash "Mack the Knife." His other signature smash provides the title for this biopic chronicling his genre-defying music, tempestuous marriage to starlet Sandra Dee, and untimely death at age 37-in 1973-from a heart defect acquired during a childhood illness. Kate Bosworth stars as Dee, and Darin is brought to life by Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey, who also directed the film and sings 18 of the artist's classic hits.You've got to credit Kevin Spacey for sheer gumption: not only did he choose to direct a biopic about Bobby Darin (not the hippest of 1960s singers), but he also decided to star in it despite the fact that he was in his midforties and Darin died at 37. As if this weren't enough, unlike Jamie Foxx in Ray, Spacey performs all the songs himself. The hard-driving "Hello Young Lovers" starts off the album with a bang, the actor working with the big band with casual ease. While Darin is now best known for his swinging "Mack the Knife" and his adaptation of Charles Trenet's "La Mer" ("Beyond the Sea"), he also explored folk and scored with the teeny-bopperish "Splish Splash." Spacey acquits himself honorably in all these genres, though he's best when he swings hard--his yelpy "Splish Splash" lacks the required levity. No matter what you think of the film itself, what we hear on this album is an actor who wouldn't be out of place in a Broadway musical. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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