Stand By Me: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Free Music Review: Stand By Me Soundtrack
Hit: 5 Stars
Great Service and price! We were thrilled to have it shipped out right away.Free Music Review: takes me back
Hit: 5 Stars
Love it - just like the cassette tape my dad used to play in the car!Free Music Review: Very Good
Hit: 5 Stars
This is one of my favorite C.D`s. I like all of the songsFree Music Review: "Stand By Me" (movie sequence version)
Hit: 4 Stars
I took a close look at the movie end credits to see what songs had been left off the "official original soundtrack" music CD. After trawling the Internet and a local Indie/used CD store, I came up with the following:
1)Red River Rock (Johnny & The Hurricanes, 1959)-Stands in for the orchestral version of "Stand By Me" as the newspaper headline "Local Attorney Chris Chambers Killed" appears.
2)Rockin' Robin (Bobby Day, 1958)
3)Sorry (I Ran All The Way Home) (The Impalas, 1959)
4)Mr. Lee
5)Rebel Rouser (Duane Eddy, 1958)-Stands in for "The Ballad of Paladin"
6)Great Balls of Fire
7)Whispering Bells
8)Let The Good Times Roll
9)Book of Love (The Monotones, 1957)
10)Lollipop
11)Everyday
12)Come Go With Me
13)Come Softly To Me (The Fleetwoods. 1959)
14)Hushabye (The Mystics. 1959)
15)Get A Job
16)Yakety Yak
17)Stand By Me
40 minutes, 40 seconds
In 1959, I was a tad younger than the characters in the movie, but I lived in a small town and roamed freely to places forbidden and dangerous as they did. My older sister was the 45RPM single collector. but the Doo Wop music of the era remains stuck in memory. I wouldn't mind visiting the town of the 1950's as an adult, but until/unless that becomes possible, this soundtrack takes me down the hill to our little town.
Free Music Review: The only drawback is its brevity
Hit: 4 Stars
This is a great soundtrack with a collection of great songs. The only thing that keeps it from the 5th star is the fact that it is extremely short.
With 10 songs coming from the motown machine of the 60's the whole thing comes in at just about 35 minutes. Extremely short by today's standards. But, if that's all you've got, that's all you've got. The pinnacle song of course is Ben E. King's Stand By Me. A great anthem that sums up the heart and soul of the movie well. I do kind of wish there was some original material on this disc as that would have given a better flavor and personalized the soundtrack a little more. It might have given it a little more length as well.
A good disc for the collection.