Track Listing

1. I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
2. My Girl - The Temptations
3. Good Lovin' - The Rascals
4. Tracks of My Tears - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
5. Joy to the World - Three Dog Night
6. Ain't Too Proud to Beg - The Temptations
7. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman - Aretha Franklin
8. I Second That Emotion - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
9. Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum
10. Tell Him - The Exciters

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2957 in Music
• Released on: 1998-09-22
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Album Description
Part of the Motown Remasters series. UK reissue of the classic 60's soundtrack to the 1983 hit movie.

Amazon.com
Motown just keeps packaging and repackaging those classic '60s hits. But whether you're looking for a souvenir of Lawrence Kasdan's movie or just another Motown sampler, you could do a lot worse than the Big Chill soundtrack --which also throws in a dab of Three Dog Night ("Joy to the World") and Aretha Franklin ("(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman") and even Procul Harum ("Whiter Shade of Pale"). Many of the choices are pretty obvious--Marvin Gaye's "Heard it Through the Grapevine," Smokey Robinson and the Miracles' "My Girl"... but they are great songs. And a few aren't quite so overexposed, like the Temptations' "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" or the CD bonus track of the Marvelettes' "Too Many Fish in the Sea." Nothing chilly about these tracks. --Jim Emerson

Customer Reviews

A fine colection but...
No question about it, all the songs on here are great. However, you're better off searching for the expanded edition of this soundtrack, which has 4 extra tracks. It's out of print, but can be found in used CD stores. This soundtrack is often used to represent the baby boomer generation, but believe me, it barely dents the surface.

Maybe the Stones wouldn't cough up the rights.
Could be my memory's faulty. Could be the Stones wouldn't give the rights to the label. But don't I remember the movie starting out rolling a coffin down the aisle to the wistful cynicism of Jagger's scratchy tenor complaint, "You Can't Always Get What You Want". To prove the literal truth of the lyrics, the song isn't in either soundtrack.
What else are we missing?!

Great music; greedy record company.
There's no question, the music is wonderful, but for goodness sake, why is Polygram being so cheap? Both this and the supplemental compilation could easily fit on one disc.