The Last Picture Show - Original Film Soundtrack

Released in 1971 and hailed as the most impressive work by a young American director since Citizen Kane, Peter Bogdanovich's Last Picture Show is an elegiac study of life amid the dust and loneliness of a dying town. An account of adolescents coming of age filmed under a vast, empty Texas sky.
The film has no conventional score. All of the music is from the period between November 1951 and October 1952 when the film is set and linked to each scene. It is played on home radios, car radios, truck radios, 45 rpm players, jukeboxes, and at a community Christmas dance. The Hank Williams song, heard on the radio in Sonny's old truck in the opening scene, ‘Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used to Do)?’ sets the tone for the music as well as the movie. All of the songs featured in the film are collected together in this edition.

Low-key, perceptive, bleak, and melancholy, The Last Picture Show shares with Welles' Magnificent Ambersons, a heartache for a time and place forever gone. The film boasts some superlative performances from the ensemble cast which the Academy recognised in awarding Oscars to Cloris Leachman and the monumental Ben Johnson. It is more than a great film, it is a supremely moving work of art…

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"If your mood is right, this is a delight, with artists such as Frankie Laine, Eddy Arnold and Kay Starr showing us how it should be done, with charisma and effortless vocal performance that have rarely been bettered". 4/5* (Record Collector August 2012)

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Code: ACMEM231CD

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1. WHY DON'T YOU LOVE ME (LIKE YOU USED TO DO) – Hank Williams

2. COLD, COLD HEART – Hank Williams

3. BOUQUET OF ROSES – Eddy Arnold

4. HEY, GOOD LOOKIN' – Hank Williams

5. ROSE, ROSE, I LOVE YOU – Frankie Laine

6. SLOW POKE – Pee Wee King

7. ANYTHING THAT'S PART OF YOU – Eddy Arnold

8. A FOOL SUCH AS I – Hank Snow

9. SHRIMP BOATS – Jo Stafford

10. COLD, COLD HEART – Tony Bennett

11. THE THING – Phil Harris

12. LOVESICK BLUES - – Hank Williams

13. THE WILD SIDE OF LIFE – Hank Thompson

14. KAW-LIGA - Hank Williams

15. PLEASE, MR. SUN – Johnnie Ray

16. GIVE ME MORE, MORE OF YOUR KISSES – Lefty Frizzell

17. HALF AS MUCH - Hank Williams

18. WISH YOU WERE HERE – Eddie Fisher

19. SOLITAIRE – Tony Bennett

20. WHEEL OF FORTUNE – Kay Starr

21. BLUE VELVET – Tony Bennett

22. YOU BELONG TO ME – Jo Stafford

23. MY SON CALLS ANOTHER MAN DADDY – Hank Williams

24. CAN'T HELP IT (IF I'M STILL IN LOVE WITH YOU) - Hank Williams

25. BACK STREET AFFAIR – Webb Pierce

26. FADED LOVE – Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys

27. JAMBALAYA (ON THE BAYOU) – Hank Williams

28. IT'S IN THE BOOK – Johnny Standley

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