Raging Bull [sound recording] : the original motion picture soundtrack.
Material type:
MusicPublisher number: 72435-60322-2-4 | Capitol RecordsSpoken language: English, Italian, Portuguese Publication details: Hollywood, Calif. : Capitol Records, p2005.Description: 2 sound discs (125 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphletUniform titles: - Raging Bull (Motion picture)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Director Martin Scorsese is known for the care he takes in choosing the music for his movies (indeed, he is known for the care he takes in every detail of his movies), and his 1980 film Raging Bull, a screen biography of the boxer Jake LaMotta, was no exception. Scorsese did not employ a regular Hollywood composer to write a background score; instead, he teamed with former Band guitarist Robbie Robertson in picking lots of period pop music of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, adding in excerpts from Pietro Mascagni's opera Cavalleria Rusticana, with Robertson bringing in a few instrumental tracks he cut with former compatriots Garth Hudson and Richard Manuel. The result was a collection of music that would have given a music licensing expert nightmares if a soundtrack album had been attempted at the time of the film's release. And who could know that Raging Bull would go on to become one of the most celebrated movies of its era? It seems astonishing 25 years later that there was no Raging Bull soundtrack album. So, now there is. Licensing challenges overcome, the double-CD runs 125 minutes, only four minutes shorter than the film itself. It works as a mini-history of pop music from the crooner era of the 1930s (Bing Crosby, Russ Columbo) to the big-band era of the '40s (the bulk of the music, including tracks by Benny Goodman, Harry James, Artie Shaw, and more) and on to the singers' era of the '50s (Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Frankie Laine, Perry Como, et al.). Mixed in are Robertson's small-group sessions ("At Last," "A New Kind of Love" [aka "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me"], and the Hudson-composed "Webster Hall") and a handful of Italian songs along with the opera pieces, as well as such oddities as Marilyn Monroe singing "Bye, Bye, Baby" from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and an actual soundtrack clip of Robert DeNiro as LaMotta attempting to be a standup comic ("That's Entertainment"). It's a curious and interesting collection of music that fans of the film will enjoy. ~ William Ruhlmann
Compact discs.
Program notes by Robbie Robertson on insert.
Various performers.
disc 1. Cavalleria rusticana. Intermezzo (Orchestra of Bologna Municop Thetra ; Arturo Basile, conductor) -- Jersey bounce (Benny Goodman and his orchestra) -- Prisoner of love (Russ Colombo & Nat Shilkret's Orchestra) -- Just one more chance (Bing Crosby with Victor Young's Orchestra) -- Cow-cow boogie (Ella Fitzgerald, feat. the Ink Spots) -- Vivere (Carlo Buti) -- Whispering grass (Don't tell the trees) (The Ink Spots) -- Two o'clock jump (Harry James & his orchestra) -- Drum boogie (Gene Krupa and his orchestra) -- All or nothing at all (Frank Sinatra, vocal ; Harry James and his orchestra) -- Flash (Harry James and his orchestra) -- My reverie (Larry Clinton and his orchestra) -- Stornelli Fiorentini (Carlo Buti) -- Webster Hall (Robbie Robertson) -- Big noise from Winnetka (Bob Crosby and the Bobcats) -- Frenesi (Artie Shaw and his orchestra) -- Do I worry? (The Ink Spots) -- Turi Giuliano (Orazio Strano).
disc 2. Silvano. Barcarolle (Orchestra of Bologna Municop Thetra ; Arturo Basile, conductor) -- Stone cold dead in the market (Ella Fitzgerald with Louis Jordan) -- Nao tenho lagrimas (Patricio Teixeira) -- Heartaches (Ted Weems and his orchestra) -- New kind of love (Robbie Robertson) -- Till then (The Mills Brothers) -- Mona Lisa (Nat King Cole) -- That's my desire (Frankie Laine with Mannie Klein's All-Stars) -- Guglielmo Ratcliff. Intermezzo (Orchestra of Bologna Municop Thetra ; Arturo Basile, conductor) -- That's entertainment (Robert De Niro) -- Blue velvet (Tony Bennett) -- Scapricciatiello (Infatuation) (Renato Carosone) -- Come fly with me (Frank Sinatra) -- Just a gigolo ; I ain't got nobody (Louis Prima and Keely Smith) -- Lonely nights (The Hearts) -- Prisoner of love (Perry Como with the Andre Kastelanetz Orchestra) -- Cavalleria Rusticana. Intermezzo (reprise) (Orchestra of Bologna Municop Thetra ; Arturo Basile, conductor) -- At last (Robbie Robertson).