The Big Chill (album)
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| The Big Chill | ||
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| Soundtrack from the film The Big Chill by Various Artists | ||
| Released | September 8, 1983 | |
| Recorded | 1963-1971 | |
| Genre | R&B/Soul | |
| Length | 43:38 | |
| Label | Motown Records | |
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| The Big Chill Soundtrack Albums chronology | ||
| The Big Chill (1984) |
The Big Chill: More Songs from the Original Soundtrack (1984) |
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The Big Chill is a 1983 soundtrack album of Motown classics featured in the film The Big Chill. The first ten of its fourteen tracks are to be heard in the film, and the remainder of the film's songs (aside from the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want") was released in 1984 on The Big Chill: More Songs from the Original Soundtrack.
In 1998, both albums were re-mastered, the first without the four additional songs, which had also appeared on More Songs and were left there. In 2004, Hip-O Records released a Deluxe edition, containing not only sixteen of the eighteen songs from the film ("Quicksilver Girl," by The Steve Miller Band, was curiously unavailable), but three additional film instrumentals. A second "music of a generation" disc of nineteen additional tracks was included as well, some of which had appeared both on the original soundtrack and the More Songs release.
[edit] Track listing
- Marvin Gaye (1968): "I Heard It through the Grapevine" (Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong) – 5:03
- The Temptations (1965): "My Girl" (Smokey Robinson, Ronald White) – 2:55
- The Rascals (1966): "Good Lovin'" (Rudy Clark, Arthur Resnick) – 2:28
- Smokey Robinson and The Miracles (1965): "The Tracks of My Tears" (Robinson, Warren Moore, Marvin Tarplin) – 2:53
- Three Dog Night (1971): "Joy to the World" (Hoyt Axton) – 3:24
- The Temptations (1966): "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" (Whitfield, Edward Holland Jr.) – 2:31
- Aretha Franklin (1968): "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King, Jerry Wexler) – 2:41
- Smokey Robinson and The Miracles (1967): "I Second That Emotion" (Robinson, Al Clevland) – 2:46
- Procol Harum (1967): "A Whiter Shade of Pale" (Keith Reid, Gary Brooker) – 4:03
- The Exciters (1963): "Tell Him" (Bert Berns) – 2:29
- The Four Tops (1965): "It's the Same Old Song" (E. Holland, Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland) – 2:45
- Martha and The Vandellas (1964): "Dancing in the Street" (Marvin Gaye, William "Mickey" Stevenson) – 2:38
- Marvin Gaye (1971): "What's Going On" (Gaye, Clevland, Renaldo "Obie" Benson) – 3:52
- The Marvelettes (1964): "Too Many Fish in the Sea" (Whitfield, E. Holland) – 2:26
[edit] Charts
Album
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1983 | Billboard Black Albums | 40 |
| 1983 | The Billboard 200 | 17 |
[edit] Certifications
| Organization | Level | Date |
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| RIAA – USA | Gold | December 12, 1983 |
| RIAA – USA | Platinum | March 29, 1984 |
| RIAA – USA | Double Platinum | September 27, 1985 |
| RIAA – USA | 4X Platinum | July 20, 1998 |
| RIAA – USA | 6X Platinum | October 15, 1998 |
