Songs from Ally McBeal

Songs from Ally McBeal is an album by Vonda Shepard released in 1998 as a soundtrack for the American television series Ally McBeal.

It reached number three in the UK album charts and was a success in the US, Canada and many European countries too. The song "Searchin' My Soul" was used as the Ally McBeal theme tune and was originally featured on one of Vonda Shepard's previous albums, The Radical Light. The majority of the songs, however, are covers of old songs whose lyrics reflected what was happening in Ally's life onscreen.

It peaked #1 in Spain for a month in the summer of 1999, thanks to a big promotion in radios, Vonda Shepard shows in Madrid and Barcelona and the TV series, with the album selling more than 500,000 copies. It is a gold record in Poland.

Track listing

1. "Searchin' My Soul" (Vonda Shepard, Paul Gordon) - 3:53
2. "Ask the Lonely" (Ivy Hunter, William "Mickey" Stevenson) - 2:43
3. "Walk Away Renee" (Michael Brown, Bob Calilli, Tony Sansone) - 3:08
4. "Hooked on a Feeling" (Mark James) (originally by B.J. Thomas) - 2:58
5. "You Belong to Me" (Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart, Chilton Price) - 3:28
6. "Wildest Times of the World" (Vonda Shepard, Michael Landau) - 5:15
7. "Someone You Use" (Tommy Stough) - 2:34
8. "End of the World" (Sylvia Dee, Arthur Kent) - 2:34
9. "Tell Him" (Bert Berns) (originally by The Exciters) - 2:48
10. "Neighborhood" (Jerry Leiber, John Sembello, Mike Stoller, Ralph Dino) - 2:21
11. "Will You Marry Me?" (Vonda Shepard, Michael Landau) - 2:39
12. "It's in His Kiss (The Shoop Shoop Song)" (Rudy Clark) (originally by Betty Everett) - 2:33
13. "I Only Want to Be With You" (Ivor Raymonde, Michael Hawker) (originally by Dusty Springfield) - 2:12
14. "Maryland" (Vonda Shepard) - 3:51

Chart positions

References

• allmusic: Songs from Ally McBeal