Here I have for sale a rare promo US import soundtrack to the 1986 Steven Spielberg film 'An American Tail', composed and conducted by James Horner.
James Horner – An American Tail (Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Label: MCA Records – MCA-39096
Format: Vinyl, LP, Promo, Import
Country: US
Released: 1986
Genre: Stage & Screen, Instrumental, Vocal, Pop, Score, Electronic, Rock
Style: Soundtrack, Contemporary, Theme, Easy Listening, Soft Rock, Ballad
Vinyl: VG – Has a few minor short hairline marks on each side on visual inspection.
Cover and sleeve: EX-NM. Colours remain unfaded. Some slight corner and edge wear as well as minimal creasing. The gold promo stamp is present in the top right corner of back cover.
A1. Main Title.
A2. The Cossack Cats.
A3. There Are No Cats In America – Performed By John Guarnieri, Nehemiah Persoff, Warren Hays
A4. The Storm.
A5. Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor.
A6. Never Say Never – Performed By Christopher Plummer, Phillip Glasser
A7. The Market Place.
A8. Somewhere Out There – Performed By Betsy Cathcart, Phillip Glasser
B1. Somewhere Out There – Mixed by George Massenburg; performed by James Ingram, Linda Ronstadt; Producer: Peter Asher; Recorded by Allen Sides
B2. Releasing The Secret Weapon.
B3. A Duo – Performed By Dom DeLuise, Phillip Glasser
B4. The Great Fire.
B5. Reunited.
B6. Flying Away And End Credits.
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Review:
Universal Pictures' cartoon musical An American Tail was released just three years prior to the Disney cartoon renaissance led by the Alan Menken musicals The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. Had it been released in that era, the film's money song, "Somewhere Out There," probably would have earned an Academy Award for Best Song.
But in 1986, Academy voters were just as robotic in their selection of Top 40 hits as they would later be in their selection of cartoon production numbers.
As it happened, "Somewhere Out There" lost the Oscar to the Top Gun song "Take My Breath Away," and Tail composer James Horner had to wait until Titanic in 1997 to win his first Oscar. An American Tail, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, is on par with many of the more celebrated '90s cartoon musicals.
Horner's lush and tuneful orchestrations often emulate Spielberg's favorite composer, John Williams. His songs, co-written with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, pale slightly in comparison with the instrumental score.
But they are charmingly performed by actors like Philip Glasser, Christopher Plummer and Dom DeLuise, and Weil's lyrics are quite clever, especially on "There Are No Cats in America" and "Never Say Never." The soundtrack also contains a beautiful choral setting of "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor" as well as the hit pop ballad version of "Somewhere Out There" performed by Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram.
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