Songs for the soundtrack of an imaginary early 1970s US comedy-drama
Stephen Arnell
Broadcast/Streaming Consultant for TV & Film, Writer/Producer (Bob Fosse, Alex Cox, Prince, Sinatra etc), Media/Culture Commentator (BBC Radio, magazines, newspapers), author (novel The Great One published November 2022)
Alexander Payne's THE HOLDOVERS is on release in the UK; the soundtrack includes the following excellent, but relatively unsurprising tune choices, including my favourites, The Swingle Singers (btw The Band/Faces style Holdovers score by composer Mark Orton is also pretty good):
Silver Joy - Damien Jurado
Venus - Shocking Blue
The Time Has Come Today - The Chambers Brothers
Crying Laughing Loving Lying - Labi Siffre
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed - The Allman Brothers Band
Knock Three Times - Tony Orlando and Dawn
When Winter Comes- Artie Shaw and His Orchestra
Medley: Deck the Hall with Boughs of Holly / What Child Is This? - The Swingle Singers
Silent Night - The Temptations
Jingle Bells - Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Carol of the Drum (Little Drummer Boy) -The Trapp Family Singers
White Christmas - The Swingle Singers
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year - Andy Williams
The Wind - Cat Stevens
This got me thinking about the songs I would select for similar melancholy-tinged comedy-drama set in the same era. So here goes:
Blues Run The Game - Nick Drake
"Feuilles-Oh/Do Space Men Pass Dead Souls on Their Way to the Moon? - Art Garfunkel
Badge - Fanny
Black Cloud - Trapeze
Filles de Kilimanjaro - Miles Davis
Sail The Waterway - Steely Dan
Joybringer - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Building a Wall - The King's Singers
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My Brother Jake - Free
Now He Sings, Now He Sobs - Chick Corea
The Trader - The Beach Boys
Coast to Coast - Trapeze
In a Silent Way - Joe Zawinul
Get Down - Gilbert O'Sullivan
How Do You Think It Feels? - Lou Reed
Snowflakes Are Dancing - Tomita
Far East Man - George Harrison
Bon jour, mon coeur - Swingle II
Son Of My Father - Chicory Tip
Bach Air on the G String - Wendy Carlos
Joy - Apollo 100
EXTRAS - full movies
Husbands (1970)
The Heartbreak Kid (1972)