The Commitments The Commitments (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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• Alan Parker’s 1991 adaptation of Roddy Doyle’s novel, “The Commitments,” kept the focus off the music – on the classic American R&B and soul that the workers listened to in the Irish pubs.

  As a book and also as a movie, “The Commitments” is about the love of music, so it didn’t matter that the soundtrack was the “working-class” versions of the oldies that everyone could sing along to.

  As long as it was from the heart, the movie would work. As long as it was from the heart, the soundtrack would work. In that sense, “The Commitments” was a cousin to “The Blues Brothers” – but while Jake and Elwood managed to recruit Stax’s house band, Irish musicians were brought in for “The Commitments.”

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• Artist: The Commitments Label: At The Movies Format: LP Units: 1 Country: Europe Genre: Soundtracks

• A1 Mustang Sally
  A2 Take Me To The River
  A3 Chain Of Fools
  A4 The Dark End Of The Street
  A5 Destination Anywhere
  A6 I Can’T Stand The Rain
  A7 Try A Little Tenderness
  B1 Treat Her Right
  B2 Do Right Woman Do Right Man
  B3 Mr. Pitiful
  B4 I Never Loved A Man
  B5 In The Midnight Hour
  B6 Bye Bye Baby
  B7 Slip Away