Elf: Music From The Major Motion Picture
By admin on Feb 09, 2010 with Comments 5
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It takes a pretty deft touch to make us believe towering Will Ferrell as a displaced human cum Santa’s elf, Ed Asner as St. Nick and make a Christmas movie that’s as loopy/sassy as it is seasonally sentimental. Yet that’s what director Jon Favreau has done with this unlikely little holiday gem, and his hand-picked song score underscores its warm heart and comedic smarts with charm to burn. Suffused with a New York sense of traditional cool, Favreau turns his soundtrack into an upbeat secular Christmas classic, a sort of Swingers-Meet-Santa collection that convinces us that performances as diverse as Louis Prima’s rousing take on “Pennies From Heaven” and the pumping soul of Billy Preston’s “Nothing From Nothing” are as season-friendly as the performances of more traditional Christmas pop fare by Ella Fitzgerald, Jim Reeves, Eartha Kitt and Eddy Arnold they bookend. The edited Ferrante & Teicher/Les Baxter medley is a lounge-y inspiration, while a trio of laconic Leon Redbone crooners anchor the film’s dizzy, if often bittersweet emotional foundations. Co-star Zooey Deschanel duets with Redbone on “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” her bluesy performance a welcome surprise that recalls nothing less than a young Peggy Lee. –Jerry McCulley
Elf: Music From The Major Motion Picture
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First Christmas is a Pagan holiday in origin and many of us claim it as such. It is delicious irony. Of course it is a Pagan nature celebration. Right around the Winter Solstice, the Chirstmas tree, wreaths, Santa Claus (the Greenman). Christ wasn’t even suppose to be born around December 25th.
Anyhow I occasionally feel like a grinch around Xmas because I can not take the overly religious tunes. Some of them are just WAYYYYYY too much if you listen to the lyrics.
In any event winter can be a magical time and there are so many fun, joyous, wonderful Xmas songs. The 3 I like best are Sleigh Ride, Let it Snow, and Winter Wonderland. This has all 3. It took me some time to get use to Winter Wonderland one of my favorites. It is a country version and a bit slower than I am use to but after a few listenings I liked it. The first Sleigh Ride track is superb and Let it Snow is good as well.
If you want a joyful selection that will not gag people of any background or people who don’t want to be hit over the head with the lord this the lord that, get this wonderful collection.
Rating: 5 / 5
I am looking for the song that was used when Santas sleigh is flying through New York at the end of the movie…can anyone help me out on this?
Rating: 5 / 5
I know its not Christmas yet but I’m starting my Christmas list and this is on it!!!!
I love the movie Elf. It’s my favrite movie!!! I watch it EVERY night (unless there is something good on! lol) I really like the song Jovie (Zooey)sings, Baby It’s Cold Outside. My sister and I know all the words to the song!!!! I REALLY WANT THIS SOUNDTRACK!!!! -TORI-
Rating: 5 / 5
Zooey is great on track five! Her voice in the movie is great also! I was hoping for the shower song but its not on the CD that I know of only one song by Zooey on the cd and that is the baby its Cold Outside song. Great song! Great CD too!
More Zooey please..
-kingjes
Rating: 5 / 5
It’s a shame they didn’t include “Auld Lang Syne” by Zooey Deschanel. That always gives me goosebumps on that part of the movie!!
Rating: 4 / 5