Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Soundtrack)

 

After seeing the movie a couple of years ago, I was mainly raving about the soundtrack to the film more that the movie itself, although I enjoyed it. But who can argue with a couple of hours packed with hip 60's numbers? The soundtrack CD is set up more-or-less like a radio show, with some hep DJ patter in between some of the tunes, including real cats like the Real Don Steele, and even some period advertisements. 

There's a fairly good variety of Top Forty, AM Radio sounds, ranging from the opening soul of "Treat Her Right" to the garagey rock'n'roll of "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man", the pre-psych of Deep Purple's "Hush" and "Kentucky Woman", the garage pop of the Raiders, who pop up several times, Buffy Sainte-Marie's folky "The Circle Game" and Simon and Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson", Neil Diamond's kinda corny "Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show", Jose Feliciano's take on "California Dreaming", Mitch Ryder's Detroit high-energy, and, of course, a remix of Vanilla Fudge's version of "You Keep Me Hangin' On" that is the background for the climax of the film.

Fun stuff and cool to have all in one place, but not much here that any fan of 60's music wouldn't already have (although there are a few oddball surprises). Hopefully, it helped turn on some younger folks to this amazing era, though.