ARTiST: VA
TiTLE: Thank You For Smoking
LABEL: Lakeshore Records
GENRE: Soundtrack
TiME: 38:08 min
SiZE: 49,0 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Sep-01-2006
RELEASE DATE: Lapr-18-2006
WEBSiTE: n/a
Track List:
01. Tex Williams - Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That 02:54
Cigarette!
02. The Mills Brothers - Smoke Rings 02:56
03. The Kingston Trio - Greenback Dollar 02:52
04. The Swingle Singers - Little Organ Fugue 02:23
05. The Platters - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes 02:41
06. Patsy Cline - Three Cigarettes In An 02:16
Ashtray
07. RamblinÆ Jack Elliott - Cigarettes & 02:02
Whiskey
08. Otis Redding - Cigarettes And Coffee 03:53
09. Jerry Reed - Another Puff 04:07
10. Rolfe Kent - Intro & Tobacco One 03:03
11. Rolfe Kent - Donate It & Sex Back In 03:02
Cigarettes
12. Rolfe Kent - Joey & Drums Of Doom 02:59
13. Rolfe Kent - Spanish Epilogue Revisited 03:00
Release Notes:
Based on Christopher Buckley's eponymous novel,
Thank You for Smoking cynically and gleefully sends
up the more PC aspects of our times. The first nine
tracks are all golden oldies culled from a
time--mostly the 1940s and 1950s--when smoke getting
in your eyes was considered romantic, not
second-hand poisoning, such as the Platters' version
of Jerome Kern's "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes").
Those familiar with kd lang's version of "Smoke
Rings" will love the Mills Brothers' earlier version
from 1932. The track is actual typical of the album,
which not only offers those-were-the-days takes on
smoking, but almost as many lessons on vocal
styling. Group harmonies by the aforementioned Mills
Brothers and the Swingle Singers' take on Bach's
"Little Organ Fugue," for instance, are dazzling,
while Patsy Cline ("Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray")
and Otis Redding ("Cigarettes and Coffee") shine
solo.
In a completely different register, Jerry Reed's
1972 ode to addiction, "Another Puff," is punctuated
by unappetizing coughs; Reed rasping lines "Give it
to me! Give it to me! I love it! I love it! I love
it!" and "You quit smoking, that'll leave more for
me!" are followed by a maniacal laugh. The last four
instrumental tracks consist of Rolfe Kent's original
score; they maintain an appropriate lounge-lizardy
mood but pale in comparison to the nuggets that
precede them.