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6-D THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Saturday, December 31, 1983 'The Big Chill' soundtrack is hot item Rings Country Dinner Playhouse PrtMnU ANN HODGES Starring In CULE PORTER'S From Page ID BURROWS The soundtrack from 'The Big Chill" has been a success, even though it doesn't contain four of the movie's best songs. CitnnlUiMiSI, H.tt.PtU TkMitm.lun.Mt Rntrvatiomr1st2M-0020 more you hear, the better we sound," while a friendly Andy Griffith advises us to sit back and let Ma Bell do the worrying. But despite what the actors are paid to say, you will face some big decisions. You'll have to choose a long-distance carrier in 1984, or another company like MCI. And you'll have to decide whether to lease or buy your telephone.

On top of that, you'll likely spend more than a few hours try ing to figure out the charges on your telephone bill, totaling up local and long-distance rates with the access charges ordered by federal regulators. i Incidentally, this is all supposed to be good for you. A century-long monopoly over telecommunications is coming to an end, and that's supposed to benefit free enterprise, keep America safe for capitalism and all the rest The jury goes out on that question tonight while you hoist a glass to a passing Sell today with a classified ad. Call Classified Want -Ads 272-7500 THE TAMPA TRIBUNE All scenes, start scenes, supplant dialogue. It also lets the songs remain prominent for much longer than the three bars they get in, say, "Graffiti," which is Itself a gamble: if people don't stay with the music, the movie drifts away, too.

The Kasdans had two restrictions on the music. "We didn't want anything that made the characters too stereotypical," said Meg Kasdan, "like psychedelic rock, which brings up a lot of images very specific to the '60s. We didn't think that fit the characters now, and we didn't want the songs to fight the dialogue." 1 The other limit was financial. "We wanted 1W Beatles," said Meg. "They were too expensive.

We also wanted Dylan, but couldn't work it out" Getting clearance to use an artist's songs anywhere is a delicate business. "A lot of it is just getting on the phone and convincing someone this is good to be part of," said Holmes. soundtrack had a modest budget, so there were no advance payments and royalties were fairly low." Offering the LP to Motown was itself part of the coaxing process; five of the songs are by Motown artists, For the four songs that do not appear on the album, Holmes has a general explanation: "On any soundtrack, most artists want most-favored-nation clauses. That is, if the first act gets 1 '2 percent royalties and you give the next one 2 percent, that automatically bumps the first one I' That, reportedly, is why the Rolling Stones' song is not on the album; Motown felt it couldn't afford to pay everyone what the Stones wanted. Among the other non-album acts, The Band, at least, has a history of shunning soundtrack LPs; their music was in the film Easy Rider" and they played at Woodstock, but they appear on neither album.

As for Dylan, his songs were reportedly cleared for the theatrical version of the movie, but not video. That is, any Dylan song would have had to be cut out if the movie were shown on cable TV an unacceptable condition. In any case, Holmes says both Columbia and Motown are delighted with the movie-album package, and when this case is combined with "Flashdance," "Urban Cowboy" and the rest, he sees a bright, healthy trend. "Popular music is becoming more and more a part of movies." By DAVID HINCKLEY New York Daily News Motown Records was making plans last summer to issue two movie soundtrack albums, and President Jay Lasker was pretty sure he knew what to expect. "Get Crazy." featuring the Ramones and Marshall Crenshaw, among others, could be very big, he thought.

When the teen market finds a music film it likes Night Fever." the soundtrack album sells like white wine at a singles bar. Next there was "The Big Chill," a film set to the beat of '60s songs. Lasker wasn't so excited about that one. Oldies soundtracks, from "American Graffiti" through "American Hot Wax" and "Diner." have sold modestly because, among other things, there are no new songs to provide radio plugs. Then a funny thing happened.

"Get Crazy," a shoddy teen movie, got ignored and so did its soundtrack. 'The Big Chill" soundtrack, mean-, while, soared into Billboard's top 20 and is about to go gold in the process teaching what some record executives think may be a valuable lesson. Movies traditionally make most of their in the first three weeks. "Chill," in its 11th week, is the exception; thanks to word-of-mouth and repeat customers, it remains the third most popular movie in the country, making more than $1 million a week at the box office, according to Variety. Soundtrack sales have passed 800,000, which is not bad considering that 1) the record, as expected, gets no radio play, and 2) four of the best songs in film the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want," the Beach Boys' "Wouldn't It Be Nice," Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising," and The Band's "The Weight" are not on the album.

Robert Holmes, senior vice president of the Music Group at Columbia Pictures, which released "Chill," says the correlation between liking the movie and buying the record has been unusually direct. "Motown has found that people see the movie in a mall theater and come out so happy they walk right across to the record store and buy the album." RAMADA HOTEL, 1-275 Busch Blvd Call 884-0750 (or Recorded Message INGLES xxx FILMS 4420 N. Hubtrt Av. Phont 872-9412 Etcorttd lady traa 9:30 a.m. 1 a.m.

NEW FILMS MONDAY AND THURSDAY 8 PM $4 Adm This kind of enthusiasm for an oldies album, which requires a very modest investment compared with an album of original music, is the lesson Lasker and Columbia are not ignoring. The same team is making The Big Push for the LP from "Christine," a horror movie that features rock songs from the late '50s. Even as "Christine" drives up, though, it's worth asking what went so right with "The Big Chill." First, promotion. One of the songs, Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," was made into a video, featuring movie characters, then sent to MTV and other video outlets. Second, engineering.

While most movie music comes from copies of the original recordings, engineer Roger Nichols and Motown's Steve Barri hunted down the master tapes, then remastered them digitally. This complex process makes the music brighter and more resonant; people who don't know digital from dominoes can hear the difference when it comes out of the speakers, and in a movie driven by its music, that's a powerful advantage. Finally, quality. The music in "Chill" is terrific, probably the strongest oldies movie soundtrack since "The Last Picture Show." At its peak, the pop music of the '60s represented an art form, and "Chill" proves it, with a mix of black and white artists, guitars and organs, ballads and dancetunes. The specific tunes were picked by co-writer-director Larry Kasdan and his wife, Meg, who was making "about a dozen tapes of the most fabulous '60s records" while her husband and Barbara Benedek were writing the script.

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