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The Muppet Movie: Original Soundtrack Recording is the soundtrack album from the 1979 film, The Muppet Movie, featuring the songs and select score written by Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher.
- 1978
- Soundtrack
- July 13, 1979
- Paul Williams
The Muppet Movie [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] Review by Darryl Cater. The genre of the movie musical is commonly said to have died in the early 1970s, but some of these songs belong in the canon of great musical tunes. Their authors, Paul Williams and Kenny Ascher, received Oscar nominations both for the entire song score and for the ...
The Muppet Movie: Original Soundtrack Recording is the soundtrack album from the 1979 film, The Muppet Movie, featuring the songs and select score written by Paul Williams and...
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features the songs from the film, written by Paul Williams and Kenny Ascher. This album reached #32 on Billboard's Top LPs and Tapes chart in 1979, and was certified Gold by the RIAA.
The album won a Grammy Award for Best Recording for Children. It was also nominated for Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special, but lost to Superman. The film's score was nominated for an Academy Award in 1980 in the Best Music, Original Song Score category. It lost to All That Jazz. "Rainbow Connection" was also nominated in the Best Music, Original Song category. It lost to "It Goes Like It Goes" from the film Norma Rae.
The soundtrack was issued on CD for the first time in 1993, and it was reissued again on August 13, 2013, coinciding with the movie's Blu-ray release.[1][2] This new edition contains liner notes by Paul Williams. A matching LP edition, which is almost an exact replica of the 1979 release, was released for the annual Record Store Day event, on April 19, 2014.
While most international releases use the English-language soundtrack, the German album edition was dubbed, and released under the title of Muppet Movie.
Side One
1.Rainbow Connection - Kermit
2.Movin' Right Along - Kermit & Fozzie
3.Never Before, Never Again - Miss Piggy
4.Never Before, Never Again (Instrumental)
5.I Hope That Somethin' Better Comes Along - Kermit & Rowlf
•Orchestra arranged and conducted by Ian Freebairn-Smith
•Cover illustration by Michael K. Frith
•Album design by Rick Wetzel
•Guitars: Art Munson, Ernie Corallo, Anthony Berg
•Keyboards: Kenny Ascher, David Garland, Michael Melvion, Randy Kerber
•Drums: Gary Mallaber, James Gordon
•Muppet discography
1.↑ Twitter post by Paul Williams, dated May 25, 2013
2.↑ ‘Muppet Movie’ Soundtrack Re-release on August 13 - Stitch Kingdom, June 14, 2013
The Muppets - The Muppet Movie (Original Soundtrack Recording) | Releases | Discogs. The Muppets – The Muppet Movie (Original Soundtrack Recording) More images. Tracklist. Credits (25) Colin Cameron. Bass. Reinhold Press. Bass. Ian Freebairn-Smith. Conductor, Arranged By. Gary Mallaber. Drums. James Gordon * Drums. Jim Henson.
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Music has always been the Muppets' métier; on their ‘70s TV series this usually involved wacky send-ups of Top 40 hits and pop standards. But for their first feature-length film in 1978, songwriter Paul Williams (The Carpenters' “We’ve Only Just Begun,” “Rainy Days and Mondays”) and arranger Kenny Ascher (Helen Reddy's “You and ...
Paul Williams on The Muppet Show. Paul Williams as the piano player at the El Sleezo Cafe. Judy Collins, Kermit, and Paul Williams. Paul Williams (b. 1940) is a prolific composer, lyricist, singer and actor.