The 12 Songs from City Island Soundtrack are Marooned without an Album

City Island is one of those movies that not a lot of people will see but everyone should. It’s not the funniest movie of the year, but it’s damn funny. It’s not the best soundtrack of the year, but it has some good tunes. I enjoyed both.

The score from Jan A.P. Kaczmarek sometimes wanders too close to the score from The Godfather with all that accordion woven into the mix, but it pulls itself back from the brink with a couple songs from The Staples Singers and a couple versions of both “One Lie Leads to Another” as well as “Carmen Habanera.”

Here’s all 12 songs from City Island. It’s a sliver of music about as wide as the island itself, but there are a few jewels in there for muscle-suckers and clam-diggers alike.

• Opening – One Lie Leads to Another – Charles Wright and Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band
• (unknown scene) – Lethargy – John Lusitana
• (unknown scene) – Weathering – John Lusitana
• Drive to school and work – Living in the Love Life After – Vic Thrill
• Club? – Yeah Boy – Heidi Shink and Caitlin Stansbury
• Club? – Lord Emperor Justice – Heidi Shink and Caitlin Stansbury
• Takes son from prison – Heavy Makes You Happy – The Staples Singers
• (unknown scene) – Wooster Swing – Raymond De Felitta
• Sky tram to Roosevelt Island – Carmen from Habanera – Philharmonica Cassovia
• Everybody is smoking on their own – One Lie Leads to Another – Tony Bennett
• After audition – Carmen from Habanera – The Ramsey Lewis Trio
• Dinner outside at the end of the movie – Be What You Are – The Staples Singers

Original music for City Island – Jan A.P. Kaczmarek

~ by montelutz on May 3, 2010.