A Few Best Men (soundtrack)
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| Soundtrack album by Olivia Newton-John | ||||
| Released | 20 January 2012 | |||
| Recorded | 2011 Las Vegas, Nevada (Paramount Studios) New York, New York (Youngstar mbc Recording Studios) Malibu, California (John Farrar Studio) |
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| Genre | Pop, dance-pop, electropop | |||
| Length | 56:03 | |||
| Label | Universal | |||
| Producer | Stephan Elliott, Marius de Vries, Lo Five, Guy Gross, Chew Fu, Pablo Calamari, Archie, Roulette, PVH, Laurence Malkin (exec.) | |||
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A Few Best Men: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Remixes is the sixth soundtrack album by Australian singer Olivia Newton-John, released on 20 January 2012 by Universal Records in Australia. It was released to promote and accompany the 2011 Australian comedy film, A Few Best Men.
The soundtrack basically consists on old pop hits sung by Newton-John and remixed by producers like Chew Fu, Roulette and Archie. The film's director, Stephan Elliott, invited Newton-John in person for the project, and also work as music producer. Some tracks are performed by session musicians credited as "The Wedding Band". Newton-John also recorded a new original track from the soundtrack, "Weightless" (written by her long-time collaborator, John Farrar, and his son, Max).
The lead single is a cover of Toni Basil's "Mickey", released to radio 9 January 2012. A music video was released, without Newton-John appearing. The song "Weightless" also have a music video that was made with clips from the film.
When Stephan Elliott and Warren Fahey approached me with the idea of re-recording all of the songs featured in the film, I thought it would be fun as I was familiar with the songs from the 70s and 80s. Stephan and I had great fun recording in Los Angeles. Not only is he a great film director but a very talented music producer - full of fun, energy and musical vision. Having never done a dance and club album before, I was excited to hear what the remixers have done with these songs to make them so clever and different from the originals.
In August 2011, the blog The Randy Report published a notice that Newton-John was producing a dance track with John Farrar and Marius de Vries. This confirmed the rumors that she was doing a dance album, which later proved to be the soundtrack of his new film, A Few Best Men.
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