| | |  | Jazz | Home » » Mamma Mia! | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | Bringing the timeless lyrics and melodies of iconic super group ABBA to movie audiences, this summer is the season for Mamma Mia! Meryl Streep leads an all-star cast in the feature-film adaptation of the beloved musical that has been seen by more than 30 million people in 160 cities and 8 languages around the world. Meryl Streep plays an independent, single mother and owner of a small hotel on an idyllic Greek island, about to let go of her spirited daughter whom she's raised alone. But the young bride has secretly invited some guests of her own three men from her mom's past, one of whom is the girl's biological father. Over 24 chaotic, magical hours, new love will bloom and old romances will be rekindled, in this warm and hilarious adaptation of one of the most popular musicals ever written. | | | Product Details: | | | Audio CD Release Date:
| July 08, 2008 | | Studio:
| Decca | | Composer:
| Bjorn / Anderson, Stig Benny / Ulvaeus | | Conductor:
| Martin Lowe | | Number Of Discs:
| 1 | | Format:
| Soundtrack | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 270 reviews |
| | | Track Listing: | | | 1. | Honey, Honey | | 2. | Money, Money, Money | | 3. | Mamma Mia | | 4. | Dancing Queen | | 5. | Our Last Summer | | 6. | Lay All Your Love On Me | | 7. | Super Trouper | | 8. | Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! | | 9. | The Name of the Game | | 10. | Voulez-Vous | | 11. | SOS | | 12. | Does Your Mother Know | | 13. | Slipping Through My Fingers | | 14. | The Winner Takes It All | | 15. | When All Is Said And Done | | 16. | Take a Chance on Me | | 17. | I Have a Dream | |
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 Poor casting; disappointment for Meryl Streep and ABBA fanJun 20, 2010
The stage production of Mamma Mia is still touring the country and I am a big fan of Meryl Streep as an actress (and have always been surprised at how well she can sing). This is one of the few films I have seen of hers in which she came across as not being really in the role and it being forced. The singing of the ABBA hits, with a few exceptions, did not do justice to the songs. The casting was wrong and it could have used a better director. It didn't look as if the movie was filmed on location perhaps it was, but it seemed to me to be a low-cost production on a studio backlot.
 Pretty goodMay 28, 2010
I love this music, and the soundtrack is a lot of fun. However, I am not of fan of Brosnan's voice, and while I love Meryl Streep and her voice, I think she was miscast. While I usually do enjoy covers, I think in this case, listening to the original is better.Voice Lessons To Go Volume 1: Vocalize and Breath
 FantasticMay 25, 2010
I love this music. It's so uplifting and hard not to sing to. Some of the song's sound better than ABBA. However the 2 with Pierce Brosnan singing, stick with ABBA. Still a fun CD to keep in your car and sing loud to while cruising.
"It's OK, but not as exciting as the music of ABBA"-May 18, 2010
The movie soundtrack album was released in the summer, slightly before the release of the movie. The CD was released in Sweden and the UK on July 7, 2008 (and in the US on July 8, 2008). This album actually went to #1 in the USA, and in many other places. The movie soundtrack was actually more successful than the musical's original cast album, which has tended to sell at a slower pace in most of the markets it had been released. The soundtrack has sold over 4,000,000 physical copies worldwide including nearly 1,800.000 copies in the USA.
The music was recorded before the movie was filmed with the vocals sung by the original actors in the movie. On occasion, the actors also sang "live" during filming. The musical backing tracks were newly recorded in February 2007 by Benny Andersson with the help of three veterans of the original ABBA band (Rutger Gunnarsson on bass, Lasse Wellander on guitar, Per Lindvall on drums. An orchestra was used for parts of the backing track, and the chorus parts for the vocal tracks were recorded by the Stockholm ensemble cast of Mamma Mia. Two songs that were in the original musical are not sung in the movie- "Under Attack" and "Knowing Me, Knowing You". "Knowing Me, Knowing You "has been replaced by "When All is Said And Done'. Due to time constraints , the following songs are not included in the soundtrack album track listing -Overture / Prologue, Chiquitita, Entr'Act, One Of Us, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, and Waterloo.
The main drawback of the album is that so many of the performers are actors first not singers, and so most of the lead vocals are underwhelming. The vocal performances do have the kind of character that actors can instill, that sometimes singers can not.
Of course, even the best singers are not likely to improve on Frida or Agnetha's vocals, so instead the best approach appears to be try something slightly different and that's what is sometimes tried here.
Originally there was also supposed to be a special two-disc version of the soundtrack. The two disc version was to have included instrumental versions of songs that underscore the action in the movie, the end credits medley and god knows what else, but this idea never came to fruition, perhaps simply due to quality control concerns.
GREAT music!May 10, 2010
This CD doesn't have a couple of the songs sung in the movie, but the songs it does have are fabulous to sing along with in the car, at home, you name it. If you've seen the movie, you'll definitely want to get this.
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