![]() ![]() I realise the film is (at the time of writing) 25 years old, but if we can have pristine vinyl releases of far older music with older source imagery, really they could’ve done a better job with this. The HD upscale they’ve produced here should have been applied to the front cover. The rear outer cover has far greater clarity for the most part, with a pristine track listing and artist information (everything save for the film stills and film credits). ![]() Even more unforgivably, the film title logo looks blurred too. but all of the lettering is blurred, just as it is with the artists’ names at the bottom of the cover. The track listing “sticker” in the centre of the album cover is part of the artwork, which is appropriate, as it was part of the original album release artwork. It looks like what it probably is an enlargement of the original CD artwork, blown up to LP size and losing all of the clarity you should expect from a well crafted, boutique-priced vinyl edition. The real letdown here is the outer artwork. The translucent blue vinyl looks - and sounds - gorgeous on this limited (to 1,000) edition of this cosy, sentimental favourite of a soundtrack album. But such fantasies are what movies are made for, especially romantic comedies, and for this release of the soundtrack to Sleepless in Seattle on LP, we at Real Gone Music have issued a "sunset" vinyl edition that'll cause you to gaze dreamily at the horizon (glass of wine not included). The music was so powerful, in fact, and so integrated with the screenplay that it helped gloss over the incredibility of the film's premise, which, as you might recall, had Meg Ryan falling in love with Tom Hanks, a stranger she had never met, merely from hearing him being interviewed on a radio talk show on Christmas Eve. Indeed, the film re-introduced a whole new generation to the unique charms of Jimmy Durante with his renditions of "As Time Goes By" and "Make Someone Happy" over the opening and closing credits, respectively, resulting in a boomlet of enthusiasm for the work of the ol' Schnozzola. With artists old (Louis Armstrong, Nat "King" Cole, Gene Autry), new (Céline Dion, Harry Connick, Jr.) and somewhere in between (Carly Simon, Joe Cocker, Tammy Wynette), the movie's array of songs (many chosen by Ephron herself) appealed to hearts of every vintage and tastes of every stripe, and the tunes themselves represented the best that the Brill Building and Nashville had to offer. One of the great trio of romantic comedies starring Meg Ryan that were written and/or directed by the late Nora Ephron (When Harry Met Sally and You've Got Mail being the other two), 1993's Sleepless in Seattle was arguably the most romantic movie of its generation, and its soundtrack was a big reason why. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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