Amazon.com: The early-'60s pop group The Wonders never existed outside of That Thing You Do, Tom Hanks' feature-film directorial debut--but a lot of bands like them sure did. If you've seen the movie, I defy you to resist the title song--a perfect pop confection that captures the musical spirit of the era (and the high spirits of the movie) with cleverness and glee. (The deadpan "historical" liner notes are priceless.) The first song, "Lovin' You Lots and Lots" (written by Hanks himself) is a hilariously awful example of the insipid "grown-up" pop Muzak of the mid-'60s (performed by the Ray Coniff-like "Norm Wooster Singers"), but the element of parody in these tracks is suffused with affection. And, dammit, these are some really catchy toe-tappers! In addition to some other Wonders hits (not the least of which is "Shrimp Shack," from their first movie appearance in Weekend at Party Pier), there's also a girl-group single ("Hold My Hand, Hold My Heart" by the Chantrellines); a teen hearbreak anthem ("My World is Over" by Diane Dane); "one of the seminal jazz recordings of 1958" ("Time To Blow," by Del Paxton) ... and much, much more! --Jim Emerson
Disc 1:
Lovin' You Lots And Lots - The Norm Wooster Singers
That Thing You Do! - The Wonders
Little Wild One - The Wonders
Dance With Me Tonight - The Wonders
All My Only Dreams - The Wonders
I Need You (That Thing You Do) - The Wonders
She Knows It - The Heardsmen
Mr. Downtown - Freddy Fredrickson
Hold My Hand, Hold My Heart - The Chantrellines
Voyage Around The Moon - The Saturn
My World Is Over - Diane Dane
Drive Faster - The Vicksburgs
Shrimp Shack - Cap'n Geech And The Shrimp Shack Shooters
Time To Blow - Del Paxton
That Thing You Do! (Live At The Hollywood...) - The Wonders
Loved the movie so much I had to have the soundtrack This is a great collection of "feelgood" music! It gave me a chance to listen to entire songs which I only heard in part when I watched the film for the first time. This was some great music for tooling down the road while in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia...
Love the movie...Love the music Bought this for my wife & she loves it! It's one of her all time favorite movies & she just loves the music that goes along with it. Definitely a keeper!!!
'That Thing You Do' - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Sony) Review no. 92. I've seen the movie many times but this was the first time I ever got to check out the soundtrack CD. Very good. Even if The Wonders had existed strictly on celluloid, here it really makes no difference. So, they went Monkees and Partridge Family on us. So what? Point is the music on this fifteen track disc is really great and uplifting to listen to. You get a few songs from other fictitious artists that made an appearance in the film like Freddy Fredrickson, the aging glamour girl Diane Dane, Captain Geech And The Shrimp Shack Shooters and of course drummer Guy Patterson's mentor Del Paxton. Whole thing seems to occur between spring and summer, 1964. I really dug "She Knows It" by Jimmy's post-Wonders band the Heardsman - you know where in the closing credits you see it noted that the Heardsmen had went on to record three gold albums for Playtone Records. Recommended.
K-Tel Bogus! Oneder songs on CD are not sung by the group in the movie. K-Tel effect.
This is a wonderful CD I absolutely love this soundtrack. It's (like Tom Hanks said,) snappy, upbeat, etc. Every song on here makes me smile. What a good variety too. It's hard to imagine that Tom writes music also. Is there anything he can't do? Anyway, back to the soundtrack. I just can't get enough of it. In my opinion, "That Thing you Do," is better than anything the Beatles could have written. I am ordering another one just in case something happens to the one I just received!
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