Tom Sawyer: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack (2000 Animated Video) [Soundtrack]

tom sawyer: original mgm motion picture soundtrack (2000 animated video) [soundtrack]

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Poor Samuel Clemens! His classic tales of interracial friendship and boyhood adventure have been repeatedly bowdlerized and, more recently, picked apart by the literary correctness police. Now Nashville has weighed in with this dumbed-down musical soundtrack to an MGM animated cartoon adaptation of Tom Sawyer. A slew of gifted young artists are featured here: Lee Ann Womack, Mark Wills, Rhett Akins, Rebecca Lynn Howard, Alecia Elliott, and Bryan White among others. It's just too bad that their talents are mostly squandered on second-rate songs that seem to be little more than musical wallpaper for a threadbare teen romance between Huck Finn and his sweetheart Becky Thatcher. A couple songs do manage to linger briefly in the memory. Ray Stevens's "Injurin' Joe" is inventive and entertaining and Marty Stuart's full-tilt gospel outing on "Leave Your Love Light On" has an intensity that seems out of place here. But most of the rest of the music merely serves to reduce Mark Twain's timeless tale to a goofy, country-flavored teen soap opera. --Bob Allen

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Tom Sawyer: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack (2000 Animated Video) [Soundtrack]

Average customer rating:

I Don't Know
Some great, some good, some ok
WONDERFUL
Good for your little 'Tom Sawyer'

Tom Sawyer: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack (2000 Animated Video)
Various Artists - Soundtracks
Manufacturer: Mca
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004S95A
Release Date: 2000-04-04

Tracks:

Suite From Tom Sawyer - Mark Watters
Leave Your Love Light On - Marty Stuart
Never, Ever And Forever - Lee Ann Womack/Mark Wills
Injurin' Joe - Ray Stevens
One Dream - Lee Ann Womack/Alecia Elliott
Hook, Line & Sinker - Mark Nesler
Light At The End Of The Tunnel - Bryan White/Rebecca Lynn Howard
Friends For Life - Rhett Akins/Mark Wills
Can't Keep A Country Boy Down (Tom's Dream Sequence) - Charlie Daniels
Light At The End Of The Tunnel (Reprise) - Lee Ann Womack/Rhett Akins

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Poor Samuel Clemens! His classic tales of interracial friendship and boyhood adventure have been repeatedly bowdlerized and, more recently, picked apart by the literary correctness police. Now Nashville has weighed in with this dumbed-down musical soundtrack to an MGM animated cartoon adaptation of Tom Sawyer. A slew of gifted young artists are featured here: Lee Ann Womack, Mark Wills, Rhett Akins, Rebecca Lynn Howard, Alecia Elliott, and Bryan White among others. It's just too bad that their talents are mostly squandered on second-rate songs that seem to be little more than musical wallpaper for a threadbare teen romance between Huck Finn and his sweetheart Becky Thatcher. A couple songs do manage to linger briefly in the memory. Ray Stevens's "Injurin' Joe" is inventive and entertaining and Marty Stuart's full-tilt gospel outing on "Leave Your Love Light On" has an intensity that seems out of place here. But most of the rest of the music merely serves to reduce Mark Twain's timeless tale to a goofy, country-flavored teen soap opera. --Bob Allen

Customer Reviews:

I Don't Know .......2006-07-04

I don't think the recording quality can be that bad. 'Cause I just listend to it on a 6 year old video tape on my $3000 stereo system and it didn't sound bad at all. So, the CD can't possibly be any worse that that. I just ordered it off Amazon and are waiting for it, so we'll see. But, as far as the music goes, I'm not even a country fan and I love it. It's good stuff.

Some great, some good, some ok.......2005-04-12

I bought this cd just for the Never, Ever and Forever song and because I saw all these great country artists on the soundtrack. I have to agree the recording quality is not as good as you'd expect. The songs are pretty good, some better than others...but I'm a country fan so I love most of them.

I wouldn't pay $15.00 for the cd, but most are selling at $4 or so, which is worth it.

WONDERFUL.......2002-09-09

This is a fun and very underated recording. The love song for Never ever and forever, is becoming popular as a wedding love song.

Some videos seem to have too much music, but this soundtract makes a very good balance with the video. In fact this is the first sound tract of a movie that impressed me so much I had to get it and I listen to it several times a week. If you like good animation, and country music, you will like this soundtract. Buy the video, and then get the soundtract, it is a lot of fun.

Good for your little 'Tom Sawyer'.......2001-04-20

This is by no means a great recording. It does, however, offer both kids and parents a chance to listen to something they can both enjoy. The CD is a soundtrack companion to the animated film of the same name, and is very country influenced. I would recomend this CD for adults and children together, but that's pretty much where it stops.

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