Brimstone and Treacle (soundtrack)
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Brimstone and Treacle is the soundtrack
for the 1982 film
adaption of the play Brimstone and Treacle
. The film starred Sting in a leading role, and he wrote or co-wrote the majority of the songs on the soundtrack. His cover of "Spread a Little Happiness
" was released as a single, and Sting was awarded the 1984 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance
for the title track.
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
for the 1982 film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
adaption of the play Brimstone and Treacle
Brimstone and Treacle
-Potter on Brimstone and Treacle:In 1978, Potter said:I had written Brimstone and Treacle in difficult personal circumstances. Years of acute psoriatic arthropathy—unpleasantly affecting skin and joints—had not only taken their toll in physical damage but had also, and perhaps inevitably, mediated...
. The film starred Sting in a leading role, and he wrote or co-wrote the majority of the songs on the soundtrack. His cover of "Spread a Little Happiness
Spread a Little Happiness
Spread a Little Happiness is a song by English musical comedy composer Vivian Ellis from his 1929 musical Mr. Cinders. Ellis was suffering from a fever of 103 degrees when he wrote this song. In the original production it was sung by Bobby Howes as Jim, but Binnie Hale was the singer on the 78...
" was released as a single, and Sting was awarded the 1984 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance
Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance was an honor presented to recording artists for quality instrumental rock performances at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards...
for the title track.
Track listing
- "When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder" - Finchley Children's Music GroupFinchley Children's Music GroupFinchley Children’s Music Group is a UK youth choir based in North London for children aged 4 to 18.Finchley Children’s Music Group was founded in 1958 after a group of singers came together to give the first amateur performance of Benjamin Britten’s Noye's Fludde...
/Michael NymanMichael NymanMichael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano...
– 2:07 - "Brimstone & Treacle" (Sting) – 2:15
- "Narration" (Sting) – 4:02
- "How Stupid Mr. Bates" (The Police) – 2:41
- "Only You" (Sting) – 2:37
- "I Burn for You" (The Police) – 4:50
- "Spread a Little HappinessSpread a Little HappinessSpread a Little Happiness is a song by English musical comedy composer Vivian Ellis from his 1929 musical Mr. Cinders. Ellis was suffering from a fever of 103 degrees when he wrote this song. In the original production it was sung by Bobby Howes as Jim, but Binnie Hale was the singer on the 78...
" (Sting) – 3:25 - "We Got the BeatWe Got the Beat"We Got the Beat" is a song recorded by the American rock band The Go-Go's. Written by the group's lead guitarist Charlotte Caffey, the band recorded the song in 1980 and it was released in May as a single in the UK on Stiff Records. The song's single release brought the Go-Go's underground...
" (The Go-Go'sThe Go-Go'sThe Go-Go’s are an all-female American rock band formed in 1978. They made history as the first all-female band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts....
) – 2:30 - "You Know I Had the Strangest Dream" (Sting) – 2:22
- "Up the Junction" (Squeeze) – 3:09
- "Bless This HouseBless This House (song)"Bless This House" is a song. The words were written by Englishwoman Helen Taylor, a poet, under the original title "Bless the House." The music was composed by Australian May Brahe, a friend of Taylor's. It was published in 1927....
" (Brimstone Chorale) – 0:41 - "A Kind of Loving" (The Police) – 2:04
- "Brimstone 2" (Sting) – 4:07
Personnel
- Brimstone – Performer
- The Go-Go's – Performer
- The Police – Performer
- Jeff Seitz – Drums
- Squeeze – Performer
- Sting – Performer
- Kenith Trodd – Producer