Various Artists - Valley Of The Dolls

A great little soundtrack — as campy as the film it was written for — and a record that's gone on to be one of the touchstone soundtracks of the '60s! Some of the tunes are more straight numbers by Johnny Williams — a bit dreamy, but with some nice easy touches — but the best tunes are the swinging vocal numbers, like "Give A Little More", "Come Live with Me" and "I'll Plant My Own Tree" — which have the fierceness of the film's characters set loose on record (an important thing in the years before you could watch a DVD copy of the movie at home!)

Plus, the album starts out with the great monologue which begins the film — kind of a dreamy narrative about the beginning of the downfall that destroyed the life of Neely Bruce — and leads into tracks that include "It's Impossible", "Theme From Valley Of The Dolls", "Jennifer's Recollection", and "Jennifer's French Movie."

 

1. Theme From 'Valley Of The Dolls'

2. It's Impossible

3. Ann At Lawrenceville

4. Chance Meeting

5. Neely's Career Montage

6. Come Live With Me

7. I'll Plant My Own Tree

8. The Gillian Girl Commercial

9. Jennifer's French Movie

10. Give A Little More

11. Jennifer's Recollection

12. Theme From 'Valley Of The Dolls'- Reprise

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