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In compiling the soundtrack for Oliver Stone's Academy Award winning 1986 Vietnam War epic Platoon, producer Bud Carr opted to eschew original composition in favor of a collection of songs from the '60s in an attempt to capture the period. Many of the songs he selected were not even used in the film. The only excerpt from Georges Delerue's score that made it onto the album was "Barnes Shoots Elias." The '80s were not a golden age for sales of original score soundtracks. With only a handful of exceptions (e.g., Vangelis' Chariots of Fire and a few of John Williams' blockbuster soundtracks), most of the commercially successful soundtrack albums contained hit singles from pop artists. And as Platoon was one of the few Best Picture winners from the era that failed even to land an Original Score nomination at the Oscars, Carr was probably wise to make that decision. He populated the album with classic rock & roll songs like the Doors' "Hello, I Love You," Otis Redding's "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay," Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit," and Aretha Franklin's "Respect." But the soundtrack's best moments are not from the '60s at all. They are the Delerue-conducted excerpts from Samuel Barber's haunting "Adagio for Strings," which served as the theme for the movie and bookend the album as the first and last tracks. ~ Evan Cater
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List Price $6.97 (You save $0.88)
Category Rock/Pop Albums, R&B CDs, Soundtrack, Stax/Southern Soul
Label Atlantic
Orig Year 1986
All Time Sales Rank   25557  
CD Universe Part number 1097008
Catalog number 81742
Discs 1
Release Date Oct 25, 1990
Studio/Live Studio
Mono/Stereo Stereo
Producer Budd Carr
Recording Time 33 minutes
Additional Info Original Soundtrack
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1.Village, The
2.Tracks of My Tears
3.Okie From Muskogee
4.Hello, I Love You
5.White Rabbit
6.Barnes Shoots Elias
7.Respect
8.Dock of the Bay
9.When a Man Loves a Woman
10.Groovin'
11.Adagio For Strings
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Average Rating: (3.5 out of 5 stars) 3.5 stars

3 stars Soundtrack????
Should just have been named "Songs from the era"...Not really worth purchasing in order to listen to the one good track, "Adagio". :-(
Submitted by Lou (Miami, Fl.)
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4 stars The songs on this album are great!
I love the songs on this album b/c you can just sit back and relax. You feel like you are back in the day and you just relax and picture what the songs are telling you. I highly rate this soundtrack to anyone who likes to sit and relax and listen to good music.
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