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Randy Newman, Peter Gabriel, The Chieftains, Paddy Moloney, Nigel Westlake, The Black Dyke Mills Band - Babe: Pig In The City - Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture

Randy Newman, Peter Gabriel, The Chieftains, Paddy Moloney, Nigel Westlake, The Black Dyke Mills Band - Babe: Pig In The City - Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture

Band: Randy Newman, Peter Gabriel, The Chieftains, Paddy Moloney, Nigel Westlake, The Black Dyke Mills Band Title: Babe: Pig In The City - Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture Rating: Release Date: 24 November, 1998 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: That'll Do - Peter Gabriel/Paddy Maloney/The Black Dyke Mills Band 2: Babe: A Pig In The City - E.G. Daily 3: The Returning Hero - Mice/Cast 4: Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien - Edith Piaf 5: Chattanooga Choo-Choo - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra/Tex Beneke & The Modernaries/Cast 6: Scram, This Is Not A Farm! - Mice/Cast 7: That's Amore - Dean Martin 8: Three Blind Mice - Cat Chorus 9: A Pig Gets Wise - Mice/Cast 10: Are You Lonesome Tonight - The Mavericks 11: Protected By Angels - The Chieftains/The Black Dyke Mills Band 12: The Big City (Two Step Nadya) - The Terem Quartet 13: Babe's Lament - E.G. Daily 14: A Heart That's True - E.G. Daily 15: The End - Mice/Cast 16: That'll Do (Instrumental) - James Watson/The Black Mills Band

Editoral Review The film is enormously smart, greatly entertaining, and funny. While it's true that kids love the adorable talking pink pork-pie piggy called Babe, there are subtleties truly appreciated only by adult viewers. The same holds true for the soundtrack, but to the ears of adult listeners, there is a menacing edge to the voice of the narrator, and the jet plane roars warning of the plight about to befall Babe and his "human," Esme Hoggart. Nigel Westlake's score cleverly reminds us of the eerie witch-on-her-bicycle trill and the flying-monkey refrain from The Wizard of Oz, and while little ones are tickled by the singing and commentating mice, it is adults who will correlate them with a Greek chorus. Westlake seems to effortlessly glide from cartoony wah-wah to pepped-up waltz to soaring string assault. The remainder of the soundtrack veers from a classical cat choir to standards from Edith Piaf and Dean Martin to the adult-alternative friendliness of the Chieftans, the Mavericks, and Peter Gabriel, who performs the film's theme, the lovely Randy Newman tune "That'll Do. " --Paige La Grone .. You can see a complete list of all Randy Newman, Peter Gabriel, The Chieftains, Paddy Moloney, Nigel Westlake, The Black Dyke Mills Band discography, or go back to the Randy Newman, Peter Gabriel, The Chieftains, Paddy Moloney, Nigel Westlake, The Black Dyke Mills Band tabs