Vinyl only upon it's original release, on Warners. And only a song compilation at thet.
Not *quite* but almost. The instrumental Street Talk attributed to Bacharach is pretty much what's heard in the film's score (it's pretty typical of Bacharach from that time). And there's an instrumental of Rod Stewart's original That's What Friends Are For which also if I recall correctly is used in part of the film.
But otherwise, yeah (though the Quarterflash song was co-written by him but not produced by him--he was not a fan of what ended up--the Al Jareau and Pointer Sisters songs, as well as Rod's That's What Friends are For are all co-written/produced by Bacharach--if you're a collection of his songs). But theredefinitely could be more score released....
It's too bad Ron Howard didn't hold the movie for three years until 1985. Then he could have used the Commodores song, "Nightshift", a far better song than the Quarterflash composition. Always liked the movie, though.
"LOOOOVE BROKERS!!!" This movie is so fantastic. Really deserves to be more remembered. And as massive a hit as Dionne Warwick's version was in 1986, I still prefer Rod's original. Classic stuff.
There are some lovely instrumental iterations of "Night Shift" in the film that I adore, but they are absent from the LP. Most of these appear in the early part of the film.
Once the love begins to blossom between Chuck and Belinda, the film shifts to using instrumentals of "That's What Friends are For."
Ah...I thought about the 80's classic GRAVEYARD SHIFT for a moment, and wondered what the hell Bacharach had to do with that. Neil Bacharach scoring a Stephen King adaptation would be interesting.
