US Release date : Tuesday, May 20, 2003
The In-Laws (Music From The Motion Picture)
By Various Artists • Official album • Part of the collection “Paul McCartney as producer, composer, or session musician in the 00s”
Last updated on June 30, 2024
US Release date : Tuesday, May 20, 2003
By Various Artists • Official album • Part of the collection “Paul McCartney as producer, composer, or session musician in the 00s”
Last updated on June 30, 2024
Previous album Apr 21, 2003 • "Hope (War Child album)" by Various Artists released in the UK
Concert May 17, 2003 • Germany • Munich
Concert May 18, 2003 • Germany • Munich
Album May 20, 2003 • "The In-Laws (Music From The Motion Picture)" by Various Artists released in the US
Concert May 21, 2003 • Germany • Hamburg
Concert May 24, 2003 • Russia • Moscow
Next album Jul 07, 2003 • "The In-Laws (Music From The Motion Picture)" by Various Artists released in the UK
This album was recorded during the following studio sessions:
Written by Paul McCartney
4:08 • Studio version • A
Paul McCartney : Acoustic guitar, Backing vocals, Bass, Electric guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, Producer, Vocals Linda McCartney : Backing vocals, Tambourine Denny Laine : Backing vocals David Kahne : Mixing engineer Geoff Emerick : Overdubs recording engineer Denny Seiwell : Drums Laurence Juber : Backing vocals, Electric guitar Steve Holley : Backing vocals, Percussion Hugh McCracken : Electric guitar Jon Kelly : Overdubs recording engineer Tim Geelan : Recording engineer Ted Brosnan : Assistant recording engineer Michael Brauer : Mixing engineer Ralph Sall : Additional producer, Mixing engineer
Session Recording: Oct 26, 1970 • Studio CBS Studios, New York City
Session Overdubs: January 12th - 23th, 1981 • Studio AIR Studios, London, UK
Session Overdubs: September / October 1986 • Studio Hog Hill Studio, Rye, UK
Session Mixing: Circa 2002
No Matter What
3:00 • Studio version
Don't Bring Me Down
4:03 • Studio version
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney
3:26 • Studio version • B
Paul McCartney : Bass, Piano, Producer, Vocals Linda McCartney : Backing vocals, Mellotron Denny Laine : Backing vocals Jimmy McCulloch : Electric guitar Geoff Emerick : Recording engineer Geoff Britton : Drums Mark Vigars : Assistant recording engineer (?) John Barrett : Assistant recording engineer (?) Ralph Sall : Mixing engineer Peter McCabe : Mixing engineer
Session Recording: Aug 27, 1974 • Studio EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
Session Overdubs: Aug 29, 1974 • Studio EMI Studios, Abbey Road
Session Mixing: Circa 2002
It's Now or Never
3:16 • Studio version
Wedding Day
4:44 • Studio version
Written by Paul McCartney
2:44 • Studio version • A
Paul McCartney : Acoustic guitar, Electric guitar, Producer, Synthesizers, Vocals Geoff Emerick : Recording engineer Mark Vigars : Assistant engineer Pete Henderson : Assistant engineer Steve Churchyard : Assistant engineer
Session Recording: May 05, 1977 • Studio Record Plant Mobile Studio, Fair Carol Yacht, US Virgin Islands
Session Overdubs: December 3 to 14, 1977 • Studio AIR Studios, London, UK
Credits & recording details courtesy of Luca Perasi • Buy Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas. The Stories Behind the Songs (Vol. 1) 1970-1989 on Amazon
Get Down Tonight
3:13 • Studio version
Good Times
3:43 • Studio version
Word Up!
4:19 • Studio version
More Than A Friend
4:24 • Studio version
Raindrops Keeps Fallin' On My Head
3:02 • Studio version
Sunshine Of Your Love
3:18 • Studio version
Too Close for Comfort
4:03 • Studio version
Di-Gue-Ding-Ding
2:40 • Studio version
A Man And A Woman (Un Homme Et Une Femme)
3:09 • Studio version
Gopher Mambo
2:15 • Studio version
The soundtrack for the 2003 film “The In-Laws” boasts three Paul McCartney tracks, two previously unreleased gems. “A Love For You” comes from the 1970 “RAM” sessions, while the included version of “Live And Let Die” stems from the unreleased 1974 Wings documentary “One Hand Clapping.”
Paul McCartney will have a previously unreleased song on the upcoming soundtrack to “The In-Laws,” due May 20 through Bulletproof Entertainment/Warner Strategic Marketing. The McCartney song, “A Love for You,” was originally recorded in 1971. McCartney also has two other tracks on the album that he recorded with his former band, Wings: a previously unreleased version of “Live and Let Die” (the 1973 James Bond film theme that reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100) and “I’m Carrying,” a song that first appeared on Wings’ 1978 album, “London Town.”
“The In-Laws,” a Warner Brothers Pictures comedy, arrives May 23 in U.S. theaters. The film stars Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks as two future fathers-in-law who have a series of misadventures leading up to their childrens’ wedding. It’s a remake of the 1973 film of the same name, which starred Peter Falk and Alan Arkin.
The soundtrack to the movie is comprised mostly of songs from the 1960s and 1970s, including tracks from Elvis Presley, Badfinger, Chic, Electric Light Orchestra, and KC & the Sunshine Band.
From Billboard, April 22, 2003
From Wikipedia:
The In-Laws is a 2003 American action comedy film starring Michael Douglas, Albert Brooks, Robin Tunney, Ryan Reynolds and Candice Bergen. The film is a remake of the original 1979 cult classic of the same name. Scenes for the 2003 film were shot on location in Chicago. The film was a box office failure and received mixed to negative reviews.
Plot
Steve Tobias is an undercover agent of the CIA whose son, Mark, is marrying Melissa Peyser. Her father is mild-mannered foot doctor, Jerry Peyser. When the two families meet for dinner, Peyser stumbles on to Steve Tobias’ secret operation as Tobias tries to set up a deal to sell a Russian submarine, the Olga, to an arms smuggler in France as bait to catch arms smugglers. As Peyser’s incidental involvement increases, he is suspected by the FBI of being part of a seemingly malicious deal. Peyser does not want to be involved in the deal or with Tobias’ family but is either dragged in against his will or tricked into participating in wild escapades with Tobias. The two future fathers-in-law end up dodging bullets, jumping off buildings, and stealing jets together as they attempt to avoid capture by the FBI. After the wedding reception ends with a last chase scene, they are finally left alone with only their children and wives to have a quiet marriage ceremony, presided over by the FBI agent who was chasing them.
Reception – Box office
The film was released in theaters on May 23, 2003, opening against Bruce Almighty in North America. It finished its first weekend in 5th place with $7,319,848. It was a box office disappointment, ultimately recouping just under $27 million of its $40 million budget.
Reception – Critical response
The In-Laws had a mixed to negative critical reception. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 33% score, based on 136 reviews, with an average rating of 5.00/10. The website’s critics consensus states: “Bigger and slicker than the original, but not necessarily better”. On Metacritic, it has a score of 46 out of 100 based on 32 critics’ reviews, indicating “mixed or average reviews”.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times awarded the film 2 out of 4 stars, writing “The In-Laws is an accomplished but not inspired remake of a 1979 comedy which was inspired and so did not need to be accomplished. The earlier movie was slapdash and at times seemed to be making itself up as it went along, but it had big laughs and a kind of lunacy. The remake knows the moves but lacks the recklessness.” Ebert felt the remake lacked the comedic chemistry of Alan Arkin and Peter Falk in the original film, adding “Comedy works better when the characters seem utterly unaware that they are being funny.” Michael Wilmington of the Chicago Tribune wrote, “You could say the same of Fleming, who’s tended to work best when he’s dealing with young protagonists, as in Dick, The Craft and Threesome. Fleming has a serious approach to comedy, visible here too, but drowned in the action and hoopla. He seems almost overwhelmed and the movie preposterously inflated.” […}
From allmusic.com:
It’s no surprise that movie soundtracks are schizophrenic affairs, and it’s for a variety of reasons. Often, since the songs often serve a specific purpose in the movie, when they’re gathered on a separate soundtrack they either sound entirely too familiar or too obscure. Soundtracks can also serve as a dumping ground for new and previously unreleased material that has nothing to do with the film itself. The soundtrack to The In-Laws — Andrew Fleming’s 2003 remake of the 1979 Arthur Hiller cult comedy classic, this time with Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks taking the lead roles over for Peter Falk and Alan Arkin — manages to cover all three bases […] but the highlights are two Paul McCartney rarities. One is an alternate “Live and Let Die,” which is basically the same apart from a slightly different vocal, but the real highlight is the album’s opener, “A Love for You,” a number dating from the 1971 Ram sessions — featuring Paul & Linda, Denny Laine, Hugh McCracken, and Denny Seiwell — that has been cleaned up a little bit and released here for the first time. It’s a delight, a light pop number propelled on acoustics and colored with fuzz guitars and vocal harmonies, with an unpredictable arrangement that builds to a percussion-heavy finish. If it had been released, it would not have been hit material, but it’s the kind of thing pop fanatics love and it’s reason enough for them to pick up this record.
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lald • 1 month ago
This Live and Let Die is the One Hand Clapping version (in a unique 2003 mix by Ralph Sall).
The PaulMcCartney Project • 1 month ago
Thks lald, I didn't know that - I will amend !
