Sharleen Spiteri – The Movie Songbook

If you live outside of the UK, chances are you’ve never heard of Sharleen Spiteri and probably not of her earlier band, the Scottish band called Texas.

A few years ago, Spiteri dropped her band and went solo with Melody, an album that’s more 60s pop, a la Nancy Sinatra, than Texas’ standard eurodiscopop that made them famous in the late 90s (you should also know that the band started out in 1986 as a bluesy, southern rock band – in honor of their namesake).

Of course, the real reason why I was drawn to Texas was because of Spiteri’s white hot looks, but I was never an obsessive fan. So I was surprise to find out that Spiteri is back now with another solo album, this time, all movie covers… and as a cover lover, I approve!

I did get a chance to listen to the whole album, which was released last week, and I’ll have to say that it sounds more jazz than I expected.  I tend to like the more pop-tracks, like “Xanadu”, “Pretty Woman”, and “Take My Breath Away” – a number that takes me back to that 80s Berlin song.  I love it, don’t you?

Anyway, as you can see from the music video of “Xanadu”, Sharleen still looks as amazingly hot as she did in the Hush-era.

Sharleen Spiteri – Xanadu

Here are the tracks and what movies they appear in:

Track	Movie	Originally Artist
1. “Xanadu”	Xanadu (1980)	Electric Light Orchestra and Olivia Newton-John
2. “If I Can’t Have You”	Saturday Night Fever (1977)	Yvonne Elliman / The Bee Gees
3. “God Bless the Child”	Schindler’s List (1993)	Billie Holiday
4. “Between the Bars”	Good Will Hunting (1997)	Elliott Smith
5. “The Sound of Silence”	The Graduate (1967)	Simon & Garfunkel
6. “What’s New Pussycat?”	What’s New Pussycat? (1965)	Tom Jones
7. “The Windmills of Your Mind”	The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)	Noel Harrison
8. “Take Me with You”	Purple Rain (1984)	Prince
9. “Cat People (Putting Out Fire)”	Cat People (1982)	David Bowie
10. “Many Rivers to Cross”	The Harder They Come (1972)	Jimmy Cliff
11. “Oh Pretty Woman”	Pretty Woman (1990)	Roy Orbison
12. “This One’s from the Heart”	One from the Heart (1982)	Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle
13. “Take My Breath Away”	Top Gun (1986)	Berlin