Four Weddings and a Funeral — Original Soundtrack, Vertigo (CD)

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Product Details:

• Product Type: Audio CD
• Brand / Label: Vertigo / Phonogram
• Title: Four Weddings and a Funeral — Music from the Motion Picture
• Catalogue No.: 516 751-2
• Release Year: 1994
• UPC: 731451675126
• Genre: Soundtrack / Pop compilation

Product Features

• Format: CD
• 14 tracks, including dialogue/poetry chapters from the film
• Features the No. 1 single "Love Is All Around" by Wet Wet Wet
• Condition: Brand new, factory sealed

Overview

The soundtrack to Four Weddings and a Funeral is built around one of the biggest UK singles of the 1990s — Wet Wet Wet's "Love Is All Around," which sat at number one for fifteen weeks. Around it sits a warm, very British pop selection that matches the film's mix of romance and gentle melancholy.

There's Elton John ("But Not For Me," "Crocodile Rock," "Chapel of Love"), Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive," Barry White, Sting's "The Secret Marriage," and Swing Out Sister. The set also folds in the film's famous funeral sequence — W.H. Auden's "Funeral Blues" read by John Hannah ("Stop all the clocks…") — across short chapter tracks.

A nostalgic, feel-good soundtrack that still works as a standalone pop compilation.

Interesting Facts

• Wet Wet Wet's "Love Is All Around" (a cover of The Troggs) spent fifteen weeks at No. 1 on the UK singles chart in 1994.
• The film made a global star of Hugh Grant and was a surprise international box-office hit.
• The soundtrack includes John Hannah reading W.H. Auden's "Funeral Blues," one of the film's most quoted moments.
• Elton John appears three times across the album.
• Sting contributes "The Secret Marriage," based on a Hanns Eisler melody.

Track Listing

1. Wet Wet Wet – Love Is All Around
2. Elton John – But Not For Me
3. Barry White – You're The First, My Last, My Everything
4. Nu Colours – Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
5. Gloria Gaynor – I Will Survive
6. Swing Out Sister – La La La (Means I Love You)
7. Elton John – Crocodile Rock
8. I To I – The Right Time
9. Gladys Knight & The Pips – It Should Have Been Me
10. Squeeze – Loving You Tonight
11. Lena Fiagbe – Can't Smile Without You
12. Various – Four Weddings and a Funeral / Funeral Blues (Chapters 1–5; "Funeral Blues" read by John Hannah)
13. Sting – The Secret Marriage
14. Elton John – Chapel Of Love

Publishers

Released by Vertigo / Phonogram Ltd (London) in 1994 (catalogue 516 751-2).

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