Cadillac Records: Music from the Motion Picture

Cadillac Records: Music from the Motion Picture
Soundtrack album by
various artists
ReleasedDecember 2, 2008
LabelColumbia Records
Producervarious artists
Singles from Cadillac Records: Music from the Motion Picture
  1. "At Last"
    Released: November 3, 2008
  2. "Bridging the Gap"
    Released: October 5, 2004

Cadillac Records: Music from the Motion Picture is a soundtrack album for the film Cadillac Records. It features covers of classic songs from Chess Records' singers as performed by the film's actors including Beyoncé (as Etta James), Eamonn Walker (as Howlin' Wolf) and Jeffrey Wright (as Muddy Waters). It also features original songs from contemporary artists such as Beyoncé's sister, R&B singer Solange Knowles and rapper Nas. The soundtrack has been released in single and double-disc editions.

The soundtrack was nominated for a 2010 Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. It lost out to the soundtrack from Slumdog Millionaire. Additionally, Beyoncé's "At Last", released as the only single from the soundtrack, won a Grammy for the Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance. Another one of the songs from the soundtrack, "Once In a Lifetime", also by Beyoncé, was nominated for a Grammy for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media but lost to "Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire.It was also nominated for Best Original Song at the 2008 Golden Globe Awards. Knowles' co-writers for the song were Amanda Ghost, Scott McFarnon, Ian Dench, James Dring and Jody Street.[1] At the Golden Globes, "Once In a Lifetime" lost out to Bruce Springsteen's title track for the movie The Wrestler. The soundtrack spent 48 weeks at number one on the Top Blues Albums and it has sold over 165,000 copies in the US.

Track listing

Standard edition (CD, LP and Digital download)[2][3][4]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."I'm a Man" (Jeffrey Wright)
3:51
2."At Last" (Beyoncé)
  • Jordan
2:59
3."No Particular Place to Go" (Mos Def)
  • Jordan
2:47
4."I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" (Jeffrey Wright)
  • Jordan
3:53
5."Once in a Lifetime" (Beyoncé)
  • Ghost
  • Dench
  • Knowles
3:59
6."Let's Take a Walk" (Raphael Saadiq)
  • Saadiq
2:28
7."6 O'Clock Blues" (Solange)
  • Ronson
3:37
8."Nadine" (Mos Def)
  • Jordan
2:50
9."The Sound" (Mary Mary)
  • Warryn Campbell
3:28
10."Last Night" (Little Walter)
 2:53
11."I'd Rather Go Blind" (Beyoncé)
  • Jordan
3:10
12."My Babe" (Columbus Short)
  • Jordan
2:57
13."Bridging the Gap" (Nas featuring Olu Dara)
  • Gibbs
4:00
Deluxe edition bonus CD[5]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Maybellene" (Mos Def)
  • Chuck Berry
  • Jordan
2:31
2."Forty Days and Forty Nights" (Buddy Guy)
  • Bernard Roth
  • Jordan
2:48
3."Trust in Me" (Beyoncé)
  • Jordan
3:44
4."Juke" (Soul Seven and Kim Wilson)
  • Walter Jacobs
  • Jordan
2:49
5."Smokestack Lightnin'" (Eamonn Walker)
  • Chester Burnett
  • Jordan
3:04
6."Promised Land" (Mos Def)
  • Chuck Berry
  • Jordan
2:31
7."All I Could Do Was Cry" (Beyoncé)
  • Jordan
3:10
8."My Babe" (Elvis Presley)
  • Willie Dixon
 2:10
9."I Can't Be Satisfied" (Jeffrey Wright)
  • Jordan
2:19
10."Come On" (Mos Def)
  • Chuck Berry
  • Jordan
2:34
11."Country Blues" (Jeffrey Wright and Bill Sims)
 3:42
12."Evolution of a Man" (Q-Tip and Al Kapone)
  • Jordan
  • Al Kapone
3:07
13."Radio Station" (Terence Blanchard)
 2:07

Chart performance

References

  1. ^ Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/266121/springsteen-gabriel-snag-golden-globes-noms Accessed January 2009.
  2. ^ Cadillac Records (liner notes). Music World Music/Columbia. 2008. 88697 36936 2.
  3. ^ Cadillac Records (liner notes). Music World Music/Columbia. 2008. LP-1575.
  4. ^ Lala. http://www.lala.com/album/504684633539821655 Archived 2009-02-11 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed December 2008.
  5. ^ Cadillac Records (liner notes). Music World Music/Columbia. 2008. 88697 41352 2.
  6. ^ "Soundtrack Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved November 4, 2020.
  7. ^ "Soundtrack Chart History (Top Blues Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 4, 2020.
  8. ^ "Soundtrack Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 4, 2020.
  9. ^ "Soundtrack Chart History (Soundtrack Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 4, 2020.
  10. ^ "Blues Albums – Year-End 2009". Billboard. Retrieved November 4, 2020.
  11. ^ "Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums – Year-End 2009". Billboard. Retrieved November 4, 2020.
  12. ^ "Soundtracks – Year-End 2009". Billboard. Retrieved November 4, 2020.
  13. ^ "Blues Albums – Year-End 2010". Billboard. Retrieved November 4, 2020.
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