TUBE TUNES: What hath “Miami Vice” wrought?...
TUBE TUNES: What hath “Miami Vice” wrought? The TV show’s sound track LP proved you can have a hit album by tossing together songs that have been used to serenade the exploits of TV’s designer cops, so Warner Bros. is trying to turn a similar trick with songs related to everybody’s favorite scheming oil baron. “Dallas, The Music Story” is an LP made up of 10 songs--”episodes,” they call them--that follow “Dallas” story lines.
The record starts with “The Theme From Dallas (Dallas Dreams)” and moves through a batch of songs, many of whose titles parenthetically explain just how they fit in with the gang at Southfork Ranch. There’s “Who Killed Jock Ewing?” and “J.R.! Who Do You Think You Are?” and “I’m a Survivor (From the Women of Dallas)” and, finally, “If I Knew Then What I Know Now (J.R.’s Lament).”
The performers are country singers like Gary Morris, Crystal Gayle and Karen Brooks; Morris and Gayle sing the first single, “Makin’ Up for Lost Time (The Dallas Lovers’ Song).” One cut sounds especially intriguing: “The Loneliness in Lucy’s Eyes (The Life Sue Ellen Is Living)” is sung by Johnny Lee--the ex-husband of actress Charlene Tilton, who plays Lucy.
One question: Couldn’t they have found somebody to cut a new version of Barrett Strong’s “Money (That’s What I Want)”?
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