The Urban Cowboy soundtrack

You know, I'm actually a little surprised that from what I can tell there hasn't been a thread on this album already. (If someone else wants to do a poll thread that's their business.) There's a barely existent ILE thread about the movie but in reading through this Agony Booth piece and thinking about the movie for the first time in a while, I went to Wikipedia and was surprised to learn how many huge songs came from the album. I only remembered Charlie Daniels being on it! About half these songs I can still hum without thinking.

Side A:

Hello Texas – Jimmy Buffett (2:33)
All Night Long – Joe Walsh (3:50)
Times Like These – Dan Fogelberg (3:02)
Nine Tonight – Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band (6:35)

Side B:

Stand by Me – Mickey Gilley (3:35)
Cherokee Fiddle – Johnny Lee (4:06)
Could I Have This Dance – Anne Murray (3:14)
Lyin' Eyes – The Eagles (6:23)

Side C:

Lookin' for Love – Johnny Lee (3:41)
Don't it Make You Want to Dance – Bonnie Raitt (3:29)
The Devil Went Down to Georgia – Charlie Daniels Band (3:35)
Here Comes the Hurt Again – Mickey Gilley (2:41)
Orange Blossom Special / Hoedown – Gilley's "Urban Cowboy" Band (2:06)

Side D:

Love the World Away – Kenny Rogers (3:11)
Falling in Love for the Night – Charlie Daniels Band (3:00)
Darlin' – Bonnie Raitt (2:34)
Look What You've Done to Me – Boz Scaggs (5:39)
Hearts Against the Wind – Linda Ronstadt with J.D. Souther (2:58)

Up until the Clear Channel-zation of the airwaves, no day in Houston was compete without hearing "Lookin' For Love" on the radio at least once on 4 or 5 different stations.

Have you seen the episode of "Fantasy Island" w/Mickey Gilley, Johnny Lee and (IIRC) Sherwood Cryer?

"was complete"

Coulda swore "Don't The Girls All Get Prettier (At Closing Time)" was on this.

"Look What You've Done to Me" is a staple of supermarkets everywhere.

Boz Scaggs - about the only other artist who could've gone from Urban radio to Urban Cowboy like that would be Lionel Richie.

Thinking about "Looking for Love" in that context makes me want to weep...for a more innocent time.

I would love to just sit down and listen to this one time.

This is my sister's favorite movie of all time. Thanks to HBO in the 80s she watched it constantly.

Anyway, in a 3-way race between Johnny Lee, Joe Walsh and The Eagles, I'll take the latter. The song has always been too long by half, but there's no denying the greatness of those chorus harmonies.

haha I forgot this thread existed! I wonder if the massive success of the soundtrack capitalized on a movement or catalyzed one: country hits dominated the pop charts from 1978 to 'bout 1983. I'm thinking specifically about Dolly and Kenny Rogers, of course, but also Ronnie Milsap, Melissa Manchester, Alabama, Willie Nelson, and the L.A. studio rock that used country tropes anyway.

Cool

http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/oral-history-of-urban-cowboy-turning-35

Coal Miner's Daughter, by the way, was #1 seven weeks in spring '80.