Remember the Titans: An Original Walt Disney Motion Picture Soundtrack (2000 Film)
Denzel Washington stars as a black football coach hired over a white coach at a recently racially integrated Virginia high school in the early 1970s. Director Boaz Yakin (A Price Above Rubies,Fresh) has a baby boomer's heart in mind with a stylistic array of early 1970s sounds supported by Trevor Rabin's orchestral score (one seven-minute excerpt, "Titans Spirit," finishes things off here).Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band's "Express Yourself" is, perhaps, the greatest surprise, while oddball favorites such asNorman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky," Steam's "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye," andEric Burdon and War's "Spill the Wine" match up with country starBuck Owens's "Act Naturally." Covers include a fiery version ofSly Stone's "I Want to Take You Higher" andLeon Russell's laid-back barrelhouse-piano take on the doomsday anthem "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall."Cat Stevens's "Peace Train" rolls into the station in its original version.Creedence Clearwater Revival(who appear with "Up Around the Bend") are outswamped by theHollies' imitation of their sound with "Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)."--Rob O'Connor