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HIDDEN BEACH TO RELEASE 'OBAMA SOUNDTRACK': Wonder, Kravitz, will.i.am, Bebe, Common among featured artists.
*Hidden Beach Records head Steve McKeever and movie music supervisor Bonnie Greenberg have been assembling a special CD tied to Barack Obama’s inauguration, reports Fox411 columnist Roger Friedman.
The “Obama Soundtrack,” due in stores on Inauguration Day (Jan. 20), was finished this past weekend and features a dozen stars, including Stevie Wonder, who contributed an original track called “All About the Love Again.”
Friedman writes: "The single, destined to be Wonder’s biggest hit in more than a decade, is a sizzling fresh slice of R&B, very updated and ready to embrace in remixes, etc."
Other artists on the album include Maroon 5 with their own new track, “Pure Imagination (2009),” plus will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas, Sheryl Crow, Lenny Kravitz, India.Arie, Melissa Etheridge, Usher, James Taylor, Jennifer Hudson, Death Cab for Cutie, Ozomatli, Robin Thicke, The Tony Rich Project, Wilco, Bebe Winans, rapper Common, Lionel Richie, and Melissa Etheridge.
The album includes a DVD containing several speech clips from the president-elect. The CD also intersperses pieces of Obama speeches throughout the new songs.
"McKeever and Greenberg, with an even bigger committee, worked tirelessly to put together a combination of artists and songs based on the songs’ themes and lyrics, too," Friedman wrote. "Unlike most compilation CDs, the 'Obama Soundtrack' is full of new, catchy very hot material — no retreads or musty pieces from the vaults.
"All the artists, I am told by sources, were paid on the same level no matter how big or small they considered themselves. And that, I’ve heard in the music industry, caused a little problem as the always charming Warner M.
Group refused to make deals for any of their artists including anything from the Atlantic vaults. I’m sure, in fact, that Aretha Franklin has no idea that requests for a couple of her classic tracks like 'A Change is Gonna Come'—were declined. The M in WMG now stands for Miserly."
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