Soundtrack - Can´t Stop The Music (1980)

"Can't Stop The Music" is the soundtrack album by Village People for their movie Can't Stop the Music released in 1980.

It contains songs not only by the Village People but also by David London and The Ritchie Family. The album also features a re-make of "Y.M.C.A." with lead vocals by Ray Simpson. Simpson's remake never charted and was not released as a single.

The released album features single edits and reduces or in some cases altogether eliminates Ott's contributions to the tracks. To hear these songs as originally intended you would have to collect the Ritchie Family's "Give Me A Break" album and several 12" singles which were released as promotional items to club DJs only. Despite my disappointment this is still a highly enjoyable album, David London's "The Sound Of The City" (probably the only track to make it to the album in it's original version) is a standout, the lyrics and Gershwinesque arrangement paint a loving picture of New York that could have been created in Tin Pan Alley days. "Milkshake" is silly, campy fun and "Liberation" is a disco anthem to freedom and liberation in a time when a pop group couldn't get more specific as to who needed liberating (have we made much progress since then? I think we haven't). "Y.M.C.A." is simply an overdub of Ray Simpson's vocals over the single edit of the original recording but the title track is a great song and one of the best things the group recorded since Ray replaced Victor Willis.

Track listing

01.  "Village People - Can't Stop the Music"  - 3:35

02.  "David London - Samantha"  - 3:15

03.  "The Ritchie Family - Give Me a Break"  - 3:30

04.  "Village People - Liberation"  - 3:33

05.  "Village People - Magic Night"  - 3:22

06.  "David London - The Sound of the City"  - 4:31

07.  "Village People - Milkshake"  - 2:54

08.  "Village People - Y.M.C.A. (re-make)"  - 3:21

09.  "Village People - I Love You to Death"  - 3:03

10.  "The Ritchie Family - Sophistication"  - 3:52

Released:  May 1980

Genre:  Disco

Length:  34:56

Label:  Casablanca

Producer:  Jacques Morali

Personnel

Village People

David London

The Ritchie Family