LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts/ CineMedia Promotions) Silva Screen Records will celebrate the hit new STARZ series Magic City with the Magic City original soundtrack. The recording features songs by artists including Bo Diddley, Tito Puente, Frankie Avalon and an exclusive recording of "Tenderly" by Patti Austin.
"Silva Screen Records are proud and very excited to be involved with Magic City and to be with STARZ ENTERTAINMENT at the birth of their dramatic and colorful new show," said
David Stoner,
Director of Label & Licensing of Silva Screen Records. "The attention to detail is as evident in the carefully selected music as it is in the whole production and the choice of tracks for this release presents a great audio snapshot of the show and the era which it depicts."
ABOUT THE ALBUM
"From
Julie London's purr to Bo Diddley's muscular blues, from the Dance King of Havana, Beny Moré, to the Genius of Soul, Ray Charles, the soundtrack of Miami Beach 1959 was like the city itself - glamour and heat. Sun- kissed families swam and limboed by the hotel pool to sweet Frankie Avalon by day and hookers, hustlers and gamblers swayed in the same exact cabanas to wild Johnny Otis at night. My hometown was a world of opposites, of extremes: blasting sun or velvety tropical nights, the giddy kiddie pool or the dark caves of the hotel lounges. It was a fantasy built to dazzle tourists and a hard reality of mobsters and the CIA dumping bodies in Biscayne Bay."
- series creator Mitch Glazer
Tracklisting Magic City Soundtrack
1. Bo Diddley - "I'm a Man" - Written by Ellas McDaniel & Koko Taylor
2.
Patti Austin - "Tenderly" - Written by Walter Gross & Jack Lawrence
3. Frankie Avalon - "
Venus" - Written by Edward H Marshall
4. The Diamonds - "The Stroll" - Written by Clyde Otis & Nancy Lee
5. Tito Puente - "Mambo Gallego" - Written by Tito Puente
6. Albert King - "Drowning On Dry Land" - Written by Maurice Gregory & Allen Jones
7. Johnny Otis - "Willie and The Hand Jive" - Written by Johnny Otis
8.
Julie London - "Chances Are" - Written by Al Stillman & Robert Allen
9. Beny More - "Mi Chiquita Quiere Guarachar" - Written by Andres Diaz
10. Lee
Morgan - "The Sidewinder" - Written by Lee Morgan
11.
Ray Charles - "Moon over Miami" - Written by Joseph A Burke & Edgar Leslie
Digital Albums:
SIL-ED-4635 song album - Magic City (Soundtrack from the TV series)
Release Date: April 17, 2012; CD Version TBA.
To preview the album or watch a video of "Tenderly" by
Patti Austin visit http://www.magiccitysoundtrack.com/
ABOUT MAGIC CITY
Set in Miami's Miramar Playa Hotel leading into the new year of 1959, hotelier Ike Evans (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) conjures up ways to finance his dream. He has essentially sold his soul to the devil, mob boss Ben "
The Butcher" Diamond (Danny Huston). Ike's wife Vera (Olga Kurylenko), a former showgirl, and his three children think he is an honorable man, but he just can't break his pact with the most dangerous criminal in town. His life is a façade.
The alluring drama features an ensemble cast that also features Steven Strait (City Island), Christian Cooke (Cemetery Junction),
Jessica Marais (Packed to the Rafters), Yul Vazquez (The A-Team, American Gangster), Dominik Garcia-Lorido (City Island),
Kelly Lynch (Drugstore Cowboy, Charlie's Angels) and Elena Satine (Just Go With It). Along with Glazer, Geyer Kosinski (Changeling, The Astronaut Farmer) serves as executive producer. Ed Bianchi (Deadwood) was co-executive producer and Dwayne Shattuck (Mad Men) was a producer on the series.
