Music from and Inspired by Desperate Housewives
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| Music from and Inspired by Desperate Housewives | |
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| Soundtrack album by Various artists | |
| Released | September 25, 2005 |
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| Length | 52:26 |
| Label | Hollywood |
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| Singles from Music from and Inspired by Desperate Housewives | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
Music from and Inspired by Desperate Housewives is the soundtrack to the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. It was released in 2005 by Hollywood Records and distributed by Universal Music.
As the album title implies, most of the songs on the album were "inspired by" the series but did not appear in it.[1] None of the songs had been used in the series at the time the album was released (aside from the instrumental theme song), but "Band of Gold" and "Boom Boom" later made appearances. In addition to the songs, the album includes brief dialogue excerpts from the series.
Two official singles were released from the compilation, both of which were moderate successes. The lead, "Shoes", which was recorded by Canadian country pop singer Shania Twain, received mixed to negative reviews but became a minor success, peaking as high as number 29 on both the Billboard Hot Country Songs and Radio & Records Country Top 50 charts. While never released in the United States, the song "God Bless the American Housewife" (re-made in Canada as "God Bless the Canadian Housewife") by SHeDAISY became a minor top-20 hit on the Radio & Records Canada Country Top 30 chart.
Track listing
[edit]| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Performer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Mary Alice" | Mary Alice Young (Brenda Strong) | 0:48 | |
| 2. | "God Bless the American Housewife" |
| SHeDAISY | 3:43 |
| 3. | "Edie" | Edie Britt (Nicollette Sheridan) | 0:04 | |
| 4. | "Shoes" |
| Shania Twain | 3:55 |
| 5. | "Band of Gold" | Anna Nalick | 3:11 | |
| 6. | "Lynette" | Lynette Scavo (Felicity Huffman) | 0:13 | |
| 7. | "Mother's Little Helper" | Keith Richards & Mick Jagger | Liz Phair | 3:02 |
| 8. | "Mrs. Robinson" | Paul Simon | Indigo Girls | 3:46 |
| 9. | "Harper Valley PTA" | Tom T. Hall | Martina McBride | 3:26 |
| 10. | "Bree" | Bree Van de Kamp (Marcia Cross) | 0:06 | |
| 11. | "We're Running Out of Time" |
| LeAnn Rimes | 4:07 |
| 12. | "Treat Me Right (I'm Yours for Life)" | Diane Warren | Joss Stone | 4:01 |
| 13. | "One's on the Way" | Shel Silverstein | Sara Evans | 3:22 |
| 14. | "Gabrielle" | Gabrielle Solis (Eva Longoria) | 0:04 | |
| 15. | "Boom Boom" |
| Macy Gray | 2:40 |
| 16. | "Young Hearts Run Free" | David B. Crawford | Gloria Estefan | 3:45 |
| 17. | "Susan" | Susan Mayer (Teri Hatcher) | 0:06 | |
| 18. | "Damsel in Distress" |
| Idina Menzel | 3:08 |
| 19. | "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife" | Chris Gantry | k.d. lang | 3:53 |
| 20. | "Mary Alice" | Mary Alice Young | 0:12 | |
| 21. | "Desperate Housewives Theme" / "Wisteria Lane" | Danny Elfman / uncredited | Danny Elfman / Marc Cherry | 2:23 |
| Total length: | 52:26 | |||
The Desperate Housewives theme itself is 40 seconds long. Track 21 appends "Wisteria Lane," a hidden track performed by the series' creator, following 20 seconds of silence.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Performer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21. | "Desperate Housewives Theme" | Elfman | Danny Elfman | 6:07 |
| 22. | "God Bless the Canadian Housewife" |
| SHeDAISY | 3:43 |
| 23. | "Wisteria Lane" | uncredited | Marc Cherry | 1:24 |
The Canadian edition instead appends five and a half minutes of silence to track 21, then adds "God Bless the Canadian Housewife" and "Wisteria Lane" as separate tracks.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Desperate Housewives - Original TV Soundtrack". Allmusic. All Media Network, LLC.
- ^ "R&R Canada Country Top 30" (PDF). Radio & Records. October 28, 2005. p. 48.
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