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Stephen Dunne (Simon Bossell) first met Melissa Morrison (Saffron Burrows) ten years ago at a party, but his twin brother Rick (Aden Young) approached her first. Stephen becomes a workaholic, Rick ends up managing the Hotel de Love after Melissa stands him up at the altar. Their parents visit the Hotel de Love on their anniversary. Melissa turns up too, with her current boyfriend.
Director: Craig Rosenberg
Produced by: Peter Heller (executive);
Michael Lake; David Parker
(There are other producers)
Music by Brett Rosenberg
"In
A Minor Key" (Tim Finn) - Tim
Finn - album version
I
Hope I Never (Tim Finn) - Split
Enz; - instrumental piano in movie, Split Enz on album
In
Love With It All (Tim Finn/Neil
Finn) - Tim Finn - album version
About 10 minutes into the movie there is a shot looking down on a record player with a copy of "Escapade" playing. Briefly Tim is visible on the label on the LP. The start of "A Minor Key" plays as Melissa joins Rick on the bed. The scene ends soon after that...
Ronnie Grey (Alan Hopgood) plays a few bars of "I Hope I Never" (piano only, no words) in the hotel bar about halfway through the movie. He is the hotel owner and also a cabaret performer. Melissa's boyfriend, Norman Carey (Peter O'Brien), is seated next to him talking to Ronnie as he plays, and although Ronnie says nothing, he obviously wishes Norman would just go away.
"In Love With It All" is used outside a church, after a wedding, near the end of the movie.
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Soundtrack album |
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CD Milan Records (1997) 7 3138 35788-2 |
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Album track listing |
From the CD:-
1. Get Down Tonight
Performed by K.C. & the Sunshine
Band
Written by Harry Casey and Richard
Finch
2. Sooner Or Later
Performed by Grass Roots
Written by Gary Zekley, Mitchell
Bottler, Adenyi Paris, Ekundayo Paris and Ted McNamara
3. I'm Not In Love
Performed by 10cc
Written by Graham Gouldman and Eric
Stewart
4. In
A Minor Key
Performed
by Tim Finn
Written by
Tim Finn
5. Reminiscing
Performed by Little River Band
Written by Graham Goble
6. Blue Moon Revisited / Song For
Elvis
Performed by The Cowboy Junkies
Written by Margo Timmins and Michael
Timmins
Blue Moon
Written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz
Hart
7. Sway
Performed by Hotel De Love Band
(Danny Stone, Brett Rosenberg, John Barrett, Ron Sandilands, Simon Patterson
and Maurie Sheldon)
[spelt Maurte Sheldon, but Maurie
Sheldon is an Australian musician who worked on Young Einstein (Aus 1989).
Maurte Sheldon gives no results in Google.]
Written by Paolo Beltran Ruiz and
Norman Gimbel
8. Lost in Love
Performed by Air Supply
Written by Graham Russell
9. In
Love With It All
Performed by Tim Finn
Written by
Tim Finn [Neil Finn is not mentioned, but the credits say 'Published by
Rebel Larynx Music and Roundhead Music']
10. I Honestly Love You
Performed by Olivia Newton John
Written by Peter Allen and Jeff
Barry
11. I
Hope I Never
Performed
by Split Enz
Written by
Tim Finn
12. Love Will Keep Us Together
Performed by Ronnie Grey (aka Alan
Hopgood)
Written by Howard Greenfield and
Neil Sedaka
Executive Album Producers:
Christine Woodruff and Craig Rosenberg
Notes in lyric booklet include comments about the music:-
"As would be expected, the soundtrack to Hotel de Love is equally as kitschy as the movie. The character of Ronnie Grey, Hotel de Love's enigmatic owner and cabaret performer, is periodically seen singing love songs at his piano in the hotel lobby. His version of "Love Will Keep Us Together" appears on the soundtrack, as does the performance of "Sway" by the Hotel de Love Wedding Band. Also on the soundtrack is KC & The Sunshine Band's hit "Get Down Tonight", "Blue Moon Revisited" by the Cowboy Junkies, and one of Olivia Newton John's early hits "I Honestly Love You". Rounding out the soundtrack are songs by Little River Band, Grass Roots, 10cc, Tim Finn, Split Enz and Air Supply."
I've come across this track listing:-
aren't included on my copy of the CD, or the track listing that used to be on the Milan Records website.
Missing from this listing is:-
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Movie music credits |
From closing credits:-
Cast list - wedding band:-
Music supervisor Christine Woodruff
Score produced
by Brett Rosenberg
Orchestrated
and conducted by Marita O'Riordan
Engineered
by Ross Cockle
Recorded and
mixed at RB-X Australia Studios
Music Contractor
Ron Layton
Orchestra
- Victorian Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra
leader Rudolph Osadnik
Band musicians:-
Band engineer Mark McDougall
Note: I couldn't make out all the names - some letters were blurred with the video on pause.
"Get Down Tonight"
"In
A Minor Key"
"Howzat"
"Lost In Love"
"Sooner Or Later" [hotel band]
"I Honestly Love You" [Ronnie Grey]
"Baby I'm A-Want You"
"Hey Paula"
"Love Will Keep Us Together"
"Reminiscing"
"Ode To Joy from Ninth Symphony"
"Have I Told You Lately"
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"Blue Moon Revisited/Song For Elvis"
"Blue Moon"
"The Power"
"You Make Me Feel Like Dancing"
"Mexican Hat Dance" [hotel band]
"Sway"
"I'm Not In Love"
"I Hope I Never"
"Liebestraum"
"Eine Kleine Nachtmusic"
"In Love With
It All"
"Wedding March"
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Soundtrack album on Milan Records
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Notes |
As of September 2000, the CD seems to be deleted, though there are second hand copies around, eg amazon.com auctions.
David Parker has also worked on :-
Alan Hopgood was in Rikky And Pete (Aus 1988) as 'Laughing Uncle'
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Movie release information |
Cinema: 7th February 1997 (US)
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Classification |
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Links |
Hotel de Love (1996) (Internet Movie Database)
The Milan Records web site, used to have a Hotel de Love soundtrack page but it's no longer there (not found 1st Jan 2000).
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Sources of information |
CD; Internet Movie; Milan Records; TiTM; video
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