When Harry Met Sally... (soundtrack)

Infobox Album |
Name = When Harry Met Sally (Music From The Motion Picture)
Type = soundtrack
Artist = Harry Connick, Jr.


Released = July 1989
Recorded = RCA Studio B, NYC: June 6, 12 & 19, 1989
Genre = Soundtrack
Length =
Label = Columbia Records
Producer = Marc Shaiman
Harry Connick Jr.
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:84rx286r052a link]
Last album = "20"
(1988)
This album = "When Harry Met Sally..."
(1989)
Next album = "We Are in Love"
(1990)
Bobby Colomby, the drummer for Blood, Sweat & Tears was a friend of Reiner's and recommended Harry Connick, Jr., giving the director a tape of the musician's music. Reiner was struck by Connick's voice and how it sounded like a young Frank Sinatra.cite news
last = Reiner
first = Rob
coauthors = Nora Ephron, Billy Crystal
title = DVD Audio Commentary
work = When Harry Met Sally... Collector's Edition DVD
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publisher = 20th Century Fox
date = 2008
url =
accessdate = ] The movie's soundtrack album was released by Columbia Records in July 1989. The soundtrack consists of standards performed by Harry Connick, Jr., with a big band and orchestra arranged by Marc Shaiman. Connick won his first Grammy for Best Jazz Male Vocal Performance.cite news
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accessdate = 2008-01-09 ]

Arrangements and orchestrations on "It Had to Be You", "Where or When", "I Could Write a Book", and "But Not for Me" are by Connick and Shaiman. Other songs were performed as piano/vocal solos, or with Connick's trio featuring Benjamin Jonah Wolfe on bass and Jeff "Tain" Watts on drums. Also appearing on the album are tenor saxophonist Frank Wess and guitarist Joy Berliner.

The soundtrack went to #1 on the "Billboard" Traditional Jazz Chart and was within the top 50 on the Billboard 200. [cite news
last = Jones
first = James T
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title = Harry Connick Jr.: He's All That Jazz
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publisher = USA Today
date = December 28, 1989
url =
accessdate = ] Connick also toured North America in support of this album. [cite news
last = Miller
first = Mark
coauthors =
title = Brazilian rhythms with lots of appeal "When Harry Met Sally..." Harry Connick Jr.
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publisher = Globe and Mail
date = November 23, 1989
url =
accessdate = ] It went on to reach double-platinum status. [cite news
last = Bush
first = John
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title = Harry Connick Jr. Biography
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publisher = Legacy Recordings
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url = http://www.legacyrecordings.com/Harry-Connick-Jr/Biography.aspx
accessdate = 2008-06-15 ]

Album

Performed by Harry Connick, Jr., and his trio
#"It Had to Be You" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn)
#"Our Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
#"Stompin' at the Savoy" (Benny Goodman, Chick Webb, Edgar Sampson, Andy Razaf)
#"But Not for Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin)
#"Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Dick Smith)
#"Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell)
#"Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke)
#"I Could Write a Book" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers)
#"Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin)
#"It Had to Be You (Instrumental Trio)" (Jones, Kahn)
#"Where or When" (Hart, Rodgers)

Music in the film

*"It Had to Be You" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – Frank Sinatra
*"Our Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald
*"Don't Pull Your Love" (Brian Potter, Dennis Lambert) – Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
*"Ramblin' Man" (Dickey Betts) – Allman Brothers Band
*"Right Time of the Night" (Peter McCann) – Jennifer Warnes
*"Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald
*"Where or When" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – Ella Fitzgerald
*"Lady's Lunch" (Marc Shaiman)
*"The Tables Have Turned" (Laura Kenyon, Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman)
*"But Not for Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – Harry Connick Jr.
*"Plane Cue and La Marsellaise" (Max Steiner) (from "Casablanca" (1942))
*"La Marsellaise" (Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle)
*"Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke) – Harry Connick, Jr. Trio
*"Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Dick Smith) – Ray Charles
*"I Could Write a Book" (Hart, Rodgers) – Harry Connick Jr.
*"The Surrey with the Fringe on Top" (Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan
*"Say It Isn't So" (Irving Berlin)
*"String Quartet No. 7 in E-flat major" (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
*"Stompin' at the Savoy" (Benny Goodman, Chick Webb, Edgar Sampson, Andy Razaf) – Harry Connick, Jr. Trio
*"Don't Be That Way" (Sampson, Goodman, Mitchell Parish)
*"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) – Bing Crosby
*"Call Me" (Tony Hatch) – Billy Crystal
*"Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) – Harry Connick Jr.
*"Isn't It Romantic" (Hart, Rodgers)
*"Auld Lang Syne" (Robert Burns) – Louis Armstrong

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