Dustin Hoffman : Tootsie : original motion picture soundtrack by Dave Grusin

Dustin Hoffman : Tootsie : original motion picture soundtrack by Dave Grusin

Tootsie (1982) is one of the most famous comedies in Hollywood history, with a love song (“It Might Be You”) that has become a pop standard. Yet the soundtrack has been virtually unavailable on CD—until now.

Tootsie starred Dustin Hoffman as an unemployed actor who dresses in drag to land a role on a soap opera. But when his outspoken feminist creation, “Dorothy Michaels,” becomes a media sensation, he grows desperate to stop leading a double life—and to confess his love for his colleague, played by Jessica Lange. With a masterful blend of drama, comedy, contemporary realism and social commentary, and brilliant supporting performances by Dabney Coleman, Teri Garr, Bill Murray, Charles Durning and director Sydney Pollack (as Hoffman’s apoplectic agent), Tootsie is justifiably a classic.

The pitch-perfect score to Tootsie was by Dave Grusin, Pollack’s longtime collaborator on films such as The Yakuza, Three Days of the Condor, Bobby Deerfield and The Electric Horseman (and later, Havana, The Firm and Random Hearts). Tootsie’s unique combination of laughs with serious subject matter required an original approach, and Grusin elevated the film by using the modern jazz fusion style he had helped create in his career as a recording artist. Upbeat, energetic and contemporary, jazz fusion was the perfect choice for Tootsie, and Grusin himself performed the keyboards.

TRACKLIST

1. It Might Be You (Theme From Tootsie)
2. An Actor's Life (Main Title)
3. Metamorphosis Blues (It Might Be You)
4. Don't Let It Get You Down
5. Montage Pastorale (It Might Be You)
6. Tootsie
7. Working Girl March
8. Sandy's Song
9. Out Of The Rain
10. Media Zap  
11.  An Actor's Life (Main Title, Extended Mix)
12. Out Of The Rain (Film Version)
13. Don't Let It Get You Down (Film Version)
14. Sandy Auditions/Visit To Agent
15. Working Girl March (Film Cue)
16. Russian Tearoom
17. Working Girl March #2 (Film Cue)
18. I Want You
19. Tootsie (Film Version)
20. An Actor's Life (Film Cue)
21. Sandy Cooks
22. Sandy's Song
23. Piano Source
24. Back To The City
25. Invitation To The Blues (Fisher, Roberts & Gershwin)
26. Red Sails In The Sunset (Williams & Kennedy)
27. Southwest General Melody
28. Street Players