Sunshine Movie Soundtrack

Sitting in my wife's record collection was this movie soundtrack. Clearly in the 70's people came straight to the point - "Boy I want them to play Country Roads at my funeral" but then it is a hippie movie where life and death was seen as a circle/cycle.

Sunshine is a 1973 made-for-television docudrama, directed by Joseph Sargent and produced by George Eckstein, about a young wife and mother who dies of cancer at age 20. The film stars Cristina Raines in the lead role of Kate Hayden (Raines' first big movie role), Cliff DeYoung as Kate's husband Sam Hayden, and twins Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush as Jill, Kate and Sam's daughter, as a toddler. It originally aired on CBS as an episode of the CBS Friday Night Movie on November 9, 1973. When first aired, Sunshine was the most watched made-for-TV film in history. Wikipedia

What's interesting about this soundtrack is the use of John Denver songs in the early years of his career. Sunshine wasn't a hit until 1974 although it was on his breakthrough album Poems, Prayers and Promises in 1971 which did have a hit with Take Me Home Country Roads.

The album has songs interspersed with diary entries which range from the revealing to the maudlin - "I can't leave you guys who's gonna clean the toilet, who's gonna clean the oven?" Obviously the hippie movement had not thought about men doing some of the housework in 1973.

In some respects the singing reminds me of Once which sounds a little jarring at first but grows on you with repeated listening. Enough here for me to want to dig out the movie. There was also a later TV series and a Christmas special movie.

A1 Take Me Home, Country Roads 2:16
A2 Christina Raines Introduction 1:06
A3 Cliff De Young Sunshine 1:27
A4 Christina Raines Diary - "Flashback" 0:39
A5 Cliff De Young Day Dreams 2:46
A6 Cliff De Young My Sweet Lady 2:43
A7 My Sweet Lady 5:11
B1 Cliff De Young & Christina Raines Sunshine 1:50
B2 Christina Raines Diary - "Hello Tape Recorder" 0:52
B3 Cliff De Young Goodbye Again 2:47
B4 Christina Raines Diary - "If I Had A Piano" 0:47
B5 Cliff De Young Winter 1:02
B6 Christina Raines Diary 0:54
B7 Cliff De Young My Sweet Lady 4:20
B8 Christina Raines Diary - "I'm Gonna Miss You., Sam & Jill" 2:00
B9 Cliff De Young Day Dreams 0:43
B10 Diary - "Goodbye, Sam & Jill" 0:57
B11 Cliff De Young Sunshine 3:25

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