Contest: Win 2 Copies of Funny People – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Feat. Music from John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Neil Diamond and More!

By Kevin Coll • July 16, 2009 • No Comments

The Giveaway –

Fused Film is proud to be giving away in preparation for its release on July 31, 2009, 2 COPIES of Funny People – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.

A rare John Lennon acoustic demo of Watching the Wheels the 1981 single released after his death, is one of the highlights of the original motion picture soundtrack to Universal Pictures highly anticipated Funny People, writer/director Judd Apatow(The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up) new feature comedy.

The soundtrack, from Concord Records, will be available July 28 and features two exclusive new live tracks: James Taylors on-camera performance of Carolina On My Mind in the film, and Wilcos Jesus etc., featuring Andrew Bird on violin recorded during their Summer 2008 tour.

“Choosing music is my favorite part of the process, said Apatow. I am thrilled that I was able to include so many of my musical heroes on this soundtrack. When I look at who is on it I am startled. If the movie is half as good as the music, I am in great shape.”

Concords release of the Funny People – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, which was executive produced by Apatow with album producer/music supervisor Jonathan Karp, continues a relationship established by the 2007 release of the soundtrack to the directors previous film, Strange Weirdos: Music From and Inspired by the film Knocked Up, which featured original songs by Loudon Wainwright III.

Funny People - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack features songs from three of the Beatles, including Lennon’s acoustic version of Watching the Wheels, Paul McCartney’s Great Day (from his 1997 album Flaming Pie) and Ringo Starr’s Photograph (co-written with George Harrison for the 1973 Ringo album). The films theme of mortality runs through several of the selections, including a pair of tracks from Warren Zevon, Keep Me in Your Heart and Numb as a Statue,from his 2003 album The Wind, which came out just two weeks before his own death from cancer.

Lennons Watching the Wheels is from his 1980 Grammy-winning Album of the Year, Double Fantasy with Yoko Ono, that came out several months after his tragic murder.

Funny People star Adam Sandler contributes a pair of songs, including a cover of a 1977 John Lennon song, Real Love, which was ultimately released as the last official Beatles song,when the three surviving band members finished and released it as the lead track on Anthology 2 in 1996; he also recorded the humorous George Simmons Soon Must Be Gone.

Jason Schwartzman’s band, Coconut Records, is also represented with a pair of psychedelic British Invasion-inspired songs in Wires and I Am Young, while Judd’s daughter Maude, who also appeared in Knocked Up, offers an impressive performance of Memory from the musical Cats.

Funny People stars Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann in the story of a famous comedian who has a near-death experience and what happens when the other side isn’t at all what you expect. Eric Bana, Jonah Hill and Jason Schwartzman co-star.

Sarah Silverman, Norm MacDonald, Eminem, Andy Dick and many other notables make hilarious cameos as themselves. (James Taylor also makes an unexpectedly uproarious cameo.)

Complete Track Listings

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Contest Ends:

Sunday, August 9, 2009 and is open to residents of the continental United States and Canada. Winners will be randomly selected and notifyed by email.

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