Animal House extended soundtrack

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     The 1978 movie National Lampoon's Animal House had great music. It turned me on to Sam Cooke, for which I am grateful. When I bought the soundtrack, I was disappointed that it was only 37 minutes long. This version is my remedy. The official album has the two songs Stephen Bishop wrote for the film. Director John Landis used Bishop in a small roll in his second movie, Kentucky Fried Movie, listed as "Charming Guy". In Animal House, he played "Charming Guy with Guitar" singing "I Gave My Love a Cherry", this I wanted to include. 
     The actual album includes snippets of dialogue with some of the songs. For the most part I prefer the original songs without the dialogue. However, "Rama Lama Ding Dong" starts with Otis Day saying a preamble which I like. The singing voice of Otis was Lloyd Williams but DeWayne Jessie played the character. The actor became so well known for the role, he legally changed his name to Otis Day and toured colleges singing "Shout" and other songs.
     The book mentions other songs the Otis Day and the Knights played that were Boon's favorites. I included "Daddy's Home", "Ooh Poo Pah Poo", "Lost Someone" and "Do You Love Me". The last song John Belushi performed on the Blues Brothers album Made in America. Belushi performed two songs on the official soundtrack. I kept his version of "Louie Louie" for when the Deltas are drunkenly singing it but also used the original version by The Kingsmen when Pinto and Flounder first come to the Delta house.

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