The Big Chill was released to movie theaters this week back in 1983. The Lawrence Kasdan film featured an amazing ensemble cast that included Kevin Kline, Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, William Hurt, Jeff Goldblum, Mary Kay Place, JoBeth Williams and Meg Tilly. he plot focuses on a group of Baby Boomers who attended the University of Michigan, who reunite after 15 years when their friend Alex dies by suicide.
The soundtrack for the film featured some fantastic soul, R&B, and pop music from the 1960’s and 1970’s. Ten of the songs from the film were released on the soundtrack album; four additional songs not from the film were added to the original CD release as “additional classics from the era.” The rest of the film’s songs, as well as the “additional classics” from the original soundtrack CD were released in 1984 on a second soundtrack album, titled More Songs from the Big Chill.
One of the songs was the first big hit for a group called The Young Rascals. That song was Good Lovin’. Believe it or not, the group weren’t too happy with the song after the recorded it. According to songfacts.com:
Felix Cavaliere of The Young Rascals was listening to a New York soul station when he heard The Olympics’ version (from 1965). The Rascals liked it and played a sped-up version at their live performances with Cavaliere on lead vocals. They recorded the song for Atlantic Records, and although the group did not like the outcome, famed producer Tom Dowd loved the rawness of it and that version was released, becoming a huge hit. It went to #1 in April 1966.
Was it a surprise to the group? You bet! Felix Cavaliere admitted, “We weren’t too pleased with our performance. It was a shock to us when it went to the top of the charts.”
Felix says that the famous “One – Two – Three” countdown was each of the members saying one of the numbers. He told songfacts that the order was: Eddie Brigati (one), Gene Cornish (two), then Felix (three).
The song had a great false ending where there is about 1-2 seconds of nothing. Many DJ’s often played some silly movie drop in that space.
Ok, fellas …. count it off for us …
Various Ramblings of a Nostalgic Italian 
loved that movie and the soundtrack was amazing!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I found that CD at Half Price Books a few weeks back, and sent it to my 18 year old granddaughter, who digs that era of music. I remember the film mostly for the music.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Wonderful soundtrack.
LikeLiked by 1 person
some very good music on that album, but when I finally did see the movie, maybe 6 or 7 years back, I was very underwhelmed… kind of found it boring and the characters rather bland but maybe it was simply that I’d built it up too much in my head since it seems so highly rated.
LikeLiked by 1 person