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| Released | 27 July 2012 | |||
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| Length | 45:50 | |||
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| Label | Sony | |||
| Producer | Bry Jones | |||
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The Sapphires: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is a soundtrack album for the film The Sapphires (2012), released on 27 July 2012 by Sony Music Australia. It features the vocals of Jessica Mauboy, Jade MacRae, Lou Bennett, Juanita Tippens and Darren Percival, with Mauboy singing in ten of the sixteen songs.[1] Produced by Bry Jones,[2] the soundtrack contains songs from the 1960s, including: "Land of a Thousand Dances", "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)", "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "What a Man". The track "Ngarra Burra Ferra" is a song based on the traditional Aboriginal hymn "Bura Fera" in the Yorta Yorta language of Victoria, Australia, the language spoken by the indigenous Yorta Yorta people of the Goulburn Valley and Murray River valley centred on modern-day Echuca.[3]
"Gotcha", an original song co-written by Mauboy, Ilan Kidron and Louis Schoorl was released as a single and peaked at number 43 on the ARIA Singles Chart. The album was well received by critics who praised the vocals and songs chosen to appear on the soundtrack. The Sapphires – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack peaked at number one on the ARIA Album Chart and was certified double platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). It also reached number 15 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. A deluxe edition, featuring an additional five songs, was released on 16 November 2012.
- ^ Staff (8 July 2012). "Jessica Mauboy has gotcha call". The Advertiser. News Limited (News Corporation). Retrieved 17 July 2012.
- ^ Siemienowicz, Rochelle (14 August 2012). "Timing and Talent: The Secrets Behind The Sapphires' Success, with Director Wayne Blair". Australian Film Institute (AFI). Archived from the original on 20 August 2012. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
- ^ "The lyrics to Bura Fera". towalkwithyou.com. 13 September 2013. Archived from the original on 27 April 2014. Retrieved 26 April 2014.