AND THEN
WITH YOUR HANDS ON YOUR HIPS
BUT IT'S THE PELVIC THRUST
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
is the original soundtrack album
to the 1975 film
The Rocky Horror Picture Show,
an adaptation of the
1973 musical
The Rocky Horror Show.
The 1975 soundtrack album
was released by
Ode Records
and produced by
Richard Hartley.i
t should not be confused wit
h The Rocky Horror Show album,
a recording of the theatrical music
by Tim Curry
and the original cast
from The Roxy Theatre.
The latter album
was released in 1974,
also by Ode Records.
The album peaked at
No. 49
on the
Billboard 200 in 1978.
It reached No. 12
on the
Australian albums chart
and No. 11
on the
New Zealand albums chart.
In 2010,
William Ruhlmann
of AllMusic
gave the album a
retrospective star rating
of five stars
out of five
and described it as the
"definitive version of the [Rocky Horror] score".
This version of the soundtrack
was certified Gold
by the RIAA
on
February 23rd 1981.
Following its initial release,
the album was not successful,
and was deleted everywhere
but in Canada
and South Africa.
In South Africa,
"Time Warp"
was popular at nightclubs
with its dance sequence.
The track also had
substantial indie radio play,
as did
"Science Fiction/Double Feature."
"Over at the Frankenstein Place"
was played on
radio programs by request.
Musica,
a chain store of music shops
in the Western Cape,
sold out the album quickly
and had to import.
Marty Scott,
co-founder of
Jem Records,
obtained a licensing agreement
from Ode Records
owner
Lou Adler,
which enabled the album
to be imported to
the United States.
Scott also obtained
a production and distribution license
from Adler,
which resulted in
renewed interest
in the album.
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