3 out of 5

Label: RCA

Produced by: Glenn Gordon Caron, Phil Ramone

Bouncing between R&B classics and some jazz-touched standards, the Moonlighting soundtrack is pretty representative of the attitudes of its lead characters, a vibe doubled-down on by having Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis both offer up covers as well – Shepherd taking the romance angle, Willis doing his funk thing.  With most of the tracks swirling around lovey-dovey subject matter, you wind up with a set fitting for most any 80s-era baby-boomer soundtrack, but Moonlighting gets props for keeping things fairly short (10 tracks) and thus focused, and for, of course, that memorable Al Jarreau theme.

One’s tolerance of the actors’ tracks will vary – and I’d question bunching them all together in the middle of the disc – but Cybill is a better songstress than I would’ve imagined, and if you like Moonlighting, then you probably like Bruce Willis’ shades-wearing Bruno shtick anyway, and his live recording of Good Lovin’ is pretty fun in that regard.

Classic tracks, short runtime.  Certainly listenable.