Disc 1
1. Overture: Miss Celie's Blues (Sister) /Celie Leaves With Mr. /Celie Coo - 7:54
2. Main Title - 2:00
3. Celie Leaves With Mr. - 3:20
4. Corrine and Olivia - 3:04
5. Nettie Teaches Celie - 4:20
6. The Separation - 2:48
7. Celie and Harpo Grow up/Mr. Dresses to See Shug - 2:43
8. Careless Love - :56
9. Sophis Leaves Harpo - 2:38
10. Celie Cooks Shug Breakfast - 1:24
11. Junk Bucket Blues - 1:47
12. The Dirty Dozens - 3:12
13. Miss Celie's Blues (Sister) - 2:29
14. Don't Make Me No Never Mind - 3:05
15. My Heart (Will Always Lead Me Back to You) - 4:37
16. Three on the Road - :25
17. Bus Pulls Out - :48
Disc 2
1. The First Letter - 5:03
2. Letter Search - 3:05
3. Nettie's Letters - 1:00
4. High Life/Proud Theme - 1:12
5. King J.B. - :37
6. Heaven Delongs to You - 1:02
7. Katutoka Corrine - 1:01
8. Celie Shaves Mr. /Scarification Ceremony - 3:11
9. I'm Here - 1:52
10. Champagne Train - 2:36
11. Celie's New House/Body and Soul - 4:34
12. Maybe God Is Tryin' to Tell You Somethin' - 4:44
13. Reunion/Finale - 4:34
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, "The Color Purple" spans the years 1909 to 1949,
relating the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), a Southern black woman virtually sold into a life of servitude
to her brutal husband, sharecropper Albert (Danny Glover). Celie pours out her innermost thoughts in letter
form to her sister Nettie (Akousa Busia), but Albert has been hiding the letters Nettie writes back, allowing
Celie to assume that Nettie is dead. Finally, Celie finds a champion in the don't-take-no-guff Sofia (Oprah
Winfrey), the wife of Glover's son from a previous marriage. Alas, Sofia is "humbled" when she is beaten into
submission by angry whites. Later, Celie is able to forge a strong friendship with Albert's mistress Shug
(Margaret Avery). Emboldened by this, Celie begins rifling through her husband's belongings and finds
Nettie's letters. Able at last to stand up to her husband, Celie leaves him to search for a new life on her
own. A major box-office hit, "The Color Purple" was nominated for eleven Oscars. The film was co-produced by
Quincy Jones, who also wrote the score. 1985
