The A Low Down Dirty Shame Soundtrack is the official soundtrack to the 1994 film A Low Down Dirty Shame. The album was released in 1994 on Jive Records and Hollywood Records. The soundtrack peaked at 70 on the Billboard 200 chart. By March 1995, it was certified gold in sales by the RIAA, after sales exceeding 500,000 copies in the United States.

Release and reception

The album peaked at number seventy on the U.S. Billboard 200 and reached the fourteenth spot on the R&B albums chart. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic, while noting that the entire album was well-produced, stated that "there is a noticeable lack of memorable material, leaving the record as nothing but a pleasant genre exercise." Critic David Browne in an Entertainment Weekly article graded it a "B−", calling most of the soundtrack "more workmanlike than inspired," like the song "Later On" by Casual. However, Browne praised the Zhané remake of the 1970s disco song "Shame" (originally sung by Evelyn "Champagne" King) and R. Kelly's contributions to the album as the soundtrack's positives. Billboard's Larry Flick said the single release of "Get the Girl, Grab the Money, and Run" "stirs up some troublesome soul", but called its B-side, two different versions of "Later On", "the real gem".

Track listing

Chart history

Album

Singles

"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Certifications

Personnel

Information taken from Allmusic.