The King and I [Original Movie Soundtrack Recording]

by KING & I (REMASTERED) (BONUS TR

Overview

The 1956 film soundtrack album for director Walter Lang's adaptation of The King and I is distinguished from the Broadway cast album chiefly by the expanded orchestrations, played by the large studio orchestra conducted by Alfred Newman, and by the presence of Marni Nixon in the role of Anna Leonowens. On film, the part was played by Deborah Kerr (whose spoken parts are retained on the soundtrack), but Nixon, one of the best invisible voices in Hollywood (she also ghosted Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady) is the wonderful singer of songs like "I Whistle a Happy Tune" and "Getting to Know You," sung onstage by Gertrude Lawrence, who died before the film was made. Yul Brynner repeats his performance as the king, and Leona Gordon (dubbing Rita Moreno) gets to play Tuptim and sing "We Kiss in a Shadow." This is a Hollywood adaptation done right -- bigger and more dramatic than Broadway can be, with a show that benefits from the frills -- and makes you wonder why they didn't always do as well. The film, the third Rodgers and Hammerstein musical to come to the big screen within eight months in 1955-1956, was a massive hit, and the soundtrack album topped the charts and remained in them for more than five years. It also remained in print continuously, with a CD upgrade in 1993, followed by a more extensive upgrade in 2001 that added nearly half an hour of previously unreleased material, much of it instrumental passages, though the nearly 13-minute "The Small House of Uncle Thomas" was put on disc for the first time and there was more of Brynner, who by this time had begun to dominate a work originally written as a star vehicle for Lawrence but still didn't have much music written for his part. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	03/13/2001
Label:	Angel Records
UPC:	0724352735129
Rank:	70729

Tracks

1. The King and I, musical~Main Title
2. The King and I, musical~I Whistle A Happy Tune
3. The King and I, musical~My Lord And Master
4. The King and I, musical~The March Of The Siamese Children
5. The King and I, musical~Anna and The Royal Wives
6. The King and I, musical~Hello, Young Lovers
7. The King and I, musical~A Puzzlement
8. The King and I, musical~Getting To Know You
9. The King and I, musical~Garden Rendezvous
10. The King and I, musical~We Kiss In A Shadow
11. The King and I, musical~I Have Dreamed
12. The King and I, musical~Shall I Tell You What I Think Of You?
13. The King and I, musical~Something Wonderful
14. The King and I, musical~Prayer To Buddha
15. The King and I, musical~Waltz of Anna and Sir Edward
16. The King and I, musical~The Small House Of Uncle Thomas
17. The King and I, musical~Song Of The King
18. The King and I, musical~Shall We Dance
19. The King and I, musical~The Letter
20. The King and I, musical~Something Wonderful (finale)
21. The King and I, musical~Overture (LP version)

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Chorus   Primary Artist
Twentieth Century Fox Orchestra   Primary Artist
Rita Moreno   Primary Artist,Vocals
Terry Saunders   Primary Artist,Vocals,Lead Vocals
Deborah Kerr   Primary Artist,Vocals
Rex Thompson   Primary Artist,Lead Vocals
Yul Brynner   Primary Artist,Vocals,Lead Vocals
Leona Gordon   Primary Artist,Lead Vocals
Reuben Fuentes   Primary Artist,Lead Vocals
The Orchestra   Primary Artist
Alfred Newman   Primary Artist,Conductor
Marni Nixon   Primary Artist,Vocals,Lead Vocals
20th Century-Fox Studio Orchestra & Chorus   Orchestra,Choir/Chorus
Carlos Rivas   Vocals
20th Century Fox Studio Orchestra   Orchestra
20th Century Orchestra   Orchestra
Ruben Fuentes   Vocals

Technical Credits

John Palladino   Engineer,Mastering Producer,Editing,Producer,Mastering
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Jen Wyler   Remixing,Digital Mastering
David Foil   Liner Notes
Edward B. Powell   Orchestration
Jessica Novod   Design,Art Direction
Twentieth Century Fox Orchestra   Performer
Jessica Novod Berenblat   Art Direction
Robert La Porta   Project Director
Darcy Proper   Remixing,Mastering,Digital Mastering,Digital Remastering
Charles Granata   Producer,Liner Notes,Reissue Producer
Didier C. Deutsch   Producer,Liner Notes,Re-Release Producer
Robert "Rocky" Rieger   Transfers
Robert Norberg   Unknown Contributor Role
Terry Saunders   Performer
Jennifer Wyler   Remixing,Digital Remastering
Gus Levene   Orchestration
Burton Yount   Design,Art Direction
Gordon H. Jee   Design,Art Direction
Rita Moreno   Narrator,Performer
Marni Nixon   Performer
Robert Russell Bennett   Orchestration
Yul Brynner   Performer
Ken Darby   Associate Director,Unknown Contributor Role
Oscar Hammerstein II   Composer,Lyricist