The The Sound of Music [50th Anniversary Legacy Edition]

The The Sound of Music [50th Anniversary Legacy Edition]

The The Sound of Music [50th Anniversary Legacy Edition]

The The Sound of Music [50th Anniversary Legacy Edition]

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Overview

When the film version of the 1959 Broadway musical The Sound of Music, the final collaboration between Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, opened in March 1965, it became the highest grossing movie in history up to that time and went on to win the Academy award for best picture. The accompanying soundtrack did not do as well, probably because many households already possessed copies of the massively successful original Broadway cast album. But it did manage to hit number one and spend four-and-a-half years on the charts. (As of 2000, RCA was claiming North American sales of 11 million copies, though the album had never been certified beyond the gold level.) It was a very different recording from the Broadway LP. The main difference, of course, was the substitution of Julie Andrews for Mary Martin in the starring role of Maria, the postulant who leaves an Austrian convent to marry a wealthy naval captain with seven children. Martin, at whose behest the show was written, was a 45-year-old Broadway veteran when she started to play Maria, a real person who had been 21 when the events depicted in the show began. Martin relied on her considerable charm to mask the age difference. But she had displayed little interest in film during her career, and could hardly have been cast in the movie version after the age of 50 in any case. Andrews, though also a Broadway veteran, having starred in My Fair Lady (and, ironically, been passed over for the film version) among other shows, was only in her late 20s. Fresh from her Academy award-winning appearance in the title role of Mary Poppins, she was well-placed to play another children's nanny and proved to be superb in the film as well as on the soundtrack album (though performances gauged for the screen sometimes came off as overly exuberant on record, particularly "Do-Re-Mi"). Irwin Kostal's arrangements were much more ornate than those of Robert Russell Bennett for the Broadway show. The film version eliminated songs as "How Can Love Survive?" and "No Way to Stop It" that had been performed by supporting characters; also, the duet "An Ordinary Couple" was gone, replaced by "Something Good." (Hammerstein had died, and Rodgers supplied his own lyrics to this new song and to "I Have Confidence," which Andrews put across winningly.) Popular as the film may have been, the soundtrack album was worth owning primarily because of Julie Andrews, and the original Broadway cast album remained definitive. Since no edition of the album accurately credits the singers, it should be noted that Bill Lee's singing voice has been dubbed in for Christopher Plummer, who plays the romantic lead Captain von Trapp, and that it is Margery McKay who is singing, not the screen actress Peggy Wood, as Mother Abbess on "Climb Ev'ry Mountain." ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date: 03/10/2015
Label: Legacy / Rca / Sony Legacy
UPC: 0888750569929

Tracks

  1. Prelude And The Sound Of Music [Extended Version]
  2. Overture/Preludium/Dixit Dominus/Morning Hymn/Alleluia [Extended Version]
  3. Maria
  4. I Have Confidence
  5. Sixteen Going On Seventeen [Extended Version]
  6. My Favorite Things/Salzburg Montage [Extended Version]
  7. Do-Re-Mi
  8. The Sound of Music
  9. The Lonely Goatherd
  10. Edelweiss
  11. Grand Waltz [Extended Version]
  12. Laendler
  13. So Long, Farewell
  14. Processional Waltz [Extended Version]
  15. Goodbye Marla/How Can Love Survive Waltz [Extended Version]
  16. Edelweiss Waltz [Extended Version]
  17. Entr'acte
  18. Climb Ev'ry Mountain [Extended Version]
  19. My Favorite Things (Reprise)
  20. Something Good [Extended Version]
  21. Processional And Maria (The Wedding)
  22. Sixteen Going ON Seventeen (Reprise)
  23. Do-Re-Mi (Reprise)
  24. Edelweiss (Reprise)
  25. So Long, Farewell (Reprise)
  26. Nuns And Nazis/Escape/Climb Ev'ry Mountain (Reprise)/Finale [Extended Version]
  27. End Titles

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Rodgers & Hammerstein   Primary Artist
Julie Andrews   Primary Artist,Vocals
Irwin Kostal   Primary Artist,Conductor
Children   Primary Artist
Nuns Chorus   Primary Artist
The Captain   Primary Artist
The Orchestra   Primary Artist
The Children   Primary Artist
Liesl   Primary Artist
Maria   Primary Artist
Rolf   Primary Artist
Mother Abbess   Primary Artist
Organ   Primary Artist
Debbie Turner   Primary Artist,Vocals
Fred Applegate   Primary Artist
Die Sunnies   Primary Artist
Anna Lee   Primary Artist,Vocals
Giuseppe Rinaldi   Primary Artist
Tina Centi   Primary Artist
Franco Bolignari   Primary Artist
Christl Skoda   Primary Artist
Coro Delle Monache Del Suono Della Musica   Primary Artist
Coro Del Suono Della Musica   Primary Artist
Peter Beil   Primary Artist
Patti Cohenour   Primary Artist
Richard Rodgers   Primary Artist,Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
Portia Nelson   Primary Artist,Vocals
Herta Staal   Primary Artist
Duane Chase   Primary Artist,Vocals
Heather Menzies   Primary Artist,Vocals
Dan Truhitte   Primary Artist,Vocals
Coro Di Bambini Del Suono Della Musica   Primary Artist
Die Sunnies Und Orchester   Primary Artist
Die Wiener Grossstadtkinder   Primary Artist
Luciana Brandi   Primary Artist
Orchestra Del Suono Della Musica   Primary Artist
Choeur De Nonnes La Melodie Du Bonheur   Primary Artist
Ensemble Vocal D'enfants La Mélodie Du Bonheur   Primary Artist
Orchestre La Melodie Du Bonheur   Primary Artist
Dick Stroud   Primary Artist
Ada Beth Lee   Primary Artist,Vocals
Anton Valery   Primary Artist
Sara Zelle   Primary Artist
Jan Maxwell   Primary Artist
Angela Cartwright   Primary Artist,Vocals
Mathe Altery   Primary Artist
Kim Karath   Primary Artist
Nicholas Hammond   Primary Artist,Vocals
Rebecca Luker   Primary Artist
Bill Lee   Primary Artist,Primary Artist,Vocals,Vocals,Vocals
Dashiell Eaves   Primary Artist
Nicole Robin   Primary Artist
Dominique Tirmont   Primary Artist
Kym Karath   Primary Artist,Vocals
Evadne Baker   Primary Artist,Vocals
Ursula Schirrmacher   Primary Artist
Doreen Tryden   Primary Artist
Margery Mackay   Primary Artist,Vocals
Chorus   Primary Artist
Peggy Wood   Primary Artist,Vocals
Marni Nixon   Primary Artist,Vocals
Michael Siberry   Primary Artist
Camillo Felgen   Primary Artist
Christopher Plummer   Primary Artist,Vocals
Robert Wise   Primary Artist,Director,Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
Buddy Cole   Primary Artist
Karat   Primary Artist
Charmian Carr   Primary Artist,Vocals,Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
Richard Haydn   Vocals
Doreen Trydon   Vocals
Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra   Orchestra
Edith Markman   Violin
Harper MacKay   Piano
Sound of Music Cast Ensemble   Choir/Chorus
Lea Michele   Vocals
Nicolas Hammond   Vocals
Pam Reswick   Keyboards
Daniel Truhitte   Vocals
Gene Sirronen   Horn
Michael Markman   Violin
Paula Hochhalter   Cello
The Sound of Music Pit Orchestra   Orchestra

Technical Credits

Gene Sirronen   Horn Arrangements
Anna Lee   Performer
Maria & the Captain   Performer
Irwin Kostal   Performer,Orchestration,Leader,Arranger
Paul Blakemore   Mastering Engineer
Oscar Hammerstein II   Composer,Lyricist
Richard Rodgers   Text,Writer,Composer,Lyricist,Interviewee
Portia Nelson   Performer
Duane Chase   Performer
Murray Spivack   Original Engineering
Douglas William   Original Engineering
Boris Leven   Production Design
Heather Menzies   Performer
Douglas Williams   Engineer
Ken Fredette   Design
Marc Breaux   Choreographer
Steve Berkowitz   A&R
Lily Lew   Packaging Manager
Dan Truhitte   Performer
Damon Tedesco   Mixing
Deedee Wood   Choreographer
Angela Cartwright   Performer
Kim Karath   Performer
Robert Mayer   Editing,Music Editor
Nicholas Hammond   Performer
Pam Reswick   Producer,Programming
Richard King   Mastering Engineer
Andrew Logan   Producer
Bill Lee   Performer
Jeremy Holiday   Artist Coordination
E.K. Johnson   Composer
The Orchestra   Performer
Glenn Kormann   Research
Sabeon Ahmad   Photo Research
Kym Karath   Performer
Evadne Baker   Performer
Lyn Koppe   Project Director
Judith Crist   Liner Notes
David Stroud   Interviewer
Spoken Word   Composer
Mike Hartry   Tape Transfer
Mike Kull   Research
Joy Gilbert Manfried   Project Director
Liz Reilly   Photo Research
Jessica Lizzio   Project Director
John Norman   Engineer,Recording,Original Engineering
Tom Burleigh   Project Director
Darcy Proper   Reissue Producer,Reissue Mastering
Didier C. Deutsch   Reissue Producer
Peggy Wood   Performer
Saul Chaplin   Associate Producer
Julie Andrews   Performer
Nick Redman   Producer
Marni Nixon   Performer
Neely Plumb   Producer,Recording Producer,Original Album Producer
Matthew Kelly   Research
Christopher Plummer   Performer
Bill Lacey   Restoration
Robert Wise   Interviewee
Nuns Chorus   Performer
Karat   Performer
Charmian Carr   Performer,Interviewee
Bert Fink   Liner Notes
Richard Rogers   Composer
Howard Fritzson   Art Direction
Debbie Turner   Performer
Robert Tucker   Vocal Supervision
Murray Spivak   Engineer
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