Studio-recorded soundtrack for NBC's THE SOUND OF MUSIC to be released 12/3- Page 2

[NoName3]

Posted: 10/24/13 at 5:57pm

This wonderful 1987 Studio Cast is the most complete recording. It features opera stars Frederica von Stade, Hakan Hagegard and Eileen Farrell, with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra conducted by the late Maestro Erich Kunzel. Beautifully sung, played and recorded, it includes nearly all the music from the stage version, omitting only the underscoring that accompanies scene changes and such. The two new songs from the film are interpolated.

Personally I love An Ordinary Couple and this recording includes the rarely heard second verse, which is not on the OBC. An Ordinary Couple has the elegant simplicity of a folk song; Something Good sounds like 1960's elevator music with the lamest lyrics in the entire R&H canon. It is well documented that director Robert Wise ended up shooting the number in silhouette and shadows to hide the fact that Andrews and Plummer couldn't stop giggling during the music playbacks.

Track Listings
1. The Sound Of Music
2. The Sound Of Music: The Abbey Bells
3. The Sound Of Music: Mono Chant
4. The Sound Of Music: The Sound of Music
5. The Sound Of Music: Angelus Bells
6. The Sound Of Music: Alleluia
7. The Sound Of Music: Maria
8. The Sound Of Music: My Favorite Things
9. The Sound Of Music: I Have Confidence In Me
10. The Sound Of Music: Do-re-mi
11. The Sound Of Music: Sixteen Going On Seventeen
12. The Sound Of Music: The Lonely Goatherd
13. The Sound Of Music: How Can Love Survive?
14. The Sound Of Music: Reprise: The Sound Of Music
15. The Sound Of Music: The Party Scene; Grand Waltz; Landler
16. The Sound Of Music: So Long, Farewell
17. The Sound Of Music: Climb Ev'ry Mountain
18. The Sound Of Music: No Way To Stop It
19. The Sound Of Music: An Ordinary Couple
20. The Sound Of Music: Something Good
21. The Sound Of Music: Processional; Confitemini Domino; Alleluia
22. The Sound Of Music: Reprise: Sixteen Going On Seventeen
23. The Sound Of Music: Reprise: Do-re-mi
24. The Sound Of Music: Edelweiss
25. The Sound Of Music: Reprise: So Long, Farewell
26. The Sound Of Music: Reprise: Climb Ev'ry Mountain

The CD is available at Amazon for the ridiculously great price of $9.39 and the customer reviews all give it five stars out of five.

Updated On: 10/24/13 at 05:57 PM

[MaddieBB12]

Posted: 10/24/13 at 6:03pm

When I read through the list of nuns, I recognized Gina Farrell's name and couldn't remember from where, so I looked her up--she was Sister Berthe in the 1997 revival! That's kinda neat.

[Replacement Cast]

Posted: 10/24/13 at 7:21pm

It's on NBC. No one will watch.

Posted: 10/24/13 at 10:27pm

Many of the "soundtrack" albums from 50s TV Specials like CINDERELLA or Cole Porter's Aladdin are in fact studio recordings recorded prior to the live broadcasts. ALADDIN actually featured vastly different arrangements from those used for the telecast.

[degrassifan]

Posted: 10/25/13 at 3:46pm

I wish the 1987 studio recording was on Spotify.

I wonder why cast recordings almost never include My Favorite Things reprise from Act II?

[MCfan2]

Posted: 10/25/13 at 4:15pm

"Personally I love An Ordinary Couple and this recording includes the rarely heard second verse, which is not on the OBC. An Ordinary Couple has the elegant simplicity of a folk song; Something Good sounds like 1960's elevator music with the lamest lyrics in the entire R&H canon. It is well documented that director Robert Wise ended up shooting the number in silhouette and shadows to hide the fact that Andrews and Plummer couldn't stop giggling during the music playbacks."

True, but I don't think that had anything to do with the quality of the song. I've always heard that they were exhausted and punchy by the time it was filmed, and that led to the giggle fits.

Anyway, I think the silhouette and shadows worked really well for that number. All's well that ends well.

[jemjeb2]

Posted: 10/25/13 at 4:46pm

Seems like hype - hard to believe a major motion picture is altered during the shooting because the two professionals playing the leads won't stop giggling. Charge them for the OT costs while they get their act together - THAT would probably have shut them up.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 10/26/13 at 12:58am

"Ordinary Couple" is a bit incongruous: He's a naval Captain, She is a former novice nun. Nothing very "ordinary" about this couple..but I always liked the melody..especially the instrumental bridge, which I believe is for the unused verse someone referenced earlier.

I am glad they are following the stage script and song sequence though I can see all the complaints coming from tee people who only know the movie complaining that NBC "changed it all around."

[degrassifan]

Posted: 10/26/13 at 1:32am

"Seems like hype - hard to believe a major motion picture is altered during the shooting because the two professionals playing the leads won't stop giggling. Charge them for the OT costs while they get their act together - THAT would probably have shut them up."

Haha, but it's true. In addition to being exhausted from filming, the music playback was making funny noises, and JA and CP kept giggling,t hat it irritated Robert Wise. The two tried to keep their composure, but it did not work. Wise then decided to shoot them in silhouette, which ended up working perfectly.

"I am glad they are following the stage script and song sequence though I can see all the complaints coming from tee people who only know the movie complaining that NBC 'changed it all around'."

I can totally see people complaining on twitter that night the minute they realize the show starts with the Preludium instead of The Sound of Music, My Favorite Things is sung in the Reverend Mother's office, the exclusion of I Have Confidence, and the fact Do Re Mi is sung earlier in the story.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 10/26/13 at 6:19pm

I don't think "Something Good" is a GREAT song, but it does make a certain philosophical sense that is missing from "Ordinary Couple".

Maria nearly became a nun and the Captain consistently expresses black-and-white views of right and wrong. That they believe their current happiness is a divine reward for earlier good behavior is very much in character. ("Nothing comes from nothing/Nothing ever could...")

OTOH, as a previous poster noted (and as Max and the Baroness point out), they will be an upper-class Austrian couple and hardly "ordinary".

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 11/5/13 at 1:01pm

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sound-music-music-from-nbc/id731630716

The upcoming NBC recording is now available for Pre-Order on iTunes

[Dollypop]

Posted: 11/5/13 at 5:16pm

"Maria nearly became a nun..."

Let me correct you here, Gaveston.

Maria was a postulant, not a novice or a nun. She was just being exposed to life in a convent. As such, she was allowed some time out of the cloistered walls. The next step for her would to become a "novice", where she'd take temporary vows and become more familiar with cloistered life. It's not uncommon at all for someone to leave after a year or so of postulancy.

Maria was just "feeling out" a religious vocation.

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 11/5/13 at 8:07pm

After listening to both "An Oridinary Couple" and "Something Good" today, the latter is far superior IMHO..

[darquegk]

Posted: 11/5/13 at 8:27pm

Also, "An Ordinary Couple" is hampered by its dirge like resemblance to "He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake!"