Anchors Aweigh (Soundtrack) [Soundtrack, Import]

Calvin Jackson (Composer), George Stoll (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 15, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack, Import
• ASIN: B0007DBG6C
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #174,687 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic - Lots of Memories for an 81 year old., February 12, 2009

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Paul G. Maier - See all my reviews
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I was on leave in 1945 when I first saw this Movie.It was great then as it was now..What terrific Music.If we only knew then that some day we might be able to own a copy of it..Shared it with my Kids and Grandkids, There like me - they love music from that era!!

2.0 out of 5 stars Poor Quality Sound, March 11, 2010

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The quality of sound is terrible. It's tinny, muffled and distant sounding. It sounds like a recording someone did at home while watching the movie. This is not on par with the quality of several other classic musical soundtracks I've ordered.

3.0 out of 5 stars Anchors Aweigh - with Jerry Mouse, February 4, 2009

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Susan F. Falknor "But Now I See" (Virginia) - See all my reviews
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I was delighted to find the soundtrack available to "Anchors Aweigh," a World War II musical. The movie includes a segment of animation (a bedtime story for children forms the rationale for this then-unusual bit of cinema mixing). The story is "The King Who Couldn't Dance." In it, Gene Kelly finds himself in a world of animated animals whose king forbid them to sing or dance. He visits the king (Jerry Mouse) in the forbidding castle and teaches him to dance, so that "all the little painted people were so happy that they began to dance too."

It so happens that I had memorized the story from a kids' record in the 1950s and had been telling it all these years as a bed time story to my baby-sitting clients, my nieces, my own children, etc. I wanted to record the story for my far-away grandchildren, and wanted to check my memory before I did so. Turns out the story had hardly changed at all in my memory during 5 decades. But it was good to know.

The Amazon product, although on DVD, is soundtrack only, musical numbers only. But every line of "The King Who Couldn't Dance" story is there. Surely a product with limited appeal for movie fans, but nonetheless it suited my purposes.