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Doctor Dolittle

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Well, there I was surfing through Amazon looking for CD's which would remind me of my childhood. Then I found it... Doctor Dolittle!!!! All the names were there on the cover; Rex Harrison and co... but alas it was a dud. Despite the promise of hearing the vocal talents of Mr.Harrison and Mr.Newley, what is available is very disapointing. DO NOT BUY if you are expecting what I, and a lot of people, were.

Thought I was ordering the CD from the soundtrack of the original motion picture (1967)......considering under the title DOCTOR DOLITTLE were listed Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newly, Rex Harrison and Samatha Eggar. Songs 1 through 5 were from the show, however, sung to by vocalists totally unfamiliar to me. Songs 6 through 10 were a variety of young children's nursery rhyme songs and quite juvenile at that!

Every song from DOCTOR DOLITTLE is absolutely wonderful and unique in itself and expresses so much feeling and emotion when sung by it's original cast members and this is really what I prefer exposing the young children to whom I work with each and every day.

Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to vent my dissapointment in this CD under your customer reviews.

Despite the 2007 release date on this MP3 collection, this is by no means a new work -- as a child in the late 1960s I owned this "album" in the form of a vinyl LP. That should give you a good idea what it's like -- this is a generic third-party cover version of the music from a children's movie, intended to be sold in discount stores to harried parents who didn't want to spring for the full cost of the actual soundtrack album. It has a certain workmanlike quality to it, but that's about the best that can be said for it. And it doesn't even have the good graces to be only music from the movie -- instead it's padded out with a random assortment of animal-themed kids' songs.

If you want something for a child who isn't terribly discriminating about the performance, this "album" will suit the bill. Otherwise, go for the actual soundtrack album.

IT HAS A GREAT SONG AND THE REST OF THE SONGS ARE KIND OF BORING. IF YOU LIKE TWO OR THREE OF THE SONGS THEN YOU SHOULD BY THIS CD. DR.DOLITTLE IS A GOOD CD. I WOULD RATE IT A 7 OUT OF 10.