Great Movie Themes: Ziegfeld Girl / Every Sunday / Meet Me In St. Louis - Original Soundtracks [Soundtrack]

Hedy Lamarr, Margaret O'Brien, Lana Turner, Judy Garland, Tony Martin, Deanna Durbin | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 16, 1999)
• Original Release Date: January 1945
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Great Movie Themes
• ASIN: B00000I0JL
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #471,921 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Overture "Ziegfeld Girls"

2. I Thought I'd Split My Sides

3. You Stepped Out of a Dream

4. I'm Always Chasing Rainbows

5. Carribean Love Song: Minnie from Trinidad

6. Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean

7. Finale -- Ziegfeld Girls: You Gotta Pull Strings/You Stepped Out of a D

8. Il Bacio

9. Waltz with a Swing/Americana

10. Opera vs. Jazz/Americana

11. Overture/Meet Me in St. Louis

12. The Boy Next Door

13. Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis

14. Skip to My Lou

15. Under the Bamboo Tree

16. The Trolley Song

17. You and I

18. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Some Background for Two of These Songs, December 29, 2008

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This review is from: Great Movie Themes: Ziegfeld Girl / Every Sunday / Meet Me In St. Louis - Original Soundtracks (Audio CD)

A couple songs here are from the short film "Every Sunday" (1936) could be considered the first music video. This was a happy accident resulting from MGM's need to crack out a variety of short films for exhibit with its feature length material. They had a couple fresh young singing talents (Judy Garland and Deanna Durbin) available and essentially slapped together a blend of music styles in a kind of Norman Rockwell concert in the park setting.

Who would have dreamed at the time that they would capture the best collection of images since Eisenstein's "Odessa Steps" sequence.

It's Sunday with some inattentive folks sitting around a small wooden band shell in the park while a tired looking ensemble play Strauss. Events unfold and the next Sunday Judy and Deanna save the day. The operatic Deanna sings "Il Bacio" (The Kiss) and Garland follows with the contrasting "Waltz with a Swing". The climax nicely blends the two styles into a duet of "Americana".

A must see.

Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.