The Great Ziegfeld [Import, Soundtrack]

Arthur Lange (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 10, 2000)
• Original Release Date: October 25, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Soundtrack
• Label: Soundtrack Factory
• ASIN: B0000508OY
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #979,875 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Won't You Come and Play With Me? (I Wish You'd Come and Play With Me)

2. It's Delightful to Be Married

3. If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie)

4. A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody

5. You Gotta Pull Strings/She's a Follies Gir

6. You

7. You Never Looked So Beautiful Before

8. Yiddle on the Fiddle/Queen of the Jungle

9. Dressing Room Scene

10. My Man

11. Looking for a Silver Lining

12. Telephone Scene

13. A Circus Must Be Different in a Ziegfeld Show

14. End Title

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars If you loved the movie, DON'T buy this album., February 14, 2005

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jenbird "book and classic movie fiend" (Havertown, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Great Ziegfeld (Audio CD)

Yes, you heard me right. I just adore the movie "The Great Ziegfeld," and I looked forward to receiving this album with great anticipation. Sadly, my expectations were dashed right away.

The sound is just terrible, very muddy and uneven. It sounds as though someone sat in the movie theater -- back in 1936 -- with a tape recorder and taped the soundtrack that way -- it's a soundtrack in the most literal sense. Some of the songs, such as Fanny Brice singing "Yiddle on the Fiddle" and "My Man," are interrupted by dialogue, just as they are in the film. Other songs, such as "You Gotta Pull Strings," are so badly mixed that the lyrics are barely audible. I tweaked the bass and treble on my stereo several times, but it never got any better. I can hear the songs much better when I play my DVD of the movie.

Included in this soundtrack are two sections of dialogue from the film, "Dressing Room Scene" when Fanny meets Ziegfeld for the first time and he gives her the mink; the other one is "Telephone Scene" when Anna calls Ziegfeld to congratulate him on his second marriage to Billie Burke. I can't understand why these two particular scenes were included, since they're not part of any musical number, and lend nothing to the album as a whole.

Not included in the soundtrack are the lush musical medleys that make up the entrance, intermission, and exit music from the movie. Instead, we get a snippet called "End Titles" which consists of Ziegfeld's death scene. ("I need more stairs...")

This was not at all what I had in mind when I was hoping for a soundtrack of this wonderful film. Pass this one by; if you get the urge to sing along with some of the songs, just pop in the movie instead.