Mary Poppins: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack (1964 Film) [Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack]

Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, Disney | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 30, 2001)
• Original Release Date: August 29, 1964
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
• Label: Walt Disney Records
• ASIN: B000056QE5
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,434 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice, but I want all of it!, March 11, 2004

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D. COLLIER "Top Guhzillion Reviewer" (Brownwood, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mary Poppins: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack (1964 Film) (Audio CD)

It gives me no pleasure to give a 3-star rating to a 5-star motion picture soundtrack. But there's so much more they could be giving us.

Right now, you can purchase from Amazon the soundtrack to THE SOUND OF MUSIC. It's a CD which contains 16 tracks. However, if you're a bigger fan, you may purchase a 35th Anniversary Special Edition soundtrack to THE SOUND OF MUSIC which contains 31 tracks on two CDs. This larger soundtrack contains instrumental music which you will not find on the original soundtrack. In other words, you can purchase all of the music from the movie.

Why can't they do this with MARY POPPINS? That's what I miss most! It's the instrumental music without words (e.g. when George Banks was summoned to the bank at night and he walks by the St. Paul's Cathedral, the orchestra beautifully playing "Feed the Birds").

I am glad that all the songs (with words) are on here. That alone makes it better than most soundtracks out there. Another really great thing is the interviews at the end with the Sherman brothers who wrote the songs (as well as many other Disney songs). They explain the origin of the song "A Spoonful of Sugar," and they talk about several other songs including one which they loved very much but were unable to put in the film.

This year marks the film's 40th anniversary. Hopefully, we will soon have out a complete MARY POPPINS soundtrack.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Songs I Still Hum, January 18, 2002

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A.Trendl HungarianBookstore.com "What should ... (Glen Ellyn, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mary Poppins: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack (1964 Film) (Audio CD)

I was given "Mary Poppins: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack" when I was four, in 1970. I still hum most of the songs. You will too. Though it was released several decades before, it is a classic, entertaining and completely delightful CD.

These songs are silly, deliciously without any message. "A Spoonful Sugar" (helps the medicine go dow-own!) is as meaningless as it is catchy. Don't be embarrassed after a few listens, that you, an adult, are caught up in public whistling "Chim Chim Cher-ee."

The music seems a million miles away from the canned pop tunes Disney cranks out now. Don't get me wrong, I love "Aladdin" and "Beauty and the Beast" but there is a point at which today's Disney seems to be written to meet a market need than for the pure love of music.

Among my prouder moments in grade school was being able to spell 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,' and that I could say it without stumbling over each syllable.

I fully recommend "Mary Poppins: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack."

Anthony Trendl

17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This is not the Original LP album released in 1964, December 4, 2004

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Jonathan P. Saltzman "bookdesign" (Provo, UT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mary Poppins: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack (1964 Film) (Audio CD)

Just a word to everyone out there. I saw "Mary Poppins" in 1964, and bought its Original Soundtrack Album on Vista Records (a subsidiary of Disney). That album's score was not taken directly from the movie soundtrack (as this "restored" CD release is). Instead, bits of music and dialogue were included in the LP to make for better segues; the "Overture" ends in an entirely different fashion; the biggest damage was done to "Supercali..." where the musical intro has been omitted as well as the comical dialogue in the middle of the song. The sound engineers have stripped out all the charm and warmth of the original Soundtrack version, and yet they call it a "Restored" or "Remastered" version. This is why I continue to play the vinyl version (transferred to CD). And frankly, there is no reason to include all 8 minutes of "Step In Time." If you want all 8 minutes, just watch the DVD -- like every other song, that's where they lifted the music for this CD.