Oklahoma! (1955 Film Soundtrack) [SOUNDTRACK]

Richard Rodgers (Artist), Jay Blackton (Artist), Charlotte Greenwood (Artist), Shirley Jones (Artist), Gene Nelson (Artist), Gloria Grahame (Artist), Rod Steiger (Artist), James Whitmore (Artist), Gordon MacRae (Artist)

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 13, 2001)
• SPARS Code: ADD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Angel Records
• ASIN: B00005A7XB
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,127 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Overture [#] - The Orchestra

2. Main Title [#] - The Orchestra

3. Oh, What a Beautiful Morning - Gordon MacRae

4. Surrey With the Fringe on Top - Gloria Grahame, Shirley Jones, Gordon MacRae

5. Kansas City - Charlotte Greenwood, , Gene Nelson

6. Kansas City Ballet [#] - The Orchestra

7. I Cain't Say No - Gloria Grahame

8. Many a New Day - Shirley Jones

9. Many a New Day Ballet [#] - The Orchestra

10. People Will Say We're in Love - Shirley Jones, Gordon MacRae

11. Pore Jud Is Daid - Gordon MacRae, Rod Steiger

12. Out of My Dreams - Shirley Jones

13. Out of My Dreams Ballet [#] - The Orchestra

14. Entr'acte [#] - The Orchestra

15. Farmer and the Cowman - Jay C. Flippen, Gloria Grahame, Charlotte Greenwood, Gordon MacRae, Mixed Chorus & Orchestra, Gene Nelson, James Whitmore

16. Farmer and the Cowman Ballet [#] - The Orchestra, Chorus

17. All Er Nothin' - Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson

18. All Er Nothin' Ballet [#] - The Orchestra

19. People Will Say We're in Love (Reprise) [#] - Shirley Jones, Gordon MacRae

20. Oklahoma! - Charlotte Greenwood, Shirley Jones, Gordon MacRae,

See all 22 tracks on this disc

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Oklahoma! (1955 Film Soundtrack)

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50 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing remaster of classic soundtrack!, April 20, 2001

By	Joe NY - See all my reviews

I would love to recommend this "expanded" reissue of the OKLAHOMA! soundtrack. However, I am disappointed to report that the added material is simply "lifted" from the final "mixed" movie soundtrack. This means you get extraneous sound effects along with meaningless dialog which have no place on a music only recording. The new selections ARE NOT from the original music masters. To make matters worse the CD producers edited bits and pieces from the long standing Capitol records tracks to accommidate the new material which insults rather than enhances the original recordings. KANSAS CITY and the FARMER & COWHAND BALLET come complete with hand clapping, foot stomping, train and "horse" sound effects which drown the music. Both the FINALE and LET PEOPLE SAY WE ARE IN LOVE reprise include too much dialog and sound effects. OUT OF MY DREAMS is completely different from the original album which utilized a longer alternate version without chrous. The DREAM BALLET also has sound effects: foot shuffling through out, storm and wind sounds, and occasional screams. There are other annoying chacteristics to numerous to mention. Also the producers included the theatrical Overture and Intermission music but omitted the WALKOUT music. What remains of the original Capitol tracks is at odds with the added material which causes a disjointed and annoying listening expierence. If I wanted to hear OKLAHOMA! as presented on this CD, I could run A VHS or DVD edition of the movie and skip to the musical sections and get the same result. On the plus side the Capitol recordings never sounded better. Average listeners may not mind the intrusions, but true fans will want to hold on to their copies of the original CD release. The producers should look at some of the splendid work Rhino/Turner have done with the various MGM soundtracks in recent years to learn how a true remastered and expanded release should be accomlished from the ORIGINAL MUSIC MASTERS, not simply lifting them off the final film soundtracks as is done here. I suppose we must wait another 10 years before OKLAHOMA! is done true justice on CD.

24 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Don't ditch your old CD version just yet......, May 22, 2002

By	Pope (Wisconsin, United States) - See all my reviews

This new expanded version of Oklahoma is long awaited for conisseurs of the marvelous 1955 film. It includes not only all music (which has been remastered) from the previous release, but many previously unreleased tracks as well.

On this album we have Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones in the lead roles that would put them over the top. This is the film for which they probably are both most famous. They were paired up again for Carousel the following year. Jones went on to appear in the 1962 film The Music Man. Gloria Grahame is nice as Ado Annie, but she pales in comparison to Celeste Holm from the OBC album. The cast here is in top vocal form and excellent performances are had throughout.

My only gripe is the presence of extra sound effects in the previously unreleased material. Hand clapping, foot stomping, extra dialog, and shouts and cheers have no place in a soundtrack album. As another reviewer stated, if we wanted the effect this CD gives, we can grab a copy of the movie and fast forward it to those parts. Many of the best soundtrack albums on the Angel and Sony labels have been plagued with this lately. Extraneous sound effects are had on the remastered and expanded editions of Oklahoma, Carousel, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, and others. While I can see the reissue producers' desire to include the music as it would be heard in the film, more effort should have been made to locate the original recording session masters where they exist.

On the plus side, though, all of the selections on this CD sound better than ever. We have the Overture and Main Title as heard in the film itself and they have never sounded better, although I do like the original Capitol Records version of the overture better (it appears as a bonus track at the end of this album). The Entr'acte is featured as well, but the Exit Music has not been included.

I absolutely recommend this album. It is a worthy addition to any Broadway fan's collection. But those who still have their copy of the previous (1993) CD release Oklahoma!: From The Soundtrack Of The Motion Picture (1955 Film) - hang onto it, you will not regret it! That is how a soundtrack album of Oklahoma, presented with all its integrity, should sound.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Indisputably the best!, August 20, 2001

By	Anthony Clarke (Sydney, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've so far owned two LPs and three CDs of this Rodgers and Hammerstein movie soundtrack -- the same goes for their other great musical, Carousel. And the new 2001 remastering of both Oklahoma and Carousel not only brings us so much more music than ever before, but brings us the music with an unsurpassed warmth and clarity. I have never heard these great musicals to better effect. The result is breath-takingly beautiful; just how these musical masterpieces should be presented. The spine-tingling effect of having the original overture bridge into 'Oh What a Beautiful Morning' so perfectly is worth the price of the disc by itself. With about half-an-hour's extra music including the lovely reprise 'Let People Say We're in Love', this 'Oklahoma' is right out of our dreams.

Now we only need to have the films themselves, in equally fine versions on DVD! Carousel was shot in large-format Todd-AO and Oklahoma in Cinemascope 55; anamorphic processes giving an unprecedented sharpness and clarity. But for tthe existing DVD transfers, Fox has ignored this, and has made a mediocre non-anamorphic widescreen transfer not worthy of the efforts of the original film-makers. The sound side has been well looked after -- now get the image right as well!