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Carousel (1956 Film Soundtrack)

Carousel (1956 Film Soundtrack)
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Richard Rodgers always considered Carousel his favorite score, even though it didn't generate the number of popular hits of some of the other shows he produced with lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II. Their adaptation of the Ferenc Molnar play Liliom is marked by three especially sublime moments. "The Carousel Waltz," Rodgers's alternative to the traditional Broadway overture, serves as an orchestral backdrop to the opening scene and is one of the best miniatures ever written for the theater. "If I Loved You," which establishes the romance of carnival barker Billy Bigelow (Gordon MacRae, a late replacement for Frank Sinatra) and nice girl Julie Jordan (Shirley Jones), is a musical minidrama in which the pair's discussion of how they are not in love reveals just how much they are in love. "Soliloquy" is Billy's powerful solo that foreshadows the action to come in Act II. Add the inspirational anthem "You'll Never Walk Alone," and you have Rodgers and Hammerstein's most extraordinary, near-operatic score. On the soundtrack for the 1956 film, MacRae and Jones are in exceptional voice (following their success in 1955's Oklahoma) and the orchestra sounds glorious, but unfortunately some of the numbers were shortened, most notably "If I Loved You." Extensive production notes, an interview with Jones, and a synopsis are included. --David Horiuchi

 

What Customers Say About Carousel (1956 Film Soundtrack):

We did this my last year of high school. I have been looking for this for a while. I enjoyed this very much and it brings back memories. I also saw the movie when it first came out as our operetta was 2 weeks later. Tears come when I hear "When you walk through a storm".

This musical is actually about enduring hope and the possibility of redemption even after death. Desapir takes a back seat to hope which springs eternal.

this is a great movie. don't care for the remake. These actors couldn't be better.I could watch it over and over, and do.

I fell in love with her Julie at first sight. Gordon McRae was such an artist.

He whipped me 'til his belt broke and I would not give him the satisfaction of one tear.But this music.and this movie. My father beat me once for a misdeed, and I resolved thenand there that Iwould never cry under his beltings again.

I fight it and the tears well up on their own.what a perfect tragedy this movieis, how haunting the music. draws out what the belt could not.

It gets me every time. His singing is perfect and inspired in these songs --- and Shirley Jones complements him so well.

If you haven't got this music or thismovie, you are missing out on one of life's greatest treasures.

Since the 1970's newer copies of Carousel Have tracks that are editedThank God this version has a lot more music including the complete seven minute version of The Carousel Waltz I believe the movie itself doesn't play the whole waltz

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