Flower Drum Song (1961 Film Soundtrack)
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Music CD Cover Edition: Music CD Audio: English (Original Language) Format: Cast Recording, Soundtrack CD Release Date: 2002-09-24 Music Label: Decca U.S. Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Flower Drum Song (1961 Film Soundtrack) Album
Free Music Review: Better than Broadway Cast Album
Hit: 4 Stars
When it comes to Broadway musicals, I hardly ever prefer a movie soundtrack to the Orginal Cast Album, but "Flower Drum Song" is one of the exceptions. The vital diffence is in the orchestrations and musical leadership. The Broadway cast album features the routine orchestrations of Robert Russell Bennet. Maybe Bennet did too many Rodgers and Hammerstein shows. This is certainly his least inventive. "Love Look Away" has a plodding accompaniment which almost ruins this beautiful torch song. The conductor of the cast album takes everything at a maddeningly measured pace: there's no spark to the jazzy numbers. Every rhythmic accent, every syncopation is underlined in such a foursquare manner. The film soundtrack however has clever and lush (almost too lush) orchestrations. But Alfred Newman really has fun goosing up the jazzy tunes and faux orientalisms in the score. The Opening Main Title alone is worth buying this album. And "Love Look Away" (dubbed by Marilyn Horne) is subtly and beautifully presented. Unfortunately the soundtrack seems to have been recorded in a sonic haze that prevents me from giving it a fifth star. Still the energy and elan of orchestration and conducting is miles beyond the Broadway Cast Album.