Oklahoma! (1955 Film Soundtrack)

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Free Music Review: Superb sound, twice as much music - a miraculous experience
Hit: 5 Stars

The stereo remix LP arrived five years later with a new ending for the LP overture, a new remix of THE FARMER AND COWMAN ending, different takes for the dialogue in PORE JUD as well as the addition of the "good" and "wood" echos, and shouts and hoots to end the OKLAHOMA! final cut.

The CD release preserved the stereo LP mix.

Now we have a 41:37 commerical release expanded to nearly twice its size with a 76:42 running time and INCREDIBLE SOUND. The Todd-AO six track masters sound remarkable even to today's ears. The clarity, depth and detail delight the ears.

Here we have new: 1. Overture/Main Title - the first two lifted from an actual film print and spliced into the commercially released version of Mornin minus its LP intro (although the song is complete in the LP and CD releases the film proper cut the second stanza (All the cattle are standin like statues...); 2. Kansas City Dance - spliced onto the end of the commercially released recording (the LP ending is dispensed with) with one small cut (the slowly accelerating tap contest following Will's fall through the crate) and this taken from a film print; 3. Many A New Day Ballet - also spliced onto the end of the commercial released recording with Gertie's laugh edited out at the end; 4. Out Of My Dreams and Ballet - here the commercial LP recording is dispensed with and we have an extended cut from the film with Laurie's dialogue, her rendition of the song and the complete ballet right up to the Intermission title - FABULOUS; 5. the very brief Entr'Acte taken from the film; 6. Farmer and the Cowman is extended by splicing in more of the song from film right into the commercial LP recording and seguing this into the dance that follows; 7. the lovely reprise of People Will Say We're In Love; 8. All Er Nuthin - the LP release ending is cut and it is spliced into the Dance and the reprise of the song; 9. End Title and Credits - from the film comes the departure of Laurie and Curley to the reprise of Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin, followed by the end title and credit music.

The recording ends with the LP overture - one wonders why this was created when there already was an entirely different overture composed for the film print itself. The LP version clocks in at 4:51 and the film version at 2:55, so the latter would have been an okay length for a 78/45 rpm side. I guess we'll never know.

This is brilliantly realized sound and artistic achievement. RUN to buy a copy.

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