The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T [Songs and Music from the Original Soundtrack]
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Composer: Frederick HollanderPerformer: Hans Conried
Performer: Mary Healy
Performer: Peter Lind Hayes
Performer: Tommy Rettig
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2007-11-02
Music Label: El Records
Soundtracks:
- Opening Credits / Butterfly Ballet - Dream Sequence
- Ten Happy Fingers
- Piano Concerto
- Dream Stuff
- Hypnotic Duel
- Get Together Weather
- Because We're Kids
- Dungeon Ballet
- We Are Victorious
- Elevator Song
- Dressing Song Do-Me-Do Duds
- End Credits
- [Outtake] My Favorite Note [Outtake]
- [Outtake] Oh! We Are The Guards [Outtake]
- [Outtake] I Will Not Get Involved, Part 1 [Outtake]
- [Outtake] Grindstone [Outtake]
- [Outtake] Money [Outtake]
- [Outtake] Terwilliker [Outtake]
- [Outtake] I Will Not Go To Sleep [Outtake]
- [Outtake] Many Questions [Outtake]
- [Outtake] One Moment Ago [Outtake]
- [Outtake] One Moment Ago [Outtake]
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Free Music Review: 5000 Cheers for Dr T
Hit: 5 Stars
I never thought it possible that this soundtrack would ever be available on CD...after all, the movie's debut in 1953 was hardly auspicious. The vinyl recording of the songs was more a formality than a record anybody actually wanted. I wanted it, though. I wanted it in the 1970s when I first discovered the movie on television. I also discovered that the movie only aired once a year and I was hungry for a record that I could enjoy the rest of the year. This, of course, was before the VHS tape or DVD disc gave us 24/7 viewing privileges.
When the VHS tape of the movie came out in the early 1990s I didn't long for the soundtrack any longer since I had the entire movie at my fingertips, and it was no longer available in any event.
Kudos to E Records of the UK for bothering. I appreciate very much that they gambled on such an arcane product. Other than myself I know scant people who will buy this costly CD. There is nothing special about the first half of it...songs from the movie are pretty generally standardized here, except for the opening track which was cut in the film but kept intact here.
Extra special kudos to E for releasing the bonus tracks which are a real treat to diehard groupies of the movie like myself. The songs are the real meat of the score but were, alas, cut from the film. It is frustrating that these great songs did not survive except, just to cite one instance, "One Moment Ago," as underscoring. There is nothing remastered here either. It is a simple transfer to CD from the original masters, something I would have appreciated greatly in the 1970s. But this is a product on the market whose availability flabbergasts me now!
Let it suffice to say that this CD is a collector's item for diehard fans of the the much-under-rated film and is not at all marketable for the general buying public. Fans of the composer Frederich Hollander (or Dr Seuss) might also feel it is worth investing in, but no one else will -- not even fans who just simple appreciate the movie withoug worshipping it.
I am so very grateful to E Records, though -- I can't imagine what possessed them to take the financial gamble here. They also took the gamble on another arcane soundtrack I love ("Pufnstuf" soundtrack, 1970)! Whatever possessed them, thank you!
I welcome all fans of the movie (and the upcoming stage musical version, which also has an awesome score) to write me...I'd love to have a coterie of Dr T fans as friends.
Jay - e mail: sondfan@gmail.com
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