Yankee Doodle Dandy
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Brand: ScoreComposer: George M. Cohan
Composer: Heinz Roemheld
Composer: Ray Heindorf
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2002-06-18
Music Label: Rhino
Soundtracks:
- Main Title (from "Yankee Doodle Dandy", film score)
- Medley for Yankee Doodle Dandy, film score: Yankee Doodle / Yankee Dood
- Early Years Sequence (for Yankee Doodle Dandy, film score): Columbia Th
- Early Years Sequence (for Yankee Doodle Dandy, film score): Columbia Th
- I Was Born in Virginia (from "George Washington, Jr.")
- The Warmest Baby in the Bunch [#]
- The Warmest Baby in the Bunch
- Harrigan (from the musical "Fifty Miles from Boston")
- Harrigan (from the musical "Fifty Miles from Boston") [#]
- The Yankee Doodle Boy ("I'm a Yankee Doodle dandy") [#]
- Little Johnny Jones sequence (from Yankee Doodle Dandy, film score): Th
- Little Johnny Jones sequence (from Yankee Doodle Dandy, film score): Th
- Medley (from Yankee Doodle Dandy, film score): Oh, You Wonderful Girl /
- Mary's A Grand Old Name (from "Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway")
- Mary's A Grand Old Name (from "Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway") [#]
- Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway (from Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway
- Fay Templeton Medley (from Yankee Doodle Dandy, film score): Mary's A G
- Fay Templeton Medley (from Yankee Doodle Dandy, film score): Mary's A G
- Fay Templeton Medley (from Yankee Doodle Dandy, film score): Mary's A G
- Fay Templeton Medley (from Yankee Doodle Dandy, film score): Mary's A G
Free Music Notes for Yankee Doodle Dandy
Free Music Review: What a find!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I haven't been able to see this movie on TV since Turner bought it (don't get TCM), but if you've seen the movie several tims, as I have, listening to this CD is very nearly as good as watching it all the way through. (I'm so delighted with it that I'm even willing to forgive TCM for putting a paper ad inside with the disc.)Monumental effort must have gone into this soundtrack, given the age of the original recordings. The tracks here are crisp, clear, and bright, with no evidence of how long ago they were first put down. The editors were also generous in their inclusion of dialogue that ties some of the tracks together (for example, we hear the man tell Johny Jones to watch for the skyrocket, then we hear the skyrocket as it leads into "Give My Regards to Broadway"). There are a couple of places where the endings are slightly abrupt but this is because, in the movie, the music fades into extended dialogue.
The only bit of dialogue I expected to hear in a song, but didn't, is in "Over There" near the very end of the film, when Cagney/Cohan has fallen in step with the soldiers going off to WWII, as they're singing "Over There", when the soldier nearest him says something like, "What's wrong, old timer, don't know the words?" and Cagney says, "Seems to me I do" and starts singing along. That's minor and pales next to how wonderful the rest of this soundtrack is.
One of the biggest treats on this CD is that we get to hear some of Cagney's tapping, notably in "Give My Regards to Broadway", "You're a Grand Old Flag", and - one of my favorite moments in movie history - when he dances down the White House stairs to "Yankee Doodle" near the end).
The outtake is not a humorous one, simply a track they decided not to use. It and the rehearsal tracks are all just the performers voices with piano accompaniment. I especially enjoyed hearing Cagney rehearsing "You're a Grand Old Flag".
If you like Cagney, if you like Cohan's music, if you like movies "the way they used to make them", or if you're not ashamed to get a little choked up with patriotism once in a while, you will not be disappointed in this CD!
Yankee Doodle Dandy Poster
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Media Type: CD
Artist: YANKEE DOODLE DANDY
Title: SCORE
Street Release Date: 06/18/2002
Genre: SOUNDTRACK
When one thinks of musicals from Hollywood's golden age, the initials MGM come almost instantly to mind. Indeed when veteran song-and-dance man George M. Cohan was negotiating a film based on his colorful life story, his first choice was Metro--until a falling out with studio chief Louis B. Mayer. But L.B.'s loss eventually became Warner Brothers'--and film history's--gain when the Burbank studio's Cohan musical became a massive, patriotic hit in the opening months of World War II. As chronicled in this vibrantly restored, first-ever complete soundtrack for the film, it was a compelling twist of fate. James Cagney turns in one of the screen's most ostensibly unlikely--and ultimately indelible--musical performances (netting him his only Best Actor Oscar®), teaming with studio music director Roy Heindorf to update Cohan's once-quaint turn-of the-century patriotic ditties ("You're a Grand Old Flag," "Over There," "Yankee Doodle Boy") and infectious vaudevillian chestnuts ("Give My Regards to Broadway," "Harrigan") with bracing dollops of the studio's '40s orchestral sass--and, just months after Pearl Harbor, some crucial historical parallels. Also included are four bonus tracks that remarkably survived the film's preproduction, including an outtake of "You Remind Me of My Mother" and voice-and-piano-only rehearsal versions of "Give My Regards to Broadway" and "You're a Grand Old Flag" that further underscore Cagney's deceptively effortless ability to sell a song despite his limited musical gifts. It's a long overdue showcase for a true American film musical gem. --Jerry McCulley
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