State Fair (1962)

Product Summary Label: Uni/varese Sarabande UPC: 00030206609028 Release Date: 11/2/1999 Buy.com Sku: 60366152 Item#: MSLQ2L Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Our State Fair (Main Title) - Percy Kilbride/Charles Winninger/Fay Bainter ~ Original Soundtrack 2. It Might As Well Be Spring - Louanne Hogan ~ Original Soundtrack 3. It Might As Well Be Spring - Louanne Hogan (reprise) ~ Original Soundtrack 4. That's For Me - Vivian Blaine ~ Original Soundtrack 5. It's A Grand Night For Singing - Dick Haymes/Vivian Blaine/Louanne Hogan/Dana Andrews/William Marshall ~ Original Soundtrack 6. That's For Me - Louanne Hogan (reprise) ~ Original Soundtrack 7. It's A Grand Night For Singing - Vivian Blaine/William Marshall (reprise) ~ Original Soundtrack 8. Isn't It Kinda Fun? - Dick Haymes/Vivian Blaine ~ Original Soundtrack 9. All I Owe Ioway ~ Original Soundtrack 10. Isn't It Kinda Fun? - Dick Haynes (outtake) ~ Original Soundtrack 11. Finale - Dick Haymes/Company ~ Original Soundtrack 12. Our State Fair (Main Title) - 20th Century-Fox Studio Orchestra & Chorus ~ Original Soundtrack 13. It Might As Well Be Spring - Anita Gordon ~ Original Soundtrack 14. That's For Me - Pat Boone ~ Original Soundtrack 15. More Than Just A Friend - Tom Ewell ~ Original Soundtrack 16. Fair Dance - 20th Century-Fox Studio Orchestra & Chorus ~ Original Soundtrack 17. Isn't It Kinda Fun? - Ann-Margaret/David Street ~ Original Soundtrack 18. Never Say No To A Man - Alice Faye ~ Original Soundtrack 19. Willing And Eager - Pat Boone/Ann-Margaret ~ Original Soundtrack 20. Romance Medley - 20th Century-Fox Studio Orchestra & Chorus ~ Original Soundtrack 21. This Isn't Heaven - Bobby Darin ~ Original Soundtrack 22. Little Things In Texas, The - Tom Ewell/Alice Faye ~ Original Soundtrack 23. Finale - 20th Century-Fox Studio Orchestra & Chorus ~ Original Soundtrack 24. It's A Grand Night For Singing - Pat Boone/Ann-Margaret ~ Original Soundtrack 25. It's A Grand Night For Singing - Bobby Darin/Anita Gordon ~ Original Soundtrack 26. Isn't It Kinda Fun? - Ann-Margaret ~ Original Soundtrack   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info This release contains the complete original soundtracks from the 1945 and 1962 versions of STATE FAIR. Music composed by Richard Rodgers. Lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein II. Includes liner notes by Marilee Bradford. All tracks have been digitally remastered. This archival release presents material from the soundtracks of the two movie musical versions of State Fair, which contained songs written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. In the 1940s, Rodgers and Hammerstein were approached by 20th Century-Fox about doing a musical version of the 1932 novel written by Philip Stong. They wrote six songs, and Hammerstein co-wrote the screenplay. The film was a critical and commercial success upon its release in 1945, and Fox returned to the property for a remake in 1962, by which time Hammerstein had died and Rodgers was trying his hand at writing his own lyrics. With the setting moved from Iowa to Texas and the cast expanded, Rodgers wrote five new songs. This version was a critical and commercial failure, though Dot Records released a soundtrack album that reached the Top Ten. It is not the source for the recordings on the present collection; instead, producer Nick Redman dug out the actual soundtrack recordings and, for the later version, went back to the multi-track tapes. Still, one wishes it had been possible to license the missing material from Dot. The musical performances and arrangements on the two soundtracks tend to bear out the responses to the two films when they appeared. The 1945 music still sounds wonderful. "It Might as Well Be Spring" still seems deserving of the Academy Award for Best Song that it won, and the other songs are almost equally good. The 1962 version is far less impressive. Ann-Margret almost justifies the radical rearrangement of "Isn't It Kinda Fun?" that turns it into a mambo halfway through, but the new Rodgers songs are a waste of talent. Nevertheless, Rodgers and Hammerstein fans will welcome this valuable reclamation of one of their minor and often overlooked efforts. ~ William Ruhlmann Producer: Nick Redman (Reissue)   Technical Info Release Date : 11/02/1999 Original Release Date : 1962 Catalog ID : 66090 Label : Varese Sarabande (USA) Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00030206609028    Product Image