| features in: (B-list) Album Chart of 1965 ● (B-list) Album Chart of the 1960s |
Synposis: The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn and Eleanor Parker. The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical of the same name, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. The film's screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, adapted from the stage musical's book by Lindsay and Crouse. Based on the memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp, the film is about a young Austrian woman studying to become a nun in Salzburg, Austria in 1938 who is sent to the villa of a retired naval officer and widower to be governess to his seven children. After bringing and teaching love and music into the lives of the family through kindness and patience, she marries the officer and together with the children they find a way to survive the loss of their homeland through courage and faith. ~ Wikipedia
One of the most successful soundtrack albums in history with more than 20 million sales. Not my cup of tea, but not without certain charms here and there…
The Jukebox Rebel
17–Feb–2010
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [02:29]  Maria - Prelude And The Sound Of Music (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Crooner / Cabaret |
| A2 | [03:16]  Orchestra and Nuns Chorus - Overture And Preludium (Dixit Dominus) (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Film Score / Incidental |
| A3 | [01:59]  Nuns Chorus - Morning Hymn And Alleluia (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Operatic / Choral |
| A4 | [03:10]  Nuns Chorus - Maria (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Crooner / Cabaret |
| A5 | [03:15]  Maria - I Have Confidence In Me (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Crooner / Cabaret |
| A6 | [03:12]  Rolf and Liesl - Sixteen Going On Seventeen (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Crooner / Cabaret |
| A7 | [02:15]  Maria - My Favourite Things (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Crooner / Cabaret |
| A8 | [02:14]  Mother Abbess - Climb Ev’ry Mountain (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Operatic / Choral |
| B1 | [03:10]  Maria and The Children - The Lonely Goatherd (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Crooner / Cabaret |
| B2 | [02:09]  The Children and The Captain - The Sound Of Music (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Crooner / Cabaret |
| B3 | [05:33]  Maria and The Children - Do-Re-Mi (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Crooner / Cabaret |
| B4 | [03:12] Maria and The Captain - Something Good (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Crooner / Cabaret |
| B5 | [02:22]  Orchestra and Nuns Chorus Organ - Processional And Maria (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Film Score / Incidental |
| B6 | [01:48]  The Captain, Maria, The Children and Chorus - Edelweiss (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Pop Ballad |
| B7 | [02:49]  The Children - So Long Farewell (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Crooner / Cabaret |
| B8 | [01:22]  Chorus and Orchestra - Climb Ev’ry Mountain [reprise] (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Film Score / Incidental |
