Gypsy (1962 Film Soundtrack)

Artist: Jule Styne , Stephen Sondheim , and Rosalind Russell
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music

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Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 081227387327
EAN: 0081227387327
ASIN: B0000DZ3CN

Release Date: 2003-11-11

Gypsy (1962 Film Soundtrack)

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Tracks:

Overture
Small World
Some People
Baby June And Her Newsboys (Let Me Entertain You)
Mr. Goldstone, I Love You
Little Lamb
You'll Never Get Away From Me
Dainty June And Her Farm Boys
If Mama Was Married
All I Need Is The Girl
Everything's Coming Up Roses
Together Wherever We Go (Album Version)
You Gotta Have A Gimmick
Let Me Entertain You
Rose's Turn (Album Version)
Finale
Some People (Outtake)
Small World (Outtake)
You'll Never Get Away From Me (Outtake)
Everything's Coming Up Roses (Outtake)
Together Wherever We Go (Outtake)
Rose's Turn (Outtake)

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Customer Reviews:

Good soundtrack to a good movie.......2006-08-09

The glorious Styne/Sondheim score is left virtually intact and well-played by the Warner Bros.Orchestra under the spirited direction of Frank Perkins.The cast performs surprisingly well
for a bunch of mostly nonsingers,and Lisa Kirk does a wonderful job of dubbing Rosalind Russell(who herself is good on the three
bonus tracks).The highlights are "If Mama Was Married",both versions of "Rose's Turn",and especially the hilarious "You Gotta Get A Gimmick".This is an hour of very enjoyable listening.

Curtain Up ! Light The Lights !.......2005-11-26

I see all my fellow "Gypsy" fans have had their say. Well, "Here's Frankie !" Yes, they could have included some more on the CD, but I have always found the sound of this album thrilling, and the movie has always been one of my favorites. How many movies of Broadway shows include almost the whole score, and in the exact context it was done ? Now about Roz. I always thought that, even though she's not Ethel, she did a damn good job with this character, even though sometimes she seemed not to really believe in what she was trying to do for Louise. As for her singing, I found only one bad note ("Good-bye" on "Some People")and I'm amazed at how "straight-ahead" she sang these tough songs, and not talk-singing either. Interesting point about the versions not being finished. If they had worked with her, I think her singing would have passed muster. Maybe Ethel would've been too big, but imagine if Judy Garland or Susan Hayward had done it ? As you all know, Susan was a damn good singer ! But how glorious to have this CD of one of the very best movie musicals EVER !

Everything is coming up roses for this re-release.......2005-09-03

The soundtrack for another much maligned film musical is chock-full of extras, outtakes and a very detailed booklet. We finally hear what Roz Russell would have sounded like had she done all her own singing. Digitally re-mixed and beautifully presented, this is a must for all film musical fans who need that complete collection of everything Gypsy!. True, Natalie Wood and Karl Malden were no great singers but their on screen performances more than make up for it. All the stops were pulled out to make this as complete a offering as possible. A perfect companion to the DVD. With the outtakes on the DVD along with the outtakes on this CD, you'll have all the surviving extra elements that went into this excellent film version of what many consider the greatest book musical of all time.

A "Gypsy" that should be treasured.........2005-07-22

Considered one of the best musicals of all time - the movie version of "Gypsy" was released in 1962 - starring the wonderful Roz Russell.

This is the first time we can hear the wonderful movie version of these songs on CD. As we know - Most of Momma Rose's songs were dubbed by Lisa Kirk. It wasn't that Roz couldn't sing - it was just that these songs were way out of Roz's range. She recorded all the tracks with her voice - some were fine, but some just couldn't be in the movie. So they brought in a wonderful Broadway vocalist - Lisa Kirk. In the final movie version - we hear Russell sing "Mr Goldstone", and the wonderful "Rose's Turn" is a mix of Russell and Kirk - with Kirk mostly on the longer sustained notes.

On this recently released Soundtrack - we hear all of Russel's outakes. "Some People", and "Small World" aren't very good. Roz does a nice job on "Everything's Coming Up Roses" - though she does struggle on the sustained notes. Roz does fine with a fast tempo song - she struggles on ballads.

Also starring in Gypsy - is the wonderful Natalie Wood. Natalie played Gypsy Rose Lee - the worlds most famous stripper. In the West Side Story movie - Natalie Wood suffered a horrible thing, they filmed the movie with her singing tracks - then last minute they brought in Marni Nixon and dubbed all her songs - and Wood didn't find out for a while. In Gypsy - Natalie gets to sing ALL her songs! She has such a beautiful voice. She does a great job on "Little Lamb", and the famous "Let Me Entertain You."

Overall - this soundtrack is worth having. With all the bonus tracks - it's fabulous. Gypsy has one of the best scores ever - and this soundtrack does the score justice.

Not the first choice as a recording of GYPSY!.......2004-09-04

The much-maligned movie of GYPSY is not hard to watch or enjoy. Still, you have a sense you are seeing a late-run replacement cast instead of the genuine original.

Merman. The legend grows and grows about her powerful performance on Broadway. Judging from the Broadway cast album she sure sang the hell out of each number: She was heading into her angry years and maybe channelled some of that ferocity into the role. I have never heard anyone say that she acted the role particulary well. An audio tape exists of her closing night performance and she seems to be racing through the show and (as was her habit) playing her lines to the back rows of the audience instead of other actors on stage. Still, the power she commanded is undeniable. Had she made the film of GYPSY would it have been better or would the camaras have made her appear too oversized for the role? (I am one of her biggest fans and had the privilage of recording an interview with her in 1979. But I think she worked best on stage and less well on TV and in the movies.)

Roz Russell. It's not so much that she wasn't a singer. She does fine by the songs in WONDERFUL TOWN...although they were tailored to her range. And she certainly was a gifted actress handling comedy as well as drama. Her performance in the movie certainly shows the range, and the long film is a pretty good one. It is also very faithful to the Broadway script. The choice of Lisa Kirk to dub was well done as Kirk's husky voice is a good match for Russell's. (In her autobiography, Russell insists she did all her own singing. True she recorded everything, but Kirk was brought in to overdub a good deal of it in post production.) Listen to Russell's previously unheard vocal tracks and you'll hear a performer struggling with songs that are far out of her range.

I suspect a better director might have coaxed more nuanced performances from the stars. Watching the recent DVD I found the cast are still playing as if on stage.

The soundtrack album has always been a second choice. The LP was issued shortly after the movie was released and stayed in print for the next ten years, but Merman's original cast recording always outsold it and still does!

So, WHY would you want this version? Well, the score is one of the best ever written for a musical, and the orchestrations are beefier. According to the original LP liner notes Jule Styne conducts the overture (heard complete on the soundtrack album, but heavily abridged to underscore the credits of the movie) but this may be just public relations puffery. Rhino has given us the best sound possible....If you like that "boxy" Warner Bros soundtage sound. Drag queens have always loved the soundtrack take of "You Gotta Have a Gimmick" maybe because the strippers singing it sound like drag queens themselves! Otherwise nothing on this soundtrack disc matches the Merman original cast recording.

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