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The Hills Are Alive: "The Sound of Music" 60th Anniversary Reissue Due in December from Craft Recordings

October 23, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music has found a new home. The original Broadway cast recording of the beloved Broadway musical, first issued in 1959 and continuously in print since then on Columbia Records, will celebrate its 60th anniversary on a new label. On December 6, Craft Recordings will premiere on CD and 180-gram vinyl a remastered reissue of the album starring Tony Award winning stage legend Mary Martin and acclaimed actor/folksinger Theodore Bikel.

The show, based on the life of Maria Von Trapp, had been the concept of director Vincent J. Donehue. He initially enlisted writers Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse and producers Leland Hayward and Richard Halliday (a.k.a. Mary Martin's husband) to bring it to life as a vehicle for Martin. As Ted Chapin of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization writes in his new liner notes for Craft's release, "Lindsay and Crouse knew that music would be part of the show. But would the Broadway audience of the late 1950s be all that interested in Austrian folk songs and madrigals? Maybe a few new songs might help and give their star something to hold on to. Someone thought of [Richard] Rodgers and [Oscar] Hammerstein [II], who were still considered the on-going and active kings of the Broadway musical...They were attracted to it, but said they felt it would be better suited to be a full-on musical rather than a play with songs...That must have come as very good news indeed to Martin, Halliday, Lindsay and Crouse, because they agreed quickly."

Maria Von Trapp's uplifting story arrived at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 16, 1959, where it won five Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for Mary Martin.  The Columbia Masterworks cast album spent 276 (!) weeks on the Billboard chart, including 16 weeks at Number One, and imprinted Rodgers and Hammerstein's score (the duo's last, as Hammerstein died in August 1960) on the American consciousness. Their classic songs such as "The Sound of Music," "My Favorite Things," "Do-Re-Mi," "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" and Hammerstein's final lyric "Edelweiss" were included in the smash 1965 film version which became one of the most successful motion pictures of all time. The original Broadway production closed on June 15, 1963, but the show has been often revived - in New York, London, and on stages throughout the world. Its music is no less a part of culture today as it was sixty years ago; earlier this year, "My Favorite Things" was reinvented by pop artist Ariana Grande as "7 Rings." The track premiered at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and stayed there for eight weeks.

The Original Broadway Cast Recording, produced by Goddard Lieberson and featuring Robert Russell Bennett's grand orchestrations, has been newly remastered for Craft's reissue from the original three-track master tape by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound. The vinyl version will be pressed on four sides of vinyl for optimum sound quality at RTI and housed in a replica of the original LP's lavish gatefold jacket (the first such gatefold printed by Columbia). The album will also be available digitally, including at 192/24 high resolution.

The 60th anniversary edition of The Sound of Music arrives on CD, vinyl, and digital platforms on December 6. You can peruse the track listings and pre-order below!

The Sound of Music: The Original Broadway Cast Recording (Columbia Masterworks KOS 2020, 1959 - reissued Craft Recordings, 2019) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

CD:

  1. Preludium (Nuns)
  2. The Sound of Music (Mary Martin)
  3. Maria (Elizabeth Howell, Karen Shepard, Muriel O'Malley, Patricia Neway)
  4. My Favorite Things (Mary Martin, Patricia Neway)
  5. Do-Re-Mi (Mary Martin, Children)
  6. Sixteen Going on Seventeen (Brian Davies, Lauri Peters)
  7. The Lonely Goatherd (Mary Martin, Children)
  8. How Can Love Survive? (Kurt Kasznar, Marion Marlowe)
  9. The Sound of Music (Reprise) (Mary Martin, Children, Theodore Bikel)
  10. Laendler (Orchestra)
  11. So Long, Farewell (Children)
  12. Climb Ev'ry Mountain (Patricia Neway)
  13. No Way To Stop It (Marion Marlowe, Kurt Kasznar, Theodore Bikel)
  14. An Ordinary Couple (Mary Martin, Theodore Bikel)
  15. Processional (Ensemble)
  16. Sixteen Going on Seventeen (Reprise) (Mary Martin, Lauri Peters)
  17. Edelweiss (Mary Martin, Theodore Bikel, Children)
  18. Climb Ev'ry Mountain (Reprise) (Patricia Neway, Company)

The Sound of Music: The Original Broadway Cast Recording (Columbia Masterworks KOS 2020, 1959 - reissued Craft Recordings, 2019) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Vinyl:

Side One

  1. Preludium (Nuns)
  2. The Sound of Music (Mary Martin)
  3. Maria (Elizabeth Howell, Karen Shepard, Muriel O'Malley, Patricia Neway)
  4. My Favorite Things (Mary Martin, Patricia Neway)
  5. Do-Re-Mi (Mary Martin, Children)

Side Two

  1. Sixteen Going on Seventeen (Brian Davies, Lauri Peters)
  2. The Lonely Goatherd (Mary Martin, Children)
  3. How Can Love Survive? (Kurt Kasznar, Marion Marlowe)
  4. The Sound of Music (reprise) (Mary Martin, Children, Theodore Bikel)

Side Three

  1. Laendler (Orchestra)
  2. So Long, Farewell (Children)
  3. Climb Ev'ry Mountain (Patricia Neway)
  4. No Way To Stop It (Marion Marlowe, Kurt Kasznar, Theodore Bikel)

Side Four

  1. An Ordinary Couple (Mary Martin, Theodore Bikel)
  2. Processional (Ensemble)
  3. Sixteen Going on Seventeen (Reprise) (Mary Martin, Lauri Peters)
  4. Edelweiss (Mary Martin, Theodore Bikel, Children)
  5. Climb Ev'ry Mountain (Reprise) (Patricia Neway, Company)

Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Mary Martin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Theodore Bikel

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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