Track Listing

1. Act I: Preludium
2. Act I: The Sound Of Music
3. Act I: Maria
4. Act I: My Favorite Things
5. Act I: Do-Re-Mi
6. Act I: Sixteen Going On Seventeen
7. Act I: The Lonely Goatherd
8. Act I: How Can Love Survive?
9. Act I: The Sound Of Music (Reprise)
10. Act I: Laendler
11. Act I: So Long, Farewell
12. Act I: Climb Ev'ry Mountain
13. Act II: No Way To Stop It
14. Act II: An Ordinary Couple
15. Act II: Processional
16. Act II: Sixteen Going On Seventeen (Reprise)
17. Act II: Edelweiss
18. Act II: Climb Ev'ry Mountain (Reprise)
19. Bonus Track: The Sound Of Music-A Symphonic Picture For Orchestra
20. Bonus Track: Do-Re-Mi

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4857 in Music
• Released on: 1998-09-15
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording

Album Description
Asian Exclusive! Gold Edition of the 1965 original soundtrack written by Rodgers & Hammerstein features 22 tracks including a bonus disc of 6 Music Box Version tracks: 'Do-Re-Mi', 'Edelweiss', 'The Sound Of Music', 'The Lonely Goatherd', 'So Long, Farewell' & 'Sixteen Going On Seventeen'. RCA. 2005.

Amazon.com
Most of the civilized world identifies this Rodgers and Hammerstein classic with the Robert Wise film, one of the most successful movie musicals of all time ("The Sound of Money," critic Pauline Kael termed it). Which is why this recording can be so disconcerting. Not only are there different tunes ("How Can Love Survive," "Laendler," "No Way to Stop It," but no "Confidence" or "Something Good," both written for the film), but Captain Von Trapp is played by heavyset folksinger Theodore Bikel, a far cry from young Christopher Plummer. Mary Martin was not only much older than the film's Julie Andrews, she wasn't even British! Then again, neither was the real Maria--and the stage version is, in many ways, more faithful to the Von Trapp Family Singers' true story. --Bill Holdship

Customer Reviews

Nice Rodgers and Hammerstein
TSOM is a nice score, not R&H's best, but still heads over so much else at the time. Much has been said about Mary Martin's being too old. Apparently R&H didn't think so since they wrote TSOM for her. And audiences loved it! So much so that she won the Tony award that year. (Over Merman in Gypsy. Although, truth be told, Merman was not particularly popular with the theatrical community. From accounts I've read she was a major diva and a total b***h. And since it was her peers who were Tony voters...) Still it's a nice recording of pleasant R & H standards, different in scope than the film soundtrack but pretty good on it's own merit. Enjoyable!

I love this 'Sound of Music'.......
Though, I saw SOUND OF MUSIC on film at an early age, I also heard the original Broadway Cast recording, with Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel, as a young person, too. Mary Martin has a great stage presence and was a wonderful singer, in my opinion, and she is nothing but great in this production of Captain & Maria Von Trapp and their brood of singing children. Yes, the Maria (Martin) and Captain (Bikel) are significantly older than the version we see in the film (with Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer), but they are still very, very good actors and they sing the songs with feeling. There are songs in the original recording that were cut for the film ("How Can Love Survive," "Laendler," "No Way To Stop It," and "An Ordinary Couple"), and I think they are actually far superior to those that were added to the movie ("I Have Confidence," "Something Good"). The kids are adorable, here, and it's nothing short of great musical theater.

Musical.
This is the original version of The Sound of Music starring Mary Martin.. She does a wonderful job, I especially like the Lonely Goatherd.
A real difference from the Julie Andrews version. With extra songs left out of the film and one changed song. I thrououghly recommend this title.