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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954 Film Soundtrack) | 
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| Artists: Gene Depaul, Johnny Mercer, Howard Keel, Jane Powell
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 5101
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 71966
UPC: 081227196622
EAN: 0081227196622
ASIN: B0000033JJ
Release Date: June 18, 1996
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| Tracks:
| • | Main Title (Extended Wide Screen Version) | | • | Bless Yore Beautiful Hide | | • | Do Unto Udders | | • | Bless Yore Beautiful Hide (Reprise) | | • | Wonderful, Wonderful Day | | • | Adam in Treetop | | • | When You're In Love | | • | Goin' Go'tin' | | • | Barn Dance | | • | Barn Raising | | • | When You're In Love (Reprise) | | • | Brotherly Advice / Lonesome Winter | | • | Lament (Lonesome Polecat) | | • | Lovesick | | • | Sobbin' Women | | • | Kidnapped and Chase | | • | June Bride | | • | June Bride (Reprise) | | • | Spring, Spring, Spring | | • | When You're In Love (Reprise) (Outtake) | | • | End Title | | • | Bless Yore Beautiful Hide (Rehearsal Recording) | | • | Goin' Co'tin' (Demo Recording) | | • | Queen Of The May (Outtake) (Demo Recording) | | • | When You're In Love (Demo Recording) | | • | Spring, Spring, Spring (Demo Recording) | | • | Sobbin' Women (Demo Recording) |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers July 17, 2007
Very good quality reproduction, and enjoyable to listen to the full length movie soundtrack again.
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers soundtrack January 12, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Love it!!! Love the movie and am so happy to have the soundtrack. My children love to sing and dance to this music.
AMAZING!!!!!!! September 5, 2005
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I LOVE listing to it on my ipod and in the car. My daughter was in a community play of it and we just love singing along. we love the songs "sobbin' women", "Bless your beautiful hive", and "Going' cortin'". If u love the music u will absolutly love the movie too.
Wall Of Sound August 8, 2005
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
It's a great show, hands down one of the best original movie musicals of the 1950s. Instead of depending on an existing Broadway show, the creators decided to do it themselves, and the result was movie magic. The always creative Stanley Donen seemed driven to recreate American masculinity on the screen, and he found the perfect dance partner in Michael Kidd, whose energetic, acrobatic dances were a sensation and still look terrific today. As dancers, the men come off better than the women, who are hampered by some weird looking costumes and when they're trying to look pretty have to simper around in plushy pastels, like a living row of Nicco wafers.
On the soundtrack, we miss the dancing but there are some wonderful dance arrangements that will get your feet a-tapping. Best of all ghe absence of visuals allows us to concentrate on the classic tunes themselves, which while watching the movie play second fiddle to the subordinate elements. Howard Keel and Jane Powell have melodic, achingly lyrical voices and are each given several opportunities to really wail out--they should have worked with Phil Spector!
Jane's voice, sometimes wobbly or piercing in lesser recordings, is perfection here; Keel probably sings a bit better in ANNIE GET YOUR GUN or KISS ME KATE, but that's only technique: he sounds like he's having a blast. The mixed choruses are charming and Johnny Mercer's lyrics are simply crazy--not over the top as they would be for LIL ABNER, just crazy. If the plot is sometimes criticized as being unseemly, since the theme of rape is treated so casually and humorously, you don't hear much of that on the soundtrack, not until you hear Mercer's original lyrics for "The Sobbin' Women." That will open your eyes and ears! Mercer, by many accounts rather a pig of a human being, came honestly by his reputation as a poet; his lyrics embody the American pastoral in the Cold War, postwar period.
Thank Goodness they were able to find some of this stuff in the trunk. But even without it you would still have one heck of a show album.
If You Liked the Movie, You'll Love the CD. . . September 11, 2004
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you enjoyed the movie, you'll love the CD, particularly for its bonus tracks, including Howard Keel's rehearsal recording of "Bless Yore Beautiful Hide", which, although less vigouously presented than his usual style, is, in its own way, charming. You can also focus, undistracted by the spectacular dancing, on the six-minute rendition of the "Barn Dance", superbly performed by the ace M-G-M Studio Orchestra.However, most outstanding of these 6 bonus gems are the Academy Award-winning lyricist (for "Moon River") Johnny Mercer's original lyrics, heard in the demo recordings of "Goin' Co'tin'" and "Sobbin' Women". PRICELESS!!! Stanley Donen, who directed the film, performs the former, and audibly collapses into laughter at some of "Goin' Co'tin'"'s words, as will you. But the highlight is Johnny Mercer himself, performing (with composer Gene De Paul) the original "Sobbin' Women". Mercer must have been planning on the Hays Office being closed on the day he intended to submit his lyrics, for there is no doubt whatsoever that the censorship bureau would NEVER have permitted those words to be heard in an entertainment aimed at families. One rather thinks Mercer wrote these words only to be sung at stag parties, and this demo track does sound as if it were performed at one. IT'S A RIOT! Go directly to Track 27.
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