Barbra Streisand, Michael Crawford - Hello, Dolly! (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Artist: Barbra Streisand, Michael CrawfordBrand: TCM
Composer: Jerry Herman
Conductor: Jerry Herman
Conductor: Lionel Newman
Performer: Walter Matthau
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1994-11-08
Model: 042281036828
Music Label: Philips
Soundtracks:
- Just Leave Everything to Me
- It Takes a Woman
- It Takes a Woman (Reprise)
- Put On Your Sunday Clothes - Louis Armstrong
- Ribbons down My Back
- Dancing
- Before the Parade Passes By
- Elegance
- Love Is Only Love
- Hello, Dolly! - Louis Armstrong
- It Only Takes A Moment - Louis Armstrong
- So Long Dearie - Louis Armstrong
- Finale - Louis Armstrong
Music reviews of Hello, Dolly! (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Music Review: Never better sung....
Rating: 4 Stars
Since all we're talking about here is the music, you can rate "Hello Dolly" quite high because Barbra in the late 60s couldn't be beat to deliver the goods and she does wonders with the score. It never sounded so good. The two new songs are terrific ("Just Leave Everything to Me" and "Love is Only Love") and she handles the rest of the familiar terrain with ease and polish. She makes the most of "So Long Dearie" and with Louis Armstrong in tow, infuses new life and energy into the oft-performed (by 1969) title track. And, yes, her version of "Before the Parade Passes By" is one for the ages. It doesn't get any better than that.
The film itself, however, is a hodge podge. At 27, Streisand was too young for the role (despite hair, make-up and wardrobe all coming together to effect an "older" woman) and Gene Kelly's direction of the film was mistimed. I'm not sure Barbra knew what he wanted...or that he, himself, knew what he wanted, because her performance was a bit all over the place and looks to have been directed that way. At times, she channeled Mae West. Sometimes, her delivery reminded us of Fanny Brice. I think she was simply out of her element as she doesn't come off having as much fun as she should have been having. I think, at her core, she understood that she wasn't perfect for the role and that, perhaps, this style of musical (in a year that "Midnight Cowboy" would win the Best Picture Oscar) was of a bygone era. The film feels long, other characters seem like they're planted there more for effect than anything else and it's all just a little too pat. It's one of her least successful films for good reason.
Barbra was destined for the role. After her boffo bow on the big screen in 1968's "Funny Girl," she was the go-to singer/actress and there was no stopping that juggernaut. Hollywood doesn't see the world in any other terms. But, truthfully, Dolly should have been older (it's tragic that Judy Garland was, by the late 60s, so unhealthy to have ever revived her movie career -- she died in the summer of 1969, as the film was being released -- and it's impossible to separate what she was by then with what she could have been, but HAD she been healthy and had the previous decade of her life not played out as it had, she'd have been the perfect age (46) to play Dolly on the big screen) and there were probably other performers who could have delivered the goods in a way that would have made the film feel more well rounded and, frankly, richer. It's well documented that Walter Matthau and Streisand had no love lost for each other during the filming and I think that also lessened the impact of the love story that was supposed to be front and center in the film.
The CD release should have sparkled with a better re-mastering (it IS a Barbra Streisand original movie musical soundtrack after all) and other music should have made its way onto this version that enhanced what was originally put out on the album. Enjoy this music, though. What didn't work on film still works beautifully on the soundtrack and Streisand's singing seems almost effortless as she winds her way through Jerry Herman's great, classic, Broadway score.
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