A Star Is Born (Expanded 1954 Film Soundtrack)

A Star Is Born (Expanded 1954 Film Soundtrack)

A Star Is Born (Expanded 1954 Film Soundtrack)
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Edition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2004-05-18
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  1. Overture
  2. Night Of The Stars
  3. Gotta Have Me Go With You
  4. Norman At Home
  5. Pasion Oriental
  6. The Man That Got Away
  7. Cheatin' On Me
  8. 'I'm Quitting The Band...'
  9. The Man That Got Away (Instrumental Version)
  10. Esther In The Boarding House
  11. Oliver Niles Studio
  12. Esther's Awful Makeup
  13. First Day In The Studio
  14. Born In A Trunk (Medley)
  15. Easy Come, Easy Go
  16. Here's What I'm Here For
  17. The Honeymoon
  18. It's A New World
  19. Someone At Last
  20. Lose That Long Face
  21. Norman Overhears The Conversation
  22. It's A New World (Alternate Take)
  23. The Last Swim
  24. Finale - End Credits
  25. When My Sugar Walks Down The Street
  26. The Trinidad Coconut Oil Shampoo Commercial

Music reviews of A Star Is Born (Expanded 1954 Film Soundtrack)

Music Review: Forgive the cheesy title, but a star is re-born once again.
Rating: 5 Stars

In 1954, Judy Garland gave the most acclaimed performance of her career as a musical movie star in George Cukor's musical remake of the 1937 straight-up drama A Star Is Born. After its premiere, the film was heavily edited and would not be seen in its near complete form again for nearly thirty years. Judy was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance, but lost to Grace Kelly, to the chagrin of many Garland fans to this day, as well as many celebrities of the day. (Groucho Mark famously called it the biggest robbery since Brinks.)

In all that mess, the soundtrack was released by Columbia on vinyl record in mono and has since never been out of print and was a best-seller for years. In 1988, Columbia took the musical numbers and the overture directly from the film's stereo soundtrack (As, sadly, stereo soundtrack masters no longer existed.) and released those onto CD. The sound quality was somewhat horrendous, but digital audio was still in its infancy and not much else could be done.

In 2004, for the film's 50th anniversary, Columbia, Legacy, and Sony Music Soundtrax released this incredible new expanded remastered CD reissue of the film's soundtrack. This is the most complete soundtrack you can find and it's definitely worth upgrading from your 1988 CD release.

This CD contains not only all of the songs, including an extended intro to The Man That Got Away which was shortened in the film as well as the complete intro to Gotta Have Me Go With You, but also contains a near complete release of the instrumental score, which includes whole tracks and parts of tracks that were not used in the film, as well as an alternate vocal take of It's A New World, the deleted When My Sugar Walks Down The Street segment from Born In A Trunk, and a static-y complete version of The Trinidad Coconut Oil Shampoo Commercial, which was taken from a worn acetate playback disc - the only complete recording in existence.

The soundtrack is taken from a mixing and matching of several elements, such as acetate playback discs, the original Columbia mono soundtrack album masters, and the film's 4-track stereo soundtrack, among others. This means that the soundtrack goes back and forth from being stereo and mono. However, this does not detract from my listening experience any, and frankly, I can't tell much of a difference. One interesting note is that Gotta Have Me Go With You uses both the film's soundtrack and the mono soundtrack album masters to create a faithful listening experience, from the mono instrumental intro to the song itself, which except for a short portion, is taken from the film's 4-channel soundtrack. (The mono portion of the vocal part was used to edit out some plot-related screams that were present in the 1988 release. This method of retaining the aural integrity of Gotta Have Me Go With You was also used when it was included on the Rhino Records compilation Judy Garland In Hollywood: Her Greatest Movie Hits.)

Despite the fact that this soundtrack is taken from several different surviving elements and sadly not from a single set of elements, as Warner Bros. didn't have the foresight to save everything like MGM and Disney did, this is an excellent presentation of this landmark soundtrack. The sound quality for the most part is excellent, and the liner notes are also wonderful. Garland historian John Fricke writes a small essay on the production of the film and an annotated guide to the soundtrack, which gives a synopsis of the plot and also indicates where the tracks from the CD appear in the film. Producer Didier C. Deutsch also writes a small essay on the creation of this CD release, giving notes on the elements and some specific tracks.

Amazon is offering this soundtrack at an excellent price, and I have to say, it's a bargain for a soundtrack of this caliber and sound quality. Any Garland fan or movie soundtrack fan should have this in their collection.
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