Original Cartoon Cast Album - Mighty Hercules
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CD Details
Artist: Original Cartoon Cast AlbumEdition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2001-07-31
Music Label: Image Entertainment
Soundtracks:
- The Mighty Hercules Theme Song
- Newton's Song
- You Were Rich The Day You Were Born
- You've Got To Be Strong
- Tootle A Flute
- Hercules (reprise)
- You Can Do Anything You Want
- The Kind Of Man I Know You'll Be
- A Bad, Bad Man
- Newton's Song (reprise)
- Hercules (finale)
Music reviews of Mighty Hercules
Music Review: Please understand the history of this album and then decide for yourself...
Rating: 3 Stars
No, this is NOT the soundtrack, nor does it contain any of the original cast voices. The actual package does not make any such claim. This is actually a "studio cast" or "second cast" album made by Golden Records in 1963.
It was common practice, for one reason or another, for children's records companies like Golden to use non-soundtrack and non-original-cast versions. Sometimes it came down to money. An album selling for anywhere from 99 cents to $1.00 does not always have the budget to access the original cast (which involves studio time, talent and musician fees and sometime travel and expenses). Sometimes the soundtrack is not cleared for recordings, so it would be expensive to re-pay all the necessary fees (1951's Disney's Alice in Wonderland was never a soundtrack album until the 1990's for these reasons).
But that's no consolation if you're looking for an album to bring you back to the childhood memories of THE MIGHTY HERCULES. Despite amazon's erroneous "soundtrack" listing, it does not sound at all like the series. Instead, it has the Jim Timmens modest-budget sound that dominated Golden Records of the early 60's. However, longtime Famous Studios composer Winston Sharples DID co-write the songs (including the infamous theme). There are very few Winston Sharples records. It also features New York session singers of the period, particularly Rose Marie Jun, who did countless commercial jingles as well as song demos for some of Broadway's biggest shows. She also co-starred with Streisand in "Pins and Needles."
So, if you do recall the Golden Records sound of your childhood, you like the cover art, you want a rare musical score by Winston Sharples which appears nowhere else, or you want to get anything connected with this cartoon, which had little merchandise as I recall, this CD is for you.
This album does feature the theme sung by the Golden Singers, and does include extra lyrics. If you want the Johnny Nash soundtrack theme, it's on "Toon Tunes:Action-Packed Anthems" on Rhino or "Television's Greatest Hits, Vol.4: Black & White Classics" on Tee Vee Toons.
Description of Mighty Hercules
In the world of mythology, the most popular character of all is Hercules. Half man, half immortal, his father was Zeus, king of the Gods, and his mother, a mortal woman. In order to earn his place on Mount Olympus (the home of the Gods) he had to accomplish 12 difficult and amazing tasks! The Orininal Cartoon Cast album.General CDs
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