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Happiest Millionaire[Soundtrack] [Import]
Various Artists
発売日：2002年8月13日(火)
レーベル：Walt Disney Records
レビュー (Amazon)
One of the last live-action films personally nurtured by Walt Disney, this musical romp about an eccentric (alligators in the study; home Bible classes peppered with boxing lessons) millionaire's familial foibles couldn't help but seem out of place when released in the pop-cultural maelstrom of 1967. But Disney wisely entrusted its score to the Sherman brothers, the same songwriting team who'd previously conjured up the classic Mary Poppins. They responded with a uniformly sprightly, slightly Anglocentric song score with plenty of turns in the spotlight for stars Fred MacMurray ("Strengthen the Dwelling" and the anthemic "I Believe in This Country" and "What's Wrong with That"), U.K. pop idol Tommy Steele (the playful "Fortuosity," "I'll Always Be Irish," "Let's Have a Drink On It"), young Lesley Anne Warren ("Valentine Candy," the slyly seductive "Bye-Yum Pum Pum"), and John Davidson (the romantic duets with Warren, "Detroit" and "Are We Dancing"). This digital restoration also includes songs eliminated from the film's original near-three-hour cut, "It Won't Be Long" (in a U.K. cover version) and "Off Rittenhouse Square" in demo form by the Shermans. A thoroughly charming anachronism--and oddly, one whose musical standard of quality is not so out of step with much contemporary Broadway fare. --Jerry McCulley
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