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Irving Berlin - Alexander's Ragtime Band (The Original Soundtrack Recording)

Irving Berlin - Alexander's Ragtime Band (The Original Soundtrack Recording)

Musician: Irving Berlin
Album title: Alexander's Ragtime Band (The Original Soundtrack Recording)
Style: Soundtrack
Released: 1978
Country: US
Size MP3 version: 1892 mb
Size APE version: 1328 mb
Size WMA version: 1723 mb
Rating ✫: 4.8
Votes: 603
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Genre: Stage & Screen

Irving Berlin - Alexander's Ragtime Band (The Original Soundtrack Recording)


Tracklist Hide Credits

A1 Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Orchestra Opening Credits
A2 Alice Faye Alexander's Ragtime Band
A3 Jane Jones Trio - Otto Fries And Mel Kalish Ragtime Violin
A4 Alice Faye, Jack Haley And Chick Chandler The International Rag
A5 Wally Vernon, Dixie Dunbar, Alice Faye And Unknown Artist Everybody's Doin' It
A6 Don Ameche Now It Can Be Told
A7 Alice Faye Now It Can Be Told (Reprise)
A8 Wally Vernon This Is The Life
A9 Alice Faye When The Midnight Choo Choo Leaves For Alabam'
A10 Donald Douglas For Your Country And My Country
A11 The Kings Men In The YMCA
Chorus [Vocal Chorus] – The Kings Men
A12 Jack Haley And The Kings Men Oh, How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning
A13 Unknown Artist We're On Our Way To France
B1.1 Ethel Merman And Scene With Jack Haley And Tyrone Power Say It With Music
B1.2 Ethel Merman A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody
B2 Ethel Merman And Alice Faye Blue Skies
B3 Ethel Merman Pack Up Your Sins And Go To The Devil
B4.1 The Kings Men What'll I Do?
B4.2 Ethel Merman My Walking Stick
B5.1 Alice Faye Remember
B5.2 Ethel Merman Everybody Step
B5.3 Alice Faye All Alone
B6 Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Orchestra Marie
B7 Don Ameche Easter Parade
B8 Ethel Merman Heat Wave
B9 Alice Faye And Unknown Artist Alexander's Ragtime Band

Credits

  • Directed By [Uncredited] – Alfred Newman
  • Featuring [Starring] – Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman, Jack Haley, Tyrone Power
  • Music By – Irving Berlin
  • Orchestra [Uncredited] – Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Orchestra

Notes

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Credits as they appear on back of sleeve -
Track A2: Alice Faye and dialogue
Track A8: title appears as "This It The Life"
Track B6: Instrumental

Tracks A1, B6 do not include artist credits. Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Orchestra is not credited on release.

Information not on release:
In 1938, Twentieth-Century Fox got the idea for a film, Alexander’s Ragtime Band, which would in effect be a Berlin retrospective. They asked Berlin to come up with a story that would cover 25 years, from his first success in 1911 to the present.

Berlin, however, had no interest in sharing his private life with America. The story he gave Fox involved the fictitious adventures of "Alexander," a New Orleans bandleader who rises to fame playing Berlin’s music.

"Alexander's Ragtime Band" was a box office smash upon its release in 1938 and has long been a favorite with fans of the music of Tin Pan Alley. The film was nominated for 8 Academy Awards. One of the winners was Alfred Newman for his superb musical direction.

On October 30, 2001, Howards International released this (Hollywood Soundstage) recording on CD which includes additional tracks cut from the film.

On November 5, 2002, Screen Archives Entertainment (the internet-based supplier-to-the-world of motion picture soundtrack CD's) released the complete motion picture soundtrack score to Irving Berlin's 1938 20th Century-Fox Musical "Alexander's Ragtime Band" on CD.

The score is reproduced from the original 1938 studio scoring sessions. In addition to all of the vocal and instrumental music that appears in the film, the CD features several outtakes featuring Ethel Merman, Jack Haley and the 20th Century-Fox Orchestra under the direction of Alfred Newman.

The Screen Archives Entertainment CD includes 36 page full-color booklet heavily illustrated with historical notes by, among others, entertainer and musical archivist Michael Feinstein.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Other (Catalog #, Spine): NO 406
  • Other (Catalog #, Sleeve, Back): 406
  • Other (Catalog #, Labels): H.S. 406

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
SAE-CSR-0007 Irving Berlin / Alfred Newman Irving Berlin / Alfred Newman - Alexander’s Ragtime Band ‎(CD, Album) Screen Archives Entertainment SAE-CSR-0007 US 2002

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