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Track Listings
| 1. Overture |
| 2. Bless Your Beautiful Hide |
| 3. Wonderful Wonderful Day |
| 4. One Man |
| 5. Goin' Courtin' |
| 6. Love Never Goes Away |
| 7. Sobbin' Women |
| 8. The Townsfolk's Lament |
| 9. A Woman Ought To Know Her Place |
| 10. We Gotta Make It Through The Winter |
| 11. We Gotta Make It Through The Winter (Reprise)/Lonesome Polecat |
| 12. Spring, Spring, Spring |
| 13. A Woman Ought To Know Her Place (Reprise) |
| 14. Glad That You Were Born |
| 15. Love Never Goes Away |
| 16. Wedding Dance |
| 17. Finale: Goin' Courtin'/Wonderful Wonderful Day |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
This musical western was one of MGM's biggest hits of the 1950s, and with Michael Kidd's athletic choreography and an original, memorably lusty score by Gene de Paul and Johnny Mercer, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is still rollicking good fun today. Twelve of the brides and brothers were played by a refreshingly unfamiliar company of singers and dancers plucked mainly from the studio chorus line. But in the best roles of their careers, as the remaining bride and brother, were brawny baritone Howard Keel and pert, sweet-voiced Jane Powell, their robust performances bringing out all the folksy vigour and charm of "Bless yore beautiful hide", "Wonderful, wonderful day", and their tender duet "When you're in love". Presented in bracing widescreen stereo and replete with a whooping anthem for the sex-starved brothers ("Sobbin' women"), a foot-tapping guide to "Goin' courtin'", the lilting "Spring, Spring, Spring" and choice moments from Adolph Deutsch's background score (namely the invigorating barn-raising sequence), few other musicals are as heartily entertaining as this MGM classic. --Robert Seeley
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Format:Audio CD
This is the first musicals I saw when I moved to London back in the mid 80's. The quality of singing and the staging was brilliant. Listening to this CD brings it all back to me - all of the performers showed real character and personality which is something which is often lacking in a performance. I dont think there were any weak performances in this.
Its odd that listening to a CD can take you back more than 25 years but just listening to this takes me back to the Saturday when I took my seat in the Prince of Wales theatre. I've seen many musicals since and a lot of them have been special but this one has a special place in my heart
Its odd that listening to a CD can take you back more than 25 years but just listening to this takes me back to the Saturday when I took my seat in the Prince of Wales theatre. I've seen many musicals since and a lot of them have been special but this one has a special place in my heart
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
exceptional recording and performance
7 Jun 2005
Format:Audio CD
I find I can't agree with the other appraisals I see here of this delightful recording of this musical. Both Roni Page and Steve Devereaux are truly exceptional with Devereaux in particular bringing a very pleasing baritone and a great characterization to the part. Personally, I do not feel either of them give up anything to Powell or Keel in the quality of their singing and I, in many ways, find them preferable.
I think this set is also more complete than the MGM issue containing songs like "One Man", "Love Never Goes Away", "We Got To Make It Through the Winter" and "Glad That You Were Born" that are just not in the MGM CD. Moreover, the sound quality is excellent in this issue. The impact of the score comes over exceptionally as a result.
Frankly, I would prefer to have both recordings, but if I could have only one, it would be this one.
I think this set is also more complete than the MGM issue containing songs like "One Man", "Love Never Goes Away", "We Got To Make It Through the Winter" and "Glad That You Were Born" that are just not in the MGM CD. Moreover, the sound quality is excellent in this issue. The impact of the score comes over exceptionally as a result.
Frankly, I would prefer to have both recordings, but if I could have only one, it would be this one.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A welcome recording
28 Oct 2000
Format:Audio CD
I was glad to get this recording simply because it had the songs that were added after the movie. The problem is that it just doesn't have the musical feel that I was expecting, the Barn Dance isn't on here, and the guy that plays Adam is just ridiculous sounding. The rest of the cast sounds decent, and the woman who plays Millie shows just the right amount of feistiness and tenderness. All in all, I'd say it's only for the completists, otherwise wait until the Jay Masterworks recording coming soon.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Not as good as the movie soundtrack.
15 Aug 2000
Format:Audio CD
I was sort of dissapantant in this CD. It wasn't as good as the movie virson. Jane Powell isw much better than the other women.
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