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Product details

  • Audio CD (6 Dec 1999)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Soundtrack
  • Label: Varese Sarabande
  • ASIN: B00002ML3U
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 179,583 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

1. Our State Fair
2. It Might As Well Be Spring
3. It Might As Well Be Spring (2)
4. That's For Me
5. It's A Grand Night For Singing
6. That's For Me (2)
7. It's A Grand Night For Singing (2)
8. Isn't It Kinda Fun
9. All I Owe Ioway
10. Isn't It Kinda Fun (2)
11. Finale
12. Main Title (2)
13. It Might As Well Be Spring (3)
14. That's For Me (3)
15. More Than Just A Friend (3)
16. Fair Dance
17. Isn't It Kinda Fun (4)
18. Never Say No To A Man
19. Willing And Eager
20. Romance Medley
See all 23 tracks on this disc

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Amazon.co.uk Review

State Fair came at an important time in the Rodgers and Hammerstein partnership. They had recently had their first Broadway success with Oklahoma! and were preparing their second, Carousel. In 1945, 20th Century Fox mogul Daryl Zanuck slipped in and procured their services for a filmed musical adaptation of Philip Stong's wholesome, cosy tale of farming folk as they encounter the more cosmopolitan temptations of the fair. It would be the only score they produced specifically for the cinema. Apart from most of the songs--Rodgers contributed some replacements to the later version--Fox's musical director Alfred Newman is the key link between the 1945 and 1962 movies, both of which are featured on this disc. Despite a creaking old book, the score spawned classic Rodgers and Hammerstein numbers like "It Might As Well Be Spring" and "It's A Grand Night For Singing". Vocally, Vivian Blaine is the star turn of the original cast; the 1962 film attempted to cash in on the youthful appeal of Ann Margret, Pat Boone and Bobby Darin, but veteran pin-up Alice Faye steals the show ("Never Say No To A Man"). An acclaimed stage production finally hit Broadway in the late 1990s, combining the best of both scores. --Piers Ford

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4.0 out of 5 stars Our State Fair is a... great soundtrack!,, 4 May 2004
This recording is a compilation of the soundtracks of both the original 1945 motion picture score of STATE FAIR and the 1962 remake. The 1945 soundtrack is the true gem, as sound quality is superb. The 1962 soundtrack is very good also, but when the time came for restoration, this film (and tracks) were rapidly deteriorating - to the point where the tracks for one of the songs no longer exists. It is not Rodgers and Hammerstein's most well known score, but it is perhaps the most enchanting.

The 1945 film STATE FAIR was R&H's only musical score written directly for the movies. It was, in a way, 20th Century-Fox's answer to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1944 Judy Garland musical megahit, MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS. Both films have several similarities. They both focus on a fair. Both involve young women finding their loves. Both feature the star sitting in a window sill singing a "love" song (MMISL: "The Boy Next Door." SF: "It Might As Well Be Spring").
This is a very good soundtrack compilation - a must for any Rodgers and Hammerstein fan.

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