Main menuTony Baker and his orchestra, Academy award winners, volume one 1934 - 1950
Release details
| Title | Academy award winners, volume one 1934 - 1950 | ||||||||
| Artist(s): | Tony Baker and his orchestra | ||||||||
| Category: | BBC - Pickwick-PWKS (Click on this button to view other releases of BBC - Pickwick-PWKS CDs.) | ||||||||
| Label and catalogue number: |  Pickwick - PWKS 655 | ||||||||
| Format: | Disc CDs | ||||||||
| Country: | UK  | ||||||||
| Released: | 1989 | ||||||||
| Genre: | Films View all other tracks listed as Films. | ||||||||
| Run-off codes: | S PWKS 655 01 | ||||||||
| Item deleted? | Yes | ||||||||
| Distributed / printed by | Pickwick | ||||||||
| Page views: | 991 times since 20th May, 2017, global rank is 6301, rank in cds is 403. | ||||||||
| My rating: | ***** | ||||||||
| Guest rating: | ***** | ||||||||
My copies information
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| Detail | Value | ||||||||||
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| Cover condition | Near mint | ||||||||||
| Record condition | Near mint | ||||||||||
| BBC records label code | - | ||||||||||
| Number have | 1 | ||||||||||
| What type of seller was used | Physical shop | ||||||||||
| Where can I buy this release? | You may be able to purchase this release from the following websites (others are available!) | ||||||||||
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Tracks
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| Side & track no | Track and Artist | Length | |||||||||
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| A1 | The continental (from the RKO film 'The gay divorcee' [Magidson / Conrad] | 3.25 | |||||||||
| A2 | Lullaby of Broadway (from the 1st National-Vitaphone film 'The golddiggers of 1935') | 2.43 | |||||||||
| A3 | The way you look tonight (from the RKO film 'Swing time') [Kern / Fields] | 3.51 | |||||||||
| A4 | Sweet Leilani (from the Paramount picture 'Waikiki wedding') [Harry Owens] | 3.19 | |||||||||
| A5 | Thanks for the memory (from the Paramount picture 'The big broadcast of 1938') [Robin / Rainger] | 3.32 | |||||||||
| A6 | Over the rainbow (from the M-G-M film 'The wizard of Oz') [Harburg / Arlen] | 2.55 | |||||||||
| A7 | When you wish upon a star (from the Walt Disney's 'Pinocchio') [Harline / Washington] | 3.11 | |||||||||
| A8 | The last time I saw Paris (from the M-G-M film 'Lady be good') [Hammerstein / Kern] | 2.35 | |||||||||
| A9 | White Christmas (from the Paramount picture 'Holiday Inn') [Irving Berlin] | 2.52 | |||||||||
| A10 | You'll never know (from the 20th Century Fox film 'Hello, 'Frisco, hello) [Gordon / Warren] | 3.55 | |||||||||
| A11 | Swingin' on a star (from the Paramount picture 'Going my way') [Burke / Van Heusen] | 2.44 | |||||||||
| A12 | It might as well be spring (from the 20th Century Fox film 'State fair') [Rodgers / Hammerstein] | 4.12 | |||||||||
| A13 | On the Atchinson, Topeka and the Sante Fe (from the M-G-M film 'The Harvey girls') [Warren / Mercer] | 2.52 | |||||||||
| A14 | Zip a-dee-doo-dah (from Walk Disney's 'Song of the south') [Gilbert / Wrudel] | 2.06 | |||||||||
| A15 | Buttons and bows (from the Paramount picture 'The paleface') [Livingston / Evans] | 3.08 | |||||||||
| A16 | Baby, it's cold outside (from the M-G-M film 'Neptune's daughter') [Loesser] | 2.58 | |||||||||
| A17 | Mona Lisa (from the Paramount picture 'Captain Carey U. S. A.' ('After midnight') [Livingston / Evans] | 2.58 | |||||||||
| Total length of media 53:16. | |||||||||||
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Reviews
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| My rating | 3 | |
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Extra notes on cover, middle (gatefold sleeve) and any inserts | ||
| With the vital breakthrough in the making of motion pictures - the advent of the talkies - it was obvious, right from the beginning of this new and exciting era that the use of music was going to be a most important adjunct to the speech and action of all kinds of onscreen stories; and of course, there would be endless possibilities for Hollywood to create its own music-based projects (including the remaking of stage musicals in celluloid form). Fascinating then, that the very first of the talkies was the Jolson starrer, The Jazz Singer (even though it contained only sporadic dialogue plus a handful of songs.) Certainly though, soundtrack music, of all kinds, continued to grow in importance and scope through the succeeding years - and with the appearance of the full-length Hollywood musicals, that process was accelerated. For one thing, there was the often lengthy-plus ''background'' music, as supplied by such masters as Steiner, Tiomkin, Korngold, et al. There were, Jolson apart, internationally-renowned musical artists such as Crosby, Astaire, Garland and Merman - and it was inevitably these kind of legendary performers for whom special material continued to be written over many years by the likes of the Gershwins, Kern, Berlin, Porter ..... The importance of the individual song was soon recognised by Hollywood's backroom boys. Only six years after the installation of the Oscar awards (for acting, directing, producing and such) - with effect from 1934 to be exact - it was decided to add a separate category to the annual event; Best Film Song of the year. For the gifted, hard - working songwriters, it was indeed a richly-deserved tribute. The results of the first seventeen years of this particular division of the Academy Awards - seventeen outright winnres, covering the years 1934-1950 - can be heard yet again, within this package. Each number performed with sympathy, and loving care by Tony Baker and his Orchestra. STAN BRITT 'Music Week' 1989. | ||
Further information | ||
| You will find all the US Pickwick label versions linked at the parent company Pickwick International, Inc. Pickwick Records quickly established itself as the market leader in budget-price LPs thanks to its innovative business practices. It was the first UK company to put in place exclusive licensing deals with the major record companies (for many years it was the official budget reissue outlet for labels such as RCA - since 1973 - and CBS.) | ||
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