OST- Annie Get Your Gun/ Showboat

DSCN3896This was $5.00.  I got it for the Annie side.  I have not listened to the Showboat side at  all.  For the sake of this blog, it is if that side did not even exist. This is a two record set but like most double albums of the time, has side 1 and 4 on one side and 2 and 3 on the other.  From what I have been told, this was to facilitate the self playing record players.poster2

Annie Get Your Gun was the 1950 MGM production of the popular 1946 musical.  Staring Howard Keel and Betty Hutton, the film was popular in its own right and did well at the box office.  It also was nominated for 4 Oscars, wining one for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture.

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Judy Garland was originally cast for the role of Annie Oakley.  However, due to various reasons, she parted ways with the production.  There are a few scenes with her in it that float around Youtube.  Having watched this, I think it would have been a huge mistake to cast Garland.  Hutton just seems right for the part.  Garland seems to uptight for the role.

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Maybe because she replaced Garland, or maybe for other reasons, Hutton was not well liked on the set.  Howard Keel was down right cold according to all I have read.  In later interviews, Hutton would claim the only person who was nice to her on the set was Louis Calhern, who played Buffalo Bill. As the years went by, cast and crew acknowledged Hutton’s contribution to the success of the film.

I like the movie and like the songs, but feel that the record kind of lacks without the visual aspect.  That really speaks volumes about good Hutton’s performance was.DSCN3898

Anyway, here is the sample, “There’s No Business Like Show Business”.  It is my favorite song from the musical and perhaps musicals in general.  I always liked the line about “There’s no people like show people/ they smile when they are low”.  That always painted a powerful image in my head.Annex - Hutton, Betty (Annie Get Your Gun)_02

Meh soundtrack.  Would rather watch the movie.

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