Julie Andrews STAR LP Film Soundtrack OST 1968 Lennie Hayton Robert Wise Crenna

	£		20
	$		27

Here I have for sale the UK issue of the original film musical soundtrack to “Star!” (1968), arranged and conducted by Lennie Hayton. The film starred Julie Andrews.

Julie Andrews ?– Star! (Original Motion Picture Sound Track Album) (1968)

Condition (refer also to notes at bottom):
Vinyl: VG-EX. Very clean on visual inspection. Played just pre-listing and sound clarity is excellent. No jumping or skipping. Some light clicks in a few places. Overall, a very enjoyable listen.
Outer sleeve (Cover) – EX. Colours are unfaded and bright. Superb Laminated front cover. Minor corner nicks and a few vein-like creases on front. Aperture shows very slight wear. Reverse is clean and unmarked. Minor disc showthrough outline on front. Flipbacks are intact; the odd crease towards one or two corners. Overall, a fine copy.
Inner Sleeve – EX. Original. White paper. Creasing and a few folds but clean and intact.

Label: Stateside ?– SSL 10233
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: UK
Released: 1968
Genre: Stage & Screen, Musical, Jazz, Vocal, Blues
Style: Soundtrack, Classical, Score, Instrumental, Theme


Track listing:
A1. Overture (Medley) Star!, Someone To Watch Over Me, Jenny, Dear Little Boy (Dear Little Girl), Limehouse Blues   3:02
A2. Star!   1:16
A3. Piccadilly   2:00
A4. In My Garden Of Joy   1:28
A5. Oh, It's A Lovely War   1:42
A6. 'N' Everything   1:44
A7. Burlington Bertie From Bow   2:00
A8. Parisian Pierrot   2:24
A9. Limehouse Blues   4:15

B1. Someone To Watch Over Me   3:11
B2. Do, Do, Do   1:36
B3. Dear Little Boy (Dear Little Girl)   1:57
B4. Has Anybody Seen Our Ship?   1:35
B5. Someday I'll Find You   1:39
B6. The Physician   3:08
B7. My Ship   2:15
B8. Jenny   5:28

Arranged By – Lennie Hayton
Film Director [Directed By] – Robert Wise
Producer – Saul Chaplin
Written-By – William Fairchild



Review:

Star!, a film biography of the British actress/singer Gertrude Lawrence (1898-1952), must have seemed like an excellent vehicle for Julie Andrews when it went into production in 1967 for a fall 1968 release. Andrews was, after all, the top female film star of the day, with a string of movie musical hits including Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music behind her, and she was steeped in the vaudeville/music hall tradition from which Lawrence had emerged.

But the project was inherently less likely to be accepted by a mass audience than Andrews' earlier triumphs, since it would not appeal to children and would feature a song score filled largely with evergreens from the 1920s, '30s, and '40s instead of new material.

Also, despite the apparently appropriate casting, Andrews was really more of a singer than an actress (the opposite of Lawrence), and not nearly as earthy. Barbra Streisand may have found a winning approach to portraying Fanny Brice (in some ways an American counterpart to Lawrence) in the almost simultaneously released Funny Girl despite their differences, but Andrews was not so successful with Lawrence.

And a lot was riding on the film. Robert Wise, who had helmed The Sound of Music, was back as director, and 20th Century-Fox expected something comparably lavish and lucrative. So, lots of money was spent, and the picture was released at a nearly three-hour running time. The result was a financial disaster that crippled Andrews' film career.

That said, the soundtrack album is in some ways the best of it.

One can simply ignore the film and its history and enjoy a LP's worth of Andrews interpreting a bunch of good songs by Noël Coward, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Kurt Weill, among others.

She's not particularly convincing on suggestive lyrics such as Porter's "The Physician" and doesn't really dig into "The Saga of Jenny," but she's terrific on the ballad "Someone to Watch Over Me" and some of the vaudeville songs. Although Andrews dominates the disc, she does share the spotlight here and there, notably on "Dear Little Boy (Dear Little Girl)," joining Daniel Massey, who portrays Coward.


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Postage and packaging FREE to UK.

Will post worldwide.
Europe (Royal Mail International Standard) – £6.50.
Europe (Royal Mail International Tracked and Signed) – £11
N and S America, USA, Canada (Royal Mail International Standard) – £9
Asia, Australia, Japan (Royal Mail International Standard) – £11.

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ITEM CONDITION - items are graded according to Record Collector definitions - see below:

MINT: The record itself is in brand new condition with no surface marks or deterioration in sound quality. The cover and any extra items such as the lyric sheet, booklet or poster are in perfect condition. Records advertised as Sealed or Unplayed should be Mint.

EXCELLENT: The record shows some signs of having been played, but there is very little lessening in sound quality. The cover and packaging might have slight wear and / or creasing.

VERY GOOD: The record has obviously been played many times, but displays no major deterioration in sound quality, despite noticeable surface marks and the occasional light scratch. Normal wear and tear on the cover or extra items, without any major defects, is acceptable.

GOOD: The record has been played so much that the sound quality has noticeably deteriorated, perhaps with some distortion and mild scratches. The cover and contents suffer from folding, scuffing of edges, spine splits, discolouration, etc.

FAIR: The record is still just playable but has not been cared for properly and displays considerable surface noise; it may even jump. The cover and contents will be torn, stained and / or defaced.

POOR: The record will not play properly due to scratches, bad surface noise, etc. The cover and contents will be badly damaged or partly missing.

BAD: The record is unplayable or might even be broken, and is only of use as a collection filler.