Academy Award Performance: And the Envelope, Please

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Academy Award Performance

Studio album by Maureen McGovern
Released	1975
Label	20th Century
Producer(s)	Carl Maduri
Nice to Be Around (1974)	Academy Award Performance: And the Envelope, Please (1975)	Maureen McGovern (1979)

Academy Award Performance: And the Envelope, Please was Maureen McGovern's third studio album, released in 1975. It was her last album for 20th Century Records.

Primarily a cover album, this album is completely devoted to Oscar-winning movie themes from the 1930s to 1974; it capitalizes the fact that it took McGovern only one year to introduce a second Oscar-winning song. The fourth track is a medley of "When You Wish Upon a Star" (from the 1940 animated film Pinocchio) and "Over the Rainbow" (from The Wizard of Oz). Strangely, the album begins with just 34 seconds of the song "Thanks for the Memory" and fades into the next song ("The Continental," the oldest movie theme on this album). "Thanks for the Memory" is also the last track on the album and continues where it left off but (oddly enough) fades immediately after the next verse.

There were two singles to come from this album: "We May Never Love Like This Again" (from The Towering Inferno, which was a minor hit for McGovern one year before) and "The Continental" (from the 1934 film The Gay Divorcee, which was the very first song to ever win an Oscar).

1 Track listing
- 1.1 Side one
- 1.2 Side two
2 Album credits
3 Charts

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side one

Thanks for the Memory [From the movie "Big Broadcast of 1938"] - (Leon Robin, Ralph Rainger) - 0:34
The Continental [From the movie "The Gay Divorcee"] - (Con Conrad, Herb Magidson) - 2:55
For All We Know [From "Lovers and Other Strangers"] - (Fred Karlin, R. Wilson, A. James) - 3:27
When You Wish Upon a Star/Over the Rainbow [From the movie "Pinocchio"] - (Leigh Harline, Ned Washington/Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg) - 4:26
Lullaby of Broadway [From the movie "Gold Diggers of 1935"] - (Harry Warren, Al Dubin) - 3:03
The Morning After [From the movie "The Poseidon Adventure"] - (Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn) - 2:20

[edit] Side two

The Windmills of Your Mind [From the movie "The Thomas Crown Affair"] - (Michel LeGrand, Alan & Marilyn Bergman) - 3:02
Swingin' on a Star [From the movie "Going My Way"] - (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 2:47
All the Way [From the movie "The Joker Is Wild"] - (Sammy Cahn, James Van Heusen) - 2:19
We May Never Love Like This Again [From the movie "The Towering Inferno"] - (Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn) - 2:10
You'll Never Know [From the movie "Hello, Frisco, Hello"] - (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) - 2:40
Thanks for the Memory [From the movie "Big Broadcast of 1938"] - (Leon Robin, Ralph Rainger) - 0:30

[edit] Album credits

Special effects: Perry Botkin, Jr.
Piano: Tom Hensley, Mike Lang, Pete Jolly
Guitar: Lee Ritenauer, David Cohen, Neil Levang
Bass: Max Bennett, Reinie Press, Steve LaFever
Drums: Joe Correro, Sol Gubin
Percussion: Gene Estes
Violins: Iz Baker, Paul Shure, Jerry Vinci, Sid Sharp, Tibor Zelig, Henry Ferber, Assa Drori, Jimmie Getzoff, Harry Bluestone, Erno Neufeld, Nate Ross
Violas: Dave Schwartz, Allan Harshman, Gerry Nuttycombe, Sven Reher
Cellos: Ray Kramer, Fred Seykora, Armand Kaproff
Woodwinds: Johnny Rotella, Gene Cipriano, Ronnie Lang, Bud Shank, Bill Green
Harp: Gayle Levant
Trumpets: Bill Peterson, Bud Brisbois, Tony Terran, Cappy Lewis, Buddy Childers
Trombones: Charles Loper, Dick Nash
Musical contractor: Charles H. Stern
Engineers: Stan Ross, Joe B. Mauldin
Design: Queens Graphics
Photography: Sunny K. Kohn

[edit] Charts

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1974	"We May Never Love Like This Again"	The Billboard Hot 100	83
1974	"We May Never Love Like This Again"	Billboard Adult Contemporary	20
1976	"The Continental"	UK Singles Chart	16