Oklahoma! (soundtrack)

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Oklahoma!
Soundtrack by cast
Released	August 1, 1955
Recorded	May 11, 1955
Genre	Soundtrack
Label	Angel Records
Producer	Andy McKaie, Ron OBrien
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link

Oklahoma! is the original soundtrack album of the 1955 Academy Award-winning film Oklahoma!, an adaptation of the musical play of the same name. The soundtrack charted #1 on the Billboard Pop Album Chart in 1956 and has been in continual print. It was certified "gold" by the RIAA on July 8, 1958 and "multi-platinum" on April 1, 1992.^[1]

It was released first as a 42 minute album on the Capitol Records label (both LP and CD), then on Broadway Angel on CD in the Broadway Classics series, and finally on Angel in a much expanded CD edition containing virtually all the music. It is the best-known recording of Oklahoma! ever made, even eclipsing the fame of the pioneering 1943 original Broadway cast album of the show.

Contents 1 Track listing for the LP version 2 Named performers 3 References 4 Sources

[edit] Track listing for the LP version

All songs composed by Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers.

1. "Overture" (Instrumental) – 4:52
2. "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" (performed by Gordon MacRae) – 2:36
3. "The Surrey With the Fringe on Top" (performed by MacRae, Shirley Jones, Charlotte Greenwood) – 4:53
4. "Kansas City" (performed by Gene Nelson, Greenwood, The Men's Chorus) – 2:36
5. "I Cain't Say No" (performed by Gloria Grahame) – 3:10
6. "Many a New Day" (performed by Jones and Girls' Chorus) – 3:09
7. "People Will Say We're in Love" (performed by MacRae and Jones) – 4:21
8. "Pore Jud is Daid" (performed by MacRae and Rod Steiger) – 4:16
9. "Out of My Dreams" (performed by Jones) – 2:25
10. "The Farmer and the Cowman" (performed by MacRae, Greenwood, Nelson, Jay C. Flippen, James Whitmore, Grahame, Mixed Chorus) – 2:58
11. "All Er Nothin'" (Grahame, Nelson) – 2:59
12. "Oklahoma!" (MacRae, Greenwood, Whitmore, Jones, Flippen, Mixed Chorus) – 3:18

The latest CD expanded edition contained more than twice the amount of music listed here, and runs nearly 80 minutes.

[edit] Named performers

By order of appearance on soundtrack.

• Gordon MacRae – Curly McLain
• Shirley Jones – Laurey Williams
• Charlotte Greenwood – Aunt Eller Murphy
• Gene Nelson – Will Parker
• Gloria Grahame – Ado Annie Carnes
• Rod Steiger – Jud Fry
• Jay C. Flippen – Ike Skidmore
• James Whitmore – Andrew Carnes

[edit] References

[edit] Sources

• Oklahoma! (1955 film adaptation) at the Internet Movie Database