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Post by mie779 on Dec 10, 2014 19:15:46 GMT
My my it have been a good day I must say.... I help out at our church's secondhand store (money goes to a school project in Tanzania)... (I've got too much time on my hand and it's quit fun to help out) today we got a bunch of old LP records (and and old LP record player)... when I looked them through I found an Original TSOM Soundtrack recording from 1965    I didn't even think for a second I WANTED THAT.... I tried VERY hard to withhold my elation over this find...   but think my "co-workers" could see my joy and interest in the movie... (guess I kinda outed myself a bit here  ) SO I now own my first record... it's a bit worn on the edges but the pictures in the "book" is great and there is an overview of the story and short notes on the main cast... (I hope you can see the dropbox folder I share down below ) I looked on ebay and saw that the record is sold to anything from 17-300 danish kr.... (3-50 US$) but since my copy IS a bit worn at the edges I don't think it worth that much... but to me it's a gem... And now my search goes for some kind of frame or display case so I can hang it on my wall (I've seen a frame somewhere, but can't remember where!!!!) I don't own a record player... but I might bring it home for christmas, think my father still has one I could borrow www.dropbox.com/sh/oc8tph780rpj2lx/AAAyHO5JnqcVsNJm6sSRNIROa?dl=0 |
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Post by indigoblue on Dec 10, 2014 23:58:14 GMT
Hey, what fun! What amuses me all the more is that I saw TSOM in the cinema with my Mum and grandmother in 1965 when it first came out, when I was 5. We all loved it, and my Mum went straight out and bought the LP - the exact one you have in the Dropbox photos...I can remember each photo in the book, and poring over it on rainy afternoons at home, with the music playing from the record-player! It is still in my parents' record collection, although it doesn't get brought out these days.
Looking at the photos you have provided reminds me that I just couldn't understand why a nice girl like Maria would want to marry a grumpy old man like the Captain. Hahaha! Oh, to be 5 again! |
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Post by sagaofjenny on Dec 11, 2014 2:15:39 GMT
My friend found the original LP when they were going through her grandmother's things - she keeps bragging (good-naturedly of course) about having it to me because she knows how obsessed I am. Not to mention I actually have a victrola and she doesn't!
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Post by utility_singer on Dec 11, 2014 16:54:31 GMT
Nice find!
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Post by mie779 on Dec 11, 2014 22:01:05 GMT
thanks... and would you know there was actually two copies of the LP... BUT the other one was in complete disarray and tattered (the back picture had fallen of) and the record it self had some grease stains on and slight scratches on it... so I of cause grabbed the nicest looking one |
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Post by indigoblue on Dec 11, 2014 23:41:10 GMT
The irony is that the LP which was in tatters with the back picture falling off was the one which had been played endlessly, loved, danced to, and dreamed about, while the pristine one you have was probably listened to once, then assigned to the music shelf and never looked at again! But...that's life!
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Post by sagaofjenny on Dec 11, 2014 23:49:42 GMT
How true! All my favorite books are ripped and bent and falling apart (I call them well-loved) while others I didn't like look the same as the day I bought them. But at least now the "nice" LP has someone to love it the way it needs loved! aaaand I'm getting sentimental
(although how anyone could simply "assign" Julie Andrews' voice to a shelf is beyond me)
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Post by indigoblue on Dec 12, 2014 0:02:36 GMT
Yes, time for Mie now to listen to it endlessly, love it, dance to it and dream about it! I have done that too - and I was only 5!
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Post by mie779 on Jan 3, 2015 20:41:28 GMT
I did get to listen to it over the holidays... a very special experience... something that can't be replicated by listening to the soundtrack via youtube (as I do right now ) there is a certain special sound to an old record that I appreciate in ways that some might not understand... hubby just smiled sweetly at my joy, but could see that he thought me a bit "crazy" Alas I did not managed to lock myself up in a room by myself... Okay I'm sure that some of you know... who is it that sings edelweiss??? I know it's not Plummer... and somehow I got the idea that the person on the record is someone else than in the movie...  I might be COMPLETELY wrong on this... sorry... and it might to just be for the fact that the "sound" is somewhat different to a record than watching it on tv... !!!!!! will now really try to write some more on my 17 going on 18 story |
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Post by lemacd on Jan 3, 2015 21:29:53 GMT
His name was Bill Lee I think. Which always makes me think of the Red Sox pitcher from the 70s that was one Whackadoo. Just sharing unknown trivia out there because I don't know anything about this movie everyone else doesn't already know.
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Post by indigoblue on Jan 4, 2015 23:14:06 GMT
Yes, he was a professional singer who also sang (I think it is called) Younger Than Springtime in South Pacific, although when I listened to it to compare, I had a job persuading myself it was the same person!
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Post by utility_singer on Jan 5, 2015 1:35:31 GMT
Bill Lee is correct. I think he tried to match Chris' voice a bit, as he does sound much different than he did as Lt. Cable. for SP.
As an aside, when I play the CD in my car it identifies the artists on the info screen. Makes my heart hurt a little when 'Something Good' says 'Julie Andrews and Bill Lee'. :-(
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Post by UnusualCliche on Jan 5, 2015 1:50:19 GMT
Aww, it is a little sad.
But I think he did a very good job in trying to sound like Christopher, didn't he? People really did make a job out of it, back in those days.
I think now that we have technology to help it has become a bit easier for anyone to sing...
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Post by utility_singer on Jan 5, 2015 14:39:29 GMT
Aww, it is a little sad. But I think he did a very good job in trying to sound like Christopher, didn't he? People really did make a job out of it, back in those days. I think now that we have technology to help it has become a bit easier for anyone to sing... Absolutely, when I've heard the track of Chris I was struck by how close Bill Lee got to capturing Chris' tone. |
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Post by indigoblue on Jan 5, 2015 23:04:17 GMT
I can remember even when I was small (about 9),thinking that the Captain was extremely handsome, had a fabulous house, car and girlfriend (the baroness), but not only that, when he began singing TSOM with the kids in the house, that DAMMIT! he had a silky smooth voice AS WELL!!
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Post by utility_singer on Jan 6, 2015 1:00:21 GMT
Nine? You sound like my daughter. She says the Captain is 'hunky'.
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Post by indigoblue on Jan 6, 2015 23:02:29 GMT
Hunky is the 21st century word in use - I was 1960s! I can remember watching TSOM in 1965 (age 5) and registering nothing about the Captain except that he was very grumpy, and I didn't like him; I was much more taken with Maria as a mother figure, and secretly hoped she'd babysit us sometime (and even suggested it to my mother when she was having problems finding a babysitter one day), but I couldn't understand why she would marry someone horrid like the Captain.
By 9, I had to admit he was very handsome - I decided Maria thought he was so handsome she had to marry him - or maybe it was the car that did it - but it was only when I was 14 and watched it for the 3rd time that my eyes were out on stalks at his downright s*x appeal, just hoping my family wouldn't notice! And it has been downhill all the way....
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Post by utility_singer on Jan 7, 2015 13:42:46 GMT
Ah, yes. Very similar to my own journey. I have a feeling that whether they know it or not, Mr. Plummer was responsible for awakening certain feelings in lots of teenage girls over the past 50 years!
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Post by augiesannie on Jan 8, 2015 20:18:39 GMT
Ah, yes. Very similar to my own journey. I have a feeling that whether they know it or not, Mr. Plummer was responsible for awakening certain feelings in lots of teenage girls over the past 50 years! Somehow I think he might know it. ;-) |
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I didn't even think for a second I WANTED THAT.... I tried VERY hard to withhold my elation over this find... 
but think my "co-workers" could see my joy and interest in the movie... (guess I kinda outed myself a bit here 
) SO I now own my first record... it's a bit worn on the edges but the pictures in the "book" is great and there is an overview of the story and short notes on the main cast... 
I might be COMPLETELY wrong on this... sorry... and it might to just be for the fact that the "sound" is somewhat different to a record than watching it on tv...
