Mary Poppins soundtrack

[Dole 11]

A couple of months ago, someone on this mb posted that Disney would be releasing a new 2-CD soundtrack for Mary Poppins to celebrate the films 40th anniversary this year. Does anyone have any more info about the CD's and their release date? Thanks.

Dole

[Docteur Qui 1,248]

Yeah, I vaguely remembered that after I watched the movie the other day, hoping that something's happened. Anyone got any more info?

[stewdog1 50]

That was me. Here is the link http://www.jwfan.net/index.php?name=PNphpB...5356&highlight=

I'm still thinking it will be late this year or early 2005.

I posted over on the wdwmagic site asking for a status. I'll let you know if I get one.

[thx99 1,211]

Not sure of the release date, but here's some additional information from a thread over at the Disney Music Discussion Forum (Randy is Randy Thornton, the producer of the 2-CD set as well as many of the wonderful restored Disney scores/soundtracks released over the past decade or so):

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Here's some info from another post regarding a presentation Randy did at the NFFC convention regarding The Mary Poppins 40th Anniversary 2-Disc set.

"They've been trying to get this project off the ground for 15 years. And one day at work, when Randy was working in the tape room he came across a reel called "Mary Poppins pre-demo." Mary Poppins, was Randy's high school band teacher's favorite movie, and he was the one who taught Randy how to edit and clean up tapes. And if he could get a great MP soundtrack made, that would be kinda a way to say, "Thanks." So when his bosses came by and asked what they should do, Randy said Mary Poppins. The boss wasn't too sure, they had done a soundtrack before, hadn't done too well, (Randy said, of course not it was a bad vinyl pressing and the cover art made Julie Andrews look like a dancing girl) they would need to do something to make it special to get it approved by management. Randy pulled out the pre-demo and said, "Does anyone know that this is here?" No one did, including the Sherman Brothers. So that became the impetus for the new project.

So they still had this stuff to work with. And then one day, Randy was with Dick Sherman and Dick brought out 6 reels, 7 hours of tapes of the early story meetings with Walt, P.L. Travers, Dick & Bob Sherman and a few other top people.

On the second CD will have 41 minutes of these meetings. All the songs that didn't make the film, like the compass sequence. There is a 12 minute interview with Dick Van Dyke, Julie Andrews, Sherman Bros and Irwin Kostal (arranger and conductor) done by the Hollywood Spotlight Microphone, the radio spots, the Sherman Brothers interview that did make it on the restored soundtrack, snippets from the orchestra sessions. The first CD will have 26 new minutes of score added to the soundtrack. The soundtrack now comes in at a total of 79 min 48 sec which gives them 12 sec to spare on the CD. Definetely a jam-packed album.

A few tidbits: Cherry Tree Lane is based on Mrs. Travers house, 90% of the whistling in the movie was done by Julie Andrews, Dick Sherman played the Kazuu in the Jolly Holiday sequence and Irwin Kostal did the softshoe sounds for the penguins. "

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[stewdog1 50]

Sweet mother of pearl! Hope that comes out soon. Sounds like it is all done, but not in the stores.

[thx99 1,211]

A couple of months ago, someone on this mb posted that Disney would be releasing a new 2-CD soundtrack for Mary Poppins to celebrate the films 40th anniversary this year.  Does anyone have any more info about the CD's and their release date?  Thanks.

Here's the scoop from Randy Thornton, producer of the CD set, from magicmusic.net (link to complete thread):

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"I figured I'd stop the speculating, and once again break my rule about posting playlists, as this is just too good to keep to myself an longer.

As I've mentioned in previous posts, Disc 1 of this new release is the soundtrack (leaving only 8 seconds to spare on the disc), and Disc 2 holds all the bonus materials ? Including excerpts of the original story meetings with P.L. Travers, Don DiGradi, and the Sherman Brothers ? complete with never-before heard song demos.

You will notice that I have indicated which tracks are new with a ? and which tracks have additional material added to them with a *. This will also appear on the outside packaging as well.

So, here we go ?

DISC ONE ? The Soundtrack (1:19:52)

1. Buena Vista Fanfare (:08) ?

2. Overture (2:58)

3. One Man Band (:56) ?

4. Sister Suffragette (1:43)

5. The Life I Lead (2:00)

6. The Perfect Nanny (1:38)

7. Air Mail ? Admiral Boom ? The Not-So-Perfect Nannies ? Mary Poppins Arrives (3:06) ?

8. A Spoonful of Sugar (4:07)

9. Pavement Artist (2:06) *

10. Jolly Holiday (5:22) *

11. Jolly Holiday (Reprise) (1:05) ?

12. Penguin Dance (2:20) ?

13. The Carousel Horses (4:17) ?

14. Supercailfragilisticexpialidocious (2:00)

15. Pavement Artist (Reprise) (1:01) *

16. Stay Awake (1:43)

17. Trouble at Uncle Albert?s (1:41) ?

18. I Love to Laugh (2:42)

19. A British Bank (The Life I Lead) (2:06)

20. Feed the Birds (Tuppence a Bag) (3:49)

21. Father?s Footsteps (1:17) ?

22. Fidelity Fiduciary Bank (3:31)

23. Panic at the Bank (2:12) ?

24. Chim Chim Cher-ee ? March Over the Rooftops (6:19) *

25. Step In Time (8:41)

26. A Man Has Dreams (The Life I Lead / A Spoonful of Sugar) (4:27)

27. Mr. Banks Is Discharged (4:46) ?

28. Let?s Go Fly a Kite (1:48)

? = New Track

* = Includes Additional Material

DISC 2 ? Bonus Material (1:14:43)

1 ? 21 The Mary Poppins Story Meeting Excerpts (41:05) ?

1. Cherry Tree Lane

2. Mr. Banks Decided to Hire a Nanny Himself

3. The Children Write Their Own Advertisement

4. The Line of Applicants and Mary Poppins Arrives

5. Notes on Mary Meeting the Banks

6. Up to the Nursery

7. Bert and the Talking Pictures

8. A Carousel Horse Ride to the Seashore

9. The Return Home

10. The Next Morning We Meet the Sweep

11. Uncle Albert?s

12. A Change in the Wind and an Adventure with Admiral Boom

13. The Bird Woman

14. Mr. Banks and the Compass

15. The Compass Sequence: Timbuktu

16. The Compass Sequence: The Land of Sand

17. The Compass Sequence: Tea In China

18. The Compass Sequence: The North Pole

19. The Return Home

20. Everyone Descends on Cherry Tree Lane

21. Mary Departs

22. Hollywood Spotlight Microphone (17:24) ?

Dick Tufeld interviews the stars, composers, and musical director for Mary Poppins (c. 1964)

Julie Andrews

Dick Van Dyke

Richard M. Sherman

Robert B. Sherman

Irwin Kostal

23. The Sherman Brothers Reminisce About Their Work On Mary Poppins (16:05)

So, mark your calenders for November 16th!

Randy Thornton"

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There ya go!

[Dole 11]

This is awesome. Thanks for posting the info. The only complaint I have about the soundtrack (and it's a minor one) is that the full expanded version of "Let's Go Fly a Kite/Finale" is not going to be included. Other than that it looks practically perfect in every way. Can't wait. Now I only wish they'd do the same for Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

Dole

[Elmo Lewis 6]

Now I only wish they'd do the same for Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

Any thoughts on how we can be heard?

[FrankV 168]

[stewdog1 50]

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