Deborah Kerr Yul Brynner Marni Nixon - The King and I 1956 Film Soundtrack (21 tracks) +Album Reviews swapacd.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from swapacd.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
(3 out of 5 stars) This so-called expanded CD of THE KING AND I is not nearly as good as it could have been mainly because the source used for this CD is plagued with Foley effects and dialogue which don t make much sense separated from the visual elements of the film and actually detract from the musical enjoyment of this great score. The original discrete stereophonic music and vocal only separation soundtracks for the KING AND I (also CAROUSEL, OKLAHOMA and SOUTH PACIFIC) are in the 20th. Century Fox studio vaults and could have been made available to the producers for these re-masterings if anyone had cared enough to ask. In fact, the deluxe laserdisc of THE KING AND I contained a CD of about 76 minutes including the complete vocal score and Alfred Newman s excellent underscoring, all completely free of extraneous sound effects and dialogue. Why weren t these tracks used for this CD release? These performances are important enough to use the best and cleanest sound sour