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Oliver! (soundtrack)
''Oliver!'' is the soundtrack to the 1968 British musical drama film of the same name. The soundtrack won an Oscar for Best Original or Adaptation Score at the 41st Academy Awards in 1969. It reached number 4 in the UK Albums Chart and spent 99 weeks on the chart. Track listing Personnel Adapted from AllMusic. *Ensemble – primary artist *John Green – arranger, conductor, music supervisor *Mark Lester – guest artist, performer, primary artist *Kathe Green - dubbing for Mark Lester *Joe Lopes – engineer *Ron Moody – guest artist, performer, primary artist *The Orchestra – performer, primary artist *Oliver Reed – guest artist, performer *Harry Secombe – performer, primary artist *John Snyder – mixing, producer *Shani Wallis – guest artist, performer, primary artist *Don Wardell – digital series, executive producer * Sheila White – performer, primary artist *Jack Wild Jack Wild (30 September 1952 – 1 March 2006) was an English actor and singer. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colgems Records
Colgems Records was a record label that existed from 1966 to 1971. History Colgems was a joint venture between Screen Gems, the television division of Columbia Pictures, and RCA Victor to issue records by The Monkees and other artists affiliated with Columbia/Screen Gems. The label would also issue soundtrack recordings for Screen Gems and Columbia Pictures productions. RCA acted as manufacturer and distributor for Colgems. Outside of the United States, Colgems productions appeared on the RCA Victor label. An earlier label, Colpix Records, was dissolved to make way for the new company, and nearly all Colpix titles went out of print. (One Colpix album was reissued on Colgems, the soundtrack to the 1962 film ''Lawrence of Arabia''.) Even before the Monkees began, Colpix had signed two future members – Davy Jones, recruited to Screen Gems by Ward Sylvester, and Michael Nesmith, who recorded as "Michael Blessing". The Colpix catalog was sold to Roulette Records. The Colpix c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You've Got To Pick A Pocket Or Two
"You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two" is a song from the Tony Award-winning British musical ''Oliver!'', and the 1968 Academy Award-winning film ''Oliver!'' based on the 1838 novel ''Oliver Twist'' by Charles Dickens. The musical was penned by Lionel Bart, and was first shown in London's West End in 1960. Background The song is sung in Fagin's lair in a scene based on the section of Dickens's book where Fagin (played by Ron Moody in the film) teaches Oliver Twist and the rest of the boys how to pick the pockets of gentlemen so as to be able to steal their handkerchiefs, etc., without being detected. It is the first song in Act I Scene VI. Fagin and the boys loosely dangle various "hankies" from their pockets while dancing around the room and doing gymnastics Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the developm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1968 Soundtrack Albums
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * January 10 – John Gorton is sworn in as 19th Prime Minister of Australia, taking over from John McEwen after being elected leader of the Liberal Party the previous day, following the disappearance of Harold Holt. Gorton becomes the only Senator to become Prime Minister, though he immediately transfers to the House of Representatives through the 1968 Higgins by-election in Holt's vacant seat. * January 15 – The 1968 Belice earthquake in Sicily kills 380 and injures around 1,000. * January 21 ** Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins, ending on April 8. ** 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash: A U.S. B-52 Stratofortress crashes in Greenland, discharging 4 nuclear bombs. * January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Official Charts Company
The Official Charts (legal name: The Official UK Charts Company Limited) is a British inter-professional organization that compiles various "official" record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France. In the United Kingdom, its charts include ones for singles, albums and films, with the data compiled from a mixture of downloads, purchases (of physical media) and streaming. The OCC produces its charts by gathering and combining sales data from retailers through market researchers Kantar, and claims to cover 99% of the singles market and 95% of the album market, and aims to collect data from any retailer who sells more than 100 chart items per week. The OCC is operated jointly by the British Phonographic Industry and the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) (formerly the British Association of Record Dealers (BARD)) and is incorporated as a private company limited by shares jointly owned by BPI and ERA. The Chart Information Network (CIN) took over as compilers of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kent Music Report
The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to January 1999. The chart was re-branded the Australian Music Report (AMR) in July 1987. From June 1988, the Australian Recording Industry Association, which had been using the top 50 portion of the report under licence since mid-1983, chose to produce their own listing as the ARIA Charts. Before the Kent Report, '' Go-Set'' magazine published weekly Top-40 Singles from 1966, and Album charts from 1970 until the magazine's demise in August 1974. David Kent later published Australian charts from 1940 to 1973 in a retrospective fashion, using state by state chart data obtained from various Australian radio stations. Background Kent had spent a number of years previously working in the music industry at both EMI and Phonogram records and had developed the report initially as a hobby. The Kent Music Report was first re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Reed
Robert Oliver Reed (13 February 1938 – 2 May 1999) was an English actor known for his well-to-do, macho image and "hellraiser" lifestyle. After making his first significant screen appearances in Hammer Horror films in the early 1960s, his notable films include '' The Trap'' (1966), playing Bill Sikes in the 1968 Best Picture Oscar winner ''Oliver!'' (a film directed by his uncle Carol Reed), '' Women in Love'' (1969), ''Hannibal Brooks'' (1969), '' The Devils'' (1971), '' Revolver'' (1973), portraying Athos in '' The Three Musketeers'' (1973) and '' The Four Musketeers'' (1974); the lover and stepfather in ''Tommy'' (1975), '' The Brood'' (1979), '' Lion of the Desert'' (1981), ''Castaway'' (1986), ''The Adventures of Baron Munchausen'' (1988), '' Funny Bones'' (1995) and ''Gladiator'' (2000). For playing Antonius Proximo, the old, gruff gladiator trainer in Ridley Scott's ''Gladiator'', in what was his final film, Reed was posthumously nominated for the BAFTA Award for B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Green
John Waldo Green (October 10, 1908 – May 15, 1989) was an American songwriter, composer, musical arranger, conductor and pianist. He was given the nickname "Beulah" by colleague Conrad Salinger. His most famous song was one of his earliest, " Body and Soul" from the revue '' Three's a Crowd''. Green won four Academy Awards for his film scores and a fifth for producing a short musical film, and he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972. He was also honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Early years John Waldo Green was born in New York City, the son of musical parents Vivian Isidor Green (June 29, 1885 – January 3, 1940) and Irina Etelka Jellenik (April 12, 1885 – November 15, 1947), a.k.a. Irma (or Erma) Etelka Jellenik. Vivian and Irina wed on December 16, 1907 in Manhattan. John attended Horace Mann School and the New York Military Academy, and was accepted by Harvard at the age of 15, entering the university in 1924. His musical tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oom-Pah-Pah
"Oom-Pah-Pah" is a lively and somewhat risqué show tune with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart and appearing in the 1960 musical ''Oliver!'', when it is sung by Nancy and the crowd at the "Three Cripples" tavern. The word "oom-pah-pah" is seemingly used euphemistically to refer to both intoxication and fornication. Although not an original music hall song, it recalls that genre well and, in terms of both its tempo and suggestiveness, shares characteristics with such late 19th century songs as "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay". In the stage musical, the song opens Act II and does not contribute to the storyline. For the 1968 film version A film adaptation is the transfer of a work or story, in whole or in part, to a feature film. Although often considered a type of derivative work, film adaptation has been conceptualized recently by academic scholars such as Robert Stam as a dial ... it was moved to near the end and given a dramatic purpose: Bill Sikes has refused to let Nancy take Oliv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheila White (actress)
Sheila Susan White (18 October 1948 – 7 September 2018) was an English film, television and stage actress. Early life and career Sheila White was born in London. She began her career at the age of 12 as a member of Terry's Juveniles in the pantomime ''Cinderella'' at the ''Golders Green Hippodrome'', starring Arthur Askey. This led to three years in the London production of ''The Sound of Music'' at the Palace Theatre, playing firstly Brigitta and then Louisa von Trapp. She then became a student at the Corona Stage School in Hammersmith, West London. White made her television debut at the age of sixteen in an episode of ''The Wednesday Play'' with Geraldine McEwan in 1965. A theatre tour of ''Counter Crime'' followed, then the musical tour of '' The Roar of the Greasepaint—the Smell of the Crowd'' starring Norman Wisdom and Willoughby Goddard, written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley in which she played one of the urchins alongside Elaine Paige, with choreography by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shani Wallis
Shani Wallis (born 14 April 1933) is a British actress and singer, who has worked in theatre, film, and television in both her native United Kingdom and in the United States. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she is perhaps best known for her roles in the West End, and for the role of Nancy in the 1968 Oscar-winning film musical ''Oliver!'' Biography Wallis was born 14 April 1933 in Tottenham, London, and made her first stage appearance at the age of four. She later studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art(RADA) She made her theatrical debut in a lead role as young princess Maria in ''Call Me Madam'' at the London Coliseum in March 1952. Wallis sprung to global fame when appearing as Nancy in the oscar winning musical film ''Oliver!'' in 1968, starring alongside Oliver Reed as Bill Sykes, Ron Moody as Fagin, Jack Wild as the Artful Dodger, and Mark Lester as Oliver. Afterwards Wallis received an offer to star in the television series The Brady Bunch, but tur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'd Do Anything (Oliver! Song)
"I'd Do Anything" is a song performed by various characters in the 1960 British musical ''Oliver!'' and the 1968 film of the same name. Song The song is part of Act One of ''Oliver!'', and is sung in Fagin's lair. It begins with spoken dialogue between Nancy and the Artful Dodger, soon leading into the song. Other characters who have lines in the song are Oliver, Fagin and Bet (Nancy's younger sister in the musical; her best friend in the 1968 film and in the original novel), with Fagin's Boys as chorus. BBC TV series In 2007, the BBC announced that a new reality television series '' I'd Do Anything'', named after the song, would begin in 2008 to search for a new, unknown lead to play Nancy and three young performers to play Oliver in a West End revival of ''Oliver!''. Uses in popular culture The song is featured on the children's television show Skinnamarink TV that aired on The Learning Channel featuring children's entertainers ''Sharon, Lois & Bram''. It is also available ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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