Title: Disappointing sounndtrack from a disappointing movie.
Product review: The movie version of ANNIE is one of the biggest stage to screen blunders to emerge from Hollywood. A great stage property was destroyed by producer Ray Stark and director John Huston. The ANNIE movie soundtrack should not be your first choice when purchasing an ANNIE recording. The original Broadway cast is the way to go. Even the latest recording from the ABC-DISNEY special is better. The movie version dropped some of the best songs included in the stage version (NYC,HOOVERVILLE, etc)and were horribly replaced (DUMB DOG, LETS GO TO THE MOVIES, etc). The awful musical scoring by Ralph Burns does nothing to evoke the 1930s setting(believe it or not,Burns was up for an Oscar for this work). The vocal performances are generally good, but Aileen Quinn tries to hard and tends to be unbelivable as Annie. Forget about the movie misfire and its soundtrack album, stick to the Broadway original.
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