State Fair and the 20th Century-Fox Songbook (Restored original Film Orchestrations)

SACD 1

1. Main Title / Our State Fair (“State Fair”)
2. It Might As Well Be Spring (“State Fair”)
3. That’s For Me (“State Fair”)
4. It’s A Grand Night For Singing (“State Fair”)
5. That’s For Me (Reprise) (“State Fair”)
6. Isn’t It Kinda Fun (“State Fair”)
7. It Might As Well Be Spring (Instrumental) (“State Fair”)
8. All I Owe Iowa (“State Fair”)
9. Finale / It’s A Grand Night For Singing (Reprise) / Centennial Summer (“State Fair”)
10. Up With The Lark (“Centennial Summer”)
11. All Through The Day (“Centennial Summer”)
12. Two Hearts Are Better Than One (“Centennial Summer”)
13. The Right Romance (“Centennial Summer”)
14. Cinderella Sue / The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (“Centennial Summer”)
15. Changing My Tune (“The Shocking Miss Pilgrim”)
16. For You, For Me, For Evermore / Three Little Girls In Blue (“The Shocking Miss Pilgrim”)
17. On The Boardwalk (“Three Little Girls In Blue”)
18. Somewhere In The Night (“Three Little Girls In Blue”)
19. Always The Lady (“Three Little Girls In Blue”)
20. This Is Always (“Three Little Girls In Blue”)
21. You Make Me Feel So Young (“Three Little Girls In Blue”)

SACD 2

1. Main Title: Love Is A Many – Splendored Thing (Instrumental)
2. April Love (“April Love”)
3. My Heart Tells Me (“Sweet Rosie O’Grady”)
4. In The Middle Of Nowhere (“Something For The Boys”)
5. Run, Little Raindrop, Run (“Springtime In The Rockies”)
6. As If I Didn’t Have Enough On My Mind (“Do You Love Me”)
7. There Will Never Be Another You (“I’ll Let By”)
8. An Affair To Remember (“An Affair To Remember”)
9. Tomorrowland (“An Affair To Remember”)
10. How Blue The Night (“Four Jills In A Jeep”)
11. No Love, No Nothin’ (“The Gang’s All Here”)
12. I Wish I Knew (“Diamond Horseshoe”)
13. Crazy Me (“Four Jills In A Jeep”)
14. You Do (“Mother Wore Tights”)
15. Here Comes Heaven Again (“Doll Face”)
16. Three Coins In The Fountain (“Three Coins In The Fountain”)
17. A Journey To A Star (“The Gang’s All Here”)
18. The More I See You (“Diamond Horseshoe”)
19. Wedding Music / Vera-Ellen’s Dance (“Carnival In Costa Rica”)
20. You’ll Never Know (“Hello, Frisco, Hello”)

Numerous compositions written for films in the Golden Age of Hollywood are among the most important American orchestral music of the 20th century. Quite a few standards of the Great American Songbook also originate from this period. The film studios that commissioned these works did not always handle them with care. JoAnn Kane has specialized in rescuing such treasures. Musicologist Derek Greten-Harrison, who also appears here as a baritone, has spent a lot of time in her archives rescuing treasures such as “State Fair” – the only musical that Rodgers & Hammerstein composed for the screen – from oblivion.