SWEET CHARITY – 1969 Soundtrack Expanded Remix/Remaster – Shirley MacLaine

It is hard to believe that Shirley MacLaine’s last starring role in a film musical was almost a half century ago, although she has certainly been active all these years and won a well deserved Best Actress Academy Award in the 1980s for her dramatic performance in “Terms of Endearment”. Unfortunately, SWEET CHARITY, released by Universal in 1969, was a box office bomb, not because of MacLaine or director Bob Fosse (although Fosse in his directing debut, overused zoom lens shots, in my opinion), and certainly not because of the stellar supporting case featuring Sammy Davis, Jr., Paula Kelly, Stubby Kaye, John McMartin and especially the fabulous Chita Rivera in one of rare film appearances. SWEET CHARITY failed because the public was tiring of the deluge of Hollywood big budget musicals in the 1960s following the incredible success of “The Sound of Music”. Even the film version of Broadway monster hit “Hello Dolly” tanked the same year despite (or because of) the casting of Barbra Streisand at the height of her star power. The soundtrack album from SWEET CHARITY was released by Decca/MCA Records but it was barely 40 minutes long highlighting the vocals but mercilessly cutting the dance music to minimum. Ralph Burns’ excellent expanded orchestrations suffered the most as the result of this decision, which, unfortunately, was the usual in most of the major label’s musical soundtrack issues in those days.

This is an expanded remix of the 1969 SWEET CHARITY soundtrack which was mastered from a different source than the Decca/MCA album. It contains extended dance music and some additional tracks not on the soundtrack album or the Decca Broadway CD reissue. Sorry, no FLAC file available for this title as I did this remaster 10 years ago and I am unable at this time to re-do it in a higher resolution. Please do not ask.

SWEET CHARITY (1969 soundtrack expanded)
MP3 (320 kbps): https://www.sendspace.com/file/9npreq

1. Overture and Main Title
2. My Personal Property & Montage: Charity’s Theme
3. Big Spender
POMPEII CLUB: 4. Rich Man’s Frug 5. The Aloof 6. The Heavyweight 7. The Big Finish
8. If My Friends Could See Me Now
9. There’s Gotta Be Something Better than This
10. It’s A Nice Face
11. The Rhythm of Life
12. Sweet Charity
13. I’m A Brass Band
14. I Love to Cry at Weddings
15. Where am I Going?
16. Finale: Charity’s Theme
17. Entr’Acte / Exit Music

Thank you.

This is OUTSTANDING!
THANKS A MILLION,Stevie!!!

thank you

Thank you very much for your efforts and the share!

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Thank you!

Thanks Stevie (formerly marcgothic) for this. Cannot wait to hear it
Marc

Thank you very much!.

Thanks for this – good to see you back here!

Thank you for sharing!

Thank you very much, Stevie!

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Superb! Thank you very much!
Bocoi

Thanks!!

Many thanks Stevie!

Another wonderful restoration job! Thank you so much.

Do you possibly have the Exit Music as it appeared on the laser disc? It’s slightly different and shorter than the Entr’acte (it opens with Sweet Charity instead of My Personal Property). Unfortunately it wasn’t carried over to the DVD release.

Thank you!!!

Thanks for yet another master crafting 🙂

A new limited time link to this expanded remaster of SWEET CHARITY
SWEET CHARITY (1969 soundtrack expanded)
MP3 (320 kbps): https://www.sendspace.com/file/9npreq

thank you

Thanks for putting this up again, much appreciated.