1. Orchestra, Chorus - Overture (4:05)
2. Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber - The Perfect Nanny (1:35)
3. Glynis Johns - Sister Suffragette (1:44)
4. David Tomlinson - The Life I Lead (1:54)
5. Julie Andrews - A Spoonful Of Sugar (3:02)
6. Dick Van Dyke - Pavement Artist (Chim Chim Cher-ee) (1:49)
7. Dick Van Dyke, Julie Andrews - Jolly Holiday (2:11)
8. Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, Pearlies - Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (2:04)
9. Julie Andrews - Stay Awake (1:47)
10. Ed Wynn, Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke - I Love To Laugh (2:42)
11. David Tomlinson, Julie Andrews - A British Bank (The Life I Lead) (1:59)
12. Julie Andrews, Chorus - Feed The Birds (Tuppence A Bag) (3:50)
13. Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Bankers - Fidelity Fiduciary Bank (3:47)
14. Dick Van Dyke, Julie Andrews, Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber - Chim Chim Cher-ee (2:48)
15. Dick Van Dyke, Chimney Sweeps - Step In Time (2:02)
16. David Tomlinson, Dick Van Dyke - A Man Has Dreams (The Life I Lead/A Spoonful Of Sugar) (4:20)
17. David Tomlinson, Dick Van Dyke, Londoners - Let's Go Fly A Kite (1:53)

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Upon its release in 1964, Mary Poppins became one of the top 40 box office hits in its release year and continued playing into 1965, where it would become that year's biggest box office hit and made a movie star and permanent pop culture icon out of Julie Andrews, who was previously better-known for her work on Broadway and television, which included the stage musicals My Fair Lady and Camelot and the original 1957 CBS telecast of Rodgers And Hammerstein's Cinderella and multiple musical-comedy specials with close friend Carol Burnett. Mary Poppins was Julie's first film and she would ultimately win the Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the only actor to date to win an Oscar for their performance in a Disney movie and only of only a scant handful to even be nominated. Julie's win was one of five, the most for a Disney movie, out of 13 nominations - again, the most for a Disney film. Critics universally praised the film as Walt Disney's ultimate masterpiece, an opinion which still stands among modern-day critics, and the film maintains a 100% "fresh" rating on RottenTomatoes.

The film's soundtrack album, written by brothers Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman, was also a triumphant success. In addition to winning two Grammys (for Best Recording For Children and Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show) and two Academy Awards (for Best Original Score and Best Original Song for "Chim Chim Cher-ee"), the album spent one week at #1 on the Billboard 200 in March of 1965, followed by a run of 13 consecutive weeks starting in April after its Oscar and Grammy victories. The album, which was released nearly two months ahead of the film's August 1964 release, was already Disney's best-selling album by September of 1964, with sales of 100,000 - those sales would increase to 2.3 million copies by the end of 1965, making it that year's biggest-selling album, and it has never been out of print in the last 50-some-odd years since its release. Even today, the film's music continues to win accolades, such as "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" coming in at #36 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 best film songs.

As with most soundtrack albums from film musicals made before the creation of the CD, Mary Poppins was released on vinyl, which typically recommended no more than 20-25 minutes per side, limiting an album to 40-50 minutes total. This meant that many tracks would be edited down to remove dance music and other extraneous things. In addition, some songs would have specially recorded intros outros, and endings. While there have been numerous reissues of the soundtrack in the CD era, the most complete of which are the 2-CD 40th Anniversary Edition released in 2004 and the 3-CD Legacy Collection Edition released in 2014 (which is basically the 40th anniversary set repackaged with a third disc of demos), this original LP version has never been released, although the version of the Overture on here is included on said Legacy Collection CD. While it's wonderful to have the complete soundtrack, there's value in having the version of the album that became one of its decade's biggest sellers. Some songs are edited, such as "Jolly Holiday" and "Step In Time." Some songs are given a new intro, such as "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." "A Spoonful Of Sugar" is not only edited, but features a specially-recorded whistling solo by Julie Andrews, who provided the whistling for the bird in the number in the film as well. Some songs which end abruptly in the film have completed endings here, such as "Sister Suffragette" and "Fidelity Fiduciary Bank." (These completed endings have never been dropped from these songs in any subsequent reissues.) The Overture ends with an instrumental of "Jolly Holiday," which was not included in the theatrical version. While the 2004 and 2014 CD's are essential for their near-complete presentation of the film's music, this LP provides a nicely compact listening experience.

This is transferred from my own stereo copy of the record and, well, it sounds better than it probably has a right to. I've done this in the past, but it was more of a LP to cassette to digital transfer - this time, there's no cassette intermediate. It's directly from vinyl to digital, and that alone made a world of difference. This record was quite poppy, clicky, staticy, and crackly. Much of that was removed in one pass by the magical program known as ClickRepair. What remained had to be dealt with in a number of ways - manually cutting it out, isolating the area and running Goldwave's filter on it, or copying the affected area into a new file, running it through ClickRepair on a higher click removal setting, and replacing the "dirty" portion with the new cleaned up audio. The creator of ClickRepair also made a program called DeNoise, and I ran this through that, and it got rid of quite a bit of noise from the quieter portions without hurting the audio. I'm actually quite impressed and happy with that and will continue to experiment with the program on future rips. Despite all my best efforts, some light pops and clicks may remain - I can't get them all. Some I probably just missed, others I couldn't get rid of for whatever reason. ("Chim Chim Cher-ee" was especially problematic and required a lot of time to get out as many of the leftover clicks and thumps as possible, and I still couldn't quite get them all.) And this record has a bit of inner groove distortion on tracks 8, 9, 16, and 17, but nothing unbearable. Don't expect a "Wow, this sounds like a pristine remastered CD" level of sound quality here, but do expect a "Wow, who knew you could take a crackly old record and make it sound like this?" sound quality.

Thank you so very much!

Many thanks for your efforts!

WOW! shady pines ma, Thank you for posting this LP album. Your restorative efforts are much appreciated. It sounds like new!
Thanks again.

I was just looking for this! Thank you very much.

Thank you share!

Thank you so much for this and your efforts!

I always find what helps on my own vinyl restorations is to make a frequency cut on the very low end (often you can get ready made filters for 'mic rumble' and to eliminate sub-bass) - without the rumble distortion it can really give it that 'CD' edge, and the only sound you're actually losing shouldn't be there anyway. Ironically, this is what vinyl enthusiasts often mistake for 'extra' sound quality on the format, but it's an auditory illusion.

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Wow, amazing! Thank you so much!

Just so you know, Mary Poppins was released in 1964.

Wow, amazing! Thank you so much!

Just so you know, Mary Poppins was released in 1964.

And these songs were recorded in 1963!

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Thank you and my wife thanks you too, she really likes these old Disney movie music.

Thanks so much, I was noticing those difference I never knew about when I picked up a $1 LP copy last month.

Wonderful!!!!
Beautiful movie and brillant soundtrack!!!
Thousand thanks for this classic, shady pines ma!!! :)

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Thanks for the share...

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Many thanks shady pines ma for all your hard work in vinyl remastering & sharing Mary Poppins (1965) (Stereo Vinyl Rip) FLAC ;-) Rated thread: excellent! ;-)

Thanks

I remember posting on a disney forum and the CEO of Disney Music responded to my questions about the nature of the stereo music in the remastered editions.

Although the film is stereo, and the music presented even here is "stereo" it is not 'true' stereo.

The music at that time was often recorded with instrument groups, sometimes separately. So for example if you listen to track 1, all the strings are in the left channel and the right channel is the horns and percussion with winds in the center. But these choices in mixing were adjusted to the needs of the music so could change from one part of the music to another and from track to track.

It was a fascinating insight into how it was recorded.

He even commented how they had to do live mixes so if the orchestra exploded with volume and the mixer didn't catch it, the whole take would be a bust because of that and would have to be retaken.

Thanks for the share!

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Thank You! This is great!!!

Scott

Thanks a lot!!!