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Victory At Sea: Music From The Award Winning Television Series (1952 TV Series)
Richard Rodgers
Victory At Sea: Music From The Award Winning Television Series (1952 TV Series)
Genres: Pop, Soundtracks
 
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All Artists: Richard Rodgers
Title: Victory At Sea: Music From The Award Winning Television Series (1952 TV Series)
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Q. Records
Original Release Date: 8/15/2000
Release Date: 8/15/2000
Album Type: Original recording reissued, Soundtrack
Genres: Pop, Soundtracks
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 075679291820

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Eloquent music from a simpler time
Joseph Haschka | Glendale, CA USA | 10/16/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)

"As a youngster in the 1950s, in those early days of television, I remember being much impressed with VICTORY AT SEA, a documentary series on America's ocean battles, primarily in the Pacific, during World War II. It was my first awareness of the wider conflict in which my father had served with the Army and my first exposure to the self-satisfied conviction that a Righteous America had saved the world almost single-handed. Decades later, I have a more balanced perspective, but the soundtrack for the series remains one of my favorites. Indeed, as I "matured" into my teenage years and acquired other musical favorites, it was the stirring score by Richard Rodgers which my parents would not ask me to block from their hearing by shutting the bedroom door.The Rodgers composition may be the finest film soundtrack ever recorded - an absolutely perfect mating of the aural to the visual. This particular CD release is particularly nostalgic because it's the original performance by the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Robert Russell Bennett, recorded a lifetime ago. Listening to it now, VICTORY AT SEA can return the listener to a time when a clear cut military triumph over a well defined enemy was still politically correct and possible."
Victory For The Audience!
J Keistler | Lake Jackson, Texas USA | 01/27/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I owned this music for years on LP. I was too young to see the series when it came out, but saw it in the seventies and fell in love with it. I searched out the soundtrack after seeing the series. Where in the mind of man does music this beautiful come from? As a classical listener I think this music will stand with anyone's. There is no need to see the series from which this was made to be captivated by Mr. Rogers's score. I agree with another reviewer, this is possibly the finest, most perfect mating of aural to visual, ever. This remains one of the few recordings that can stir my skeptical heart, anywhere and anytime. That it was written during a particularly difficult time in the life of Mr. Rogers makes it all the more miraculous. After enjoying the LP for many years, the transfer to CD brought new vibrance that I'd never heard on LP. One caveat: as another reviewer has noted, this is not the complete score. I purchased this particular CD as a gift; I own the two-CD complete. I don't feel that its abridgment causes this CD to be downrated. If anything, it may stimulate the buyer to order the complete set, ..."
Evocative soundtrack
Marty Koehler | Columbia MO | 10/19/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)

"The Victory at Sea television series was one of the best WWII documentaries out there. Part of this is due to this incredible score by Richard Rogers. The Song of the High seas has the harp playing a rising and falling background, bringing to mind the swelling of the seas. The Pacific Boils Over evokes the images of Japanese Zeroes and torpedo planes approaching the unwary Pearl Harbor base. You can see the planes diving, the wreckage, the burning battleships just by listening to the soundtrack. The entire album is like this. Rogers has painted a musical picture of the WWII naval war."