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Oklahoma! is the original soundtrack album of the 1955 film Oklahoma!, an adaptation of the musical Broadway play of the same name. The soundtrack charted No. 1 on the Billboard Pop Album Chart in 1956 and has been in continual print. On July 8, 1958, it became the first album to be certified "gold" by the RIAA, [2] and was later certified "2x ...
Oklahoma! is the first musical written by the duo of Rodgers and Hammerstein.The musical is based on Lynn Riggs's 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs.Set in farm country outside the town of Claremore, Indian Territory, in 1906, it tells the story of farm girl Laurey Williams and her courtship by two rival suitors, cowboy Curly McLain and the sinister and frightening farmhand Jud Fry.
Eels included the song on their live album Oh What a Beautiful Morning (2000). [8] James Taylor recorded the song in 2008 and released it as a bonus track on his album Covers (2008) and also on his album Other Covers (2009). [9] [10] Sharon, Lois & Bram recorded a version and performed it on their television program, Sharon, Lois & Bram's ...
This year's Ameripolitan Best Honky Tonk Female award winner is Kaitlin Butts.. It's a much-deserved honor for the Tulsa-born singer-songwriter who in June released a new album that, on the first ...
It is one of the group's most accessible and popular songs, having reached No. 32 in the UK Singles Chart. It was adopted as the Official Rock Song of Oklahoma from 2009 to April 2013 and was ranked No. 31 on Rolling Stone's 100 Best Songs of the 2000s. It is also the band's most popular live song, [4] and has rarely been excluded from setlists ...
36:53. Label. Capitol T-596. Nelson Riddle chronology. The Music from Oklahoma! (1955) The Tender Touch. (1956) The Music from Oklahoma! was Nelson Riddle 's first studio album in his own right, released in 1955, after successful collaborations with Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra for Capitol Records.
Oklahoma! was the first production photographed in Todd-AO. The original specification for Todd-AO involved running at 30 frames per second which made it impossible to produce 35mm (which ran at 24 fps) reduction prints from the Todd-AO negative.
The National Recording Registry is a list of sound recordings that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant, and inform or reflect life in the United States." [1] The registry was established by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, [2] which created the National Recording Preservation Board, whose members are ...