Our Darling Film - “The Sound of Music” releases a new 50th anniversary edition of the soundtrack

I do watch films but Sound of Music is one of the best films of all time I have watched, never get bored with it.

The Sound of Music
1965 Film
A tuneful, heartwarming story, it is based on the real life story of the Von Trapp Family singers, one of the world's best-known concert groups in the era immediately preceding World War II. Julie Andrews plays the role of Maria, the tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey who becomes a governess i… More

Release date: March 2, 1965 (USA)
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It’s been half a century since since the hills first came alive with “The Sound of Music” onscreen, and the iconic musical is marking the occasion with an expanded 50th anniversary edition of the soundtrack. The new version features all vocal performances, orchestral cues from the score and a group of previously unreleased waltzes, including “Edelweiss Waltz,” which premieres today on Speakeasy.

It’s a familiar tune, fleshed out with lush orchestrations, that reprises the melody that Capt. Georg von Trapp (played by Christopher Plummer) sings when he rediscovers his love of music. The revamped soundtrack also includes, of course, longtime favorites “Sixteen Going on Seventeen,” “My Favorite Things,” “Do-Re-Mi” and “So Long, Farewell.”

Though “The Sound of Music” drew middling reviews from critics when it hit theaters in March 1965, the movie won five Oscars including best picture and, adjusted for inflation, is considered the most successful movie musical ever made. The soundtrack album spent two weeks atop the Billboard 200 albums chart in November 1965 in the U.S., and was the biggest selling album in Britain 1965, ’66 and ’68.

The 50th anniversary edition includes new introductory notes from Julie Andrews, who starred as Maria von Trapp, along with rare photographs from the movie. In conjunction with the expanded soundtrack, 20th Century Fox is releasing a five-disc Blu-ray collector’s edition of the film.

The expanded soundtrack album is due March 10 on Legacy Recordings. What do you think of “Edelweiss Waltz?” Leave your thoughts in the comments.