Goldilocks (Bing Crosby album)
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| Soundtrack album by Bing Crosby | ||||
| Released | 1970 | |||
| Recorded | 1969 | |||
| Genre | Soundtrack, Vocal | |||
| Length | 23:50 | |||
| Label | Disneyland Records DL-3511 | |||
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Goldilocks is a 12" soundtrack vinyl album taken from the TV film Goldilocks shown on NBC on March 31, 1970. It was first released in 1970 as DL-3511 by Decca Custom Records for a special promotion of Evans-Black Carpets by Armstrong. The album could be purchased for $2.25. When the promotion period had expired, the album was re-released by Disneyland Records as ST-3889 with an accompanying 12-page storybook. The recording is particularly important to the Bing Crosby career as he recorded commercial tracks in every year from 1926 to 1977 and this album represents his only recording work for 1969.
The film starred
All the songs were written by Robert and Richard Sherman and the music was arranged by Doug Goodwin. The film was sponsored by Evans-Black Carpets. Songs and selected dialogue clips were included in the soundtrack album along with narration by famed voice-over actor Paul Winchell.
Ralph Harding writing in "The Crosby Collector" described the LP as: "The record album is a two-sleeved effort and extremely attractive with the whole of the centre, a fold of approximately 12.75" by 25" taken up with no less than 18 beautifully coloured shots from the color TV production."
The Crosby family recorded the sound track for "Goldilocks" on June 16, 1969, and location work for the television show was subsequently filmed at Coldwater Canyon, Los Angeles County the same week.
The songs "Take a Longer Look" and "The Human Race" were re-recorded on February 19, 1970 with Jimmie Haskell and his Orchestra at A&M Studios on La Brea Avenue in Hollywood for possible release as a pop single. The tracks were not released however until they appeared on a Collectors' Choice Music CD "So Rare: Treasures From The Crosby Archive" in 2010.
The album itself has never appeared on CD.
The film was reviewed by Variety who commented: "This update of the familiar children’s folk tale was a puzzling network, prime time, programming anomaly. For one thing, it was aired at 8.30 p.m. EST, later than would be indicated by its pre-teen approach to both the story and its affixed message...Technically, the show had considerable gloss, including a couple of pleasant, original tunes. The mixture of animation and live actors was well handled and the acting was passable...Finally, there was one very heavy in-show plug for a record of the show that could be bought for $1.98 (regular price $3.98) only at the sponsor’s carpet stores. It was narrated by Bing and was done with no separation from the story. This is the sort of marginal commercial pitch that raises the hackles on parents’ necks."
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