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Kritzerland is proud to present a world premiere release of three never-before-heard Sherman Brothers song scores:
UNSUNG SHERMAN BROTHERS
Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
By the late 1960s, the songwriting team known as the Sherman Brothers was already legendary thanks to Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, and any number of other Disney classics, not to mention their Disneyland anthem, “It’s a Small World.” And, of course, there was Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang, with its fantastical song score. So, it’s hard to imagine that starting in 1969 three exciting new Sherman Brothers projects were all cancelled, one after another. And these projects were heartbreakers for “the boys” (as Walt Disney called them), three that got away. But now Kritzerland is proud to bring these three song scores to you for the very first time!
THE 13 CLOCKS
In 1950, the great cartoonist/humorist James Thurber published his fantasy story, The 13 Clocks, a tale about a prince who must perform a seemingly impossible task, to rescue a maiden from an evil duke. In 1968, Warner Bros. hired producer Mervyn LeRoy to make a film of it, and the Sherman Brothers were to write the score, having just come off their first film away from Disney, Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang. They wrote a delightful score, but then Warners was purchased by the Kinney conglomerate and the project was cancelled. Happily they’d made a demo of their song score, orchestrated by Don Ralke, sung by the Don Ralke singers and guest singer Fred Darian. The score they wrote is classic Sherman Brothers, filled with their trademark hummable tunes and wordplay.
SIR PUSS-IN-BOOTS
That same year, the brothers formed an alliance with two educational film producers, Ira Englander and Barry Taper. For their first project, they created an original musical that would, in the brothers’ words, “borrow a little bit of mythology from every fairy tale we could think of.” They titled it Sir Puss-in-Boots. They assembled an amazing voice cast for the film: Sammy Davis, Jr., Karl Malden, comedian Jack Carter, Jinny Tyler, and English radio host, Michael Jackson. Everything was going well until the money ran out. And so, the second project was cancelled. Again, thankfully, a demo recording was made, with several of the voice actors singing their songs, including Sammy Davis, Jr., Karl Malden, and Jinny Tyler. And again, the brothers’ songs are toe tapping, tuneful wonders.
ROMAN HOLIDAY
In 1969, Paramount Pictures and director Franco Zeffirelli (riding high on his success with his film of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew), decided to make a musical update of the classic film Roman Holiday, and Zeffirelli invited the brothers to join the project. They wrote three songs to play for producer Dino De Laurentiis. He loved the songs and the project was a go – until the day the studio pulled the plug. And that was the third cancelled project. But while the project was still a go, the brothers had the great good fortune of having the brilliant conductor, arranger, and orchestrator, Irwin Kostal, do orchestral recordings of the three songs. But before vocals could be put on them, the ax fell. For this CD, we took those three orchestral tracks and brought in singers to record the vocals all these years later, a Roman Holiday indeed.
And so, here are three new/old Sherman Brothers discoveries, at last unsung no more. You are in for a real treat!
Unsung Sherman Brothers is limited to 1000 copies only and is priced at $19.98, plus shipping.
WE WILL HAVE 100 COPIES SIGNED BY RICHARD M. SHERMAN. AS A SPECIAL PROMOTION WE OFFER THE SIGNED COPIES FREE OF CHARGE IF YOU PURCHASE $96.00 IN KRITZERLAND CDS OR BLU-RAYS. IF YOU WOULD LIKE A SIGNED COPY ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS ORDER THE $96.00 IN CDS OR BLU-RAYS AND YOUR FREE, SIGNED UNSUNG SHERMAN BROTHERS WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY ADDED TO YOUR ORDER UNTIL WE ARE OUT OF THEM.
NOTE TO INDIEGOGO CONTRIBUTORS: THIS CD CAN COUNT TOWARDS YOUR PERK, BUT NOT THE SIGNED VERSION. THE ONLY WAY TO GET THAT IS AS DESCRIBED ABOVE. IF YOU WANT THIS CD YOU MUST OPT-IN BY SENDING AN E-MAIL TO kritzerland@gmail.com. IF YOU DON’T WANT THIS CD YOU DON’T NEED TO DO ANYTHING.
CDs will ship by the third week of November, but we’ve actually been averaging three to five weeks early in terms of shipping ahead of the official ship date. To place an order, see the cover, or hear audio samples, just visit www.kritzerland.com.
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There seems to be some confusion so let me clarify more - if you're purchasing $96 worth of CDs to get a signed copy, you do NOT NEED TO PAY FOR UNSUNG SHERMAN BROTHERS - you get that free. So do NOT add it to the cart - we will do that for you automatically.
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Sounds fascinating! Never heard about these before.
I see there are 3 songs from the proposed ROMAN HOLIDAY. How many are from the other two.
(BTW: there was a Japanese musical stage production of ROMAN HOLIDAY, and now there's a stage version stated to open this coming season on New York, with songs apparently from the work of Cole Porter; so it will be a kind of pastiche production. Frankly, I'd prefer an original score, instead of yet another "new" musical cobbled together with Cole Porter songs. Oh well...)
Looking forward to hearing this Sherman Brothers work.
Thanks!
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Looking forward to this wonderful music All of these undiscovered gems, and am excited to hear Irwin Kostal's arrangements on Roman Holiday" as well. It's very interesting to think that that this music was written around the time of Chitty or just after. Cool release!
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Sounds fascinating! Never heard about these before.
I see there are 3 songs from the proposed ROMAN HOLIDAY. How many are from the other two.
(BTW: there was a Japanese musical stage production of ROMAN HOLIDAY, and now there's a stage version stated to open this coming season on New York, with songs apparently from the work of Cole Porter; so it will be a kind of pastiche production. Frankly, I'd prefer an original score, instead of yet another "new" musical cobbled together with Cole Porter songs. Oh well...)
Looking forward to hearing this Sherman Brothers work.
Thanks!
You can see the track list at Kritzerland but there are 12 songs from The 13 Clocks and 9 songs from Sir Puss-In-Boots (plus bonus tracks). The CD has twenty-seven tracks in all.
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Not that I expected anything less, but it's pretty funny that people are so uninterested in the Sherman Brothers they don't even open the thread to see what this is. Go know.
Thankfully, it's selling REALLY well 
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For what it's worth, I can't afford this right now but it seems like an awesome release! Major kudos on rescuing music that otherwise would go unheard.
Yavar
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I'm just upset that the Canadian dollar sucks so bad right now, or I'd be taking part in the free autographed CD offer. I put together a cart just to see and it came $176 Canadian. I just can't justify that right now.
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I'm just upset that the Canadian dollar sucks so bad right now, or I'd be taking part in the free autographed CD offer. I put together a cart just to see and it came $176 Canadian. I just can't justify that right now.
Wow, when did THAT happen?
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I'm just upset that the Canadian dollar sucks so bad right now, or I'd be taking part in the free autographed CD offer. I put together a cart just to see and it came $176 Canadian. I just can't justify that right now.
Wow, when did THAT happen?
Sadly it's been like that for a good two years or so. The strength of the Canadian dollar is tied so extensively to the energy sector, and with the price of oil being what it is right now, buying things from the States can be an expensive proposition. In a year or two the dollar will likely bounce back to being more or less on par with the American dollar (at which time ignorant Canadians will immediately complain that all prices should be equal, as if economics is that simple), and then it will be much more palatable to buy my beloved limited edition soundtracks, but until then I need to really limit my purchases, or my wife will be mucho mad at me.
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I'm just upset that the Canadian dollar sucks so bad right now, or I'd be taking part in the free autographed CD offer. I put together a cart just to see and it came $176 Canadian. I just can't justify that right now.
Wow, when did THAT happen?
Sadly it's been like that for a good two years or so. The strength of the Canadian dollar is tied so extensively to the energy sector, and with the price of oil being what it is right now, buying things from the States can be an expensive proposition. In a year or two the dollar will likely bounce back to being more or less on par with the American dollar (at which time ignorant Canadians will immediately complain that all prices should be equal, as if economics is that simple), and then it will be much more palatable to buy my beloved limited edition soundtracks, but until then I need to really limit my purchases, or my wife will be mucho mad at me.
Let me know if I can be of any help.
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Not that I expected anything less, but it's pretty funny that people are so uninterested in the Sherman Brothers they don't even open the thread to see what this is. Go know.
Thankfully, it's selling REALLY well
For what its worth, I'd already ordered this based on the email announcement before I even saw this thread. I absolutely love the Sherman Brothers' music.
I know! But it's funny how few people have actually bothered to even open this thread (easy to see by the "views") to see what this is, which is three song scores for FILMS, not the stage. They sure bought Chitty fast enough so it can't be the "I don't do musicals" thing. I am endlessly baffled, and, of course, the Indiegogo opt-ins are mostly our show collectors - I'm not sure I've seen more than ten film music collectors on the opt-ins. Considering how the Sherman Brothers are part of the fabric of so many people's childhoods you'd think this would be interesting, but alas. All that and Sammy Davis, Jr. and Karl Malden SINGING.
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Not that I expected anything less, but it's pretty funny that people are so uninterested in the Sherman Brothers they don't even open the thread to see what this is. Go know.
Thankfully, it's selling REALLY well
For what its worth, I'd already ordered this based on the email announcement before I even saw this thread. I absolutely love the Sherman Brothers' music.
I know! But it's funny how few people have actually bothered to even open this thread (easy to see by the "views") to see what this is, which is three song scores for FILMS, not the stage. They sure bought Chitty fast enough so it can't be the "I don't do musicals" thing. I am endlessly baffled, and, of course, the Indiegogo opt-ins are mostly our show collectors - I'm not sure I've seen more than ten film music collectors on the opt-ins. Considering how the Sherman Brothers are part of the fabric of so many people's childhoods you'd think this would be interesting, but alas. All that and Sammy Davis, Jr. and Karl Malden SINGING.
This is my dilemma. I have already purchased every Kritzerland soundtrack and musical that you have issued. Can I just add $100 or $200 to what's left of my indiegogo amount to get a signed copy? Whatever the answer, I will still buy one of these. I don't know about the other indiegogo supporters, but I just ordered the musicals directly, without using the remaining indiegog funds. Keep 'em coming!
NK
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Not that I expected anything less, but it's pretty funny that people are so uninterested in the Sherman Brothers they don't even open the thread to see what this is. Go know.
Thankfully, it's selling REALLY well
For what its worth, I'd already ordered this based on the email announcement before I even saw this thread. I absolutely love the Sherman Brothers' music.
I know! But it's funny how few people have actually bothered to even open this thread (easy to see by the "views") to see what this is, which is three song scores for FILMS, not the stage. They sure bought Chitty fast enough so it can't be the "I don't do musicals" thing. I am endlessly baffled, and, of course, the Indiegogo opt-ins are mostly our show collectors - I'm not sure I've seen more than ten film music collectors on the opt-ins. Considering how the Sherman Brothers are part of the fabric of so many people's childhoods you'd think this would be interesting, but alas. All that and Sammy Davis, Jr. and Karl Malden SINGING.
This is my dilemma. I have already purchased every Kritzerland soundtrack and musical that you have issued. Can I just add $100 or $200 to what's left of my indiegogo amount to get a signed copy? Whatever the answer, I will still buy one of these. I don't know about the other indiegogo supporters, but I just ordered the musicals directly, without using the remaining indiegog funds. Keep 'em coming!
NK
Drop me an e-mail at kritzerland at gmail dot com
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I'm just upset that the Canadian dollar sucks so bad right now, or I'd be taking part in the free autographed CD offer. I put together a cart just to see and it came $176 Canadian. I just can't justify that right now.
Wow, when did THAT happen?
Sadly it's been like that for a good two years or so. The strength of the Canadian dollar is tied so extensively to the energy sector, and with the price of oil being what it is right now, buying things from the States can be an expensive proposition. In a year or two the dollar will likely bounce back to being more or less on par with the American dollar (at which time ignorant Canadians will immediately complain that all prices should be equal, as if economics is that simple), and then it will be much more palatable to buy my beloved limited edition soundtracks, but until then I need to really limit my purchases, or my wife will be mucho mad at me.
Let me know if I can be of any help.
Very kind of you to offer Bruce, I'll drop you a line at the Kritzerland order email if I change my mind (those Sammy samples sound quite good btw)
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Sammy sounds amazing on these demos.
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Thank you, Bruce! As a major Sherman Brothers fan, I'm delighted this unearthed material is seeing the light of day. Just placed my order. Please consider more if there is any.
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