soundtrack help?


I collect soundtracks, and have been all up and down the net for years about this one. I can't find any information, a release or no release or anything..can anyone help? I just love the music and sometimes have the film on just to hear it.


THANKS!

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I was listening to the soundtrack as it played throughout the show. I usually try to be aware of the music and how it may relate or if it is just background filler. I don't think there was an actual soundtrack record made, but I could be wrong. Most of the songs seemed to be public domain English folk songs. That fox hunt call was one and also Rule Britannia was another played. I also heard Men of Harlech, which kind of surprised me. There was also that Cockels and Mussels song.

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^This.

If you'd like some good arrangements of english folk songs (especially "greensleeves", that featured heavily in the soundtrack) then you should find and listen to "Fantasia on Greensleeves" and the Folk Song Suite by Vaughn Williams. He uses the same sources and arranges them in a very similar manner- large symphonic orchestras with ambient chords and so on.

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>> Most of the songs seemed to be public domain English folk songs. That fox hunt call was one and also Rule Britannia was another played. I also heard Men of Harlech, which kind of surprised me. There was also that Cockels and Mussels song. <<

And, of course, Sumer Is Icumen In!

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^This.

If you'd like some good arrangements of english folk songs (especially "greensleeves", that featured heavily in the soundtrack) then you should find and listen to "Fantasia on Greensleeves" and the Folk Song Suite by Vaughn Williams. He uses the same sources and arranges them in a very similar manner- large symphonic orchestras with ambient chords and so on.

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I also like this soundtrack enormously. I think Herbert Stothart was L B Mayer's favorite though he is not respected today as much as some of his counterparts at other studios, such as Max Steiner and Bernard Herrmann. In those days nobody released soundtrack albums. In recent years some of those old soundtracks have become appreciated and released on CDs. But alas, not National Velvet

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I was struck by how similar the soundtrack was to The Wizard of Oz and (thank God for Google) found it to be done by the same person, Herbert Stothart. He certainly had a distinct style.

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