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Oliver! / Original Soundtrack

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Release Date: 10/31/2007 
Label:  Rca   Catalog #: 5501  
Composer:  Lionel Bart
Performer:  Peggy Mount,  Shani Wallis,  Jack Wild,  Ron Moody,   ... 
Number of Discs: 1 
Recorded in: Stereo 
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Music and lyrics by Lionel Bart.

Principal cast includes: Ron Moody (Fagin), Jack Wild (Artful Dodger), Mark Lester (Oliver), Shani Wallis (Nancy), Harry Secombe (Bumble), Peggy Mount (Mrs. Bumble), and Sheila White (Bet).

Ron Moody recreates his magnificent stage performance as Fagin on this soundtrack album of what must be the best British musical film ever. Shani Wallis replaced Georgia Brown as Nancy, and, together with Mark Lester (Oliver), Jack Wild (Artful Dodger) and Oliver Reed (the sinister Bill Sikes), gives Lionel Bart's marvellous score the full treatment. Highlights are impossible to select; Oliver's tender "Where Is Love?" and Fagin's "You've Got To Pick A Pocket Or Two" linger Read more in the memory, but the complete set is as fresh now as when it was released over 25 years ago. In those pre-Lloyd Webber days, musicals had lots of strong songs, not just one.
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1. Oliver! by Lionel Bart
Performer:  Peggy Mount (Voice), Shani Wallis (Voice), Jack Wild (Voice),
Ron Moody (Voice), Mark Lester (Voice), Harry Secombe (Voice),
Sheila White (Voice)
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1960; United Kingdom 

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