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Unlike most soundtrack albums, the one for The Producers does not restrict itself to containing just the score of the film; in fact, it is dominated by dialogue excerpts that add up to an audio version of the movie in miniature. Writer/director Mel Brooks' comedy about two producers who scheme to make a bundle by over-capitalizing a flop Broadway show stars Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, who also turn up on most of the tracks here, conceiving the idea; executing it by finding a terrible script, a terrible director, and a terrible cast; and suffering the consequences of its surprise success. The film itself is a semi-musical, with Dick Shawn swanning through a folk-rock protest song parody, "Love Power" (written by Norman Blagman and Herb Hartig), and two purported show excerpts, "Springtime for Hitler" and "Prisoners of Love" (both composed by Brooks). And there is a score, composed by John Morris, which peeks in here and there, displaying a '60s pop sensibility. But this soundtrack is mostly about the comic interaction between Mostel and Wilder, much of which is hilarious. Initially released on LP by RCA Victor Records in 1968, The Producers was reissued on CD as part of the Razor & Tie Showbiz Series in 1997. (In 2001, 33 years after the film's premiere, a stage musical adaptation of The Producers opened on Broadway, for which Brooks wrote a full-length song score that incorporated "Springtime for Hitler" and "Prisoners of Love" with much new material.)
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
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Doug Besterman, Producer - Mel Brooks, Composer - Mel Brooks, Executive Producer - Mel Brooks, Lyricist - Mel Brooks, Performer - Orchestra, Performer - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Performer - Patrick S. Brady, Director
(P) 2005 Brooksworks, LLC
Bryn Dowling, Vocal - Doug Besterman, Producer - Ensemble, Performer - Meg Gillentine, Vocal - Mel Brooks, Composer - Mel Brooks, Executive Producer - Mel Brooks, Lyricist - Mel Brooks, Performer - Orchestra, Performer - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Performer - Patrick S. Brady, Director
(P) 2005 Brooksworks, LLC
Doug Besterman, Producer - Matthew Broderick, Vocal - Mel Brooks, Composer - Mel Brooks, Executive Producer - Mel Brooks, Lyricist - Mel Brooks, Performer - Nathan Lane, Vocal - Orchestra, Performer - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Performer - Patrick S. Brady, Director
(P) 2005 Brooksworks, LLC
Doug Besterman, Producer - Ensemble, Performer - Matthew Broderick, Vocal - Mel Brooks, Composer - Mel Brooks, Executive Producer - Mel Brooks, Lyricist - Mel Brooks, Performer - Orchestra, Performer - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Performer - Patrick S. Brady, Director
(P) 2005 Brooksworks, LLC
Doug Besterman, Producer - Matthew Broderick, Vocal - Mel Brooks, Composer - Mel Brooks, Executive Producer - Mel Brooks, Lyricist - Mel Brooks, Performer - Nathan Lane, Vocal - Orchestra, Performer - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Performer - Patrick S. Brady, Director - Will Ferrell, Vocal
(P) 2005 Brooksworks, LLC
Doug Besterman, Producer - Ensemble, Performer - Gary Beach, Vocal - Matthew Broderick, Vocal - Mel Brooks, Composer - Mel Brooks, Executive Producer - Mel Brooks, Lyricist - Mel Brooks, Performer - Nathan Lane, Vocal - Orchestra, Performer - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Performer - Patrick S. Brady, Director - Roger Bart, Vocal
(P) 2005 Brooksworks, LLC
Doug Besterman, Producer - Mel Brooks, Composer - Mel Brooks, Executive Producer - Mel Brooks, Lyricist - Mel Brooks, Performer - Orchestra, Performer - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Performer - Patrick S. Brady, Director - Uma Thurman, Vocal
(P) 2005 Brooksworks, LLC
Choir, Performer - Doug Besterman, Producer - Mel Brooks, Composer - Mel Brooks, Executive Producer - Mel Brooks, Lyricist - Mel Brooks, Performer - Nathan Lane, Vocal - Orchestra, Performer - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Performer - Patrick S. Brady, Director
(P) 2005 Brooksworks, LLC
Doug Besterman, Producer - Matthew Broderick, Vocal - Mel Brooks, Composer - Mel Brooks, Executive Producer - Mel Brooks, Lyricist - Mel Brooks, Performer - Orchestra, Performer - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Performer - Patrick S. Brady, Director - Uma Thurman, Vocal
(P) 2005 Brooksworks, LLC
Doug Besterman, Producer - Mel Brooks, Composer - Mel Brooks, Executive Producer - Mel Brooks, Lyricist - Mel Brooks, Performer - Orchestra, Performer - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Performer - Patrick S. Brady, Director - Will Ferrell, Vocal
(P) 2005 Brooksworks, LLC
Doug Besterman, Producer - Gary Beach, Vocal - Matthew Broderick, Vocal - Mel Brooks, Composer - Mel Brooks, Executive Producer - Mel Brooks, Lyricist - Mel Brooks, Performer - Nathan Lane, Vocal - Orchestra, Performer - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Performer - Patrick S. Brady, Director - Roger Bart, Vocal - Will Ferrell, Vocal
(P) 2005 Brooksworks, LLC
Doug Besterman, Producer - Ensemble, Vocal - John Barrowman, Vocal - Mel Brooks, Composer - Mel Brooks, Executive Producer - Mel Brooks, Lyricist - Mel Brooks, Performer - Orchestra, Performer - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Performer - Patrick S. Brady, Director - Uma Thurman, Vocal
(P) 2005 Brooksworks, LLC
Doug Besterman, Producer - Ensemble, Performer - Gary Beach, Vocal - Mel Brooks, Composer - Mel Brooks, Executive Producer - Mel Brooks, Lyricist - Mel Brooks, Performer - Orchestra, Performer - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Performer - Patrick S. Brady, Director
(P) 2005 Brooksworks, LLC
Doug Besterman, Producer - Ensemble, Performer - Gary Beach, Vocal - Mel Brooks, Composer - Mel Brooks, Executive Producer - Mel Brooks, Lyricist - Mel Brooks, Performer - Orchestra, Performer - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Performer - Patrick S. Brady, Director
(P) 2005 Brooksworks, LLC
Doug Besterman, Producer - Ensemble, Performer - Mel Brooks, Composer - Mel Brooks, Executive Producer - Mel Brooks, Lyricist - Mel Brooks, Performer - Orchestra, Performer - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Performer - Patrick S. Brady, Director
(P) 2005 Brooksworks, LLC
Doug Besterman, Producer - Mel Brooks, Composer - Mel Brooks, Executive Producer - Mel Brooks, Lyricist - Mel Brooks, Performer - Nathan Lane, Vocal - Orchestra, Performer - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Performer - Patrick S. Brady, Director
(P) 2005 Brooksworks, LLC
Doug Besterman, Producer - Ensemble, Performer - Matthew Broderick, Vocal - Mel Brooks, Composer - Mel Brooks, Executive Producer - Mel Brooks, Lyricist - Mel Brooks, Performer - Nathan Lane, Vocal - Orchestra, Performer - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Performer - Patrick S. Brady, Director
(P) 2005 Brooksworks, LLC
Doug Besterman, Producer - Ensemble, Performer - Gary Beach, Vocal - Matthew Broderick, Vocal - Mel Brooks, Composer - Mel Brooks, Executive Producer - Mel Brooks, Lyricist - Mel Brooks, Performer - Nathan Lane, Vocal - Orchestra, Performer - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Performer - Patrick S. Brady, Director - Uma Thurman, Vocal - Will Ferrell, Vocal
(P) 2005 Brooksworks, LLC
Doug Besterman, Producer - Ensemble, Performer - Matthew Broderick, Vocal - Mel Brooks, Composer - Mel Brooks, Executive Producer - Mel Brooks, Lyricist - Mel Brooks, Performer - Nathan Lane, Vocal - Orchestra, Performer - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Performer - Patrick S. Brady, Director
(P) 2005 Brooksworks, LLC
Doug Besterman, Producer - Ensemble, Performer - Matthew Broderick, Vocal - Mel Brooks, Composer - Mel Brooks, Executive Producer - Mel Brooks, Lyricist - Mel Brooks, Performer - Nathan Lane, Vocal - Orchestra, Performer - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Performer - Patrick S. Brady, Director
(P) 2005 Brooksworks, LLC
Doug Besterman, Producer - Mel Brooks, Composer - Mel Brooks, Executive Producer - Mel Brooks, Lyricist - Mel Brooks, Performer - Orchestra, Performer - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Performer - Patrick S. Brady, Director - Will Ferrell, Vocal
(P) 2005 Brooksworks, LLC
Doug Besterman, Producer - Ensemble, Performer - Gary Beach, Vocal - Matthew Broderick, Vocal - Mel Brooks, Composer - Mel Brooks, Executive Producer - Mel Brooks, Lyricist - Mel Brooks, Performer - Nathan Lane, Vocal - Orchestra, Performer - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Performer - Patrick S. Brady, Director - Roger Bart, Vocal - Uma Thurman, Vocal - Will Ferrell, Vocal
(P) 2005 Brooksworks, LLC
Doug Besterman, Producer - Ensemble, Performer - Mel Brooks, Composer - Mel Brooks, Executive Producer - Mel Brooks, Lyricist - Mel Brooks, Performer - Nathan Lane, Vocal - Orchestra, Performer - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Performer - Patrick S. Brady, Director
(P) 2005 Brooksworks, LLC
Album review
Unlike most soundtrack albums, the one for The Producers does not restrict itself to containing just the score of the film; in fact, it is dominated by dialogue excerpts that add up to an audio version of the movie in miniature. Writer/director Mel Brooks' comedy about two producers who scheme to make a bundle by over-capitalizing a flop Broadway show stars Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, who also turn up on most of the tracks here, conceiving the idea; executing it by finding a terrible script, a terrible director, and a terrible cast; and suffering the consequences of its surprise success. The film itself is a semi-musical, with Dick Shawn swanning through a folk-rock protest song parody, "Love Power" (written by Norman Blagman and Herb Hartig), and two purported show excerpts, "Springtime for Hitler" and "Prisoners of Love" (both composed by Brooks). And there is a score, composed by John Morris, which peeks in here and there, displaying a '60s pop sensibility. But this soundtrack is mostly about the comic interaction between Mostel and Wilder, much of which is hilarious. Initially released on LP by RCA Victor Records in 1968, The Producers was reissued on CD as part of the Razor & Tie Showbiz Series in 1997. (In 2001, 33 years after the film's premiere, a stage musical adaptation of The Producers opened on Broadway, for which Brooks wrote a full-length song score that incorporated "Springtime for Hitler" and "Prisoners of Love" with much new material.)
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 23 track(s)
- Total length: 01:07:04
- Main artists: Mel Brooks
- Composer: Mel Brooks
- Label: Sony Classical
- Genre: Soundtracks Film Soundtracks
(P) 2005 Brooksworks, LLC
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