Although this unlicensed collection of soundtrack recordings bills equally four Hollywood movie musicals -- Born to Dance (1936), Going My Way (1944), Road to Utopia (1946), and Bring on the Girls (1945) -- only the first and fourth titles really get much coverage. The first 46 of the 73 minutes on the disc are taken up by tracks from Born to Dance, and the last 19 minutes are given over to Bring on the Girls. The obvious connection between the two movies released nine years apart is that both have plots concerning the Navy ...
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Although this unlicensed collection of soundtrack recordings bills equally four Hollywood movie musicals -- Born to Dance (1936), Going My Way (1944), Road to Utopia (1946), and Bring on the Girls (1945) -- only the first and fourth titles really get much coverage. The first 46 of the 73 minutes on the disc are taken up by tracks from Born to Dance, and the last 19 minutes are given over to Bring on the Girls. The obvious connection between the two movies released nine years apart is that both have plots concerning the Navy. The selections from Born to Dance present all the songs composed by Cole Porter, for whom this was his first song score written expressly for a film. That score includes such memorable numbers as "Easy to Love" and "I've Got You Under My Skin." Unfortunately, the cast is not heavy on good singers. Such featured performers as James Stewart (who manages to hold his own) and Buddy Ebsen (more a dancer than a singer in this period and later known for TV's The Beverly Hillbillies) are outdistanced by Eleanor Powell, Frances Langford, and Virginia Bruce, but the score would have benefited from a better singing cast in general. Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson's songs for Bring on the Girls are not in Porter's class, and the score is incomplete, lacking several numbers heard in the film. Sonny Tufts' rendition of "Egyptian-Ella" (which is hidden on the track called "Uncle Sammy Hit Miami" here) is the most amusing piece, closely followed by Spike Jones' typically zany rendition of Gus Kahn and Neil Moret's "Chloe." Sandwiched in between Born to Dance and Bring on the Girls are three studio (not soundtrack) recordings by Bing Crosby: "Ave Maria," which he sang in Going My Way, and "Personality" and "Would You?," both of which Dorothy Lamour actually sang in Road to Utopia. These are really padding and do not justify giving the two films equal billing in the album title. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi
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