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1941: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | 
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| Creator: John Williams
Label: Varese Sarabande
Category: Music
Buy New: $16.98
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 148919
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 5832
UPC: 030206583229
EAN: 0030206583229
ASIN: B00000151M
Release Date: September 9, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | The March from "1941" - Williams, John | | • | The Invasion - Williams, John [Fil | | • | The Sentries - Williams, John [Fil | | • | Riot at the U.S.O. - Williams, John | | • | To Hollywood and Glory - Williams, John | | • | Swing, Swing, Swing - Williams, John [Fil | | • | The Battle of Hollywood - Williams, John [Fil | | • | The Ferris Wheel Sequence - Williams, John | | • | The Finale - Williams, John [Fil |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
This was a great John Williams soundtrack.... January 11, 2008
...but the movie was a bomb.
The real shame of "1941" was how badly it wasted the music, the actors and the production values. One year after the smash success of NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE, this couldn't-miss monstrosity lurched into theatres for Christmas of 1979 and laid a massive holiday egg. I was in high school and nobody looked more forward to this movie than I did.
The script was all over the place and nothing seemed to come together. The laughs were few and far between. The direction was...wasn't...there. Nobody could figure out how Steven Spielberg could make instant classics like JAWS and CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND and then turn this out. (He definitely redeemed himself with his next film: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK). Watching "1941", I kept wondering, "Where was John Landis?" Get him and his KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE team in there.
But John Williams provided a great soundtrack to a lame comedy. It invoked the spirit of the World War II Hollywood movie marches and would've been the perfect music accent or undercut the comic mayhem...if there had been any.
 John Williams - The Greatest July 5, 2006
There is needless to say much about John Williams. He is simply brilliant. The greatest composer of our time wrote a heroic, fast and excellent score for Steven Spielbergs highly underrated action-adventure comedy-spectacle. Each track of Williams is special, and the main title march is a real classic. Anyone, anyone, who loves film music at its best, must own this cd.It is a true masterpiece, a music, which can be enjoyed without the film too.
TO HOLLYWOOD AND GLORY! February 15, 2002
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Truly the track title rulez here!TO HOLLYWOOD AND GLORY! John Williams understand here probably better than on any other score to use his full-blown orchestra
in a patriotic and bombastic way - yet never too much of it! What sounds strange at first comes to it's first reality in the funny, sarcastic *and* bombastic MAIN TITLE, a march of course. Boy, did I love this movie and score at "first sight" and was after this score in 1984 when the LP was very rarely seen. This one score became one of my close all-time-favs and the many outstanding tracks, namely THE INVASION, TO HOLLYWOOD AND GLORY and THE BATTLE OF HOLLYWOOD play in my mind even in rememberance. Williams even made fun out of the classic SING-SING-SING, this time as SWING-SWING-SWING. A riot of a score! Rousing trombones, powerful horns...
You gotta love this score! Buy it, when you see it!
Wild Music January 28, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The march from "1941" is propulsive and exciting, and shows us that we are listening to the music for a comedy. John Williams goes beyond this movie, presenting us with wild tunes that keeps us marvelled and entertained. The CD presents us with incredible marches that only Williams knows how to write. And let's not forget 'Swing, Swing, Swing', a track that definetely presents us with a great dancing rhythm entangled with comedy. This is a great CD, in spite of its thirty eight minutes.
 The best songs are missing on this soundtrack CD December 16, 2000
7 out of 16 found this review helpful
They recently brought 1941 on television. I just turned on when there were three women singing in the tradition of the Andrews Sisters. Even though the action of the movie did not grab me it was the music that kept me watching. The singing and the orchestral music they played in the ballroom of the U.S.O. was so great I wanted it in CD quality. After buying this CD I was very disappointed to find that all of the songs by the singing women, especially "Down by the Ohio", were missing. With only 38 minutes of music on the CD only half of the capacity is used. Absolutely not understandable they omitted the best tracks! This disc might be all right for the person looking for John Williams instrumental music only. For somebody who wants a CD worthy being called "Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" it is not complete and cannot be recommended.
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