Track Listing

1. Overture - Orchestra
2. Food, Glorious Food/Oliver! - Mark Lester & Boys/ Harry Secombe, Peggy Mount & Boys
3. Boy for Sale \x{2013} Harry Secombe
4. Where Is Love? \x{2013} Mark Lester
5. You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two \x{2013} Ron Moody & Boys
6. Consider Yourself \x{2013} Jack Wild, Mark Lester & Ensemble
7. I'd Do Anything - Jack Wild, Shania Wallis, Sheila White, Mark Lester, Ron Moody & Boys
8. Be Back Soon - Ron Moody & Boys
9. As Long As He Needs Me - Shania Wallis
10. Who Will Buy? - Mark Lester & Ensemble
11. It's a Fine Life - Shania Wallis, Sheila White & The Three Cripples Crowd
12. Reviewing the Situation - Ron Moody
13. Oom-Pah-Pah - Shania Wallis & The Three Cripples Crowd
14. Finale \x{2013} Orchestra & Ensemble

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #562 in Music
• Released on: 2008-04-14
• Number of discs: 1

From Amazon.com
Lionel Bart's wonderful musical adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic was the first London stage musical to be transplanted to Broadway with the same kind of sensation it received in Britain-- something that is now common in these post-Cats/Les Miserables times. Although no one from this British cast ever became enormously famous (future Monkee Davy Jones was in the second Broadway cast)--and Sir Carol Reed's film version receives all the critical accolades--this remains the better recording, featuring all the songs cut from the film, while excluding the film's musical interludes that simply seem annoying without the visuals. Just compare Bruce Brochnik to the film's Mark Lester in the title role. Or Clive Revill to Ron Moody's Fagin. Or any of the principals, for that matter--and the differences are remarkable. --Bill Holdship

Customer Reviews

Great songs, great singers, great value.
I bought this to take on holiday with us. We sang along to it for hours.

A good soundtrack
I've always loved the film Oliver! especially singing along with the musical numbers in the film. So recently I purchased the CD soundtrack.

I already love the songs so there's no issue there but the songs are cut from what is heard in the film. This disapointed me which is why i've only given it three stars.

Musically superb.
There are few musicals with so many great numbers as Oliver!: 'Consider Yourself'; 'You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two'; 'As Long As He Needs Me'; 'Reviewing the Situation'....the list just goes on and on. Lionel Bart never wrote a better musical (and I'm not sure anyone else did). It's now an incredible bargain at Amazon's current price of under £3-00. Some people prefer the stage recording (there are some odd balances in this, the film recording, but they don't detract from the pleasure) ; but for sheer joy and wonderful orchestral arrangements, you should snap this up.

Terrific.