The Best of Julie Andrews: Thoroughly Modern Julie (1996)

About this title: While Rhino promoted this as a career overview of Andrews' vocal work, the unfortunate truth is that licensing restrictions did not permit them to include anything after 1967 and Thoroughly Modern Millie, thus leaving the latter part of her career unrepresented. The good news is that the album includes 19 selections, with several coming from Andrews' solo albums (which met with limited success at the time of their original release.) Many of the familiar numbers are here, too, of course, including "Super-Cali-Fragil-Istic-Expi-Ali-Docious" (though "A Spoonful of Sugar" is missing) and "My ... read more

Tracks:

1. I Could Have Danced All Night [Lerner/Loewe]
2. Wouldn't It Be Loverly? [Lerner/Loewe]
3. Show Me [Lerner/Loewe]
4. O the Days of the Kerry Dancing [Molloy]
5. Falling in Love With Love [Rodgers/Hart]
6. We'll Gather Lilacs in the Spring [Novello]
7. Matelot [Coward]
8. The Simple Joys of Maidenhood [Lerner/Loewe]
9. What Do the Simple Folk Do? [Lerner/Loewe]
10. I Loved You Once in Silence [Lerner/Loewe]
11. This Is New [Gershwin/Weill]
12. If Love Were All [Coward]
13. Baubles, Bangles and Beads [Wright/Forrest]
14. Big D [Live] [Loesser]
15. Feed the Birds [Sherman/Sherman]
16. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious [Sherman/Sherman]
17. Prelude/The Sound of Music [Rodgers/Hammerstein]
18. My Favorite Things [Rodgers/Hammerstein]
19. Prelude/Thoroughly Modern Millie [Cahn/VanHeusen]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.