IF I LOVED YOU 101 STRINGS ORCHESTRA RE MASTERED

1945 - RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN, composers

[annharriman]

A very beautiful romantic song, beautifully orchestrated by the wonderful sounding 101 Strings Orchestra.. loved listening and watching your beautiful mesmerising video from the musical movie “Carousel” … Thank you very much for sharing 💫 ❤️🎵❤️🌹🎻🎼

[marryannlamb]

Great instrumental song Tito . Have a blessed week.

[franciscobraga]

Mantovani (1905 – 1980), was an Anglo-Italian conductor, composer and light orchestra-styled entertainer with a cascading strings musical signature. The book British Hit Singles & Albums states that he was "Britain's most successful album act before the Beatles...the first act to sell over one million stereo albums and have six albums simultaneously in the US Top 30 in 1959”.

Author Joseph Lanza describes Mantovani's string arrangements as the most "rich and mellifluous" of the emerging light music style during the early 1950s. He stated that Mantovani was a leader in the use of new studio technologies to "create sound tapestries with innumerable strings", and that "the sustained hum of Mantovani's reverberated violins produced a sonic vaporizer foreshadowing the synthesizer harmonics of space music." His style survived through an ever-changing variety of musical styles prompting Variety to call him "the biggest musical phenomenon of the twentieth century”. - Wikipedia

"If I Loved You" is a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel". The song was introduced by John Raitt as "Billy Bigelow" and Jan Clayton as "Julie". It was performed in the 1956 Carousel (film) version by Gordon McRae and Shirley Jones.

[miltonmoore]

THE 89 YEAR OLD
SHIRLEY JONES IS THE ONLY REMAINING CAST MEMBER, OR PERSON IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE FILM "CAROUSEL" OF WHOM I AM AWARE. SHE CAMPAIGNED FOR GORON MACRAE TO GET THE ROLE OF THE LEADING MAN IN THIS IMMORTAL FILM BASED ON HER PLEASANT EXPERIENCE CO-STARRING WITH HIM IN OKLAHOMA.

WHENEVER I HEAR GLORIOUS MELODIES SUCH AS WERE COMPOSED FOR FILMS LIKE THIS, IT ALWAYS SADDENS ME THAT THE IMMORTAL SERGEI VASILIEVITCH RACHMANINOFF, WHO DIED IN 1943 AT AGE 69, DIDN'T LIVE FOR ANOTHER 20 YEARS SO HE COULD HAVE RELISHED LISTENING TO ALL OF THE GREAT FILM THEME MUSIC COMPOSED THAT SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING HE WOULD HAVE WRITTEN, ESPECIALLY THE THEME SONGS FROM GIGI, LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING, WRITTEN ON THE WIND, A WOMAN IN LOVE, THE BEST OF EVERYTHING, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, SAMSON AND DELILAH, ANASTASIA AND MANY OTHERS.