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Do Re Mi~Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II, vocals by Julie Andrews and The Sound of Music ensemble - The Sound of Music           Julie Andrews had a busy couple of years in the mid-1960s. After a star-making turn in Mary Poppins (1964), she cemented her leading lady singer status in The Sound of Music . As you can probably tell, this was the height of the epic musical zeitgeist of the early 60s. Over the previous year alone, audiences would’ve seen My Fair Lady (1964), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and Mary Poppins , which was the highest-grossing movie of that year. The Sound of Music would one-up that by not only being the highest-grossing film of 1965, as well as the winner of 5 Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Scoring of Music - Adaptation or Treatment and Best Sound) but bumped off Gone With the Wind (1939) to become the highest-grossing movie of all time. It would hold that record for 5 years before MGM...

To see part 1, click here . Doctor Zhivago Suite~Maurice Jarre - Doctor Zhivago           The 38th Academy Awards were the first Oscar ceremony to be broadcast in color and had Lynda Bird Johnson (the daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson and First Lady Lady Bird Johnson and the sister of Luci Baines Johnson; the fact that everyone on his family tree also had the initials ‘LBJ’ should tell you a lot about the 36th President) in attendance. That is just about the only interesting thing about this terrible show.           As mentioned in the previous blog, while The Sound of Music largely cleaned up the awards, being nominated for 10 and winning 5, and became the highest-grossing movie ever made up to that point in time, many big-city critics and up-and-comers in Hollywood derided it in favor of smaller films. And there were quite a few smaller movies that came out, many of which won some of the other big awards, and were try...