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The words of music director 'John Green' as adapted from vintage material originally available at the time of the movies release...
'In the old days movie musicals could be one of two things softer or louder. But, it's another story altogether now that we have multi-track stereophonic sound, and now that we combine on separate triple stereo tracks the orchestral music, solo passages within it, choral voices, and soloists, the possibilities are numerically limitless depending on the imagination and abilities of those writing the score, orchestrating, arranging and conducting it.
To cite one example, the 'Who Will Buy?' number-which lasts on screen 9 minutes 58 seconds, took a month to film, even longer for pr-recording. We are proud of the result. The means of reproducing that sound in the theatre is so advanced and accurate today that very soon now we should hear the last of the little old lady who gets up from her seat to find the theatre manager and tell him either she can't 'hear' the screen or conversely that it's so loud she is going deaf.'
John Green Music Director (1908-1989)
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