Two Girls And A Sailor Original Soundtrack CD.

The movie musical Two Girls and a Sailor appeared in 1944, a couple of years before the MGM studio founded MGM Records and began releasing soundtrack albums. A gray-market Italian label has put the film's soundtrack on disc more than half a century later by the simple exercise of mastering off a copy of the movie, which means that performances are sometimes incomplete or oddly mixed for the audio medium so that, for instance, dialogue sometimes intrudes over the music. But there was plenty of music in Two Girls and a Sailor, and most of it is here. (For some reason, Buddy Moreno's performance of "You Dear" is not.) The girls are Gloria De Haven and June Allyson, singers who start their own "canteen" for servicemen during World War II, which provides the excuse for lots of musical performers to turn up and do their stuff, among them Harry James & His Orchestra, Xavier Cugat & His Orchestra, comedians Jimmy Durante (who does his signature song, "Inka Dinka Doo") and Gracie Allen, singers Lina Romay, Carlos Ramirez, Virginia O'Brien, Helen Forrest, and Lena Horne, and even classical pianist José Iturbi. The original songs, written by Jimmy McHugh and Ralph Freed, are not memorable, but the overall score provides variety, humor, and exuberance, and proves a time capsule of the music of the WWII Era.