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OST: "YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN"

Based on the life of the legendary trumpeter Bix Beiderbeck (here played by 33 years old Kirk Douglas) YOUNG MAN With A HORN is a rare movie from 1950, in which dramatic and musical content combine to vividly depict an era when jazz was beginning to impose itself as a vibrant, new form of music. It contains a special mood. where melodic sounds of jazz music mixes with beautiful women and smoky clubs. The beauties are Lauren Bacall and Doris Day, both young actress at the time, with only 25 years old. Bacall plays the same cold bitch woman she would play in most of her films but Doris is wonderfully bright, revealing all her fine talents. In a part that called equally on her acting and her singing capabilities, she delivered a great perfomance and sang several standards ("The Very Tought Of You", "Too Marvelous For Words", "I Only Have Eyes For You", "With A Song In My Heart",...) with instrumental backing by Harry James, who served as the film's technical advisor and dubbed Douglas' trumpet solos.
Since both Doris Day and Harry James were signed to the same label, shortly after the film was released, on March 11, 1950, Columbia Records rushed a 10" soundtrack album (CL 6106), consisting of eight studio recordings they had made together following their work on the film (the cover of this original release is included in the zip file). Four years later, on August 9, 1954, that album was reissued on an expanded 12" version (CL 582) that added four more selections. So here you have this final album, plus a bonus track ("Moanin' Low"), which was heard in the film at the very beginning.