Rodgers: More Victory at Sea

This recording also includes authentic World War II surround-sound battle effects explosions and fly-overs.Back in the early '60s RCA-Victor must've felt like they'd stumbled into a gold mine with their television soundtracks what with Henry Mancini's music from the series Peter Gunn which yielded a hit single and a second LP of music and Richard Rodgers' music from Victory at Sea. The latter documentary series running 26 half-hours originally aired on NBC in 1952-1953 but it was even re-cut for theatrical release at one point and was re-show in its entirety in syndication on local television stations right into the mid-'60s; and Robert Russell Bennett's arrangements of the Rodgers music yielded a string of hit albums four in number recorded in the mid-'50s and showcasing the label's 'Living Stereo' sound reproduction. This CD contains another 67 minutes' worth of music from the series and strangely enough it is slightly more appealing than the first volume. The main body of