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1968 film by Michael O'Herlihy

The I and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Michael O'Herlihy
Screenplay by	Lowell S. Hawley
Story past	Lowell Southward. Hawley Michael O'Herlihy
Based on	The Family Band: from the Missouri to the Black Hills, 1881-1900 past Laura Bower Van Nuys
Produced by	Bill Anderson
Starring	Walter Brennan Buddy Ebsen Lesley Ann Warren John Davidson
Cinematography	Frank V. Phillips
Edited by	Cotton Warburton
Music past	Songs: Richard M. Sherman Robert B. Sherman Score: Jack Elliott
Production company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	Buena Vista Distribution
Release appointment	March 21, 1968 (1968-03-21) (Radio Urban center Music Hall)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	United states
Linguistic communication	English language
Box function	$ii,250,000 (US/ Canada)[1]

The 1 and Only, Genuine, Original Family Ring is a 1968 American live-activity musical film from Walt Disney Productions. Distributed past Buena Vista Distribution, the film is based on a biography by Laura Bower Van Nuys, directed by Michael O'Herlihy, with original music and lyrics by the Sherman Brothers. Set up against the backdrop of the 1888 presidential ballot, the moving-picture show portrays the musically talented Bower family unit, American pioneers who settle in the Dakota Territory.

Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen, Lesley Ann Warren and John Davidson caput the cast. Kurt Russell is too featured, and, in a flake part, Goldie Hawn makes her big-screen debut.

Plot [edit]

The Bower Family Band petitions the Autonomous National Committee to sing a rally song for President Grover Cleveland at the party's 1888 convention. On the urging of Joe Carder, a journalist and suitor to eldest Bower daughter Alice, the family decides instead to motility to the Dakota Territory. At that place, Grandpa Bower, a staunch Democrat, causes trouble with his pro-Cleveland sentiments. The Dakota residents are overwhelmingly Republican, and they promise to get the territory admitted as two states (North and South Dakota) rather than one (and so as to send four Republican senators to Washington rather than two). Grandad'southward actions issue in family strife, including nearly costing Alice her position every bit the town's new school teacher. The budding romance between Joe and Alice too suffers. In the finish, more ballots are cast for Cleveland, but Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison nonetheless wins the Electoral College vote and the presidency. Before he leaves role, Cleveland grants statehood to both the ii Dakotas, along with Montana and Washington, evening the gains for both parties. The Dakotans, especially the feuding immature couple, resolve to alive together in peace.

Bandage [edit]

• Walter Brennan - Renssaeler Bower
• Buddy Ebsen - Calvin Bower
• John Davidson - Joe Carder
• Lesley Ann Warren - Alice Bower
• Janet Blair - Katie Bower
• Kurt Russell - Sidney Bower
• Steve Harmon - Ernie Stubbins
• Richard Deacon - Charlie Wrenn
• Wally Cox - Wampler
• Debbie Smith - Lulu Bower
• Bobby Riha - Mayo Bower
• Smith Wordes - Nettie Bower
• Heidi Rook - Rose Bower
• Jon Walmsley - Quinn Bower
• Pamelyn Ferdin - Laura Bower
• John Craig - Frank
• Bill Woodson - Henry White
• Goldie Hawn (equally Goldie Jeanne Hawn) - Giggly Girl
• Jonathan Kidd - Telegrapher

Songs [edit]

"The One and Just, Genuine, Original Family Band" The pic opens with Grandpa conducting all ten members of the Bower family, each playing a different musical instrument. Practicing in their barn, the family dances among the animals and hay, boasting of their unique talents and versatility.

"The Happiest Girl Alive" Alice expresses her intense emotions over receiving her latest letter from suitor Joe Carder.

"Let'due south Put It Over with Grover" The Bowers perform this Grover Cleveland campaign song to a representative from the Democratic National Committee.^[2]

"X Feet off the Ground" Ecstatic at the prospect of performing at the National Convention, the family band engages in an impromptu celebration. They sing well-nigh the feeling which simply music tin bequeath, figuratively lifting them "Ten Feet off the Ground". (This was one of two songs from the motion picture covered by Louis Armstrong afterwards in 1968.)

"Dakota" Joe Carder entices local Missouri families, singing nearly the marvels of the Dakota Territory. ("Dakota" is like in style to the title song of the Oklahoma! and was once considered equally a candidate for "state song" for Southward Dakota.)

"'Tour Time" Joe Carder expresses his devotion to Alice, telling her it'southward "'Bout Time" they were engaged, she responds in kind, and the two sing this duet. (This song was covered by Louis Armstrong and was later featured in the 2005 film, Bewitched.)

"Drummin' Drummin' Drummin'" Grandpa Bower recounts the tale of a young drummer boy during the Civil War, inspiring all the children in the school business firm that they too can stand their footing and brand a difference.

"West o' the Broad Missouri" On ballot dark, locals dance and celebrate their part in American expansionism west of the Missouri River.

"Oh, Benjamin Harrison" The Republicans in town accept their own campaign vocal; they sing their praise for Benjamin Harrison, who is "far beyond comparison."

The original cast soundtrack was released on Buena Vista Records in stereo (STER-5002) and mono (BV-5002).^[3] Disneyland Records released a second cast album with studio singers and arrangements by Tutti Camarata, with both mono (DQ-1316) and stereo (STER-1316) versions.^[4] Neither the soundtrack or the second bandage album have been released on CD or to iTunes.

Production [edit]

Originally planned as a ii-role television show titled The Family Ring, the projection was based on a volume by Laura Bower Van Nuys. The memoir past Van Nuys, the youngest of the Bower children, described her family's brass band, their journey out of Missouri, and their frontier life in the Black Hills.

Walt Disney had asked the Sherman Brothers for their help on the project, feeling the story was too apartment. The Shermans wrote the song "The One and But, Genuine, Original Family Band", which was ultimately used as the championship of the motion picture. Afterwards hearing the song, Disney decided to add together more songs to the film and turn it into a musical. In all, the Sherman Brothers wrote eleven songs for the film, though Robert Sherman reportedly did so under protest, believing the subject affair too mundane to exist made into a feature-length musical film.

The film reunited Lesley Ann Warren and John Davidson every bit the romantic leads in a Disney alive-activity musical, having previously been paired in The Happiest Millionaire (1967), starring Fred MacMurray. Disney brought back Walter Brennan from The Gnome-Mobile (1967) (starring the Mary Poppins kids Karen Dotrice and Matthew Garber) to play Gramps Bower because the actor reminded Walt of his father.

Theatrical release and reception [edit]

The moving picture premiered at Radio Metropolis Music Hall in New York Urban center. Originally intended to run 156 minutes, the Music Hall requested 20 minutes of cuts. Disney responded by cutting the picture show to 110 minutes. Amongst the cuts were Westerin', sung by Calvin, and I Couldn't Have Dreamed it Better, sung by Katie. The Sherman Brothers and producer Bill Anderson objected, but the studio heads told them the cuts would be just for the Music Hall'southward engagement. Robert B. Sherman pointed out that the Music Hall is where New York movie critics screen musical films, arguing that the cuts weakened the characters' dramatic motivation. He besides predicted that those cuts would outcome in negative reviews.

Radio City Music Hall got its way, and the 110-minute version is the simply one that e'er saw a release. Sherman'south predictions came truthful when the New York Times' critic Renata Adler panned the film afterwards seeing it at the Music Hall, calling the film "about as pepless and fizzled a musical as has e'er come up out of the Walt Disney Studios."^[5] As of 2014, Disney has fabricated no attempt at a reconstruction of the originally intended cut, but sheet music of the two cutting songs was included in the book Disney'south Lost Chords, Book 2.

Reception from other critics [edit]

The film fared no better amidst well-nigh other major critics. Variety described it as "an overly-contrived feature which presently forgets its hope and premise and turns instead to a political mishmash of events which has footling novelty."^[6] Charles Champlin of The Los Angeles Times wrote that the film "is, I am agape, the worst Disney movie in a long time." According to Champlin, there were some "pleasant, chirpy tunes," but they "tin't overcome the lack of whatever existent dramatic conflict, even at the level appropriate to musical comedy, nor the lack of an interesting central character."^[seven] Clifford Terry of the Chicago Tribune called it "another Walt Disney studio production that isn't designed to appease squirmy family audiences, since it is filled with a flurry of limpid songs, Brennan's tiresome tirades, and the Warren - Davidson 'mush.'"^[8] Edgar J. Driscoll Jr. of The Boston World said the pic "flats like a tubeless tuba — if there is such a matter. Not that the kids won't enjoy it. They will. But for adults the sasparilla may go down the wrong style. Certainly it's no runner-upwards to 'Mary Poppins' or 'The Sound of Music.' Non by a long shot, though the pitch is definitely aimed that-a-manner."^[nine]

One positive review of the film came from Lou Cedrone, who remarked in Baltimore'south Evening Sun paper that "the Walt Disney studios have done with 'The One and But, Genuine, Original Family Ring' what they tried and failed to do with 'The Happiest Millionaire.' That is, the film is pleasant in the Disney tradition and what's more, the songs and dancing, the latter choreographed by Hugh Lambert, are especially nice."^[10]

Box office and television airing [edit]

Bringing in $ii,250,000 in rentals, information technology was never reissued to theaters; instead, it aired on The Wonderful World of Disney in two parts on January 23 and January thirty, 1972.^[11]

Home media [edit]

While a planned 1979 MCA DiscoVision release with the itemize number D18-513 was cancelled, the film was released on videotape in 1981 and on LaserDisc in 1982.^{[12] [13]}

After 20 years of unavailability, the film was released on DVD on July 6, 2004. Though the transfer was non in the original aspect ratio, it included an audio commentary from Richard M. Sherman, Lesley Ann Warren and John Davidson and a 12-minute making-of featurette featuring all three.

Literary sources [edit]

• Van Nuys, Laura Bower (1961). The Family Band : from the Missouri to the Blackness Hills, 1881-1900. Pioneer Heritage Series, vol. 5. Lincoln: Academy of Nebraska Printing.
• Sherman, Robert B. (1998). Walt's Time: from before to beyond. Santa Clarita: Camphor Tree Publishers, pgs. 148–149.
• Gheiz, Didier (2009). Walt's People - Volume 8. Xlibris Corporation, pgs. 203, 206–207, 247.^{[ cocky-published source ]}
• Schroder, Russell (2008). Disney's Lost Chords Volume two. Robbinsville, North Carolina: Voigt Publications, pgs. 17–25.

External links [edit]

• Official website
• The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family unit Band at IMDb
• The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band at Rotten Tomatoes
• The I and Only, 18-carat, Original Family Band at the TCM Picture show Database
• DVD review on UltimateDisney.com
• The sap is runnin' high at Disney'south, Time mag 1968 moving picture review
• Bower Family Ring, Keystone Area Historical Society
• Moving-picture show soundtrack on CastAlbums.org

References [edit]

1. ^ "Big Rental Films of 1968", Diverseness, eight January 1969 p 15. Delight notation this figure is a rental accruing to distributors.
2. ^ The songwriters' male parent, Al Sherman (who was too a songwriter) wrote two songs which were used as campaign songs for ii unlike Presidential candidates in the mid-twentieth century. In the 1948 election, Republican candidate, Thomas Dewey usurped the Al Sherman/Charles Tobias/Howard Johnson collaboration, "(What Practise We Do On A) Dew-Dew-Dewey 24-hour interval" for his campaign. Iv years later Sherman wrote a song specifically for Dwight D. Eisenhower's campaign called "I Similar Ike."
3. ^ Murray, R. Michael (1997). "The Golden Age of Walt Disney Records, 1933-1988". Dubuque, Iowa: Antique Trader Books. p. 72.
4. ^ Murray, R. Michael (1997). "The Gilded Age of Walt Disney Records, 1933-1988". Dubuque, Iowa: Antique Trader Books. p. 33.
5. ^ Adler, Renata (March 22, 1968). "Film: 'Ane and Only 18-carat Original Family Band". The New York Times. 55.
6. ^ "Picture Reviews: The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band". Variety. March 20, 1968. 6.
7. ^ Champlin, Charles (July 12, 1968). "'The Original Family Band' Opens Citywide Engagement". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Media Services. p. eight, part Iv.
8. ^ Terry, Clifford (July 23, 1968). "'Family Ring' is Out of Tune". Chicago Tribune. Tribune Media Services. p. v, s. 2.
9. ^ Driscoll, Edgar J. (July 11, 1968). "'Family unit Band' ideal film for youngsters". The Boston Globe. Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC. p. 36.
10. ^ Cedrone, Lou (July i, 1968). "Showing Around Boondocks". The Evening Sun. Baltimore, Maryland: Tribune Media Services. p. E10.
11. ^ Cotter, Beak (1997). The Wonderful World of Disney Television. New York, NY: Hyperion. p. 90.
12. ^ "MCA Discovision Library". Retrieved December 27, 2013. Several anthology series episodes were released through this bargain, and several other live-activeness features were part of information technology, but only Kidnapped always saw a DiscoVision release.
13. ^ "Disney Laserdisc Database". Retrieved 2013-12-27 .

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