High Fidelity - A Century Of Recorded Song

High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X Factor. Episode 9 The Sound of Music Cinema starts talking and singing with Al Jolsons Jazz Singer in 1927 and High Fidelity traces the story of music song and singers on screen from musical extravaganzas from Singing in the Rain, My Fair Lady to Mama Mia music films like Amadeus and screen composers like John Williams and Michael Nyman. Episode nine features performances from Julie Andrews, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Rex Harrison amongst others and tells the story of The Sound of Music the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical song and film