The original soundtrack to the 1952 motion picture Stars and Stripes Forever was released by MGM Records in the same year. All the pieces are performed by the Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Orchestra conducted by Alfred Newman.
Release The album was originally issued on a 10-inch LP (cat. no. E-176).
Critical reception
The Film News magazine called the album a "rousing collection" of marches.
Ben Deutschman wrote in his review published in Audio-visual Guide, Film and Radio Discussion Guide, and Catholic Music Educators Bulletin: "I had the pleasure of hearing the original Sousa's Band many times and also met and made an early hero of the great march king. Many times [...] it was felt that when Sousa's Band played one was not hearing just music but rather an expression of the many facets of growth that one found in the common people of this growing nation. Alfred Newman has somehow recaptured this feeling in the music in this album."
Chart performance The album reached No. 1 on the 45 R.P.M. half of Billboards Best Selling Popular Albums chart.
Track listing 10-inch LP (MGM E-176)
Charts Chart (1953) Peakposition US Billboard Best Selling Popular Albums – 45 R.P.M. 1
Personnel Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Orchestra conducted by Alfred Newman
See also List of Billboard number-one albums of 1953
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