5 June 2025

THE SOUND OF MUSIC is one of the most commercially successful films of all time.
It opened on 2 March 1965 in New York. The sugary romantic family film was based
on Maria von Trapp‘s memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers during World War II. Maria (played by Julie Andrews) was the stepmother and matriarch of the Austrian
Trapp Family Singers led by retired naval officer Captain Georg von Trapp.

Hands up if you never heard of this bittersweet classic movie.

It’s Rogers and Hammerstein soundtrack scored massively both sides of the ocean.

It got to the No. 1 spot on the UK Album Charts on 5 June 1965, today 60 years ago
and stayed there for 70 consecutives weeks. It eventually became the 2nd best ever
selling album behind The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

In the US it hit als the top seat and set a new record for remaining in the Top-10
for 109 weeks. The album would remain on the chart for a total of 238 weeks, more
than 4,5 years.

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