With this soundtrack, the composing team of the Sherman Brothers get to cover a wide territory with their writing, with self-assessing solo ballads, odes to Irishness, religious athletics anthems, wistful automobile industry glories, and sparring behavioral comparison trade-off matches.  It’s a soundtrack about as sprawling as the ~3-hour movie itself, though a couple of songs do end up trimmed out, and the jumps in focus feel more than a little disjointed without the narrative to link them together.  Despite that, there’s plenty of Old Hollywood enthusiasm and lushness on display, and though there’s nothing too innovative to the songs, they’re written solidly enough to lodge a few verses in memory.

Here’s the alternate cover art.