Guitar Learning Journey: "The Sound of Music" instrumental cover

Guitar Learning Journey: "The Sound of Music" instrumental cover

In 1959, Rodgers and Hammerstein asked singer Patti Page to record the title song of their forthcoming musical, The Sound of Music,
hoping for some national attention. A week before the opening of the Broadway production, she recorded the song for Mercury Records.
The disc debuted at No. 99 on the Billboard Hot 100 on the day that the musical opened on Broadway.

She featured the song on her national TV variety show sponsored by Oldsmobile, The Patti Page Olds Show.

The song was sung by Mary Martin in the 1959 original Broadway production.

The song was sung by Julie Andrews in the 1965 film version, with a reprise by the Von Trapp family later in the film.
The song was ranked tenth in the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest Songs in Movie History.