Oliver! (film) - Musical Numbers

Musical Numbers

• Overture (heard before the film begins)
• Main Title (heard over the opening title sequence)
• "Food, Glorious Food"/"Oliver!"
• "Boy for Sale"
• "Where is Love?"
• "Consider Yourself"
• "Pick a Pocket or Two"
• "It's a Fine Life"
• "I'd Do Anything"
• "Be Back Soon"
• Entr'acte (heard during the film's intermission, just before the second half begins)
• "Who Will Buy?"
• "As Long As He Needs Me"
• "Reviewing the Situation"
• "Oom-Pah-Pah"
• "Reviewing the Situation" (reprise)
• Finale ("Where is Love?"/"Consider Yourself")
• Exit Music

The words and music were written by Lionel Bart, and were supervised, arranged and conducted by John Green.

The pre-credits Overture as heard on the actual soundtrack of the film is not included on the soundtrack album. Instead, an abbreviated version of the Main Title is labelled "Overture". For the convenience of the original LP, the order of some of the songs was shuffled, but this was not corrected on the CD issue; instead, the film soundtrack CD is an exact duplicate of the LP - nothing on the CD has been expanded to its full-length, as on other CD soundtrack albums. The movie's soundtrack was originally issued in the US on Colgems Records; it was later reissued on compact disc on the RCA Records label.

Mark Lester's singing voice in Oliver! (1968) was dubbed by Kathe Green, the daughter of Johnny Green, the musical director on the film. She was brought in when it was found that Lester couldn't sing, although this was not made public until 1988 during an interview with Johnny Green on the 20th anniversary of the film (he stated that Mark Lester was "tone deaf and arrhythmic"). He originally had two boys set to dub his singing but during post production it was felt that their voices did not match Mark's look, so they used Johnny's daughter instead.