The Great Race - Push The Button, Max! - Video
PUBLISHED:  Aug 01, 2012
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Before the film was released, the soundtrack was re-recorded in Hollywood by RCA Victor Records for release on vinyl LP. Henry Mancini spent six weeks composing the score, and the recording involved some 80 musicians.[19] Mancini collaborated with lyricist Johnny Mercer on several songs including "The Sweetheart Tree", a waltz released as a single. The song plays on along the film as the main theme without chorus (except in the entr' acte) and it was performed onscreen by Natalie Wood with the voice dubbed by Jackie Ward (uncredited).[20] It was nominated for but did not win an Oscar for best song. Other songs included:

"He Shouldn't A Hadn't A Oughtn't A Swang on Me" -- Mancini/Mercer. Performed by Dorothy Provine
"Buffalo Gals" -- Traditional Western song performed by the chorus girls in Boracho saloon, with different lyrics and a middle section, for a 1900s atmosphere
"The Sweetheart tree (chorus)" - Mancini
"The Royal Waltz" - Mancini
"Great Race March" -- Mancini
"They're Off" - Mancini
"Push The Button, Max" (Professor Fate's theme) - Mancini
"The Great Race March" - Mancini
"Cold Finger" - Mancini
"Music To Become King By" - Mancini
"Night, Night, Sweet Prince" - Mancini
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