The original Broadway cast recording with Angela Lansbury had sold over a million copies, and Warner Bros.

In 2005, Rhino licensed their digital master to Collector's Choice Music, a label devoted mainly to reissues of obscure titles.

Due to Warner Bros.' inability to create an acceptable stereo soundtrack for the film's DVD release, this soundtrack album remains the only source for stereo versions of most of the songs.

"The Man In The Moon" also contains a longer ending and a reprise within the scene that don't appear on the soundtrack album.

The lines "We'll always be dear companions/My cronie/My mate/We'll always be harmonizing/Orphan Annie and Sandy/Like Amos and Andy" were cut from the number in the film.