Mary Poppins (soundtrack) that more than 30 songs were written at various stages of the film's development. No cast recordings of any of these songs have been released to the public, only demos or later performances done by the songwriters — with the exception of the rooftop reprise of "Chim Chim Cher-ee" and the "smoke staircase yodel" mentioned below. The Compass Sequence, a precursor to "Jolly Holiday", was to be a multiple-song sequence. A number of possible musical components have been identified: Mary Poppins (soundtrack) Mary Poppins: Original Cast Soundtrack is the soundtrack album of the 1964 film "Mary Poppins", with music and
Cotton Fields 1958 album "Belafonte Sings the Blues" with a live version appearing on the 1959 concert album "Belafonte at Carnegie Hall": Belafonte had learned "Cotton Fields" from Odetta and been singing it in concert as early as 1955. A #13 hit in 1961 for The Highwaymen, "Cotton Fields" served as an album track for a number of C&W and folk-rock acts including Ferlin Husky ("The Heart and Soul of Ferlin Husky" 1963), Buck Owens ("On the Bandstand" 1963), the New Christy Minstrels ("Chim-Chim-Cheree" 1965) and the Seekers ("Roving With The Seekers" 1964): Odetta also made a new studio recording of the