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Show: Girl Crazy (6)
Music: George Gershwin (267)
Lyrics: Ira Gershwin (205)
Book: Guy Bolton (24), John McGowan (2)

Recording Details

Date: 1990
Type: Audio / Studio Cast
Language: English
Orchestrations: Robert Russell Bennett (116)
Conductor: John Mauceri (37)
Producer: Marilee Bradford (11), Bradley Flanagan (24)
Liner Notes: John Fricke (14)
Performer: Judy Blazer (30), David Carroll (12), David Garrison (24), Frank Gorshin (4), Rex Hays (3), Eddie Korbich (24), Vicki Lewis (7), Lorna Luft (8)

Recording Releases

Format: CD
Label: Nonesuch 79250
Released: 1990-11-13
Barcode: 0075597925029
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Added by: Deester
Tracks: 1. Girl Crazy: Overture
2. Girl Crazy: Bidin' My Time #1
3. Girl Crazy: The Lonesome Cowboy
4. Girl Crazy: Could You Use Me?
5. Girl Crazy: Bidin' My Time #2
6. Girl Crazy: Bronco Busters
7. Girl Crazy: Barbary Coast
8. Girl Crazy: Embraceable You
9. Girl Crazy: Embraceable You (Encore)
10. Girl Crazy: Goldfarb! That's I'm!
11. Girl Crazy: Bidin' My Time #3
12. Girl Crazy: Sam and Delilah
13. Girl Crazy: I Got Rhythm
14. Girl Crazy: I Got Rhythm (Encore)
15. Girl Crazy: Finale Act I
16. Girl Crazy: Entr'acte
17. Girl Crazy: Land Of The Gay Caballero
18. Girl Crazy: But Not For Me
19. Girl Crazy: But Not For Me (Comic Reprise)
20. Girl Crazy: Treat Me Rough
21. Girl Crazy: Boy! What Love Has Done to Me!
22. Girl Crazy: Cactus Time In Arizona
23. Girl Crazy: Finale Ultimo

Format: Cassette
Label: Elektra / Nonesuch 79250-4
Released: 1990
Barcode: 075597925043
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Notes: Cassette packaging includes 14-page foldout brochure with complete recording credits and liner notes.
Added by: broadwaybulldog
Tracks: 1. Main Title/Montage - MGM Studio Orchestra
2. Sam and Delilah - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra
3. Treat Me Rough [Extended Version]
4. Bidin' My Time - Judy Garland
5. Could You Use Me? - Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney
6. Ginger Dear [Outtake] - MGM Studio Orchestra
7. Happy Birthday to You [Extended Version] - MGM Studio Orchestra
8. Embraceable You
9. Walking in the Garden
10. Barbary Coast - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra
11. Fascinating Rhythm - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Mickey Rooney
12. Bronco Busters [Outtake]
13. Boy! What Love Has Done to Me! [Extended Version] - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra
14. Embraceable You (Reprise) [Extended Version] - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra
15. But Not for Me - Judy Garland
16. I Got Rhythm
17. End Title [Extended Version] - Judy Garland, MGM Studio Orchestra, Mickey Rooney

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Posted 2007-08-05 20:52:46:
Amazon.com Editoral Review: Widely known for its (very loose) 1943 Hollywood adaptation with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, this musical is among the Gershwins' very best. Originally a star vehicle for Bert Lahr, the original 1930 production also featured Ginger Rogers and Ethel Merman. This new complete recording includes pros like Lorna Luft, Judy Blazer, Vicki Lewis, and David Carroll, and all of them do a bang-up job. The book is a mere pretext: most of the songs are self-contained and could be used in just about any story, and many quickly became classics ("Embraceable You," "But Not for Me," "I Got Rhythm," "Bidin' My Time.") The upbeat score--the original pit orchestra included Glenn Miller, Gene Krupa, and Benny Goodman--sees George Gershwin in complete sync with his jazz-crazed times. There's barely a wrinkle on this 70-year-old show. -- Elisabeth Vincentelli

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