Notes: Includes previously unreleased "Let's Do A Ballet" and "Horrible, Horrible Love" and alternate take bonus tracks ("Gotta Dance" and "Shauny O'Shay").
Tracks: 1. Gotta Dance - Harold Lang, Chorus
2. I'm the First Girl in the Second Row - Nancy Walker
3. I'm Not So Bright - Harold Lang
4. I'm Tired of Texas - Chorus
5. Tiny Room - Bill Shirley
6. Little Boy Blues - Sandra Deel, Hugh Martin
7. If You'll Be Mine - Bill Shirley,
8. Shauny O'Shay - Sandra Deel, Chorus
9. Let's Do a Ballet [#] - Sandra Deel, Harold Lang, Bill Shirley, , , Company
10. Horrible, Horrible Love [#] - Sandra Deel, , Chorus
11. Gotta Dance [Alternate Version][*] - Harold Lang, Chorus
12. Shauny O'Shay [Alternate Version][*] - Sandra Deel, Chorus
Tracks: 1. Gotta Dance - Harold Lang, Chorus
2. I'm the First Girl in the Second Row - Nancy Walker
3. I'm Not So Bright - Harold Lang
4. I'm Tired of Texas - Chorus
5. Tiny Room - Bill Shirley
6. Little Boy Blues - Sandra Deel, Hugh Martin
7. If You'll Be Mine - Bill Shirley,
8. Shauny O'Shay - Sandra Deel, Chorus
ARMS AND THE GIRL:
1. Overture / Girl With a Flame
2. That's What I Told Him Last Night
3. I Like It Here
4. That's My Fella
5. Cow and a Plough and a Frau
6. Nothin' for Nothin'
7. He Will Tonight / You Kissed Me
8. There Must Be Somethin' Better Than Love / Curtain Music
Tracks: 1. Gotta Dance - Harold Lang, Chorus
2. I'm the First Girl in the Second Row - Nancy Walker
3. I'm Not So Bright - Harold Lang
4. I'm Tired of Texas - Chorus
5. Tiny Room - Bill Shirley
6. Little Boy Blues - Sandra Deel, Hugh Martin
7. If You'll Be Mine - Bill Shirley,
8. Shauny O'Shay - Sandra Deel, Chorus
+ Selections from BEST FOOT FORWARD and LOVE FROM JUDY
Tracks: 1. Gotta Dance - Harold Lang, Chorus
2. I'm the First Girl in the Second Row - Nancy Walker
3. I'm Not So Bright - Harold Lang
4. I'm Tired of Texas - Chorus
5. Tiny Room - Bill Shirley
6. Little Boy Blues - Sandra Deel, Hugh Martin
7. If You'll Be Mine - Bill Shirley,
8. Shauny O'Shay - Sandra Deel, Chorus
Posted 2007-08-05 20:52:48: Amazon.com Editoral Review: In the liner notes to this CD, the show's lyricist-composer, Hugh Martin, sheepishly acknowledges, "I wished I had tried harder, like Avis." He shouldn't be so hard on himself, because Look, Ma, I'm Dancin'! is a surprisingly entertaining curio. The 1948 show was based on a concept by Jerome Robbins, who also contributed choreography. Brilliant comedienne Nancy Walker (On the Town) plays a Milwaukee brewery heiress who wants to join a ballet company; of course, wacky high jinks ensue. Walker displays her comic timing and sense of swing, particularly on the smashing "I'm Tired of Texas." Martin's melodic skills are on evidence throughout--even on tracks such as "Shauny O'Shea," which he bizarrely describes as "totally boring" in his notes! But then, this is the man who cowrote the wonderful score for Vincente Minnelli's classic Meet Me in St. Louis--how boring can he ever get? --Elisabeth Vincentelli > 2 Comments
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