Tracks: 1. Overture
2. Pajama Game: Racing With The Clock
3. A New Town In A Blue Town
4. I'm Not At All In Love
5. I'll Never Be Jealous Again
6. Hey There
7. Her Is
8. Once-A-Year-Day!
9. Small Talk
10. There Once Was A Man
11. Steam Heat
12. Think Of The Time I Save
13. Hernando's Hideaway
14. Seven-And-A-Half Cents
15. Finale
16. Hey There -- Rosemary Clooney [*]
17. Hey There -- Sammy Davis [*]
18. Hernando's Hideaway -- Johnny Ray [*]
Tracks: 1. Overture
2. The Pajama Game/ Racing With The Clock
3. A New Town Is A Blue Town
4. I'm Not At All In Love
5. I'll Never Be Jealous Again
6. Hey There
7. Her Is
8. Once-A-Year-Day!
9. Small Talk
10. There Once Was A Man
11. Steam Heat
12. Think Of The Time I Save
13. Hernando's Hideaway
14. Seven-And-A-Half Cents
15. Finale
Notes: In the mid-1950s Columbia switched it's Lp codes from ML (for Masterworks Lp) to OL (Original Cast Lp). Later pressings of THE PAJAMA GAME adopt the OL prefix, though it was not a specific reissue.
Posted 2007-08-05 20:52:48: Amazon.com Editoral Review: Based on the novel 7-1/2 Cents by Richard Bissell, The Pajama Game hit Broadway in May 1954 and ran over 1,000 performances. The plot revolves around a labor dispute at the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory, with two couples (Eddie Foy Jr. and Carol Haney, John Raitt and Janis Paige) in the middle of it. The score, by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, includes Raitt's classic ballad "Hey There" (dueting with himself as recorded on a dictation machine), the humorous "Think of the Time I Save," and "Steam Heat" and "Hernando's Hideaway," both set to memorable choreography by a Broadway novice named Bob Fosse. The following year, the Adler-Ross-Fosse team would team up again with Damn Yankees.
The 2000 remastered version of The Pajama Game features vastly improved sound and bonus tracks taken from a 1954 radio show: Raitt's "The World Around Us" (dropped from the show) and Raitt and Paige's "There Once Was a Man," both with a rehearsal pianist, and Adler and Ross themselves singing "Hernando's Hideaway" with Ross at the piano. --David Horiuchi > 2 Comments
