Tracks: 1. Uvertyr 2. This Time Of The Year 3. How Are Things In Glocca Morra? 4. If This Isn't Love 5. Look To The Rainbow 6. Old Devil Moon 7. Something Sort Of Grandish 8. Necessity 9. When The Idle Poor Become The Idle Rich 10. The Begat 11. When I'm Not Near The Girl I Love 12. That Great Come And Get It Day 13. Brigadoon, Medley 14. Uvertyr - Once In The Highlands - Rigadoon 15. Down On Macconnachy Square 16. Waitin' For My Dearie 17. I'll Go Home With Bonnie Jean 18. The Heather On The Hill 19. Come To Me, Bend To Me 20. Almost Like Being In Love 21. There But For You Go I 22. My Mother's Wedding Day 23. From This Day On - Brigadoon
Tracks: 1. Overture - Orchestra
2. This Time of Year - Sonny Terry, Alan Gilbert and Chorus
3. How Are Things in Glocca Morra? - Ella Logan
4. If This Isn't Love - Ella Logan, Donald Richards and Chorus
5. Look To the Rainbow - Ella Logan, Donald Richards and Chorus
6. Old Devil Moon - Ella Logan and Donald Richards
7. Something Sort of Grandish - Ella Logan and David Wayne
8. Necessity - Dolores Martin, Maude Simmons and Chorus
9. When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich - Ella Logan and Chorus
10. The Begat - Lorenzo Fuller, Jerry Laws and Louis Sharp
11. When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love - David Wayne
12. That Great Come-and-Get-It-Day - Ella Logan, Donald Richards and Chorus
13. How Are Things in Glocca Morra? - Dick Haymes with Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra (BONUS)
14. When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love - Dick Haymes with Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra (BONUS)
15. Old Devil Moon - Margaret Whiting with Frank DeVol and His Orchestra (BONUS)
Notes: Some tracks on this CD are taken from previously un-released alternate takes. The entire program was re-mastered from the original 78 RPM masters.
Tracks: 1. Act I: Overture 2. Act I: This Time Of The Year 3. Act I: How Are Things In Glocca Morra? 4. Act I: Look To The Rainbow 5. Act I: Old Devil Moon 6. Act I: Something Sort Of Grandish 7. Act I: If This Isn't Love 8. Act I: Necessity 9. Act I: That Great Come-And-Get-It Day 10. Act II: When The Idle Poor Become The Idle Rich 11. Act II: The Begat 12. Act II: When I'm Not Near The Girl I Love 13. Finale: That Great Come-And-Get-It Day 14. Yip Harburg Talks And Sings: How Are Things In Glocca Morra? - Yip Harburg 15. Yip Harburg Talks And Sings: When I'm Not Near The Girl I Love - Yip Harburg 16. Yip Harburg Talks And Sings: Don't Pass Me By - Yip Harburg
Tracks: 1. Overture - Orchestra 2. This Time Of Year - Sonny Terry/Alan Gilbert/Lyn Murray Singers 3. How Are Things In Flocca Morra - Ella Logan 4. If This Isn't Love - Ella Logan/Donald Richards/Lyn Murray Singers 5. Look To The Rainbow - Ella Logan/Donald Richards/Lyn Murray Singers 6. Old Devil Moon - Ellan Logan/Donald Richards 7. Something Sort Of Grandish - Ella Logan 8. Neccesity - Dolores Martin/Maude Simmons/Lyn Murray Singers 9. When The Idle Poor Become The Idle Rich - Ella Logan/Lyn Murray Singers 10. The Begat - Lorenzo Fuller/Jerry Laws/Louis Sharp 11. When I'm Not Near The Girl I Love - David Wayne 12. That Great Come-And-Get-It Day - Donald Richards/Lyn Murray Singers
Posted 2007-09-10 22:31:23: Amazon.com: While Finian's Rainbow's plot of racial injustice and heroic tobacco sharecroppers may be dated (never more so than as presented in Francis Ford Coppola's bloated 1968 film), Burton Lane and Yip Harburg's score is still a pot of gold. Finian McLonergan (Albert Sharpe) is an elderly Irishman who has traveled to America in hopes of planting some pilfered gold near Fort Knox and watching it grow. As his daughter, Ella Logan (who was actually Scottish) earns her top billing with charming renditions of "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" and "Look to the Rainbow." Playing Og the leprechaun is Tony winner David Wayne, who has fun with the lyrics of "When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love," and Donald Richards as the leader of the sharecroppers croons "Old Devil Moon" and other tunes.
This 2000 reissue of the 1947 original Broadway cast restores a missing passage of "Look to the Rainbow," replaces "The Begat" with a superior take, and adds a previously unreleased version of "That Great Come-and-Get-It Day." In three bonus tracks, Harburg sings and presents "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" and "When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love" for a live audience, and Harburg sings a song cut from the production, "Don't Pass Me By," with Lane at the piano. The booklet includes the original LP's front and back covers, photos, a detailed synopsis, new production notes, and comments on the reissue. It's also midprice. Other than a lack of printed lyrics, this is everything a reissue should be. --David Horiuchi > 3 Comments
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