Tracks: 1. Overture 2. Show Train 3. Hold Me, Hold Me, Hold Me (Hold Me Tight) 4. Here She Comes Now 5. There Never Was a Baby Like My Baby 6. Vaudeville Ain't Dead 7. Catch Our Act at the Met (Finale, Act I) 8. Give a Little -- Get a Little 9. Everlasting 10. If You Hadn't but You Did 11. The Clown 12. How Will He Know? 13. Finale
Posted 2007-08-05 20:52:47: Amazon.com Editoral Review: A mix of songs and sketches, 1951's Two on the Aisle belongs to the much maligned revue genre. Aficionados of integrated musicals often turn up their noses at this kind of show, but when the songs are composed by Jule Styne, written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and sung by Dolores Gray, you'd be a fool to be a snob. Gray may be half-forgotten by all but hardcore fans these days, but she was one of Broadway's most compelling leading ladies in the 1950s and 1960s (you can get a glimpse of her fabulousness in Vincente Minnelli's film Designing Woman.) Here, she gets five solos, and she shines on all of them. This recording may be the best introduction to her singular genius. Gray also teams up with Bert Lahr, not much of a singer but a comedian with deadly timing, which is good enough for hilarious numbers like "Catch Our Act at the Met," in which Donizetti follows Don Ameche and Met rhymes with Rigolett'. This is a most welcome reissue. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
