Tracks: DISC ONE
1. Show Boat: Bill - Helen Morgan
2. Show Boat: Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man - Carol Bruce/Helen Dowdy/Kenneth Spencer/Chorus
3. Finian's Rainbow: How Are Things In Glocca Morra? - Ella Logan
4. Kiss Me, Kate: Wunderbar - Alfred Drake/Patricia Morison
5. South Pacific: Some Enchanted Evening - Ezio Pinza
6. South Pacific: A Wonderful Guy - Mary Martin/Girl's Chorus
7. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend - Carol Channing
8. Pal Joey: Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered - Vivienne Segal
9. Kismet: Stranger In Paradise - Doretta Morrow/Richard Kiley
10. The Pajama Game: Hey There - John Raitt
11. The Pajama Game: Hernando's Hideaway - Carol Haney/Ensemble
12. My Fair Lady: The Rain In Spain - Rex Harrison/Julie Andrews/Robert Coote
13. My Fair Lady: I Could Have Danced All Night - Julie Andrews/Phillipa Bevan/Cast
14. My Fair Lady: I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face - Rex Harrison
15. The Most Happy Fella: Standing On The Corner - Shorty Long/John Henson/Roy Lazarus/Arthur Gilbert
16. Bells Are Ringing: The Party's Over - Judy Holliday
17. West Side Story: Tonight - Larry Kert/Carol Lawrence
18. West Side Story: America - Chita Rivera/Girls
19. West Side Story: Somewhere - Ensemble
20. Wonderful Town: Conga! - Rosalind Russell/Ensemble
21. Flower Drum Song: I Enjoy Being A Girl - Pat Suzuki
22. Gypsy: Everything's Coming Up Roses - Ethel Merman
DISC TWO
1. The Sound Of Music: My Favorite Things - Mary Martin/Patricia Neway
2. The Sound Of Music: Do Re Mi - Mary Martin/Children
3. Bye Bye Birdie: Put On A Happy Face - Dick Van Dyke
4. Camelot: Camelot - Richard Burton
5. Anyone Can Whistle: Anyone Can Whistle - Lee Remick
6. Do I Hear A Waltz?: Do I Hear A Waltz - Elizabeth Allen/Ensemble
7. Sweet Charity: Big Spender - Helen Gallagher/Thelma Oliver/Girls
8. Mame: Mame - Charles Braswell/Ensemble
9. Cabaret: Willkommen - Joel Grey/Cast
10. Cabaret: Cabaret - Jill Haworth
11. Company: The Ladies Who Lunch - Elaine Stritch
12. No, No, Nanette: I Want To Be Happy - Jack Gilford/Susan Watson
13. A Little Night Music: Send In The Clowns - Glynis Johns
14. A Chorus Line: What I Did For Love - Priscilla Lopez & Company
15. A Chorus Line: One - Company
16. Annie: Tomorrow - Andrea McArdle
17. Nine: Folies Bergeres - Liliane Montevecchi/Stephanie Cotsirilos
18. Will Rogers' Follies: Never Met A Man I Didn't Like - Keith Carradine
19. The Life: My Friend - Pamela Isaacs/Lillias White
Posted 2007-11-07 18:43:33: Amazon.com: Sony celebrated the millennium with its mammoth 26-CD collection, Soundtrack for a Century, but fortunately starving actors and other theater lovers can satisfy themselves with the 2-CD installment, Broadway: The Great Original Cast Recordings. Beginning with what most consider the dawn of the modern musical, Show Boat, the set goes on to sample songs from Kiss Me, Kate (the first cast recording issued on LP) and many other of the greatest shows ever written for the stage (My Fair Lady and West Side Story have the most selections--three each). The set is limited to recordings from the Columbia Records vault, but it was a treasure trove under the primary direction of producer Goddard Lieberson. The 1940s and '50s are marked by major shows by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, and Leonard Bernstein, to name only a few, while the 1960s and '70s see new takes on the traditional forms, with Cabaret and works by the young Stephen Sondheim (even Anyone Can Whistle). Things begin to thin out in the last two decades of the century, as Columbia missed out on the mature Sondheim, the Andrew Lloyd Webber & Co. blockbusters, and the surge in revivals; the '80s are represented by Nine and the '90s by Cy Coleman's Will Rogers Follies and The Life. Of course, it's impossible to capture a whole century of Broadway music in only 153 minutes, but few fans could quibble with more than a handful of these smart selections. Practically worth the price of the package itself is the beautiful 64-page booklet, which includes an essay by Frank Rich, notes on every show, plus some brief sidebars, album covers and theater posters, and photos from both the stage and recording studios. --David Horiuchi
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