Charlotte Rae cd from PS Classics

Posted: 10/15/06 at 2:08pm

has there been any news about the Charlotte Rae cd from PS Classics?
i believe its scheduled for release soon!

im very excited to hear it!
imagine boppin along with Charlotte Rae on your ipod!

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/15/06 at 2:39pm

Sure to be on everyone's iTunes HOT list.

Charlotte was a HOOT as Jack's Mother in the L.A. (original) cast of "Into the Woods."

[jimnysf]

Posted: 10/15/06 at 2:57pm

She is in the film version of "Hair" in the scene where Treat Williams dances on the table )"I Got Life".

Also, on the site that shall not be linked, there is a great clip called "Tooty's Bong". Mrs. G says, "There oughta be a law".

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/15/06 at 3:56pm

I have had this LP on a rapidly disintegrating audiotape since 1971. It is amazing.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/15/06 at 4:58pm

I posted this in a thread on the main board when the re-release was first annouced:

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I have cherished this long out-of-print album since someone gave me a copy on cassette tape back in 1971!

It is worth it alone just to hear her do Sheldon Harnick's Backers Audition, in which her character has written a musical a la Kismet, with "original music...well, orginally by Tschaikowski." Her performance is hysterically funny and Harnick's words and lyrics to Tschaikowski melodies (a la Kismet and Borodin) are still hilarious.

Charlotte as both Ethel Merman and Russell Nype, to the tune of the 1812 Overture:

NYPE: When I see her face,
I want to shoot myself!
Either that or else
Electrocute myself!

MERMAN: I know what's wrong with him!
He is LOVE with ME!
YES, you ARE--and don't deny it!
He is in love and it's making him sick!
Love has been making him sick.

NYPE: And every time I see her face
I want to shoot
Myself!

BOTH: ALL FOR LOOOOOOVE!

John La Touche's "A Nail in the Horsehoe at the Opera" is also dementedly silly, with Charlotte deliciously mispronouncing classical composers' names:

Now I may sound fussy,
But I don't like De-bussy.
And I simply scream
When I hear La Bo-heem.

And things by Massenet
Just simply do not fasci-nay
This little birdy,
Not one thing by Ver-di
Or Puccini
Not one teenie-weenie.

I don't like Beethoven!
Or Mozart! Or Schubert!
(Though I do like Victor Hu-u-bert!)

Then there are a few more well-known songs she does flawlessly, including comedy songs like Cole Porter's "The Physician" and ballads like Rodgers and Hart's "Why Can't I?" Also a dead-on imitation of Marlene Dietrich doing Vernon Duke's "The Seagull and the Ea-gull." And a parody of the Gabor sisters.

It's all delicious.

Posted: 10/15/06 at 5:09pm

Delicious? Oh man, can you be more pretentious.

[justthefacts2]

Posted: 10/15/06 at 10:16pm

Might be a little off-topic, but she was also in the 1974 musical "In Fashion" with Daniel Davis. It's a cute, lively production. A tape and DVD is available from Kultur Video - also Amazon, I think.

Posted: 10/16/06 at 10:01am

thank you for the preview, paljoey!

maybe this thread can help build the buzz for this release!

[roquat]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 3:08am

Has anyone else ever heard her rendition of "Pirate Jenny?" It's the last material you would ever expect her to tackle, yet it's the most sour, vicious, and compelling rendition of that song I think I've ever heard. As far as I'm concerned, she owns it now (Lotte who?)

Posted: 11/9/06 at 3:45pm

now that the elections are over, the release of the Charlotte Rae cd will be the next big event in my life!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/9/06 at 3:54pm

Another line of hers from the opera parody just popped into my head:

Oh, the fact of the matter is
I love just ev-'ry-thing,
Just EV-'ry-thing...
But why in HELL do they have to SING?!?

When you hear her delivery, you'll understand why those otherwise not-so-funny lines lives been stuck in my head for 35 years.

(Yikes.)

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 11/9/06 at 4:07pm

Maybe Charlotte and Paul Vogt could do a duets album. I always loved his Mrs. Garrett. That impersonation truly came from a place of love.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/9/06 at 9:47pm

1. Modest Maid (Marc Blitzstein)
2. Gabor the Merrier (Sheldon Harnick & Charlotte Rae)
3. Merry Little Minuet (Sheldon Harnick)
4. Why Can't I? (Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart)
5. The Physician (Cole Porter)
6. When I Was a Little Cuckoo (Cole Porter)
7. Backer's Audition (Sheldon Harnick & Charlotte Rae)
8. Summer Is A-Comin' In (Vernon Duke & John Latouche)
9. Fraught (Marc Blitzstein)
10. Gus the Gopher (Sheldon Harnick & Stanley Orzey)
11. The Sea-Gull and the Ea-Gull (Vernon Duke & Ogden Nash)
12. A Nail in the Horseshoe (John Latouche)

I'm laughing just reading the song list and REMEMBERING.

You see before you here displayed
A Victorian and modest maid
With a look in my eye prim--and distant.
But if you could now explore my mind,
I promise you that you would find
Such a neatness,
A discrete-ness,
With but one item not quite consistent:
I love LECHERY...

Charlotte Rae: Songs I Taught My Mother

Updated On: 11/9/06 at 09:47 PM

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/13/06 at 5:31pm

On sale Tuesday.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 11/13/06 at 5:39pm

Love the title...

Sort of like Lorna Luft's show, SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME.

Posted: 11/13/06 at 9:39pm

PS CLASSICS just posted their Charlotte Rae page!!!

Posted: 11/14/06 at 7:44am

i went ahead & ordered directly from PS CLASSICS, just so they could know how appreciative i am!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/16/06 at 9:30am

Mine arrived and it was worth waiting all these years for.

You take archery (if you're arch),
You take butchery (if you're butch),
Temper witchery with wit,
Naturally bitchery a bit...

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Mama always told us, "Whenever you get divorced, let the husband take the children, but ALWAYS keep the house... Such a good house-keeper, Mama was!

[Calvin]

Posted: 11/16/06 at 12:01pm

It's on my Amazon wish list, if anyone's started their holiday shopping!

Posted: 11/21/06 at 4:28pm

i just got my copy!!!
(i wouldve had it friday but our mail didnt get sorted til today)

OH MY GOSH!!!!! its sooooooo brilliant!!!!!!
im only up to MERRY LITTLE MINUET so far but i can tell that this album is going to be a LIFELONG OBSESSION!!!!!!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/21/06 at 4:38pm

The whole world is festering
With unhappy souls:
The French hate the Germans,
The Germans hate the Poles,
Italians hate Yugoslavs,
South Africans hate the Dutch.
And I don't like
A-ny-bod-y ve-ry much!

Posted: 11/21/06 at 6:28pm

i wonder how many other people on this planet have Charlotte Rae on their ipod?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/21/06 at 7:27pm

Me and you, kid, me and you.

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 11/21/06 at 7:28pm

I'd join the club, but I don't own an iPod. How do those things even work?

Updated On: 11/21/06 at 07:28 PM

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/21/06 at 8:03pm

It's like a record player, only no records.