Annie Get Your Gun (OBC)

[alxscrz2]

Posted: 8/22/10 at 12:51pm

I purchased this on itunes and it came with 3 bonus tracks, 'Overture', 'Colonel Buffalo Bill', 'Im a bad,bad man', and 'An old fashioned wedding'. Are these bonus tracks from the lincoln center revival recording ? Or from something else. On amazon it says these tracks were recorded in 1972. Thanks for the help
Updated On: 8/22/10 at 12:51 PM

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 8/22/10 at 2:51pm

I believe these tracks are from the London studio recording from 1972. Merman actually got to record the score to ANNIE GET YOUR GUN three times: the first being the very truncated original cast recording, the second being the wonderful 1966 Lincoln Center revival, and the third being a 1972 London studio recording! How's that for owning a role?

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 8/22/10 at 6:08pm

The London studio album was totally redundant, duplicating the same program as the Lincoln Center recording with an inferior cast.

I would rather they had done one of the early Merman scores that predated the cast album era. ANYTHING GOES would have been a prime choice since at that time the only available recording was of the heavily revised 1962 off-Broadway revival. Maybe even DUBARRY WAS A LADY or RED HOT AND BLUE? How about an album of GIRL CRAZY with Merman and Ginger Rogers recreating their original roles? But no, we needed a 6th album of AGYG in the catalog (joining the OBC on Decca, Film ST on M-G-M, the TV cat on Capitol, the Doris Day/Robert Goulet studio cast on Columbia and RCA Victor's Lincoln Center cast album.)

I still find the Lincoln Center disc as definitive as we're likely to get.