Cast Recording of Whoop Up

According to www.castalbumdb.com, this cast recording is available on CD. However, I checked amazon, ebay, footlight, and half.com but there have been no hits. Where can I buy this cast recording new or used? Thanks!

Yeah, this is a pretty pricey out-of-print cast recording. I lucked out an got a copy on Amazon marketplace several months ago, for 35 bucks (which is cheap). It usually goes for about 100 bucks.

It is worth it.

Keep checking Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000E5ML/sr=1-5/qid=1145457882/ref=sr_1_5/002-7472259-1210454?%5Fencoding=UTF8&s=music

Yeah Amazon will be your best choice, as ebay bid for Whoop-up get way up there.

I know nothing about "Whoop Up"... what's so special about it?

Susan. Johnson.

The songs are great.

Susan Johnson is at her best here, and her solo "When the Tall Man Talks" is jaw-dropping good. It's a great score all around.

Updated On: 4/19/06 at 11:49 AM

I don't understand why it is so rare. Did they only make like 100 copies of this CD initially??? In the grand scheme of things, most people in the world are NOT looking to buy Whoop-Up so there should be a lot of extra copies of the CD lying around somewhere. Unless the initial number of copies made of this CD was so low, I don't understand why it is impossible to find.

i've got it

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The "Whoop-Up" CD has really hysterical liner notes. The re-issue producer (John Yap) got drunk with a friend at dinner and decided that they should put all of the Whoop-Up cover recordings ever made on the CD as a joke, because they're so terrible. They ended up doing it on this CD, including an unbelievable Maurice Chevalier cover of a dreadful song called "Nobody Throw Those Bull".

Overall, "Whoop-Up" is highly listenable, thanks to tracks like Susan Johnson's "When the Tall Man Talks" and fun novelty numbers like "Love Eyes" and "Caress Me, Possess Me Perfume." The bonus tracks on the CD are fun too, with Connie Francis doing a sensational version of "Love Eyes", and the aforementioned Chevalier track has to be heard to be believed.

Definitely try to pick it up, it's a much better listen than most other rare flop recordings.

Veuve, what an amazing description! Now I really want it!

(I promise not to compete with you if it pops up on amazon though, WithoutaTrace.)

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Oooh, Raggedy Ann! Do you know if this is available to watch at Lincoln Center?

If I could have one nonexistent cast recording in the world, it would probably be Marilyn!

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I love my Whoop-Up. :)

What happened was, Larry Lash was at Polydor at the time and had reissued some of the M-g-M cast albums they had inherited. A friend of his suggested - practically dared him - to put WHOOP UP out on cd and add the Maurice Chevalier single of "Nobody throw the bull" as a bonus.

M-g-M Records had made the cast album shortly after the musical premiered but when the show folded quickly, the Lp quickly went out of print. There were two issues, mono and stereo. The mono had the Overture while the stereo re-arranged the running order and dropped the Overture. By the 1980s $75 was the average price for a clean stereo copy.

Lash did an excellent remastering job (though he could only find mono takes for one of the songs) and filled out the CD with a half hour of bonus tracks from studio and pop artists recordings of songs from the show.

The CD was welcomed by collectors but hardly a big seller and Polydor is quick to delete anything that does not sell. It was gone in less than 2 years and while casette copies showed up in cut-out bins it seems that the unsold Cd's were recalled and possibly destroyed. In all there are probably less than 2,000 copies in circulation.

Write to Brian Druteman at Decca Broadway (they own the rights now) and see if they can re-press it. They would not have to re-master anything so possibly they could do a small run using the existing tapes.

It's not classic, but it is fun and Susan Johnson is a treat. Connie Francis take on "Love Eyes" is cute and rather sexy (for her.)

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Updated On: 4/20/06 at 02:46 PM

That was Whoopee