Cast Recording of Whoop Up — Page 2

I now have my cast recording of Whoop Up and I am really like "When the Tall Man Talks" and "Love Eyes." "Nobody Throw Those Bull" is so awful it is hilarious!! I'm glad I now have Whoop Up in my collection of broadway cast recordings.

Glad you got it. How did you fins it and what was the final price?

I'm guesing now that you got yours we don't need to petition Decca to re-release it?

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If you're still looking for it there's a copy of Whoop -Up for sale on Ebay now.I'm not surprised that it's already up to $40.I think some of it is alot of fun especially Quarrel-tet and Love Eyes

I bet you wish you had tucked away a couple of copies of teh WHOOP UP delete Cds for later re-sale. (How much were you selling it for? When it was released it was had a list price of $9.98 - and STILL it didn't sell. Now that it's o/p people pay 10 tims that amount.)

Susan Johnson. What a voice. What a natural for the stage. Sadly she became disenchanted with Broadway (after so many flops and only one outright hit, can you blame her? A girl has to pay rent!) When SHOW MUSIC contacted her she was kinda nasty and didn't seem to want to talk about her career. Now that's she's goe it's a shame that she never really knew how much a small but devoted bunch really enjoyed her work.

But for maybe one more hit after HAPPY FELLA who knows what kind of a career she would have had. Her "Morning Music of Momartre" on OH! CAPTAIN is one of the best tracks on that OCR. She's a joy on Columbia's studio cast of BRIGADOON. And her contributions to WHOOP-UP make it a cherished collector's item.

Those of you who have not yet heard WHOOP UP apply to fanatics for copies.

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Back in the "old days" before CD's, the original cast recoding on vinyl was one of the "Holy Grails" of cast albums. Then, it was re-issued in the late 70's.

John Yap? JOHN BLOODY JAP? I mean, he's a nice enough fellow, but I spent the better part of a year working on the restoration of the original cast album of "Whoop-Up" - my name is even on the CD label! I produced every aspect of the reissue and wrote the notes, found the original source tapes in PolyGram's vaults, (they were filed under "L" - for Stanley Lebowsky, the conductor, and hadn't been touched since 1959!), discovered the existance of the cover versions, did the digital remastering in the studio, etc.

I was on-staff at PolyGram from 1982-1994 and did quite a few "notorious" reissues. John Yap (who had absolutely nothing to do with the "Whoop-Up" reissue) has his own company, TER (That's Entertainment Records), based in London. He made his own original cast recordings (i.e. "The Rink," "Baby") and licensed them to PolyGram for US distribution for a limited term in the 1980s.

I think we did an initial pressing of 10,000 units of the "Whoop-Up" CD (it was also released at that time on LP and cassette but without the bonus tracks). It sold miserably and was cut from the catalogue about five minutes after its release.

I did NOT get to meet Susan Johnson, but we had a few phone calls, and I got a bunch of autographed photos of her including one onto which she wrote, "I look like a drag queen."

Updated On: 6/9/07 at 12:01 AM

Thank you, Patrick Bateman. I am a happy owner of a Whoop-Up CD and love its jazzy score, klutzy lyrics, and generous bonus tracks.