Merman: "Sam and Delilah" Recording?

Did she ever record "Sam and Delilah", her first song from Girl Crazy? I can't find record of her ever doing it, which is strange since it was her first song on Broadway. Anyone with any info? Would be greatly appreciated!

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Updated On: 2/20/11 at 01:20 PM

Ty Ed. I also found it on a LP of her greatest hits. Anyone who has an mp3 of it is more than welcome to PM me. Ty so much!

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Ty Joey. I'm slightly obsessed with this song at the moment.

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It's on an old (1961) Reprise Lp called "Merman...Her Greatest," which I've never seen on CD. It's a studio recording with the songs arranged and conducted by Billy May.
I Got Rhythm
Medley:
This is It
Do I Love You
I Get a Kick Out of You
Sam and Delilah
Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries
Blow, Gabriel, Blow
You're an Old Smoothie
Down in the Depths on the Ninetieth Floor
But Not for Me (which wasn't introduced by Merman)
Friendship
You're the Top
The last two numbers, normally duets, are done with a small group of male back-up singers.

"Boy, What Love Has Done to Me" is, I think, my all-time favorite Gershwin torch song.

I would kill to hear a 1930s-era rendition of that song by Ethel.

For anyone who doesn't know it, here is Ella Fitzgerald's version of it, with the spectacular Nelson Riddle arrangement from her George and Ira Gershwin Songbook.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt_TRY7EoDQ

You get to know life
When married to a low-life.
Boy! What love had done to me.

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Never knew this existed: A Duke Ellington recording of "Sam and Delilah" with a male vocal by someone named Chick Bullock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkyRXgMU3g0

Listen to the 2nd vocal chorus--Chick surprises you!

I bet Ethel did what he does but even more so.

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Updated On: 2/20/11 at 09:18 PM

Wow Pal Joey, that Nancy Walker album brings back a particular memory.

Some years ago when I was working full time in radio, I found a copy of that Camden Lp in a used record store, I got it home and had the record out in it's inner sleeve looking at the label when I heard a crash in the other room. I put the record down on the chair and went to investigate what my cat had gotten into. The a phone call came in. Later I returned to my chair and without looking sat on the record and broke it in half! (It didn't even make it to the turntable!)

I was pissed off with myself but had only paid $5 bucks and figured I would find another copy somewhere.

Next morning I go into the radio station to do my on-air shift (I was doing morning show then) and the newscaster mentions in passing "Oh did you hear that Nancy Walker died last night?"

I killed Nancy Walker!

Too spooky.

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PalJoey,

That's a shame that the radio broadcast doesn't exist. I'd kill to hear that as well!


If I remember correctly, in the '04 documentary, "Broadway: The American Musical," there was footage of a younger Merman singing "I Got Rhythm." Do you know where this comes from?

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Updated On: 12/31/11 at 12:03 AM