Met Original Cast! CDs

[Rick R]

Posted: 2/8/11 at 9:51am

In the 90s, the Met Opera did an amazing CD series called Original Cast! with lots of hard-to-find cuts. It is now very out-of-print. I lost my the Late 40s set. If anyone has a copy to burn, I'd appreciate it.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 2/8/11 at 4:15pm

I never bought the wholse series..Just the 1930's volume which had a lot are rare material from singles, but it should be fairly easy to reconstruct.

The tracks on the set (according to the cast album database) were as follows:

1. I Had Myself a True Love (St. Louis Woman)
2. Legalize My Name (St. Louis Woman)
3. Come Rain or Come Shine (St. Louis Woman)
4. Mountain High Valley Low (Lute Song)
5. The Red Ball Express (Call Me Mister)
6. South America Take It Away (Call Me Mister)
7. Moonshine Lullaby (Annie Get Your Gun)
8. I Got Lost in His Arms (Annie Get Your Gun)
9. Anything You Can Do (Annie Get Your Gun)
10. I Got the Sun in the Morning (Annie Get Your Gun)
11. Pipe Dreaming (Around the World in Eighty Days)
12. Ain't it Awful the Heat? (Street Scene)
13. Lonely Home (Street Scene)
14. How Are Things in Glocca Morra? (Finian's Rainbow)
15. Old Devil Moon (Finian's Rainbow)
16. When I"m Not Near the Girl I Love (Finian's Rainbow)
17. Papa Won't You Dance with Me? (High Button Shoes)
18. The Heather on the Hill (Brigadoon)
19. Come to Me Bend to Me (Brigadoon)
20. From This Day On (Brigadoon)
21. You Are Never Away (Allegro)
22. The Gentleman is a Dope (Allegro)
DISC 2
1. Civilization (Angel in the Wings)
2. I'm the First Girl (Look Ma I'm Dancin')
3. Atlanta (Inside U.S.A.)
4. Rhode Island is Famous for You (Inside U.S.A.)
5. At the Mardi Gras (Inside U.S.A.)
6. Once in Love with Amy (Where's Charley?)
7. As the Girls Go (As the Girls Go)
8. So in Love (Kiss Me Kate)
9. Were Thine That Special Face (Kiss Me Kate)
10. Always True to You in My Fashion (Kiss Me Kate)
11. A Cockeyed Optimist (South Pacific)
12. Some Enchanted Evening (South Pacific)
13. A Wonderful Guy (South Pacific)
14. Younger Than Springtime (South Pacific)
15. Lost in the Stars (Lost in the Stars)
16. Stay Well (Lost in the Stars)
17. Cry the Beloved Country (Lost in the Stars)
18. Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk (Miss Liberty)
19. Paris Wakes Up and Smiles (Miss Liberty)
20. The Big Movie Show in the Sky (Texas Li'l Darlin')
21. A Little Girl from Little Rock (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)
22. Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)


When this 2-cd set was released many of tehse shows ahd not been issued on CD. Now, most of them have. The only trcaks that might be hard to find are:

Pipe Dreaming (Around the World in Eighty Days)
Civilization (Angel in the Wings)
and As the Girls Go (As the Girls Go)

Does anyone know if any of the above 3 tracks are available elsewhere?

[TulitaPepsi]

Posted: 2/8/11 at 4:23pm

Rick: Please let me know if you get a copy. That's the ONE doubleCD-set from the series I lost too (lent it to a frend years ago...we are no longer frends)!!! Thank you!!!

[Rick R]

Posted: 2/9/11 at 7:24am

Now that you mention it, what you say about reconstruction is true. If only I were digitally astute and motivated. But thanks for the listing (although I do have the booklet, thankfully, as they did a good job on that too.) Above all, I'm glad to know about your show. I think that Civilization is on a Ben Bagley album, which may or may not be on CD. TulitaPepsi, I'll be in touch.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 2/10/11 at 4:44pm

Aside from the 3 missing tracks I have everything else, so if it's a CD you need burned I can do that. If someone could supply MP3's of the 3 extra songs we'd be in business.

[Rick R]

Posted: 2/13/11 at 9:57am

That is very generous and I will be in touch. THANKS.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 2/13/11 at 2:46pm

Who does the vocal on "Civilization"?

[Rick R]

Posted: 2/14/11 at 2:19pm

Stritchie does Civilization on the Ben Bagley "Make Mine Manhattan and other Great Revues Revisited" album. The readily available (amazon.com) MP3 I found is her version from "At Liberty."

Ah, Joey...my favorite role in college. I went to San Francisco State. You should have seen our Gypsy, starring Sharon McNight as Rose, the sadly departed Mary Cleery Haran as a Toreadorable (that she wasn't cast as Louise shows how much talent we had in our department), and myself as Tulsa. I got appendicitis on opening night (true story) and Dennis Bacigalupi went on instead. He played Bway as The Monster in O'Horgan's ill-fated Frankenstein. Misty water colored memories?