Pearl Bailey HELLO, DOLLY! recording

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 6/8/06 at 11:42pm

For you cast album afficionados out there, do you know if there are any plans to re-release this CD?

I am in need of a copy of this CD, and amazon lists a few copies for $50, yet when I click on the appropriate link, none are listed. Half.com lists a copy at $100 - but I would rather not pay $100 for this album.

If anyone has any hints or tips or suggestions, I am forever grateful.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 6/8/06 at 11:46pm

I would love to take a listen to this album!!

Ebay has a couple of copies in LP for, like 5 or 6 bucks

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 6/8/06 at 11:48pm

Yeah, I saw, but I have no use for LP's.

[maybethistime]

Posted: 6/8/06 at 11:54pm

I've been looking for a reasonably priced copy of this FOREVER. It bugs me how Amazon tempts you with the song samples and then doesn't readily carry the album. There are 2 tracks of Pearl singing as bonus tracks on the most recent remaster/rerelease of the Channing OBCR, but I'd still like the entire album. If you find anything, Munk, let me know!!!
Updated On: 6/9/06 at 11:54 PM

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 6/8/06 at 11:57pm

The best tracks are included on RCA's "deluxe" edition of the HELLO DOLLY! OBC.

It is, generally, a rather dull album. The "new" overture is really awful and the supporting cast is weak. Unless you are one of those people who has to have every cast album, it's not worth paying big bucks for. (The packaging is nothing special...just reprinting the limited notes and pics from the LP jacket.) If you are curious check your local library or watch copies in your local used CD shop.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 6/8/06 at 11:57pm

aaah sorry than, Munk.

[NCGuy]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 12:05am

Footlight appears to have a used copy on their site for $34.50.

http://www.footlight.com/product.cfm?product_id=2614

[Unknown User]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 12:07am

I have the recording if anyone wants a copy. Its actually quite fun.

[d5johnston]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 12:15am

Hello, Dolly! and Before the Parade Passes By (both performed by Bailey) can be found on the new Deluxe Edition Original Broadway Cast Recording of Hello, Dolly!

-d5johnston

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 12:22am

Thank you for the Footlight link - very helpful.

Thanks everyone.

I want this CD because I do like to have every album, and I am involved with a production that just cast an African American as Dolly (a student production) - and I think giving the girl this recording would help her out a lot so she doesn't feel like she needs to try to copy Channing - which, unless you're a man - is impossible.

[KJisgroovy]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 12:50am

That was funny. Officially. I would check the library. Make a copy. That might be the most economical choice. That's how I got mine.

kmc

[BDrischBDemented]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 12:58am

Like was just said, libraries are great for this sort of thing. That's how I got my copy of that CD. I would offer to e-mail the tracks to you, but the CD is in storage until late August...but f you're still looking by then (which you hopefully will not be, 'cause that'd suck)...I can do it.

I actually think it's preferable to the original cast (I just don't get Carol Channing. Never have, never will.).

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 1:01am

I adore Carol Channing on the recording - it doesn't get any better than that.

I agree that the supporting cast on the Bailey recording is weak - but I do enjoy Bailey's performance.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 3:11am

I'll be glad to check out the used CD stores here for a copy fr you.

It does turn up from time to time.

[alterego]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 3:27am

Emily Yancy vocally, is a terrific Irene and the male chorus sound superior to the Original Cast.

[Smaxie]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 5:30am

I love the Bailey recording. ALL of it. Especially the Overture,

[Dollypop]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 5:48am

That overture was written just for the Bailey recording. At the time that Pearlie Mae was Dolly, the show still opened with just a few bars of music preceding "Call On Dolly". (Gower Champion hated overtures)

I love the tempi throughout this recording. They could never be sustained in a stage performance, though--much too brisk.

[mirandajrs]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 6:03am

There is a new copy on Amazon UK for £13.99. Wish I had checked that before I paid $50 on Amazon.

[philcrosby]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 8:30am

Munk, I have it, and would be happy to help you out of you need it.

[Jon]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 11:45am

of course, the recording fails to capture the brilliant performance of Morgan Freeman as Rudolph, the head waiter.

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 12:00pm

I thought that the overture on the recording was the entr'acte that was used at certain points during the original Broadway run.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 12:18pm

Thanks for all of your help!

It's interesting - the overture on the OBC is just "Hello, Dolly!" and the actual overture in the conductor's score that I have is not at all similar - it has pieces of the title song, Dancing, Put On Your Sunday Clothes, It Only TAkes a Moment, etc. - it goes on forever.

[philcrosby]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 12:47pm

From what I understand, there was never an overture used in the Broadway production or in the tours, so the "Prologues" used on the recordings (Channing, Martin and Bailey) were created especially for them.

I think the overture in the score was to be used at the licensee's discretion, but Gower Champion apparently hated overture and his shows generally didn't have them. Even the famous MACK AND MABEL overture is really the entre-acte.

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 6/9/06 at 12:51pm

The overture that's in the vocal score was definitely never used as the overture during the original New York run.

I don't have a copy of the Bailey recording here at present, but I think that what's in the score as the overture may be what's on the recording, except that it was used as the entr'acte (at least during some parts of the original run). Maybe someone else will know more definitively than I do whether this is correct. Perhaps I'm wrong and there was never an entr'acte.

A whole new overture was created for the last Channing revival and was recorded on the Varése Sarabande recording, made before the production reached Broadway. But when the production did get to Broadway, yet another overture was created.
Updated On: 6/9/06 at 12:51 PM

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Posted: 9/29/17 at 1:04pm

a re mastered cd was released in 2008 and is available on amazon at a reasonable price

i wrote an extensive review

it has the full show and the re written overture

the overture was used during each performance in the 1967 broadway production

remember it was not a revival just a cast change

she won a special Oscar in 1968 presented by Jack Benny and Carol Channing 

the waiters gallop was removed from the recording along with the entract  for space reasons

you can YouTube the 1968 Tony award presentation and performance on you tube