What cast recordings do you dislike?- Page 2

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 2:27pm

piazza has its good numbers, but there are those that are miss... like Sara U Berry's number

[CastAlbumFan]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 3:46pm

COCO: Most of the songs are lousy, and it sounds like it was recorded in a tin can! Katharine Hepburn was a great actress, but GAWD her singing was agonizing!

ALLEGRO: About 20 minutes of the score is missing. Should have recorded the Encores! production of it that ran a few years ago.

THE KING AND I: The OCR is TOO SHORT!

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 4:08pm

Add HIGH BUTTON SHOES to the list of sadly incomplete recordings. Victor released it on 4 10-inch 78s covering only 8 of the songs and it really gives no idea of what the show was like. Same thing with their ALLEGRO and even Victor's BRIGADOON is bsted by Columbia's later studio version with Shirley Jones. And, since I'm picking on RCA Victor, THE GOLDEN APPLE. How is it the awful SAINT OF BLEEKER STREET got a 2-LP set while the wonderful GOLDEN APPLE was a sing LP heavily truncated and (for the first LP edition) speeded up so the voices sounded higher than normal!

Decca's AGYG is also not great but Merman re-recorded it when she did the Lincoln Center revival so that gap is filled. It is too bad Decca only recorded 2 songs from WHERE'S CHARLEY. The London cast is ok but when I hear Ray Bolger and Allyn McLerie on the Decca single I wonder what the whole show would have sounde with American leads.

[broadwayboy1939]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 4:45pm

BRIGADOON! It just gets so boring to me!

[little_sally]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 6:15pm

Brooklyn
LSOH revival
The Frogs/Evening Primrose