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[AC126748]

Posted: 5/15/12 at 4:11pm

Here is the complete cast list per the TOFT catalogue, which lists the recording date as May 20, 1972:

Barbara Broughton, J. T. Cromwell, Tandy Cronyn, Rolly Fanton, Louisa Flaningam, Joy Franz, Del Hinkley, Jane A. Johnston, Gary Krawford, Bernie McInerney, Donna McKechnie, Mary Roche, and Julie Wilson.

[After Eight]

Posted: 5/15/12 at 4:15pm

Julie Wilson

[Gaveston2]

Posted: 5/15/12 at 6:39pm

Thanks to After Eight and EricMontreal for the info on the ANNIE, GET YOUR GUN CD.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 5/15/12 at 6:43pm

Thanks both of you. I swear as soon as I get to NYC, watching that tape will be the first thing I do. Interesting, Joy Franz was one of the few replacements when the New York cast presented the show in Lond--she played Susan instead of Merle Louise.

Posted: 5/15/12 at 7:00pm

Ivy Lynn sang most of the part of Marylin (instead of star Karen Cartwright) in the OBC of Bombshell.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 5/15/12 at 7:26pm

^Ha!

[PennybankBill]

Posted: 5/15/12 at 7:55pm

That's pretty funny because Julia Migenes played Lulu at the Met when Teresa Stratas couldn't.

[justoldbill]

Posted: 5/15/12 at 9:10pm

In my days as a supernumerary at the Met, I often covered some operas, including LULU. As luck would have it, both Julia Migenes and I made last-minute-replacement appearances in the telecast performance of LULU (I remain unseen on the video). During the time RAGS was developing, there was much joking backstage at the Met about Migenes ending up doing the album. Well, wouldn't you know it!!!!!!

And the speed on the Decca PORGY AND BESS CD remains incorrect. Go for the UK Naxos release instead- very nice. Finally, the Columbia Irra Petina SONG OF NORWAY sides can be found on CD on the UK Naxos Musicals label (I was wrong before). Thank Heaven for Amazon.

Updated On: 5/15/12 at 09:10 PM

[justoldbill]

Posted: 5/15/12 at 9:32pm

Without the details at hand, EMI's London cast of CARMEN JONES solved the problem forever by dividing the recording between the opening night and alternate singers for Carmen and Joe. Odd, but nifty.

Sally Ann Howes doesn't "replace" Liv Ullman on the I REMEMBER MAMA album. That is a (much later) studio cast recording, not an OBC recording. And, "An Old Fashioned Wedding" was written for the mid-sixties Lincoln Center revival of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN and thus would not have been recorded before that time.

Updated On: 5/15/12 at 09:32 PM

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 5/17/12 at 12:13pm

Eric,

Decca did indeed re-release their popular album sets in 45-rpm in two formats...boxed sets that matched the number of records in the 78-rpm albums (catalog numbers have a 9-prefix. For AGYG it was 9-12) and later in the "extended play" format which squeezed two songs one each side reducing a formerly 6-record set to 3 discs. These catalog numbers had an ED prefix (ED 805 for the AGYG album.) Curiously their 9- series sets of CARMEN JONES was complete but SONG OF NORWAY lost part of a song that was included on 78-rpm and all later Lp releases. (No one seems to know WHO made the decisions of what to cut and what to include when these re-releases were prepared.)

But Amazon.com has something that seems to be the album I recall and its cover art bills it as "A DECCA ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING"

Decca started using this phrase on their album covers (even when it wasn't technically true as in CALL ME MADAM) starting around 1955 when their Broadway cast series were reissued on Lp for a second time, switching from 8000 series catalog numbers to 9000 series. (AGYG was first released on Lp as DL 8001. the 1955 reissue which had anew artwork - all of the reissues did - was DL 9107. Later it was reissued in very hollow sounding "fake" stereo as DL 79017)

The British Decca label was never part of U.S. Decca... their USA label was London records and that label did the 1973 studio remake of AGYG that provides the Bonus tracks on the current CD edition from Decca Broadway. (Though once separate companies, they were all merged when Polygram -who owned London/English Decca and MCA which bought out the old American Decca label were combined into Universal Music.)

For the history of the original AGYG recording in more or less reverse chronological order see the link below.

And..to swing this back ON TOPIC, the coupe who sing "Who DO You Love I hope?" on the Decca album are not the cast members who sang it in the show. They are Decca contract singers.

Mary Ellen Ashley who grew up in the original cast variously playing Annie's younger sisters (and in one case brother) told me that the kids were not included in the recording sessions...so in "Moonshine Lullaby" it is just Miss Merman and the Porters on the record.








ANNIE GET YOUR GUN - 1946 original Braodway cast

Updated On: 5/17/12 at 12:13 PM

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 5/17/12 at 12:42pm

Then there is always the Jane Froman OBC of Annie Get Your Gun. Again, Merman had a "contractual" clause which didn't allow her to record for whatever the company was that issued the OBC of Annie Get Your Gun.

Finch,

I am not familiar with any record of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN headed by Jane Froman. In fact, the only cast alum I know of that she "subbed" on was Capitol's album of the 1952 PAL JOEY because Vivienne Segal and Harold Lang who starred in the revival had previously made a studio cast LP of the score for Columbia and were not able to appear on Capitol's set. (Dick Beavers sang Joey's role on the record.)

What label issued Froman in AGYG?

[elphaba.scares.me]

Posted: 5/17/12 at 1:35pm

Surprised no one's mentioned "Songs For A New World".

It was before my time in NYC, but wasn't Billy Porter in the cast and unable to do the album because he had a recording deal somewhere? I seem to remember hearing that the label wouldn't give him permission to do the cast album...

[bk]

Posted: 5/17/12 at 1:50pm

"Judy Kuhn had left SHE LOVES ME by the time the recording was made to originate the role of Betty Schaffer in the LA production of SUNSET BLVD. Diane Fratantoni (who now works under her married name, Diane Sutherland) replaced her and recorded the role of Amelia."

As much as I wanted Ms. Kuhn to do it, she did not move with the show after the Roundabout, and the producers thought it would be best to have the person who was actually performing the role in its transfer to a real Broadway house do it - that was Miss Fratantoni.