GEORGE & IRA GERSHWIN – OF THEE I SING / LET 'EM EAT CAKE  2XCASSETTE  FACTORY SEALED

The Brooklyn Academy of Music staged concert versions of these two Gershwin political musicals of the 30s, one a sequel of the other, with Michael Tilson Thomas as music director and conductor and a cast including Maureen McGovern, Larry Kert, and Jack Gilford. The result is an exquisite recording that restores valuable Gershwin material to the record racks.

George & Ira Gershwin – Of Thee I Sing / Let 'Em Eat Cake

Label: CBS Masterworks – F2T 42522

Format: 2 x Cassette

Country: Canada

Released: 1987

Genre: Stage & Screen

Style: Musical

Tracklist

Of Thee I Sing

A1 Overture

Act I

A2 Wintergreen For President

A3 Who Is The Lucky Girl To Be? / The Dimple On My Knee / Because, Because

A4 Never Was There A Girl So Fair / Some Girls Can Bake A Pie

A5 Love Is Sweeping The Country

A6 Of Thee I Sing

A10 Finale Act I: A Kiss For Cinderella/ Some Girls Can Bake A Pie (Reprise) / Of Thee I Sing                                   (Reprise)

                                 Act II

B1 Hello, Good Morning

B2 Who Cares?

B3 The Illegitimate Daughter / Because Because (Reprise) / Who Cares? (Reprise)

B4 The Senator From Minnesota

B5 The Senate

B6 Jilted / I'm About To Be A Mother

B7 Posterity Is Just Around The Corner

B8 Trumpeter Blow Your Golden Horn

B9 Finale Ultimo: Of Thee I Sing (Reprise)

                                Let 'Em Eat Cake

C1 Overture

                                 Act I

C2 Tweedledee For President

C3 Union Square

C4 Store Scene: Shirts By The Millions / Comes The Revolution / Mine / Climb Up The Social                                  Ladder

C5 The Union League

C6 On And On And On

C7 Finale Act I: Introduction / I've Brushed My Teeth

D1 Finale Act I (Conclusion): The General's Gone To A Party / Mothers Of The Nation / Let                                        'Em Eat Cake

                                 Act II

D2 Blue, Blue, Blue

D3 Who's The Greatest?

D4 The League Of Nations / No Comprenez, No Capish, No Versteh! / When Nations Get                                        Together / Why Speak Of Money? / Up And At 'Em

D5 The Trial Of Throttlebottom : That's What He Did / I Know A Foul Ball / Throttle                                                     Throttlebottom

D6 The Trial Of Wintergreen: It Isn't What You Did / Mine (Reprise)

D7 First Lady And First Gent

D8 Hanging Throttlebottom In The Morning

D9 Fashion Show

D10 Finale Ultimo: Of Thee I Sing (Reprise)

FACTORY SEALED

Please note split on sides of both cases, does not affect insert cards.

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