GREAT COLLECTION OF ETHEL MERMAN SONGS FROM BROADWAY MUSICAL RECORDINGS (see photos for complete playlists) :
1) ETHEL MERMAN: A Musical Autobiography (1958) (Decca - DL-8179 - 2 LP Boxed Set- with cardboard gatefold insert) This album includes songs from Broadway musicals (1930 to 1955) sung by Ethel Merman: Girl Crazy / Take A chance / Anything Goes / Red,Hot & Blue / Stars In Your Eyes / Du Barry Was A Lady / Panama Hattie / SomethingFor The Boys / Annie Get Your Gun / Call Me Madame / No business like Show Business PLUS Copacabana Show of 1950 & Session with Buddy Cole Quartet (see photo for complete playlist). CONDITION: 2 Vinyl Discs = Very God +. Box = Very Good - (Taped upper and lower box sides). Gatefold Insert = Very Good +.
2) CALL ME MADAM (1950) (Decca - DL-79022) (Back cover is stamped: SAMPLE / NOT FOR SALE) Ethel Merman sings 12 Songs from the Broadway musical Call Me Madam with words and music by Irving Berlin. NOTE: Due to contractual restrictions Ethel could not sing on official Broadway Cast recording on a different label (RCA Victor), so she released this album on her label-Decca. She is joined by Dick Haymes, Eileen Wilson and Gordon Jenkins and his orchestra & Chorus to sing songs of other cast members. Dinah Shore Took on Ethel's part on the Original Show album. That original production cast with Ethel Merman included: Paul Lukas, Russell Nype, Galina Talva, Pat Harrington. The book is by Howard Linsey and Russell Crouse. Directed by George abbott. choreography by Jerome Robbins. Musical direction by Jay Blackton. CONDITION: Vinyl & Cover = Excellent.
3) HAPPY HUNTING (1956) (RCA Victor - LOC-1026) (INCLUDES ORIGINAL 1950's SHEET MUSIC For Song: Mutual Admiration Society) Original Broadway cast recording . Book by Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse.Lyrics by Matt Dubey. Music by Harold Karr. Choreography by Alex Romero. Musical Direction by Jay Blackton. Directed by Abe Burrows. Cast: Ethel Merman, Fernando Lamas, Virginia Gibson, Gordon Polk, Mary Finney, Leon Belasco, Olive Templeton, Renato Cibelli. CONDITION: Vinyl & Cover = Excellent. Sheet Music = Very Good +.
4) GYPSY (1959) (Columbia - OS-2017) (INCLUDES RARE ORIGINAL October 1961 - Los Angeles Biltmore Theatre "The Playgoer" theatre magazine) Original Broadway Cast re cording. Book by Arthur Laurents. Music by Jule Styne. Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Suggested by the Memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee. Directed and Choreographed by Jerome Robbins. Produced by David Merrick & Leland Hayward. Cast: Ethel Merman, Jack Klugman, Sandra Church. CONDITION: Vinyl & Cover = Very Good +. THE PLAYGOER Theatre Magazine = Very Good -. (Some tearing and color correction of magazine masthead - see photo).
5) ANNIE GET YOUR GUN (1966) (RCA Victor - LSO-1124) An original Lincoln Center Cast recording. This album is a new production of the original 1946 world famous musical Annie Get Your Gun with Ethel Merman reprising her role as Annie Oakley. INCLUDING a new Irving Berlin song, An Old Fashioned Wedding, added to the original score. Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin. Book by Herbert & Dorothy Fields. Choreography by Danny Daniels. Musical director Franz Allers. Produced by Richard Rodgers/Musical Theatre of Lincoln Center. Directed by Jack Sydow. Cast: Ethel Merman,
Bruce Yarnell, Benay Venuta, Jerry Orbach. CONDITION: Vinyl = Very Good +. Cover = Very Good.
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