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ARTIST: JUDY HOLLIDAY & CAST

TITLE: “BELLS ARE RINGING”

MUSIC BY JULE STYNE

BOOK BY BETTY COMDEN AND ADOLPH GREEN

TRACK LISTING-SEE PHOTOS/BELOW:

NOTES:Complete title as it appears on sleeve:
The Theatre Guild presents Judy Holliday in Bells Are Ringing
A New Musical

Eddie Lawrence is heard on this recording through the courtesy of Coral Records, Inc.

Nonbreakable
Made in U.S.A.

Roles listed in track listing as they appear on labels, some roles appear differently on back of sleeve. Credit roles that differ, as they appear on back of sleeve:
"Bells Are Ringing" - Girls
"It's A Perfect Relationship" - Judy Holliday, Boys
"On My Own" - Sydney Chaplin
"Mu-Cha-Cha" - Judy Holliday, Peter Gennaro, Ensemble
"The Party's Over" - Judy Holliday
"The Midas Touch" - Ensemble
"I'm Going Back" appears on sleeve, "I'm Goin' Back" appears on label.

Additional notes not on release:
Bells Are Ringing (1956 Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Ella Peterson - Judy Holliday
Jeff Moss - Sydney Chaplin
Sue - Jean Stapleton
Sandor - Eddie Lawrence
Inspector Barnes - Dort Clark
Larry Hastings - George S. Irving
Ludwig Smiley - Frank Milton
Dr. Joe Kitchell, DDS - Bernie West
Ensemble/Other Roles - Pam Abbott, Frank Aletter, Doria Avila, Joanne Birks, Frank Derbas, Norma Doggett, Phyllis Dorne, Don Emmons, Peter Gennaro, Frank Green, Eddie Heim, Patti Karr, Kasimir Kokich, Marc Leon, Urylee Leonardos, Jeannine Masterson, David McDaniel, Paul Michael, Barbara Newman, Tom O'Steen, Julian Patrick, John Perkins, Nancy Perkins, Ellen Ray, Michelle Reiner, Marsha Rivers, Steve Roland, Donna Sanders, Willy Sumner, Ed Thompson , Beryl Towbin, Ben Vargas, Jack Weston, Pat Wilkes, Billy Wilson, Gordon Woodburn

YEAR OF RELEASE- 1956

RECORD LABEL: COLUMBIA MASTERWORKS RECORDS

CAT.#: OL 5170

RECORD CONDITION: THE RECORD IS IN VG/VG+CONDITION, NICE SHINEY BLACK LUSTER. NO MARKS OR SCRATCHES, BOTH LABELS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. LOOKS AND PLAYS NEARLY BRAND NEW. SOME VERY VERY LIGHT BACKGROUND AUDIO ON THE LEAD IN GROOVES, THE MUSIC PLAYS SUPER CLEAN. SOME VERY LIGHT PAPER SCUFFS, DOESN'T AFFECT PLAY AT ALL.

JACKET CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN GD+ CONDITION. NICE CLEAN EDGES, NO SEAM SPLITS, NO BENDS, MARKS, ON IT. THERE'S A COUPLE OF INK MARKS IN THE UPPER LEFT FRONT CORNER OF THE JACKET. THERE'S A SMALL APPROX. 4” SEAM SPLIT IN THE UPPER RIGHT CORNER.

MORE INFO : THIS RECORD IS OUT OF PRINT. COMES WITH THE ORIGINAL COLUMBIA RECORDS INNER SLEEVE .

ARTIST INFO:

Judith Tuvim, 21 June 1922, New York, USA, d. 7 June 1965, New York, USA. An actress and singer with an endearing quality and a warm, unique comic style, Holliday’s first attempt to break into showbusiness was with Orson Welles and John Houseman at the Mercury Theatre, but she only succeeded in getting a job there as a telephone operator - ironic considering her later memorable role in the musical theatre. Holliday joined some more young hopefuls, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, John Frank and Alvin Hammer, in a nightclub act called the Revuers, who attracted a good deal of attention. In 1945 she made her Broadway debut in the play Kiss Them For Me, and a year later was acclaimed for her performance in the Garson Kanin comedy Born Yesterday. She had taken over the dizzy blonde role after the producers’ original choice, Jean Arthur, withdrew during the Philadelphia try-out. In 1950 Holliday won an Academy Award when she recreated her part for the Columbia film version. In the previous year she had almost stolen the glory from stars Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracey in Adam’s Rib, which also had a screenplay by Kanin and his wife Ruth Gordon. In 1956 Holliday returned to Broadway in the musical Bells Are Ringing. The book and lyrics were by her old friends, Comden and Green (music by Jule Styne), and Holliday played Ella Peterson, a telephone operator who cannot help becoming emotionally involved with the clients who subscribe to Susanswerphone, the answering service where she works. Bells Are Ringing was a smash hit, and Holliday introduced several of its delightful songs, including ‘The Party’s Over’, ‘Drop That Name’, ‘Just In Time’ and ‘Long Before I Knew You’ (both with Sydney Chaplin), and the immortal ‘I’m Goin’ Back (To The Bonjour Tristesse Brassiere Company)’. Her unforgettable performance won her New York Drama Critics and Tony awards.

In 1948 she had married musician David Oppenheim, who became head of the classical division of Columbia Records, but they divorced in 1957. Holliday’s subsequent partner was another musician, a giant of the jazz world, Gerry Mulligan. He played one of her boyfriends in the 1960 screen adaptation of Bells Are Ringing, in which she co-starred with Dean Martin, and they also wrote songs together. Four of the best of these, ‘What’s The Rush?’, ‘Loving You’, ‘It Must Be Christmas’ and ‘Summer’s Over’, were included among the standards on an album they recorded in 1961. In spite of its tender and poignant quality, and the presence of accompanying luminaries such as Bob Brookmeyer, Mel Lewis and Al Klink, Holliday was reported to be unhappy with the result, and the album was not released until 1980. In 1960 she was out of town with the play Laurette, based on the life of the former Broadway star Laurette Taylor, when she found that she was unable to project her voice properly. It was the first sign that she had cancer. After surgery, she returned to New York in 1963 with the musical Hot Spot, but it folded after only 43 performances. She died just two weeks before her forty-third birthday.

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