Babes in Toyland / The Red Mill

Babes in Toyland / The Red Mill

Babes in Toyland / The Red Mill
List Price: $16.98
Our Price: $9.38
You Save: $7.60 (45%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $4.79 (click here)
Category: Music CD
See more new music releases
Listen soundtracks from this album



(Click here)
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store

Music CD Cover

Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-07-30
Music Label: Decca Broadway
Soundtracks:
  1. Opening - From Babes in Toyland (Herbert & MacDonough) with Kenny Baker and Karen Kemple
  2. Toyland
  3. Floretta
  4. Never Mind Bo-Peep, We Will Find Your Sheep
  5. March of the Toys
  6. I Can't Do the Sum
  7. Go To Sleep, Slumber Deep
  8. Song of the Poet
  9. The Military Ball
  10. Hail to Christmas
  11. Finale: He Won't Be Happy Till He Gets It and March of the Toys
  12. When You're Pretty and the World Is Fair - From The Red Mill (Blossom & Herbert) with Wilbur Evans, Eileen Farrell, and Felix Knight
  13. Moonbeams
  14. In the Isle of Our Dreams
  15. Because You're You
  16. Every Day is Ladies' Day With me
  17. The Streets of New York

Free Music Notes for Babes in Toyland / The Red Mill

Free Music Review: The Most Beautiful Recorded Tenor Voice?
Hit: 4 Stars

Is any recorded, tenor, singing voice as lovely as Kenny Baker's? As a child, I often heard him during the 1930s on the Jack Benny show, but have scarcely thought of him since. Amazon.com offers him on four CDs: BABES IN TOYLAND, LOVE WALKED IN, THE STARLIT HOUR and WEILL FROM BERLIN TO BROADWAY. Over the years, I have heard the recorded voices of many tenors, mostly operatic. Their fine voices were excellently trained, often to a wider range and more difficult music. But note for note, their sound as recorded is not I think as sheerly beautiful as Kenny Baker's. A splendid, unspoiled, unstrained, natural gift, put to disciplined and tasteful use! His enunciation is remarkably clear, and his musical line, perfectly smooth. He makes each song a different story, as in the six pieces here from BABES IN TOYLAND.

My claim is easy to test. This website has CDs with excerpts for listening to the best tenors of the 20th century, including Enrico Caruso, John McCormack, Giovanni Martinelli, Beniamino Gigli, Tito Schipa, Richard Tauber, Richard Crooks, Jussi Bjoerling, Morton Downey, Mario Lanza, Giuseppe di Stefano, Nicolai Gedda, Jan Peerce, Leopold Simoneau, Fritz Wunderlich, Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras. Of course, the earlier the career, the greater the damage to the recorded voice from primitive technology. Heard live, who knows which voice was most beautiful? But at least we have what earlier centuries could only imagine: lasting copies of live performances. Listen to Kenny Baker's voice on tracks 2 and 8 of BABES IN TOYLAND, and then compare.

The numbers from THE RED MILL will make you want to hear more. This operetta, also composed by Victor Herbert, was first produced in 1906, three years after BABES IN TOYLAND. "Moonbeams" (well sung by Eileen Farrell) is lovely; "Because You're You" (a duet between Farrell and Felix Knight) is quite simple but surprisingly affecting. The last two are the best: "Every Day Is Ladies' Day with Me," and "In Old New York." They are patter songs, perhaps inspired by, and surely as deft, as the ones that Gilbert and Sullivan were writing two decades earlier. Both are sung by Wilbur Evans, in a rich baritone, with perfect enunciation and marvelous comic flair. Great fun!

The selections on this CD were recorded in 1944 and 1945, then released in 1946 on both 78s and 10" LPs. For this CD, they were remastered from wartime lacquered-glass originals. Baker and Evans emerge in radiant form, surely much closer to live sound than reached our family radio via AM transmission 65 years ago. The orchestral and choral sound is less attractive. Poorly miked?

Broadway & Vocalists Music CDs

Music Genres
Top music charts in Broadway & Vocalists Music CDs
Elegant Evening ImageGeorge Shearing, Mel Torme - Elegant Evening
SHEARING,G/TORME,M; Release date: 1990-10-25; Music CD
Best price: $7.17
Price in other shops: $11.98
Spring Is Here ImageStan Getz - Spring Is Here
Release date: 1993-01-11; Music CD
Price in other shops: $8.98
Girl Singer ImageRosemary Clooney - Girl Singer
Release date: 1999-04-01; Music CD
Best price: $8.97
Price in other shops: $8.98
Nog ImageThe Blenders - Nog
Release date: 1998-10-20; Music CD
Best price: $9.60
Price in other shops: $15.99
Girl ImageBrave Combo, Tiny Tim - Girl
TIM,TINY/BRAVE COMB; Release date: 1996-03-19; Music CD
Best price: $10.36
Price in other shops: $16.98
Southern Journey, Vol. 11: Honor The Lamb - The Belleville A Cappella Choir ImageBelleville a Cappella Choir - Southern Journey, Vol. 11: Honor The Lamb - The Belleville A Cappella Choir
Release date: 1998-02-10; Music CD
Best price: $83.93
Love Songs ImageDiane Schuur - Love Songs
Release date: 1993-05-11; Music CD
Best price: $4.00
Price in other shops: $11.98
Love Is the Thing [Vinyl] ImageNat King Cole - Love Is the Thing [Vinyl]
Release date: 1996-11-19; Music CD
Best price: $169.99
Linda Ronstadt: Greatest Hits ImageLinda Ronstadt - Linda Ronstadt: Greatest Hits
Release date: 1998-01-13; Music CD
Price in other shops: $29.98
Sounds of 66 ImageBuddy Rich, Sammy Davis Jr - Sounds of 66
Release date: 1996-09-17; Music CD
Price in other shops: $10.98
Top Rated Albums
Sweet Bye and Bye Image2011 Studio Cast - Sweet Bye and Bye
Release date: 2011-07-12; Music CD
Best price: $10.63
Price in other shops: $18.98
Follies (New Broadway Cast Recording) ImageFollies (New Broadway Cast Recording)
Release date: 2011-11-29; Music CD
Best price: $11.99
Price in other shops: $22.98
Desert Song ImageGordon MacRae - Desert Song
Release date: 2010-04-29; Music CD
Best price: $2.56
Price in other shops: $7.99
The Music of Victor Herbert, Volume II ImageThe Music of Victor Herbert, Volume II
Release date: 2010-09-15; Music CD
Best price: $12.98
Price in other shops: $15.99
Roberta & Vagabond King ImageAlfred Drake, Kitty Carlisle - Roberta & Vagabond King
Release date: 2002-08-27; Music CD
Best price: $13.99
Price in other shops: $14.98
The Music of Victor Herbert ImageThe Music of Victor Herbert
Release date: 2008-05-01; Music CD
Best price: $12.99
Price in other shops: $15.99
The Merry Widow/The Student Prince ImageMerry Widow & Student Prince - The Merry Widow/ The Student Prince
Release date: 2002-08-27; Music CD
Best price: $11.02
Price in other shops: $16.98
The Desert Song / The New Moon ImageThe Desert Song / The New Moon
Release date: 2002-07-30; Music CD
Best price: $9.65
Price in other shops: $16.98
Babes in Toyland ImageBabes in Toyland
Buena Vista Home Video; Release date: 2002-09-03; DVD
Best price: $5.49
Price in other shops: $14.99
Victor Herbert: Babes in Toyland; The Red Mill ImageVictor Herbert: Babes in Toyland; The Red Mill
Release date: 1999-01-19; Music CD
Best price: $4.99
Price in other shops: $8.99
Compare prices and find music notes for more than one million Music CD titles