Fifty Million Frenchmen (1991 Studio Cast)
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Composer: Cole PorterOrchestra: Charles Miller
Orchestra: F. Henri Klickmann
Orchestra: Hans Spialek
Orchestra: Larry Moore
Orchestra: Maurice B. DePackh
Orchestra: Orchestra New England
Orchestra: Robert Russell Bennett
Performer: Evans Haile
Performer: Kim Criswell
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1992-12-08
Music Label: New World Records
Soundtracks:
- Overture
- You Do Something to Me
- American Express
- You've Got That Thing
- Find Me a Primitive Man
- I Worship You
- Do You Want to See Paris?
- Where Would You Get Your Coat?
- At Longchamps Today
- Boyfriend Back Home
- I Am in Love
- Please Don't Make Me Be Good
- You Don't Know Paree
- Entr'acte
- Somebody's Going to Throw a Big Party
- It Isn't Done
- Queen of Terre Haute
- Let's Step Out
- Tale of the Oyster
- I'm Unlucky at Gambling
- Why Shouldn't I Have You?
- Paree, What Did You Do to Me?
Free Music Notes for Fifty Million Frenchmen (1991 Studio Cast)
Free Music Review: Maybe not Porter's Greatest Score
Hit: 5 Stars
but as the other reviewers have said this one has the essence of everything he did so well. Number after number is melodic, witty and just wonderful. I would disagree with the reviewer who said that You Don't Know Paris is Porter's most emotionally affecting ballad - So In Love from Kiss Me Kate is my favorite song, bar none, and packs every bit as strong an emotional wallop if it's done well. Argument aside, McGillin does full justice to a very heartfelt love song to Paris. And yes, Porter at his most affecting can wring your heart as thoroughly as Lorenz Hart.
My favorites here are the Tale of the Oyster, Find Me a Primitive Man, and I'm Unlucky at Gambling. The Tale of the Oyster is as witty as a song gets - "Down by the sea lived a lonely oyster, every day getting sadder and moister." Find Me a Primitive Man throbs, and the French translation just sends it over the top - "Trouve-moi un homme primitif," indeed. I'm Unlucky at Gambling is just sly - I took the croupier to a picture show, the croupier impressed me as rather slow, I said 'I like John Gilbert a lot, don't you?' But when the show was over and love was through, I realized that he liked John Gilbert, too." And Porter wrote this in 1929.
As for the rest, there's not a dud in the bunch. Porter had that thing, that certain thing, and this album shows it in spades. Lovingly produced and lusciously rendered. It's a gem and a must have.
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