Finian's Rainbow (1960 Broadway Revival Cast)
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Composer: Burton LaneComposer: E.Y. Harburg
Performer: Jeannie Carson
Performer: Biff McGuire
Performer: Carol Brice
Performer: Bobby Howes
Performer: Sorrell Booke
Performer: Howard Morris
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Overture - Orchestra
- This Time Of Year - Chorus
- How Are Things In Glocca Morra? - Jeannie Carson/Bobby Howes
- Look To The Rainbow/Look To The Rainbow Dance - Jeannie Carson/Biff McGuire/Chorus
- Old Devil Moon - Biff McGuire/Jeannie Carson
- Something Short Of Grandish - Howard Morris/Jeannie Carson
- If This Isn't Love - Biff McGuire/Jeannie Carson/Bobby Howes/Chorus
- Something Short Of Grandish (Reprise) - Howard McGuire
- Necessity - Carol Brice/Chorus
- That Great Come-And-Get-It Day - Biff McGuire/Jeannie Carson/Carol Brice/Chorus
- When The Idle Poor Become The Idle Rich - Jeannie Carson/Chorus
- The Begat - Sorrell Booke/Jerry Laws/Tiger Haynes/Bill Glover
- When I'm Not Near The Girl I Love - Howard Morris
- How Are Things In Glocca Morra? (Reprise) - Jeannie Carson/Chorus
Free Music Notes for Finian's Rainbow (1960 Broadway Revival Cast)
Free Music Review: Broadway's finest score, finest cast album
Hit: 5 Stars
Of all the splendid scores that have echoed through New York theatres, the best of them all may be this gentle 1947 attack on prejudice and stupidity masquerading as fable and whimsy. Surely there are few love songs greater than "Old Devil Moon" and fewer comic songs as good as "When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love".
The genius of lyricist E. Y. Harburg (lyricist for MGM's classic "Wizard of Oz" song score) is on full and clearest display in this collection of brilliant songs. Composer Burton Lane once said that his music always sounded better with a Yip Harburg lyric.
Not only is there not a clunker in the mix but the songs are almost sublime at times. "Look to the Rainbow" is a direct follow-up to the "Wizard of Oz" song "Over the Rainbow".
This recording benefits from the stereo technology unavailable to the original cast. But, most important, this version has the energy and tempo that a busy company (that fully understands the material at hand) can bring to a recording.
The other "Finian's Rainbow" recordings are worth collecting but have problems. While the film soundtrack has great orchestrations, it is handicapped by less than fitting vocals. The 2004 Off-Broadway cast album has supurb vocals, mood and energy but the piano only orchestrations drain some of the lilt off the songs.
It is true that "Finian's Rainbow" is a product of its time but that "dated" quality can be seen as charming without hurting the project. Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!" was likely a direct structure influence and the underlying theme of the contemporary Broadway musical "Brigadoon" has been noted (although "Brigadoon" lacks the humor, satire and social conscience at the core of "Finian's Rainbow").
Note that Yip Harburg also supplied similar song material for the 1943 MGM version of the musical play "Cabin in the Sky" with the songs written especially for the film version (music by "Wizard of Oz" composer Harold Arlen). Film version "Cabin in the Sky" songs "Happiness is Just a Thing Called Joe", "Li'l Black Sheep", "Ain't it the Truth" (comic Lena Horne version and sizzing big band version by Louis Armstrong insanely unused on film) and "Life's Full of Consequences" could have all been interpolated into "Finian's Rainbow".
As the years pass, the message, the music and the wonder of "Finian's Rainbow" sweetens like fine wine.
This 1960 Revival Cast album is a brilliant Yip Harburg sermon set to music. Collect and savor.
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