George Forrest, Robert Wright - Kismet (1953 Original Broadway Cast)
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Artist: George Forrest, Robert WrightEdition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording, Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-05-30
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Overture/Sands of Time - Richard Oneto
- Rhymes Have I - Alfred Drake, Doretta Morrow
- Fate - Alfred Drake
- Bazaar of the Caravans - Chorus
- Not Since Nineveh - Henry Calvin, , Joanie Diener, Chorus
- Baubles, Bangles and Beads - Doretta Morrow, Richard Oneto, Chorus
- Stranger in Paradise - Richard Kiley, Doretta Morrow
- He's in Love! - Hal Hackett, Chorus
- Gesticulate - Henry Calvin, , Joanie Diener, Alfred Drake, Chorus
- Nights of My Nights - Richard Kiley, Chorus
- Was I Wazir? - Henry Calvin, Male Chorus
- Rahadlakum - Lucy Andonian, , Joanie Diener, Alfred Drake, Chorus
- And This Is My Beloved - Lucy Andonian, Alfred Drake, Richard Kiley, Doretta Morrow
- Olive Tree - Alfred Drake
- Zubbediya, Samahris' Dance - Doretta Morrow, Chorus
- Finale: Sands of Time - Alfred Drake, Richard Kiley, Doretta Morrow, Chorus
- In the Studio [#][*] - Mike Wallace
- Interviews with Alfred Drake, Doretta Morrow, and George Forrest [#][*] - Alfred Drake, George Forrest, Doretta Morrow, Mike Wallace
Free Music Notes for Kismet (1953 Original Broadway Cast)
Free Music Review: Lush, exotic music & lyrics, glorious singers and orchestrations.
Hit: 5 Stars
I remember walking into Marx's Radio & Appliance Store in Millburn, N.J. in 1953 and hearing this album, the track where you here Drake in the middle of Arabs chanting was playing. Wow! I was bowled over, stood in my tracks, and listened. It went on and on. All of the music was such a knock-out for those times. Never in Broadway's history had there been such glorious orchestrations and vocal artistry. Drake, Morrow, Deiner, Hackett, and the big sound of Henry Calvin. I was 17 at the time and determined to see this show. I had no problem getting a single ticket for the orchestra for $6.50! The show delivered beautifully. Everyone seemed to be having a good time on stage. You will enjoy hearing Henry Calvin, who himself was having fun singing "Was I Wazir," with those clever lyrics. He was a joy to watch, and that voice! The quartet singing "And This Is My Beloved", blew me away. Appropriately, this music is adapted from Borodin's Quartet No. 2. It is glorious. I now own my scratched-up 55 year-old album, the CD and now the remastered CD. This is great fare.
Not long after I first heard the album there, Marx's was then playing an orchestrated version by Percy Faith. Beautiful indeed and capturing all of the exoticism. I remember hearing one of the owners proclaiming on the beauty of the music. He was right. It is Borodin!
Kismet (1953 Original Broadway Cast) Poster
Using themes by 19th-century Russian composer Alexander Borodin to musicalize a play set in ancient Baghdad seems the kind of harebrained idea only a crazed producer would have. And we should thank him for it. For Kismet is Broadway at its most demented--just the way we like it. Robert Wright and George Forrest reworked Borodin's music so that it would function as the basis for show songs. And what songs: "Stranger in Paradise" and "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" have become classics, and the rest of the score is delightfully kitsch. Alfred Drake equals his performance in Kiss Me, Kate in a bombastic tour-de-force, and to top it all off, Borodin got a posthumous Tony. Fans (you know who you are) will enjoy the bonus interviews with the leads. --Elisabeth VincentelliBroadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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