Kiss Me Kate (1953 Film Soundtrack)
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1996-11-19
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Overture Medley: Always True to You in My Fashion/Why Can't You Behav
- So in Love/Wunderbar
- So in Love
- Too Darn Hot
- Why Can't You Behave?
- Electric Sign (Another Openin', Another Show)
- Lilli's Cork
- Wunderbar
- So in Love (Reprise)
- We Open in Venice
- Tom, Dick or Harry
- I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua
- I Hate Men
- Were Thine That Special Face
- And So to Wed (We Open in Venice/I Hate Men)
- I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua (Reprise)
- Where Is the Life That Late I Led?
- Bianca
- Why Can't You Behave?
- Were Thine That Special Face
- Always True to You in My Fashion
- Brush Up Your Shakespeare
- From This Moment On
- Down on Kate (Includes So in Love)
- Kiss Me Kate (Finale Act 2)
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Free Music Review: At last - a release worthy of a classic "Kate"
Hit: 4 Stars
The wizards at Rhino have put us once again in their debt for this re-release of the soundtrack to MGM's Kiss Me Kate. For anyone who loves the Broadway musical and its Hollywood incarnation, this recording is an essential part of any collection.
Musical lovers have historically been very poorly served by the "original cast" and "soundtrack" recordings. What should have been glorious mementos of the theatrical (or cinematic) experience have often turned out to be savagely butchered and indifferently reproduced shadows of what could have been. With the extended playing time of CDs and the efforts of enthusiasts who (at last) recognise the treasures lying in the studio vaults, many musicals are being re-released in greatly improved sound and including previously unreleased orchestral underscoring and extended performances.
Kiss Me Kate receives a rip-roaring outing here (listen to Wunderbar, Tom Dick or Harry or Where is the Life That Late I Led. A somewhat mangled score (if you're a Broadway purist)...but what performances! It is a dream team with everyone at their finest - Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, the MGM Orchestra not missing a beat under Andr? Previn. And those orchestrations! Conrad Salinger and his colleagues were surely the unsung geniuses of the MGM musical sound.
This is a joy to listen to and we must be grateful to the efforts of everyone who made it possible, assembled as it has been from fast-deteriorating scraps of recordings criminally neglected in the MGM archives. Listen to this and then feast your ears on other recordings in the series. I recommend Gigi, Show Boat, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, Meet Me in St Louis, Hit The Deck and Kismet for starters.
The sound is, of course, variable and not up to the technical standards of today. But, bearing in mind the vintage, it is always good, often miraculous, and far, far better than it has ever sounded before. In fact, it is just right...just how an MGM musical should sound. It is also as complete as it is ever going to get.
Now come on Rhino - what about working the same miracles with High Society, Bells Are Ringing and Goodbye Mr Chips?
Why only a 4 out of 5 star rating? Simple; because we've had to wait so long!
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