Lee Adams - Bye Bye Birdie (1960 Original Broadway Cast)
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Artist: Lee AdamsComposer: Charles Strouse
Performer: Charles Strouse
Performer: Chita Rivera
Performer: Dick Van Dyke
Performer: George Blackwell
Performer: Jerry Dodge
Performer: Paul Lynde
Performer: Sue Watson
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording, Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-05-30
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Act I: Overture
- Act I: An English Teacher
- Act I: The Telephone Hour
- Act I: How Lovely To Be A Woman
- Act I: Put On A Happy Face
- Act I: A Healthy, Normal, American Boy
- Act I: One Boy
- Act I: Honestly Sincere
- Act I: Hymn For A Sunday Evening (Ed Sullivan)
- Act I: One Last Kiss
- Act II: What Did I Ever See In Him?
- Act II: A Lot Of Livin' To Do
- Act II: Kids
- Act II: Baby, Talk To Me
- Act II: Kids Reprise
- Act II: Spanish Rose
- Act II: Rosie
- Charles Strouse At The Smithsonian: Put On A Happy Face
Free Music Notes for Bye Bye Birdie (1960 Original Broadway Cast)
Free Music Review: Better Than the Movie Soundtrack
Hit: 5 Stars
Bye Bye Birdie (1960 Original Broadway Cast) Many of the classic Broadway musicals of mid-20th century are available as both movie soundtracks and as Broadway cast albums. Though all are enjoyable, the cast albums sound more natural, more enthusiastic, and more spontaneous than the (later) movie soundtracks. Probably that is because the cast albums were recorded shortly after the show opened on Broadway. The original cast album of "Bye Bye Birdie" is in this category. And there is more background about the musical. The excellent and lengthy liner notes recount the story of how the musical was written and developed into the evergreen musical that it became.
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A lighthearted romp reflecting the Elvis revolution, Bye Bye Birdie follows Albert Peterson (a pre-Mary Poppins Dick Van Dyke), the manager of rock & roller Conrad Birdie (Dick Gautier), who is sweeping through the town of Sweet Apple on a publicity stunt surrounding his being drafted into the Army. Meanwhile, Albert's faithful but exasperated secretary (Chita Rivera) hopes he will give up show business to settle down with her and become a respectable English teacher. In Charles Strouse and Lee Adams's energetic and tuneful score, Van Dyke sings the standard "Put On a Happy Face," the high schoolers are high schoolers ("A Lot of Livin' to Do," "The Telephone Hour," "One Boy") and bewilder their parents ("Kids"), Gautier thrusts his hips ("Honestly Sincere," "One Last Kiss"), and homage is paid to that icon of home entertainment, Ed Sullivan ("Hymn for a Sunday Evening"). Bye Bye Birdie won the 1961 Tony for Best Musical, and Van Dyke reprised his role in the 1963 film version. The 2000 remastering features outstanding clarity as well as a bonus track of Strouse himself introducing and singing "Put On a Happy Face" at a Smithsonian lecture in 1978. --David HoriuchiBroadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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