The Music Man (1957 Original Broadway Cast)
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Composer: Meredith WillsonConductor: Herbert Greene
Performer: Buffalo Bills
Performer: Barbara Cook
Performer: Robert Preston
Performer: David Burns
Performer: Eddie Hodges
Performer: Pert Kelton
Performer: Helen Raymond
Performer: Paul Reed
Performer: Iggie Wolfington
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Overture/Rock Island
- Iowa Stubborn
- Ya Got Trouble
- Piano Lesson
- Good Night My Someone
- Seventy Six Trombones
- Sincere
- The Sadder-But-Wiser Girl for Me
- Pick-A-Little, Take-A-Little/Goodnight Ladies
- Goodnight Ladies/Marian the Librarian
- My White Knight
- Wells Fargo Wagon
- It's You
- Shipoopi
- Lida Rose/Will I Ever Tell You?
- Gary, Indiana
- Till There Was You
- Finale
Free Music Notes for The Music Man (1957 Original Broadway Cast)
Free Music Review: We need a new remaster, nonetheless
Hit: 5 Stars
A very interesting photo on the liner booklet's back cover demonstrates the one real flaw in this otherwise classic recording: it shows Robert Preston at the album sessions singing at two mikes, a fat Neumann with a Capitol flag and a skinny one, probably an AKG. This can only mean Capitol recorded this in simultaneous mono and stereo takes. With all that knob twiddling the balance had to go off, a problem not entirely corrected by the reissue engineer Bob Norberg, whose remasterings of Ol' Blue's Capitol mono output have earned scorn from some Sinatraphiles for their slight fake echo and stereo effects. (He remastered just about every album in the Broadway Angel series; the monos all appear to have the echo and stereo.) I guess we should be happy to have this in any form at all given how the other majors turned it down. Capitol was late and indifferent to the cast album trade, and it only had three hits before making its monumental closing botch of "Follies." However the label approached it it's still a great and exciting score perfectly performed. Who could have imagined a hit musical with a barbershop quartet? And if only all women could sing like Barbara Cook! Who says you can have too much of a good thing?
With the show's fiftieth anniversary coming up (!) now would be a good time for a remaster. (I know, I know, I'm tired of paying repeatedly for the same product too, but this deserves it.) It should include a second disc with the 1959 Capitol documentary LP "And Then I Wrote 'The Music Man'", where Meredith Willson and his wife Rini detail the eight years of trials and rewrites behind the show. Nor would it hurt to have bonuses like Willson's original take on "Till There Was You" (called "Till I Met You," which Fran Warren evidently first sang on "The Big Show") or a few licensed pop balladeers of the day -- and maybe examples like the 70s jingle for the late lamented Oldsmobile ("Oh ho the new Oldsmobile is a -- comin' down the line...."). It must also include Willson's contentious JFK physical fitness tune "Chicken Fat", recorded about the time "The Music Man" was filmed and available only on oddball Web music sites, where Preston yells and grunts himself into an athletic -- passion. (I keep thinking Allan Sherman recorded a full version of his notorious parody "76 Sol Cohens", but I guess he didn't.) The whole thing should end with a live public-radio performance from 1980 or 1981 where Willson led the superb Detroit Concert Band in "76 Trombones" and "The Stars and Stripes Forever" -- an apt and brilliant finish.
No, I have not forgotten the Beatles, but I fear neither have their lawyers.
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