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HANSEL AND GRETEL (ORIGINAL TELEVISION CAST)

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Bonus track * . We are delighted to bring to listeners two rare cast recordings from the heyday of TV musical spectaculars, The Yeomen Of The Guard 1957 and Hansel And Gretel 1958. Both star Broadway's legendary lyric soprano ingenue Barbara Cook early in her career and both were broadcast live on NBC TV nationwide. While The Yeomen Of The Guard was an adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan's famous comic opera, Hansel And Gretel was an original musical version of the Brothers Grimm's children's story. Composer Alec Wilder and his lyricist William Engvick provided the light hearted, lyrical score. Playing Hansel to Barbara Cook's Gretel was Red Buttons, who had just won an Oscar for his role in the film Sayonara, while Rudy Vallee played their father and Stubby Kaye the town crier. The Yeomen Of The Guard also starred Bill Hayes, Celeste Holm and Alfred Drake, who all feature on the five songs included here. To complement our television soundtracks, we have included sixteen rare "bonus tracks" as performed by its stars. The four singles by Red Buttons, Strange Things Are Happening, The Ho Ho Song, The Buttons Bounce and Oh! My Mother in Law are comedy novelty songs from 1953 and 1954. Barbara Cook accompanies Eddie Bracken on a rare 78rpm duet, That Girl recorded in 1953. During his London engagement in Guys And Dolls, Stubby Kaye recorded these four sides, Sorta on the Border, O Oh!, Cheers and The More You Laugh. The last seven tracks from Rudy Vallee are standards from his career he re recorded in 1954, I'm Just a Vagabond Lover, The Maine Stein Song, Vieni, Vieni, comedy patter classics Let's Do It, Mad Dogs and Englishmen, and novelty numbers The Pig Got Up and Slowly Walked Away, Betty Co Ed.

Songs:

Personnel

Details:

The Hansel And Gretel Song (a)

Market Today (b)

Men Run The World (c)

Evening Song (d)

Morning Song (d)

Eenie, Meenie, Mynie Moe (e)

What Are Little Girls Made Of? (f)

Finale Company

When A Wooer Goes A-Wooing (g)

I Have A Song To Sing, 0 (h)

Oh! A Private Buffoon (i)

Were I Thy Bride (j)

Is Life A Boon? (k)

Strange Things Are Happening (l) (*)

The Ho Ho Song (l) (*)

The Buttons' Bounce (l) (*)

Oh! My Mother-In-Law (l) (*)

That Girl (m) (*)

Sorta On The Border (b) (*)

O (Oh!) (b) (*)

Cheers (b) (*)

The More You Laugh (b) (*)

Let's Do It (c) (*)

I'm Just A Vagabond Lover (c) (*)

The Pig Got Up And Slowly Walkedaway (c) (*)

Maine Stein Song (c) (*)

Mad Dogs And Englishmen - Vieni, Vieni - Betty Co-Ed (c) (*)

Artists: a- Red Buttons, Barbara Cook; b- Stubby Kaye; c- Rudy Vallee; d- Barbara Cook; e- Paula Laurence; f- Red Buttons, Barbara Cook, Paula Laurence; g- Barbara Cook, Celeste Holm, Bill Hayes, Alfred Drake; h- Barbara Cook, Bill Hayes; i- Alfred Drake; j- Celeste Holm; k- Bill Hayes; l- Red Buttons; m- Barbara Cook, Eddie Bracken

Label:	SEPIA
Number:	1125
Item Code:	63721
Format:	CD
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Dates:	(1953-1954/1957-1958)
Price:	$16.00

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