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THE KING AND I / GOLDEN CITY

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"The King And I" arrived at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in October 1953 where it remained for over two years chalking up 946 performances. With music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd, it was based on Margaret Landon's "Anna and the King of Siam". The large cast was headed by two British stars of stage and screen Valerie Hobson and Herbert Lom, who both scored personal triumphs in their first venture into musical theatre. American import Muriel Smith, fresh from portraying Bloody Mary in "South Pacific" in London, also had the critics praising her performance as Lady Thiang. "Golden City" was set in South Africa and showed the friction between farmers and gold prospectors. The love interest was between an American engineer named Danny and the lovely white South African Sarie, played by Norman Lawrence and Julia Shelley. Opera star Muriel Brunskill played the girls' guardian but the star of the show was Eleanor Summerfield as Mabel Page, a music hall artist who moves north on news of the gold strike to open a saloon. "Golden City" had spectacle, vitality and a black dance team that was praised in most of the reviews but sadly it closed after 140 performances. Bonus tracks are popular recordings made by Muriel Smith two songs from the English musical "Bet Your Life" 'I Love Him As He Is' and 'All On Account Of A Guy', and in the same year she opened in "The King and I" she had a hit with 'Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me' which in its seventeen weeks in the English charts reached the third position it was her only British hit. During this pop period she also recorded 'I'd Love To Fall Asleep' and 'Love ', all included here.

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Personnel

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Overture - Orch

I Whistle A Happy Tune (a)

My Lord And Master (b)

Hello, Young Lovers (a)

March Of The Siamese Children - Orch

A Puzzlement (c)

Getting To Know You (a)

We Kiss In A Shadow (d)

Shall I Tell You What I Think Of You? (a)

Something Wonderful (e)

I Have Dreamed (d)

Shall We Dance? (f)

It's A Grand Occasion (g)

One White Glove (h)

The Girl In The Window (i)

It's Love, My Darling, It's Love (g)

Braaivleis (j)

Moonlight On The River (k)

Let's Go Up To Mabel's Saloon (g)

When The Candle Burns Low (group) (g)

The Prettiest Girl In The Town (g)

All Will Come Right (l)

It's Love, My Darling, It's Love - Finale (company)

What More Is There To Say (m)

Gold Digging Digger (m)

I Love Him As He Is (e)

All On Account Of A Guy (e)

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me (e)

I'd Love To Fall Asleep (e)

Love (e)

Artists: a- Valerie Hobson; b- Doreen Duke; c- Herbert Lom; d- Doreen Duke & Jan Muzurus; e- Muriel Smith; f- a & c; g- Norman Lawrence; h- Julia Shelley & Norman Lawrence; i- Male Quartet; j- Judith Whitaker & Ray Buckingham; k- Julia Shelley; l- Muriel Brunskil; m- Eleanor Summerfield

Label:	SEPIA
Number:	1027
Item Code:	50912
Format:	CD
Genre:	Vocals Jazz Pop
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Price:	$15.00
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