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Ethel Merman - CD

Gypsy Ethel Merman CD
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  • Artist: Ethel Merman
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 1999
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 074646084823
  • Item Number: SNY08482
  • Release date: 05/18/1999
  • 1. Overture
  • 2. Let Me Entertain You
  • 3. Some People
  • 4. Small World
  • 5. Baby June and Her Newsboys [Previously Unreleased]
  • 6. Mr. Goldstone, I Love You
  • 7. Little Lamb
  • 8. You'll Never Get Away from Me
  • 9. Dainty June and Her Farmboys
  • 10. If Momma Was Married
  • 11. All I Need Is the Girl [Previously Unreleased]
  • 12. Everything's Coming Up Roses
  • 13. Together (Wherever We Go)
  • 14. You Gotta Get a Gimmick [Previously Unreleased]
  • 15. Let Me Entertain You [Previously Unreleased]
  • 16. Rose's Turn [Previously Unreleased]
  • 17. Some People [Previously Unreleased][Bonus Track]
  • 18. Mr. Goldstone/Little Lamb [Previously Unreleased][Bonus Track]
  • 19. Momma's Talkin' Soft [Previously Unreleased][Bonus Track]
  • 20. Nice She Ain't [Previously Unreleased][Bonus Track]
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Gypsy [Original Broadway Cast] [Bonus Tracks] by Ethel Merman on CD


This tribute to burlesque was a star vehicle for Ethel Merman. The score by Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim includes the Merman standard "Everything's Coming Up Roses," and the song that is invariably used to introduce anything having to do with the strip tease, "Let Me Entertain You." A 702-performance hit in its original production (which is captured here), the show was considered the definitive Merman performance and the crowning achievement of her long career. (It marked her final appearance in a new Broadway musical, though she later appeared in revivals.) It is also considered one of the great American musicals of all time, balanced between the broad show business entertainment represented by composer Jule Styne and the modern, dark, psychological drama typical of Stephen Sondheim, who, as with his previous effort, West Side Story, was contributing only lyrics, though he would go on to write music and lyrics for a series of musicals from the 1960s on. The 1999 reissue produced by Thomas Z. Shepard reconceived the original Goddard Lieberson production, returning to the original session tapes for several fixes, extensions, and alterations to the tracks "Baby June and Her Newboys," "All I Need Is the Girl," "You Gotta Get a Gimmick," "Let Me Entertain You," and "Rose's Turn." The reissue also added four bonus tracks, among them two songs cut from the score before it reached Broadway, "Momma's Talkin' Soft" and "Nice She Ain't," as well as scratchy piano demos of "Some People" (with different lyrics) and a medley of "Mr. Goldstone" and "Little Lamb," the latter sung by Merman for the first time. ~ Marjorie Ellen Ruhlmann & William Ruhlmann, Rovi
  • Artist: Ethel Merman
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 1999
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 074646084823
  • Item Number: SNY08482
  • Release date: 05/18/1999
  • Label: Sony Music Distribution
  • Genre: Stage & Screen, Stage & Screen, Stage & Screen
  • Style: Musicals, Cast Recordings, Show Tunes
  • Album Time: 63:22

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  • Gypsy Ethel Merman CD
Gypsy Ethel Merman CD