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Music CD - Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein: South Pacific (Original 1949 Broadway Cast)
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Music CD: South Pacific (Original 1949 Broadway Cast)
Artist: Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein
List Price: $11.98
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Manufacturer: Sony
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Tracks:
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1. Overture
2. Dites-moi
3. A Cockeyed Optimist
4. Twin Soliloquies
5. Some Enchanted Evening
6. Bloody Mary
7. There Is Nothin' like A Dame
8. Bali Ha'i
9. I'm Gonna Wash that Man right outa My Hair
10. A Wonderful Guy
11. Younger than Springtime
12. Happy Talk
13. Honey Bun
14. You've Got to be Carefully Taught
15. This Nearly Was Mine
16. Finale: Dites-moi (reprise)
17. Loneliness of Evening
18. My Girl Back Home
19. Bali-Ha'i
20. South Pacific: Symphonic Scenario for Concert Orchestra
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0074646072226
Format: Cast Recording
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 1998-11-10
Studio: Sony
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: The Best
Comment: This is the definitive recording of this musical. To hear the voice of Pinza alone is worth the price.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great music brings back memories!
Comment: This cd is great. It reminds me of old times, the service, the South Pacific and we love it!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best ever !
Comment: South Pacific has been part of my life, forever, from when I listened to it on 78's from the book until now on CD. With its great music, thought provoking lyrics and a "just right" cast, nothing in my opinion is wrong with it. Every time I play it I am lost in the whole being of it. Pure and utter enjoyment that crosses the generations. Leaves you feeling you are a cockeyed optimist!!
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Summary: beautiful recording of a very important musical......
Comment: Though, SOUTH PACIFIC was made into a successful movie, I would take this, the original recording with Mary Martin (as Nellie Bly) and Enzio Pinza (as Emile de Becque) over it any day! For starters, there is so much spunk and great chemistry between the two leads--star crossed lovers who meet, by chance, in the South Pacific, when Bly is working as an on-site nurse for soldiers stationed there. This beautiful musical really has it all. Romance, humor (though, sometimes a little dated!) and drama. The sweeping score and powerful, punchy lyrics, written by the great team of Rodgers and Hammerstein, remains as compelling today as it was, at first release on Broadway, in 1949.
Some of the best-loved songs (plus many more) are featured on this remastered recording, available on CD. They include "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught," which alludes to racism and also how we are raised to be products of our environment, "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair," and "Some Enchanted Evening." You will really hear the powerful messages that the more dramatically intense songs convey and will smile over the others that are more light-hearted in nature. Just wonderful! They don't write songs like this anymore.
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Summary: Enchanting Evening Always.
Comment: This Broadway Show Original Recording CD is still the best. Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza are unmatchable. It is a treasure and a pleasure to listen again, and every time the whole score provides an enchanted evening. Look also at American Medicine MisManaged Care: How we can improve quality, cover the uninsured, add pharmacy and have $billions left over. This is the time to make it happen.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Based on James Michener's Tales of the South Pacific, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Pulitzer prize-winning South Pacific is one of the most beloved musicals ever to hit the stage. The appeal is simple: a collection of stunning compositions--immense symphonic sound orchestrated by Rodgers collaborator Robert Russell Bennett--and characters with a simple though cohesive through-line. On this original Broadway cast recording, the lovely, girlish Mary Martin (Peter Pan, Annie Get Your Gun) is the heartily feminine American nurse Nellie Bly to the dashing former Metropolitan Opera bass Ezio Pinza as French plantation owner Emile de Becque. This release takes from the original high-quality tapes cut in 1949 (rather than the acetates, which were recorded simultaneously for the vinyl release of the day). There are alternate takes of a few songs and the restored original version of the hard-hitting racial commentary number "Carefully Taught." Pinza's "Some Enchanted Evening" is tender and lovely without being cloying. Martin's confidence and warm vocal expressiveness on numbers such as "Twin Soliloquies" and the bonus track, "Loneliness of the Evening," are stellar, and the choral numbers are both solid and spunky. --Paige La Grone
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