Sony Music Entertainment: 88725416962/D6 (set: 88725 41696 2) Selections from the original Broadway cast recording. Music by Richard Rodgers ; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II ; book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan. Orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett. Title from label. Mary Martin as Ensign Nellie Forbush ; Ezio Pinza as Emile de Becque ; Juanita Hall as Bloody Mary ; William Tabbert as Lt. Joseph Cable ; supporting soloists ; orchestra conducted by Salvatore Dell'Isola. Recorded 1949 April 18-19 Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York City. Originally released in 1949 by Columbia as ML 4180 ; remastered in 1998. This disc is part of a 12-disc boxed set issued by Sony in 2012. Bonus tracks are from the 1998 release, including two songs written for South Pacific but dropped before the opening, recorded in 1951 and sung by Mary Martin, a studio recording from 1950 of Bali Ha'i sung by Ezio Pinza, and an orchestral work created by Robert Russell Bennett and recorded by the Philadelphia Orchestra Pops under Andre Kostelanetz in 1951. Booklet with program notes by Ted Chapin and David Foil, biographies of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and histories and synopses of the individual musicals (96 unnumbered pages : illustrations) accompanies set.
Contents:
South Pacific (45:08): Overture (3:34) -- Dites-moi (1:23) -- A cockeyed optimist (1:43) -- Twin soliloquies (2:26) -- Some enchanted evening (3:01) -- Bloody Mary (2:15) -- There is nothin' like a dame (3:36) -- Bali Ha'i (3:26) -- I'm gonna wash that man right outa my hair (3:27) -- A wonderful guy (3:32) -- Younger than springtime (3:26) -- Happy talk (3:32) -- Honey bun (2:02) -- You've got to be carefully taught (1:17) -- This nearly was mine (3:28) -- Finale: Dites-moi (reprise) (3:00) -- Bonus tracks: Loneliness of evening (3:20) ; My girl back home (2:58) ; Bali Ha'i (3:13) ; South Pacific: symphonic scenario for concert orchestra (9:48).
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