Broadway's Greatest Love Songs [Cast Recording]

Kitty Carlisle | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 25, 2000)
• Original Release Date: January 25, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording
• Label: Decca Broadway
• ASIN: B0000457GC
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #181,490 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. People Will Say We're in Love [From Oklahoma!]

2. If I Loved You [From Carousel]

3. They Say It's Wonderful [From Annie Get Your Gun]

4. I've Never Been in Love Before [Guys & Dolls]

5. Hello, Young Lovers [From The King and I]

6. A Little Bit in Love (Wonderful Town)

7. There's a Small Hotel [From On Your Toes]

8. I Say Hello (Destry Rides Again)

9. Love Makes the World Go 'Round

10. She Loves Me (She Loves Me)

11. Dulcinea (Man of la Mancha)

12. I Don't Know How to Love Him [From Jesus Christ Superstar]

13. Time Heals Everything (Mack and Mabel)

14. Memory [From Cats]

15. Suddenly, Seymour [Little Shop of Horrors]

16. I Know Him So Well [Chess]

17. On My Own [Les Misérables]

18. Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again

19. The Last Night of the World [From Miss Saigon]

20. Almost a Love Song [From Victor/victoria]

Customer Reviews

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It is the GREATEST, February 8, 2000

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This review is from: Broadway's Greatest Love Songs (Audio CD)

Anyone who likes Broadway can't afford to pass up this gem. The songs are, for the most part, digitally remastered from the original DECCA Broadway LPs.

Although I have some of the older DECCA LPs as well as some of the more recent original cast recordings, none compare with the quality and the absolute thrill of hearing such legends as Alfred Drake, Gertrude Lawrence, John Raitt, Ethel Merman, Bobby Van and others, as well as some of today's Broadway stars, such as Bernadette Peters, Betty Buckley, etc., all doing what they did/do best: singing.

This compilation is a true masterpiece of modern technology; it brings both the greats of the past and the present together on one spectacular CD.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Adjective trouble but a nice little collection, February 8, 2000

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F. Behrens "Frank Behrens" (Keene, NH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Broadway's Greatest Love Songs (Audio CD)

If copywriters for recording companies were held by the Truth in Advertising laws, most would be out of a job. Now make no mistake, the collection that Decca calls <Broadway's Greatest Love Songs> (314 541 096-2) is not at all a bad collection of 20 love songs from as many Broadway shows; and it does what I always like such collections to do--give us the original singers where possible. But whether these are the GREATEST love songs is certainly a disputable question.

Certainly the selections from "Oklahoma!" "Carousel," "Guys & Dolls," and "The King and I" are all standards by any touchstone and are as "great" as any Broadway show tune is going to get. When we start to get into the forgettable "melodies" (to stretch the term to include any logical sequence of notes) as those from "Miss Saigon" and "Victor/Victoria," even the adjective Adequate would be overly generous.

"There's a Small Hotel" is a terrific song, "Dulcinea" not bad at all, but by comparison with these the selection from "Carnival" seems meretricious indeed. "Suddenly, Seymour" from "Little Shop of Horrors" is a welcome spoof...and so on. But not to beat a butterfly with a sledgehammer, this is a pleasant repackaging of Broadway Love Songs and a nice little gift for Valentine's Day or an anniversary or what you will.

And if you like this sort of thing, take a look for RCA Victor's "Broadway in Love" that will give you a nice companion album to this one.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A delight!, November 22, 2001

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Kelly Martin "shivedheart" (Maryland) - See all my reviews
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I must admit, I bought this primarily for Adam Pascal's rendition of "Seasons of Love" from my favorite musical Rent. Can you imagine how delighted I was to discover I enjoyed the entire cd? So much so that I went out and bought the DVD version of this same title. Both are worth having if you consider yourself a true fan of Broadway.