Camelot [Original Broadway Cast Recording] [Cast Recording]

Frederick Loewe (Composer), Camelot Pit Orchestra (Orchestra), Julie Andrews (Performer), John Cullum (Performer), Paul Richards (Performer), Dorothy White (Performer), Joan August (Performer), Robert Daniel Goulet (Performer), Christina Gillespie (Performer), Jack Dabdoub (Performer), Michael Kermoyan (Performer), Robert Coote (Performer), Frank Bouley (Performer), Richard Burton (Performer), Roddy McDowall (Performer), Bruce Yarnell (Performer), Virginia Allen (Performer), Marnell Bruce (Performer), Michael Clark-Laurence (Performer), Me'l Dowd (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Julie Andrews, John Cullum, Paul Richards, Dorothy White, Joan August, et al.
• Orchestra: Camelot Pit Orchestra
• Composer: Frederick Loewe
• Audio CD (October 6, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording
• Label: Masterworks
• ASIN: B002M2Z3O2
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,153 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #75 in Music > Broadway & Vocalists > Musicals > General

Track Listings

1. Camelot; Act I: Overture (Instrumental)

2. Camelot; March (Instrumental)

3. Camelot; I Wonder What the King Is Doing Tonight (Voice)

4. Camelot; The Simple Joys of Maidenhood (Voice)

5. Camelot; Camelot (Voice)

6. Camelot; Follow Me (Voice)

7. Camelot; C'est moi (Voice)

8. Camelot; The Lusty Month of May (Voice)

9. Camelot; Then You May Take Me to the Fair (Voice)

10. Camelot; How to Handle a Woman (Voice)

11. Camelot; Before I Gaze at You Again (Voice)

12. Camelot; Act II: If Ever I Would Leave You (Voice)

13. Camelot; The Seven Deadly Virtues (Voice)

14. Camelot; What Do the Simple Folk Do? (Voice)

15. Camelot; Fie on Goodness (Voice)

16. Camelot; I Loved You Once in Silence (Voice)

17. Camelot; Guenevere (Voice)

18. Camelot; Finale Ultimo (Voice)

Editorial Reviews

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Customer Reviews

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BEST RECORDING OF ONE OF THEATER'S ALL-TIME BEST MUSICALS, December 31, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Camelot (1960 Original Broadway Cast) (Audio CD)

No recording of "Camelot" can hold a candle to this one, the Original Broadway(perfectly)Cast w/ Richard Burtom, Julie Andrews & Robert Goulet. This recording utterly captures it's spirit(which is what "Camelot" is all about, anyway) & the exc- ellent plot synopsis(in the CD booklet & on back of the LP) fills in the non-musical gaps of Alan Jay Lerner's most inspired & meaningful work. A must have for anyone who loves good singing, music, theater, etc.-Chip Harmison END

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic!!, February 25, 2008

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Tom George (Wash. DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Camelot (1960 Original Broadway Cast) (Audio CD)

One of the best all time cast albums. Camelot was an excellent musical, a classic of the early sixties, but the cast album was even better. They kept in songs on the album that were actually cut from the stage production, Fie On Goodness, and Take Me To The Fair, and with good reason, they actually stopped the show, not enhancing character or plot at all, and added to the shows running time of over 4 hrs. Wisely excised, but thankfully preserved on the album.
The performances are now legendery, Richard Burton's only, and magnificent, musical, Julie Andrews sublime as Guenevere, and Robert Goulet's definitive version of If Ever I Would Leave You. The orchestrations are thrilling, the overture causes goose bumps, the rest of the album is on the same level. A must have for any musical theater fan.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars one of Broadway's all-time greats, March 3, 2010

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Byron Kolln (the corner where Broadway meets Hollywood) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Camelot [Original Broadway Cast Recording] (Audio CD)

CAMELOT, the ravishing musical re-telling of the King Arthur legend by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, has never sounded better than in the original 1960 Broadway cast album, now happily reissued on the Columbia Broadway Masterworks label (this is the exact same disc as the previous 1999 Broadway Masterworks pressing but in a new cardboard "eco-pack" sleeve). Richard Burton, Julie Andrews and Robert Goulet lead the cast as the troubled love-triangle of King Arthur, Queen Guenevere and Sir Lancelot.

Julie Andrews, fresh from the London production of MY FAIR LADY, is in glorious voice and sings some of the score's best numbers like "The Simple Joys of Maidenhood", "The Lusty Month of May", "Then You May Take Me to the Fair" and the achingly-poignant "I Loved You Once in Silence". Richard Burton has an attractive singing voice (remember, he was a Welshman!), and has a ball with numbers like "I Wonder What the King is Doing Tonight?" and the Title Song. Robert Goulet delivers the definitive "If Ever I Would Leave You".

CAMELOT enjoyed a modest run of 873 performances (modest in that the composers had hoped to outdo their MY FAIR LADY success, and MFL ended up clocking in over 2,000 performances on Broadway alone). Out of the myriad of CAMELOT cast albums available, this is still the best of the bunch. Sadly, unlike most of the titles from the Broadway Masterworks range, there are no bonus or alternate tracks.