Cinderella (1965 Television Cast) [Cast Recording]

Richard Rodgers (Artist), Oscar Hammerstein II (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Oscar Hammerstein II
• Audio CD (September 21, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00000291S
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Music
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (48 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,376 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #5 in Music > Broadway & Vocalists > Musicals > Classic Musicals
  • #87 in Music > Broadway & Vocalists > Musicals > General

Track Listings

1. Overture - Orchestra

2. Loneliness Of Evening - Stuart Damon

3. Cinderella March - Orchestra

4. In My Own Little Corner - Lesley Ann Warren

5. The Prince Is Giving A Ball - Don Heitgerd/Ensemble

6. Impossible!; It's Possible! - Celeste Holm/Lesley Ann Warren

7. Gavotte - Orchestra

8. Ten Minutes Ago - Stuart Damon/Lesley Ann Warren

9. Stepsisters' Lament - Pat Carroll/Barbara Ruick

10. Waltz For A Ball - Orchestra/Chorus

11. Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful - Lesley Ann Warren/Stuart Damon

12. When You're Driving Through The Moonlight/A Lovely Night - Jo Van Fleet/Lesley Ann Warren/Barbara Ruick/Pat Carroll

13. Finale - Orchestra/Ensemble

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

40 of 41 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A Lovely Listening Experience January 5, 2002

By Pope VINE™ VOICE

Format:Audio CD

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella was originally written in 1957 for CBS television and starred Julie Andrews as Cinderella and Jon Cypher as the Prince. It was broadcast live on television that same year and was seen by a record breaking 107 million people.

In 1965, the network decided to mount a new production of the same show with a new all star cast. This time, the production was videotaped for posterity. While its audience didn't break any records, it nevertheless gained a respectable amount of viewers. It is the cast recording of this 1965 remake that we have here.

This album is not a true soundtrack, but rather, it was treated more like a Broadway show. The entire cast and orchestra went into the recording studio and recorded all of the show's songs, and the album was released in conjunction with the show's premiere. It is because of this that we notice some minor differences between the cast album and the show's soundtrack. For the show, several of the songs have been sped up. Additionally, the character playing the stepmother (Jo Van Fleet in the show itself) does not appear on this album and has been replaced here for the lines she has in "When You're Driving Through the Moonlight."

Nevertheless, we have an excellent recording that belongs right up there with Rodgers and Hammerstein's best.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars In my own little corner March 12, 2001

By Lee Ann,music lover

Format:Audio CD

For many years,before the advent of the compact disc, you could not beg borrow or steal a copy of this soundtrack,and I made the mistake of loaning mine out.Even then you could only get it from a "special TV offer". Thank goodness for CDs! I own both the original Julie Andrews version as well as this one. I found Lesley Warren to be an excellent Cinderella, although she lacked the depth and range of Julie Andrews. Stuart Damon as the prince is tops,and I found the haunting "Loneliness of evening". It is too bad that the technology we have today and have had since the 60's wasnt around when the original was done... all that remains other than the recordings are some fuzzy clips of Andrew's production. I enjoyed the supporting cast of the '65 edition,especially "why would a fellow" and of course "Its possible" with Celeste Holm. An all around good recording!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Gen X-er's this is the soundtrack July 13, 1998

By A Customer

Format:Audio CD

For those of us who grew up on the Orignial taped Cinderella, this is the soundtrack. For those of us who were born after Julie Andrews performed it live and whose performance was lost except for the 1957 recording this is THE soundtrack. With the exception of the 1997 version of "Cinderella" with Brandy and Whitney Houston, this soundtrack is the only one that should ever have been released. The casting is perfect and the singing is fun. Afterall, Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote some of the most memerable scores. If you grew up with the 1964 version as most of us did. This is the soundtrack.

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars CINDERELLA with Leslie Ann Warren - Outstanding! January 27, 2000

By Enrique Sanchez

Format:Audio CD

There are many personal reasons why I like this over the Julie Andrews version. Many stem from the lovely TV presentation but - THIS CD - recaptures all of the magic of the songs and the lovely voices which the first version - somehow lacked.

Leslie Ann Warren and the rest of the stellar cast will always be engraved in my head because this was the version that CBS chose to repeat year after year. I am not even sure if the Julie Andrews version was ever rebroadcast.

Every song has been indelibly carved into my sub-conscious, the charming voices of Celeste Holm, Pat Carroll and Stuart Damon - their superior acting and comedic talents and timing lend themselves to just about the most perfect modern American musical.

Just so wonderful. These songs are part of Americana: In My Own Little Corner, It's Possible, Do I Love You Because You're Wonderful? Ten Minutes Ago, Why Would A Fellow Ever Once Prefer a Girl who's Merely Lovely? and others.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars A lively, entertaining "Cinderella" December 7, 2002

By Gene DeSantis VINE™ VOICE

Format:Audio CD

If "Cinderella" is second-string R&H -- John Simon has called it "anodyne" -- it is very entertaining R&H. Even after 37 years the second CBS special has a glow that suffuses this album. It's cruder but livelier than the 1957 affair as this is a true soundtrack album, unlike Goddard Lieberson's strictly studio version; the cast is more energetic, likewise John Green's conducting. The faults are the same; as Alec Wilder said of the sublime "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?", the composer seems to have changed stations before the ending. But it is still great fun, a rare quality found perhaps in "Flower Drum Song" and not much else. Note: the engineers decided to record this not for the stereo systems of 2002 but for the little TV speakers of the mid-sixties, hence the sound is somewhat compressed.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Can't live without the album! December 27, 2000

By Dan Williams

Format:Audio CD

Since I grew up with this version of the R&H musical, I really can't do without the CD. I love the voices and orchestrations. I'd like it even better if this were a true soundtrack recording, but this actually turns out to be what passed for an original cast recording back in the 60's -- a studio recording made separately by the same cast and orchestra as the TV production (presumably during final rehearsals). If a true soundtrack album existed, I would get it instead, but this one is almost as good. A few minor differences between the CD and the video are as follows:

Pat Carroll (Prunella), in "Stepsisters' Lament," instead of singing 'I could pull out all her hair...Ah ha ha ha!" omits that little laugh, which I think may be the best moment in the whole video. In "When You're Driving through the Moonlight," Cinderella sings, "the room itself is floating ON the air" instead of "in the air." The songs "Impossible," "Ten Minutes Ago," and "When You're Driving through the Moonlight" are introduced by a lot of dialog, and some of it isn't even from the script but rather consists of radio-program-style descriptions to let you know what is happening without being able to see. Very corny, like a children's record. And all of the Stepmother's dialog (and her one line of singing) is done by some substitute on the CD instead of by Jo Van Fleet.