Fly With Me (1980 Revival Cast) [Cast Recording]

Richard Rodgers (Composer, Orchestra), Annie Laurita (Performer), Avi Simon (Performer), Cheryl Suzanne Horowitz (Performer), Daniel Frank (Performer), Francis Larson (Performer), Johanna Melamed (Performer), Joshua Worby (Performer), Marci Pliskin (Performer), Peter L. Cromarty (Performer), Rod McLucas (Performer), Lorenz Hart (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Annie Laurita, Avi Simon, Cheryl Suzanne Horowitz, Daniel Frank, Francis Larson, et al.
• Orchestra: Richard Rodgers
• Composer: Richard Rodgers
• Audio CD (January 1, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording
• Label: Original Cast Record
• ASIN: B000009Q2A
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #463,317 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Overture

2. Gone Are the Days

3. A Penny For Your Thoughts

4. Another Melody in F

5. Working for the Government

6. Inspiration (The Futurist Love Song)

7. Don't Love Me Like Othello

8. Dreaming True

9. Peek in Pekin'

10. A College on Broadway

11. Finale (Act One)

12. Entr'acte

13. Moonlight and You

14. Always Room For One More

15. If I Were You

16. Kid, I Love You

17. The Third Degree of Love

18. Gunga Dhin

19. Twinkling Eyes

20. Finale

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Student production of a show that is of historical interest, February 8, 2008

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Peach "Curmudgeon" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fly With Me (1980 Revival Cast) (Audio CD)

I must object to the previous reviewer's comments. As a member of that awful string section 28 years ago, I should mention that this project was conceived as a 1980 revival of the 1920 Columbia Varsity Show, which happened to be written by Rodgers, Hart and Hammerstein. Pretty interesting, right? It was about a futuristic Columbia in 1970, by which time it would have been renamed "Bolshevicki University." (!) Mr. Rodgers completely approved of this revival, and his widow appeared at the opening (he had just recently died). As recordings go, this does leave much to be desired, but this was a live recording of a college show in an old theatre. It was a student production! As I recall, we spent about an hour and a half rerecording the overture, and that was about it. So, if you want to hear an interesting sample of Rodgers/Hart/Hammerstein's early collegiate songs, buy this disc -- it's really fun, and the lyrics are very clever ("Gone are old ecclesiastics, moral teachings by bombastics, we're our own iconoclastics, teaching plastics by gymnastics!"). On the other hand, if you're a fetishistic audiophile who cannot be satisfied with anything but recordings made under the most expensive and exacting conditions, skip this disc and stay unhappy.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars An embarrassment...., January 12, 2003

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This review is from: Fly With Me (1980 Revival Cast) (Audio CD)

Not the score but this recording! It is a poorly made live recording with a student ensemble (Columbia University no less) that sounds simply dreadful. The string intonation can make your hair stand on end.
Shame on Original Cast records for issuing this. Did they get an okay fron the R & H Estates? I look forward to hearing this score properly performed one day