Hallelujah, Baby! (1967 Original Broadway Cast) [Cast Recording]

Jule Styne (Artist), Hallelujah Baby! (Performer), Betty Comden (Artist), Adolph Green (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Hallelujah Baby!
• Audio CD (October 4, 2011)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording
• Label: Sony Classical
• ASIN: B0000027WM
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,917 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, forgotten score, May 5, 2000

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Simon Cross (RUSTINGTON, West Sussex. United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hallelujah, Baby! (1967 Original Broadway Cast) (Audio CD)

I have just listened to this CD twice without a break. I had forgotten how good it is.

Basically the story focuses on three people who do not age through the 20th Century. Through this concept, they aim to tell the Civil Rights story, from 1900 to the late 1960s. I don't feel qualified to comment on whether they succeed in that aim or not.

The cast is headed by Leslie Uggams, irrepressible through great inspirational songs such as Hallelujah Baby! and Now's The Time. She also brings great warmth to the strong ballads My Own Morning and Being Good.

She is given great support by the likes of Robert Hooks, Allen Case, and as her mother, the lovable Lillian Hayman. The latter shines on her big number, I Don't Know Where She Got It, referring to her daughter's musical talents.

The music varies as it gives a flavour of many different styles across the century. Other musicals may achieve this more convincingly, but this is still a very enjoyable score.

So, to sum up, good performances on good songs, must surely make it worth your curiosity.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars great Jule Styne score with Leslie Uggams in her B'way debut, January 30, 2004

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Byron Kolln (the corner where Broadway meets Hollywood) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hallelujah, Baby! (1967 Original Broadway Cast) (Audio CD)

HALLELUJAH BABY is a fantastic Broadway show, which is still best-remembered for being the Tony-winning Broadway debut of the divine Leslie Uggams.

The score features a few gems including "My Own Morning", "Talking to Yourself", "Not Mine", "Another Day" and "I Wanted to Change Him".

Uggams co-stars with Allen Case and Robert Hooks, who are also wonderful performers and vocalists. This was the second Jule Styne show to open in the 1967-68 Broadway season (the other being DARLING OF THE DAY which shuttered after 32 performances). HALLELUJAH BABY would stay afloat for 293 performances, though it received mixed reviews). Jule Styne was vindicated when Uggams and Patricia Routledge (his DARLING OF THE DAY star) tied for the 'Best Actress in a Musical' Tony.

Still, a must-own cast album. [SONY SK 48218]

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Is What Broadway Music Is All About, May 30, 2002

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cruisewhiz "cruisewhiz" (Hawaii) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hallelujah, Baby! (1967 Original Broadway Cast) (Audio CD)

Being a Leslie Uggams fan, I was drawn to this Broadway Cast recording when it was originally released on LP and wore it out.
Now that you can get on CD all the better. Music by Jule Styne and Lyrics by Comden and Green didn't mean anything to me when I first heard this but later I realized the greatness. This was a top notch musical and it shows here too. I agree with everything in the previous review. Anyone learning about Broadway musicals should listen to this CD again and again and find out what this American entertainment is all about.

Craig Satterfield
Hawaii