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Lebendige Vergangenheit: Robert Merrill, Vol. 3

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The singing is so flawlessly superb that all you need to know is WHAT Bob sings:

Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti): Cruda, funesta smania

with Ezio Pinza (Bass), Luigi Vellucci (Tenor)

Conductor: Renato Cellini
RCA Victor Orchestra
Date of Recording: 3/8/1952
Length: 5 Minutes 35 Secs.



2. Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni): Il cavallo scalpita

Conductor: Renato Cellini
RCA Victor Orchestra
Date of Recording: 1/1953
Length: 2 Minutes 24 Secs.



3. Cavalleria Rusticana: Oh! Il Signore vi manda

With Zinka Milanov (Soprano)

Conductor: Renato Cellini
RCA Victor Orchestra
Date of Recording: 1/1953
Length: 4 Minutes 56 Secs.



4. I Pagliacci (Leoncavallo): Silvio! a quest' ora...che imprudenza

With Victoria De los Angeles (Soprano)

Conductor: Renato Cellini
RCA Victor Orchestra
Date of Recording: 1/1953
Length: 8 Minutes 19 Secs.



5. Porgy and Bess (Gershwin): A woman is a sometime thing

Conductor: Robert Russell Bennett
RCA Victor Orchestra
Date of Recording: 9/13/1950
Length: 3 Minutes 32 Secs.



6. Porgy and Bess: I got plenty o' nuttin

Conductor: Robert Russell Bennett
RCA Victor Orchestra
Date of Recording: 9/13/1950
Length: 2 Minutes 51 Secs.



7. Porgy and Bess: Bess, you is my woman now

With Risė Stevens (Mezzo Soprano)

Conductor: Robert Russell Bennett
RCA Victor Orchestra
Date of Recording: 9/13/1950
Length: 5 Minutes 0 Secs.



8. Porgy and Bess: It ain't necessarily so


Conductor: Robert Russell Bennett
RCA Victor Orchestra
Date of Recording: 9/12/1950
Length: 4 Minutes 4 Secs.



9. Porgy and Bess: Oh Bess, where's my Bess?


Conductor: Robert Russell Bennett
RCA Victor Orchestra
Date of Recording: 9/12/1950
Length: 9 Minutes 35 Secs.



10. Show Boat (Kern): Ol' Man River


Conductor: Robert Russell Bennett
RCA Victor Orchestra
Date of Recording: 1948
Length: 3 Minutes 35 Secs.



11. The New Moon (Romberg): Wanting you

With Dorothy Kirsten (Soprano)

Conductor: Russ Case
Russ Case Orchestra
Date of Recording: 9/11/1947
Length: 3 Minutes 25 Secs.



12. The Three Musketeers (Friml): Ma belle


Conductor: Leopold Spitalny
Orchestra
Date of Recording: 1/2/1946
Length: 3 Minutes 28 Secs.



13. Rose Marie (Friml): Indian Love Call "When I'm calling you"

With Roberta Peters (Soprano)

Conductor: Charles Sanford
Orchestra
Date of Recording: 1952
Length: 2 Minutes 49 Secs.



14. Kiss Me, Kate (Porter): So in Love

With Roberta Peters (Soprano)

Conductor: Charles Sanford
Orchestra
Date of Recording: 1952
Length: 2 Minutes 17 Secs.



15. My Life's Desire by Tolchard Evans


Conductor: Henri René
Henri René Orchestra
Date of Recording: 1951
Length: 2 Minutes 37 Secs.



16. My Beloved by Jay Livingston


Conductor: Hugo Winterhalter
Hugo Winterhalter & His Orchestra
Date of Recording: 1951
Length: 3 Minutes 25 Secs.



17. Phyllis has such charming graces (Traditional)

Leila Edwards (Piano)
Date of Recording: 1948
Length: 2 Minutes 43 Secs.



18. My Lovely Celia by George Munro

Leila Edwards (Piano)
Date of Recording: 1948
Length: 2 Minutes 21 Secs.



19. Mary of Allendale (Traditional)

Leila Edwards (Piano)
Date of Recording: 1948
Length: 2 Minutes 51 Secs.



20. Down by the Salley Gardens (Traditional)

Leila Edwards (Piano)
Date of Recording: 1948
Length: 2 Minutes 42 Secs.



21. Be merry, be merry (Anonymous)

Leila Edwards (Piano)
Date of Recording: 1948
Length: 2 Minutes 17 Secs.



22. A Ballynure Ballad (Traditional)

Leila Edwards (Piano)
Date of Recording: 1948
Length: 1 Minutes 28 Secs.



23. Oliver Cromwell (Traditional)

Leila Edwards (Piano)
Date of Recording: 1948
Length: 0 Minutes 43 Secs.




My own particular favourite: the gorgeous duet from The New Moon with the unforgettable Dorothy Kirsten. I LOVE IT! I love this CD.