Show Boat (1962 Studio Cast) [Soundtrack]

Jerome Kern, William Warfield, Fay De Witt, Anita Darian, Oscar Hammerstein II, Show Boat (Related Recordings), Barbara Cook, John Raitt | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000024P3
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #596,522 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Overture

2. Cotton Blossom

3. Where's the Mate for Me?

4. Make Believe

5. Ol' Man River

6. Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man

7. Life upon the Wicked Stage

8. You Are Love

9. Finale Act I

10. Opening Act II: Sports of Gay Chicago

11. Why Do I Love You?

12. Bill

13. After the Ball

14. Finale Act II

15. Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man

16. Bill

17. I Still Suits Me

18. Nobody Else But Me

Customer Reviews

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A good album,but beware...., April 14, 1999

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albertatamazon (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Show Boat (1962 Studio Cast) (Audio CD)

This is NOT the original cast album. There is no album of the show with its original 1927 Broadway cast,and there never will be,since several of those actors never made any commercial recordings. (There IS a London original cast recording though---the British hit upon a good recording idea before the Americans did, and it is available on CD.) As for the album under review HERE,it features John Raitt,Barbara Cook,Anita Darian William Warfield,Fay de Witt and Louise Parker along with a studio chorus which,in the opening number,and in "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man",does not even remotely sound like the black chorus they are supposed to be.The individual singers all do well enough,though Raitt's voice is considerably diminished since his "Carousel" and "Pajama Game" recordings(this album was done in 1962),and Warfield,who is cheated out of his solo section in "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", is still good,but not quite as effective in "Ol' Man River" as he was in the 1951 movie,although he seems to acquire a burst of energy and is in beautiful voice in the Act II reprise of the song.Anita Darian's "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" is sabotaged by Franz Allers' conducting--he completely misses the jazzy lilt in the song,but her "Bill",unfortunately,is WAY over the top and may strike some listeners as unintentionally funny. Barbara Cook is fine.The orchestrations are a combination of the 1927 and 1946 productions together with some studio revisions,and the 1946 overture is used.