I Can Get It For You Wholesale (1962 Original Broadway Cast) [Cast Recording]

Lehman Engel, Lillian Roth, Jack Kruschen, Harold Lang, Harold Rome, Marilyn Cooper, Barbra Streisand | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 16, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording
• Label: Sony Music Entertainment, USA
• ASIN: B0000028TF
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #125,396 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Overture - Lehman Engel

2. I'm Not A Well Man

3. The Way Things Are

4. When Gemini Meets Capricorn

5. Momma, Momma, Momma

6. The Sound Of Money

7. Too Soon

8. The Family Way

9. Who Knows?

10. Ballad Of The Garment Trade

11. Have I Told You Lately?

12. A Gift Today

13. Miss Marmelstein

14. A Funny Thing Happened

15. What's In It For Me?

16. Eat A Little Something

17. What Are They Doing To Us?

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Lyrics and Stellar Interpretations, March 16, 2001

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"onthe20thcent" (Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Can Get It For You Wholesale (1962 Original Broadway Cast) (Audio CD)

This CD has received lukewarm reviews from some Barbraphiles who, predictably, view the show as nothing without Streisand. This is simply not the case. First, it must remembered that reviewers should be reviewing the show as a work, not its position in Barbra Streisand's personal development. Granted, she does an excellent job with her numbers and is certainly a stand-out, particularly with her specialty, "Miss Marmelstein." However, in merely looking at Barbra's numbers, we are excluding a whole gamut of great songs, including "When Gemini Meets Capricorn" (with the brilliant lyric "Did the planets plan it" among others), "What Are They Doing To Us Now?," "A Gift Today," and "Momma, Momma, Momma." This score is great, and it is certainly a highlight of Harold Rome's career. Granted, Elliot Gould is no Bruce Yarnell (Annie Get Your Gun 1966) or Ray Middleton (AGYG 1946), but he is adequate. Again, it is a great recording. Contrary to what other reviewers have said, do NOT pre-program your CD player to skip the non-Streisand numbers. If you do, you will have missed out on a stellar score.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Barbra Streisand's Broadway debut!, August 13, 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: I Can Get It For You Wholesale (1962 Original Broadway Cast) (Audio CD)

I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE features an energetic score by Harold Rome, but is still best-remembered for being the Broadway debut of a promising young Brooklyn belter by the name of Barbra Streisand. Streisand had been performing her act at the Bon Soir and Blue Angel clubs, but had never set foot on a Broadway stage until she landed the supporting role of Miss Yetta Tessye Marmelstein in WHOLESALE. Streisand met her future husband Elliott Gould, who played the male lead - Harry Bogen - in the show. The story is set in the New York garment district circa the late-1930s, where Harry asipres to climb to the top of the ladder of success, and doesn't care if his real friends get hurt along the way.

The rest of the cast is sensational: Bambi Linn (Dream Laurey in OKLAHOMA! on film), Marilyn Cooper (WEST SIDE STORY's original Rosalia) as Harry's love interest Ruthie, Harold Lang (the original Bill Calhoun in KISS ME KATE) and Lillian Roth (70 GIRLS 70). Standout numbers include, of course, "Miss Marmelstein", but also enjoyable are Marilyn Cooper's "Who Knows?" and "A Funny Thing Happened". Sound quality is crisp and clean. Highly-recommended.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoying an old musical, September 10, 2005

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David Landy "Broadway Baby (retired)" (Seminole, FL, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Can Get It For You Wholesale (1962 Original Broadway Cast) (Audio CD)

1962 was the year I ended my high school education and started my college education, majoring in Theatre. It was also the year Babb's first musical was on Broadway. I really loved the entire show, the music was wonderful and the lyrics were to die for.
I saw the original movie on television a few weeks ago, a straight play, and thought how wonderful it could be converted into a broadway musical, and by golly, they did.
The entire cast was just great and I would recomend this CD to any musical comedy buff.
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