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Miss Gulch Returns

Fred Barton
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Product Details

  • Audio CD (February 1, 2000)
  • Original Release Date: February 1, 2000
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Original Cast Record
  • ASIN: B000056WXE
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #231,305 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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5. Everyone Worth Taking (Fred Barton)
6. It's Not My Idea Of A Gig (Fred Barton)
7. Don't Touch Me (Fred Barton)
8. I'm Your Bitch (Fred Barton)
9. Pour Me A Man Part 2 (Fred Barton)
10. Give My Best To The Blonde (Fred Barton)
11. Everyone Worth Taking Part 2/Finale (Fred Barton)
12. Take Me, Please (Fred Barton)
13. Party Girl (Toni Dibuono)

Editorial Reviews

Patti Hartigan, Boston Globe

"Bawdy, brassy, and funny as can be."


Product Description

The original recording of Fred Barton's internationally-acclaimed revue, featuring intricately-rhymed songs harking back to the Golden Age of Broadway-style special material. Remastered with bonus tracks and a 12-page booklet with notes and photographs.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Comic Characterization, with a heart, August 14, 2002
By "efrex" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
How to begin to describe this show? Fred Barton, music directing genius, adopts the persona of perhaps the least-remembered character in the Wizard of Oz and, in a dazzling series of witty, slightly raunchy, and bitter songs and monologues, creates an event simultaneously gut-splittingly funny and heartfelt. To do either with the craft that Barton puts into his material is remarkable; to do both is fantastic.

"Pour me a Man" contains more double entendres than you can shake a stick at (assuming that you stop convulsing with laughter long enough to grab a stick), "Born on a Bike" is a splended parody of Judy Garland's "Born in a Trunk," and "Not My Idea of a Gig," the piano bar pianist's lament, contains some of the most virtuoso rhymes this side of Cole Porter.

The comedy is not contextless, however; all this leads to the sobering "Everyone Worth Taking," which concludes both halves of this show and gives it a human heart so lacking in most parody artists.

Easily one of the most original cabaret shows ever conceived and brilliantly executed.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This one's worth taking!, August 2, 2001
By "lurquer" (Canada) - See all my reviews
Master songwriter Fred Barton brings to life Almira Gulch, the snippity, crotchety, black-and-white alter-ego to the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz. Did you ever wonder what might have made her so bitter?

With the skill of a musical journeyman, Barton takes a throw-away character and gives her hopes and dreams, frailties and fears, and carries you deep inside the mind of a woman on a life-long search for love.

With brilliant parodies, haunting melodies, and a fair dash of hilarity, this album also manages to poke fun at cheating lovers, unappreciative mates, and even Dorothy herself. The song "Pour Me a Man" is worth at least twice the cost of the album (and maybe more, since there's even a reprise on track 9!)

Does Miss Gulch find love? I won't spoil that for you, but I can guarantee that when you hear this album, you won't be disappointed! (And the liner notes will keep you captivated for hours!)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fred Barton - Wickedly Funny!, June 10, 2001
By Never a customer again (Shoreline, Washington USA) - See all my reviews
Fred Barton (unknown to the mainstream audience) has taken his love for movies ("A Star is Born", "Wizard of Oz," etc) and created a wickedly funny musical based on Almira Gulch (The Wicked Witch of the West BEFORE the cyclone) and her life pre and post "Wizard of Oz." With marked inspiration from other classic movies, Barton picks up your imagination with his cyclonic humor and drops you in the middle of "pour me a man" land and leaves you laughing, commiserating but mostly wanted more. Highly recommended listening when you want "the whole story."
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5.0 out of 5 stars My Favorite CD Of All Time!
The only disclaimer I can make is that this CD is cabaret. If you don't like cabaret, show tunes, piano bar music, etc then you won't like it. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Alex Griffin

5.0 out of 5 stars rare genius
It's not often that track stays with you a long time after you listen to it. Fred's songs are not only humorous, clever, and down right funny, they can also be heart warming... Read more
Published on May 19, 2006 by B. Chamberlain

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!
I first saw Fred's show over 20 years ago (OK, it was 25 years!) and was thrilled to discover it was a CD!!! Just wish it was a DVD!!! Read more
Published on September 7, 2005 by Gisele Anderson

5.0 out of 5 stars No, I'm another, different Fred, but I will say that
Fred Barton is a genius. Just when you thought it was safe to get on your bicycle again, Barton proves that there is more to humor than silliness or smut. Read more
Published on February 16, 2005 by Fred in NYC

5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZING!!!!
This CD is AMAZING!! It is hysterically funny, with clever lyrics and a great delivery that toggles between funny and touching. Read more
Published on April 1, 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars Wickedly Brilliant!
I'm so thrilled to see that this is on CD! I've had the original vinyl album since 1987, but the updated medium will make it so much easier to share this brilliant bit of writing... Read more
Published on December 11, 2003

1.0 out of 5 stars Fun premise...
...but falls flat. Album has very little to do with Miss Gulch and everything to do with not-so-clever piano bar songs.
Published on February 20, 2003 by Norman E. Tipton Jr.

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