Angela Lansbury - Mame (1969) Vinyl LP • Soundtrack, Broadway, Jerry Herman

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Vinyl plays nicely; a few light hairlines (play-graded). Cover has a few creases near edges; light-scuffing, discoloration (front/back). Inner-sleeve is original (generic white); seams partially split. Spine is easy-to-read with wear (partially printed off-center). Some shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge and corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and divots. '6-eye' gray Columbia label. (Not a cut-out.)

Tracks:

1. Overture ("Mame" Original Broadway Cast, Orchestra )
2. St. Bridget (Jane Connell and Frankie Michaels )
3. It's Today (with "Mame" Original Broadway Cast )
4. Open A New Window (with "Mame" Original Broadway Cast )
5. The Man In The Moon (Beatrice Arthur and "Mame" Original Broadway Cast, Moon Maidens )
6. My Best Girl (Frankie Michaels )
7. We Need A Liitle Christmas (with Frankie Michaels, Jane Connell, and Sab Shimono )
8. Mame (Charles Braswell and "Mame" Original Broadway Cast )
9. The Letter (Frankie Michaels and Jerry Lanning )
10. Bosom Buddies (with Beatrice Arthur )
11. Gooch's Song (Jane Connell )
12. That's How Young I Feel (with "Mame" Original Broadway Cast )
13. If He Walked Into My Life
14. The Finale (with "Mame" Original Broadway Cast )

About The Record:

The idea of turning Mame, which had already been a successful novel, straight play, and film (the last two under the title Auntie Mame), into a musical comedy was a great one, since it provided the opportunity to do what the musical theater does so well: showcase the talents of a major female actress/singer. The choice of composer/lyricist Jerry Herman to do the score was obvious; Herman had just scored a hit with Hello, Dolly!, another period story of an eccentric, larger than life female character. And everything else went well, too, including the felicitous casting of Angela Lansbury and a smooth out-of-town tryout period. By opening night, May 24, 1966, Bobby Darin and Louis Armstrong had reached the charts with single recordings of the title song (which is self-consciously similar to the Hello, Dolly! title song), and Eydie Gormé has covered the torchy ballad If He Walked into My Life, which works equally well as a romantic lament as it does, in the show, as Mame's self-recrimination over the loss of her adopted son. Herman's score hasn't a weak song, and it has some very strong ones, not only those already mentioned, but also We Need a Little Christmas, soon to be a seasonal standard. Add a cast headed by Lansbury, Frankie Michaels, and Beatrice Arthur, and you have the makings of a terrific cast album, which this is. (allmusic.com)