Inside U.S.A./The Band Wagon [Cast Recording]

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Features songs from two hit Broadway shows by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz starring Fred Astaire, Perry Como and more. Inside U.S.A. was recorded before the show was fully cast in order to beat the 1948 ASCAP strike, which explains why non-cast members performed some of these songs. Most tracks on CD for the first time!

Inside U.S.A./The Band Wagon, Music, Arthur Schwartz, Adolph Deutsch, Irving Miller, Jay Blackton, Leo Reisman, Mitchell Ayres, Russ Case & His Orchestra, Russ Chase, Irving Miller Orchestra, Leo Reisman Orchestra, MGM Studio Symphony Orchestra, Russ Case and His Orchestra, Arthur Schwartz, Adele Astaire, Beatrice Lillie, Billy Williams, Buddy Clark, Edith Adams, Fred Astaire, George Britton, Harold Lang, India Adams, Jack Buchanan, Jack Haley, Nanette Fabray, Pearl Bailey, Perry Como, Cast Recordings, Music Theater, Musical Theater, Pop, Showtunes / B'way

Inside U.S.A./The Band Wagon
Average customer rating:

Great material on both scores

Inside U.S.A./The Band Wagon

Manufacturer: Sepia Recordings
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000AMUUU8
Release Date: 2005-09-12

Tracks:

Inside U.S.A., Musical Revue/Inside U.S.A.
Inside U.S.A., Musical Revue/Come, Oh Come - Beatrice Lillie
Inside U.S.A., Musical Revue/Blue Grass - Pearl Bailey
Inside U.S.A., Musical Revue/Rhode Island Is Famous for You - Jack Haley, Sr.
Inside U.S.A., Musical Revue/Haunted Heart - Perry Como
Inside U.S.A., Musical Revue/First Prize at the Fair - Jack Haley, Sr.
Inside U.S.A., Musical Revue/At the Mardi Gras - Beatrice Lillie
Inside U.S.A., Musical Revue/My Gal Is Mine Once More
Inside U.S.A., Musical Revue/Atlanta - Beatrice Lillie
Inside U.S.A., Musical Revue/Protect Me - Pearl Bailey
Inside U.S.A., Musical Revue/Rhode Island Is Famous for You
Inside U.S.A., Musical Revue/Haunted Heart
Inside U.S.A., Musical Revue/First Prize at the Fair
Inside U.S.A., Musical Revue/My Gal Is Mine Once More
Band Wagon/Overture/Sweet Music/High and Low
Band Wagon/Hoops/Confession/New Sun in the Sky/I Love Louisa
Band Wagon/Ballet Music/Beggar's Waltz
Band Wagon/White Heat/Dancing in the Dark - Fred Astaire
Band Wagon/Dancing in the Dark - George Britton
Band Wagon/High and Low - Edith Adams, George Britton
Band Wagon/I Love Louisa - Harold Lang
Band Wagon/New Sun in the Sky - Harold Lang
Band Wagon/That's Entertainment (From Film of 'The Band Wagon') - India Adams, Fred Astaire, Jack Buchanan, Nanette Fabray
Band Wagon/Triplets (From Film of 'The Band Wagon') - Fred Astaire, Jack Buchanan, Nanette Fabray
Band Wagon/Louisiana Hayride (From Film of 'The Band Wagon') - Nanette Fabray

Album Description

Features songs from two hit Broadway shows by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz starring Fred Astaire, Perry Como and more. Inside U.S.A. was recorded before the show was fully cast in order to beat the 1948 ASCAP strike, which explains why non-cast members performed some of these songs. Most tracks on CD for the first time!

Customer Reviews:

Great material on both scores.......2005-09-16

"Inside U.S.A." was a huge hit revue with the unique Bea Lillie, Jack Haley of "The Wizard of Oz" and such future names as Carl Reiner (not on the recordings). "Atlanta" was apparently cut as it doesn't appear in any programs of the show, and it is revue material with topical references so younger Broadway fans may wonder what the hell Bea is singing about (Atlanta was known for it's federal prison, imagine her in a neat striped suit and matching pillbox hat with a ball and chain to twirl), but her spirit was perhaps as well captured on these tracks as it ever was in a studio recording. "The Bandwagon" is also wonderful, Fred Astaire at his stage height just before he went Hollywood (with his sister Adele, a bigger star then), and a pioneer recording that was LP length before that existed. All the material by Dietz and Schwartz in it is classic and showed up in the very different film 25 years later. But these recordings may be better, and the sound is brilliant for the time. So, a bargain and let's hope the trove of theater recordings continues to be mined - how about all the Decca recordings of Bea, including the unreleased 60s recordings as well as the two lps from her legendary "Evening with Beatrice Lillie"? (See the Joyce Grenfell "Requests" recent CD for a handfull of the Decca material, beautifully remastered as bonus cuts).

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