Seventeen/High Button Shoes [Cast Recording] [Import]

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Unavailable for Many Years and Makes Its CD Debut Here with Bonus Tracks.

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Seventeen & High Button Shoes (Original Broadway Cast)
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • A HEARTY WELCOME TO "SEVENTEEN" & WELCOME BACK TO "HIGH BUTTON SHOES" . . . .
Seventeen & High Button Shoes (Original Broadway Cast)

Manufacturer: Sepia Recordings
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0007X9US8
Release Date: 2005-04-12

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Two Broadway shows on one CD, plus bonus tracks! The LP version of Seventeen has long been a collector's item--this is the first time on CD!

High Button Shoes was a big success on Broadway, producing two hit songs.

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5 out of 5 stars A HEARTY WELCOME TO "SEVENTEEN" & WELCOME BACK TO "HIGH BUTTON SHOES" . . . . .......2006-03-13

I've been a fan of HIGH BUTTON SHOES (and Nanette Fabray) ever since its broadcast on the NBC Television Network in 1956. I don't think I shall ever forget Phil Silvers shilling for the Ford Motor Company ("There's Nothing Like a Model T") or being pursued by a bunch of Mack Sennett cops and bathing beauties ("On a Sunday by the Sea" & "Bathing Beauty Ballet") or leading the hilarious collegiate pep song "Nobody Ever Died for Dear Old Rutgers"? Manys the time my sisters and I would harmonize to the two lovely ballads for the ingénues -- "You're My Girl" and "Can't You Just See Yourself in Love with Me?" -- or the paens to mature romantic love -- "I Still Get Jealous" and "Papa, Won't You Dance with Me?" Fifty years later, they're still as fresh as ever.

RCA released the original cast recording on four 10-inch 78 rpm records. As a result, much of the score never made it to vinyl. In addition to the songs on this album, at least four others appeared in the show. Also missing, alas, is the overture and the "Bathing Beauty Ballet." The latter, at least, can be found on the original cast recording of JEROME ROBBINS BROADWAY.

According to Steven Suskind, "SEVENTEEN is a prime example of what they used to call a 'summer musical.'" Listening to it brings back memories of ON MOONLIGHT BAY (also based on stories of Booth Tarkington) and other Doris Day/Gordon MacRae movies of the 50s, as well as fluffy MGM musicals like IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMER TIME and MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS. Although there aren't any really outstanding songs, the score is, nonetheless, charming and pleasant. Perhaps this release of the score will spark an interest in community and high school theaters. Nostalgia is never out of style, and we all want to believe that there once was a time when the biggest problems we had to face was a date for the junior prom or whether our pies would win first prize at the State Fair.

Who needs any more reality? Give me the halcyon days before the Great Depression and WWI. Give me bucolic scenes on the front porches of rural America. Give me wholesomeness and innocence. Give me con men selling swamp land and musical instruments. Give me young lovers nervous about their first kiss. Give me an old married couple - anytime - who still love each other enough to get jealous.

Hats off to Sepia for this wonderful reissue. (Why RCA, rather than this English record company, hasn't seen fit to make these recordings available is a mystery.) Although Sepia used original 78 rpm records as the source of these recordings, the sound quality is excellent. Perhaps the sound would have been better and the recordings more complete if RCA had used the original master tapes is must certainly have in its vaults, but until the time that this happens, we can all be grateful to Sepia.

For excellent background to SEVENTEEN and HIGH BUTTON SHOES, please check out THE INSIDER item, "CDs: Papa, Won't You Dance With Me" by Ken Mandelbaum on www.Broadway.com. Also Steven Suskind's ON THE RECORD: High Button Shoes, Seventeen, etc. on www.playbill.com. Fascinating stuff.

PS. While I'm ragging on RCA, I'd like to recommend two shows with their feet in Americana, both based on plays by Eugene O'Neill and both with fine scores by Bob Merrill: NEW GIRL IN TOWN and TAKE ME ALONG. Come on RCA, bring them back!!!! (As well as FANNY, WISH YOU WERE HERE, 110 IN THE SHADE, DO RE MI, LITTLE ME, etc.)
Seventeen/High Button Shoes
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    		Seventeen/High Button Shoes
    Original Broadway Cast
    Manufacturer: Sepia Recordings
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B0007YNRS6
    Release Date: 2005-04-11

    Tracks:

    1. Weatherbee's Drug Store - Company
    2. This Was Just Another Day - Kenneth Nelson
    3. Things Are Gonna Hum This Summer - Company
    4. How Do You Do, Miss Pratt? - Kenneth Nelson
    5. Summertime Is Summertime - Company
    6. Reciprocity - Company
    7. Ode To Lola - Company
    8. A Headache And A Heartache - Doris Dalton
    9. Ooh, Ooh, Ooh, What You Do To Me! - Harrison Muller
    10. The Hoosier Way - Company
    11. I Could Get Married Today - Kenneth Nelson
    12. If We Could Only Stop The Old Town Clock - Company
    13. After All, It's Spring - ellen McCown
    14. Bonus Track: Ooh, Ooh, Ooh, What You Do To Me! - Art Mooney
    15. Can't You Just See Yourself In Love With Me? - Mark Dawson
    16. There's Nothing Like A Model 'T' - Nanette Fabray
    17. Get Away For A Day In The Country - Jack McCauley
    18. Papa, Won't You Dance With Me? - Nanette Fabray
    19. On A Sunday By The Sea - Phil Silvers
    20. You're My Girl - Mark Dawson
    21. I Still Get Jealous - Nanette Fabray
    22. Nobody Ever Died For Dear Old Rutgers - Phil Silvers
    23. Bonus Track: I Still Get Jealous - Gordon MacRae
    24. Bonus Track: Papa, Won't You Dance With Me - Doris Day

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