Polly and Her Pop / Sings Songs from Do Re Mi & Annie Get Your Gun

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
This compact disc contains two Polly Bergen LPs originally released by Columbia Records in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The first features her and her father, Bill Bergen. The second features selections from Jules Styne's "Do Re Mi" (his follow-up to "Gypsy") and Irving Berlin's "Annie Get Your Gun," and an orchestra under the direction of Luther Henderson.

Tracks:

Craw Fishin
Cool Water
San Antonio Rose
Tennessee Waltz
Maple On The Hill
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Farther Along
Two Jolly Old Bums
Molly Darling
Pops Smokey Mountain Blues
Mountain Dew
Theres A Gold Mine In The Sky
In The Garden
Whats New At The Zoo
Make Someone Happy
Cry Like The Wind
I Know About Love
Asking For You
Fireworks
Theres No Business Like Show Business
I Got The Sun In The Morning
They Say Its Wonderful
Doin What Comes Naturlly
I Got Lost In His Arms
My Defenses Are Down

Album Description

This compact disc contains two Polly Bergen LPs originally released by Columbia Records in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The first features her and her father, Bill Bergen. The second features selections from Jules Styne's "Do Re Mi" (his follow-up to "Gypsy") and Irving Berlin's "Annie Get Your Gun," and an orchestra under the direction of Luther Henderson.

Album Description

Twofer combines the 1958 album, 'Polly & Her Pop' with 1961's Do Re Mi/Annie Get Your Gun. 25 tracks. Collectables. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

A great country folk album and a strange mixture.......2003-06-17

"Polly and Her Pop," based on Polly Bergen's T.V. show duet spot with her father, is a splendid country folk collection performed authoritatively. Pop does the leads, Polly the harmonies. He's great and she's not the Polly we all know--the sophisticated, rueful torch singer. Here she's a leather lunged country folk gal who could probably wrastle and wild boar to the ground. A joyfest of an album. The album of songs from two Broadway shows from different eras and different writers and different genres comes off as a not-totally-formed project. Even the songs within the shows don't seem to add up to anything cohesive and Luther Henderson's trademarks as an arranger--his dark, woodwindy passages--seem not in evidence. I can't figure who Columbia thought would buy this collection, particularly with its all-typography cover. "Do-Re-Mi" also got an album from June Christy of all people and that collection was as mixed-up at this one.
You could describe this, Polly's last for Columbia "When great singers go astray."

Half 'n' half.......2003-04-20

Polly Bergen's output is starting to come out on CD, thanks to the Collectables label. She is an exceptional song stylist, so I considered each new CD released an automatic buy -- until now.

I like the fact that companies like Collectables are squeezing two albums onto one CD, but in cases like this, it's a mistake.

The first half, the Polly and Her Pop album, sounds entirely -- and I do mean entirely -- different from the second half. This album is almost unlistenable, in my book. It's badly arranged pseudo-country and should have been left in the vaults. As it is, Bergen's father is really the main vocalist on these songs and she's essentially a background vocal, and that's not a recommendation.

The second half is much like the Polly Bergen you'll hear in the other two-album CD sets by Collectables, and that means she's great. But it's not enough. I'd recommend buying the other two Collectables sets and skipping this one.

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