The Best Of Broadway : The American Musical

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1	–Ensemble*	There's No Business Like Show Business Conductor – Jay BlacktonLyrics By – Irving BerlinMusic By – Irving Berlin	3:10
2	–Al Jolson	Swanee Lyrics By – Irving CaesarMusic By – George Gershwin	2:36
3	–Paul Robeson	Ol' Man River Lyrics By – Oscar Hammerstein IIMusic By – Jerome KernOrchestra – Victor Young And His Orchestra	4:06
4	–Ethel Merman	You're The Top Lyrics By – Cole PorterMusic By – Cole PorterOrchestra – Johnny Green And His Orchestra	2:54
5	–Alfred Drake and chorus*	Oklahoma Conductor – Jay BlacktonLyrics By – Oscar Hammerstein IIMusic By – Richard Rodgers	2:29
6	–Robert Alda and Guys*	Luck Be A Lady Conductor – Irving ActmanLyrics By – Frank LoesserMusic By – Frank Loesser	3:01
7	–Julie Andrews	I Could Have Danced All Night Conductor – Franz AllersLyrics By – Alan Jay Lerner*Music By – Frederick Loewe	3:30
8	–Marilyn Cooper, Chita Rivera, Shark Girls	America Conductor – Max GobermanLibretto By – Stephen SondheimMusic By – Leonard Bernstein	4:32
9	–Mary Martin	My Favorite Things Conductor – Frederick DvonchLyrics By – Oscar Hammerstein IIMusic By – Richard Rodgers	2:47
10	–Barbra Streisand	People Conductor – Milton RosenstockLyrics By – Bob MerrillMusic By – Jule Styne	3:27
11	–Zero Mostel	If I Were A Rich Man Conductor – Milton GreeneLyrics By – Sheldon HarnickMusic By – Jerry Bock	4:56
12	–Richard Kiley	The Impossible Dream Conductor – Neil WarnerLyrics By – Joe DarionMusic By – Mitch Leigh	2:22
13	–Jill Haworth	Cabaret Conductor – Harold HastingsLyrics By – Fred EbbMusic By – John Kander	4:29
14	–James Rado, Lynn Kellogg, Melba Moore and cast*	Let The Sunshine In Conductor – Galt MacDermotLyrics By – Gerome Ragni, James RadoMusic By – Galt MacDermot	3:38
15	–Glynis Johns	Send In The Clowns Conductor – Harold HastingsLyrics By – Stephen SondheimMusic By – Stephen Sondheim	3:28
16	–Cast*	One Conductor – Don PippinLyrics By – Edward Kleban*Music By – Marvin Hamlisch	4:45
17	–Andrea McArdle	Tomorrow Conductor – Peter Howard Lyrics By – Martin CharninMusic By – Charles Strouse	2:07
18	–Betty Buckley	Memory Conductor – Rene Weigert*Lyrics By – Trevor NunnMusic By – Andrew Lloyd Webber	3:37
19	–Michael Crawford	The Music Of The Night Conductor – Michael Reed Lyrics By – Charles HartMusic By – Andrew Lloyd Webber	5:12
20	–Marissa Jaret Winokur	Good Morning Baltimore Conductor – Lon HoytLyrics By – Scott WittmanMusic By – Marc Shaiman	3:42
21	–Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel	Defying Gravity Conductor – Stephen OremusLyrics By – Stephen SchwartzMusic By – Stephen Schwartz	5:57

Credits

• A&R – James Orofino, Patti Matheny
• Compilation Producer – Brian Drutman, Darcy Proper, Didier C. Deutsch, Michael Kantor, Steve Berkowitz
• Design – Ken Fredette, Lisa Sparagano
• Liner Notes – Laurence Maslon, Michael Kantor
• Management [Project Director] – Jeffrey Peisch, Joy Monfried, Nicole Dean-Taubert, Randy Dry
• Mastered By – Darcy Proper
• Mixed By – Darcy Proper
• Photography By – Corbis, Getty Images, Joan Marcus, Martha Swope, Paul Kolnik, Philip Greenberg, Photofest
• Production Manager [Packaging Manager] – Peter Kszan
• Transferred By [Acetate Transfers] – Ken Robertson

Notes

Track info:

1: from 'Annie Get Your Gun', recorded May 26, 1946.
2: from 'Sinbad', recorded January 9, 1920.
3: from 'Show Boat', recorded July 21, 1932.
4: from 'Anything Goes', recorded December 4, 1934.
5: from 'Oklahoma!', recorded October 20, 1943.
6: from 'Guys And Dolls', recorded December 3, 1950.
7: from 'My Fair Lady', recorded March 25, 1956.
8: from 'West Side Story', recorded September 29, 1957.
9: from 'The Sound Of Music', recorded November 22, 1959.
10: from 'Funny Girl', recorded April 5, 1964.
11: from 'Fiddler On The Roof', recorded September 27, 1964.
12: from 'Man Of La Mancha', recorded December 6, 1965.
13: from 'Cabaret', recorded November 27, 1966.
14: from 'Hair', recorded May 6, 1968.
15: from 'A Little Night Music', recorded March 18, 1973.
16: from 'A Chorus Line', recorded June 2, 1975.
17: from 'Annie', recorded April 25, 1977.
18: from 'Cats', recorded October, 1982.
19: from 'The Phantom Of The Opera', recorded October, 1986.
20: from 'Hairspray', recorded June 29, 2002.
21: from 'Wicked', recorded November 10, 2003.

The CD accompanied the PBS TV series 'Broadway : The American Musical', a 5 CD box set with booklet was also released. The CD & back of the case show four logos, Decca Broadway, Columbia Broadway Masterworks, Thirteen WNET NEW YORK, PBS.

Photos: Booklet: Getty Images: p. 3, 6, tray card; Philip Greenberg: back of booklet; Joan Marcus: p. 20-21, cover (Wicked); Photofest: pp. 5, 9, 10-11, 18, cover (Fiddler On The Roof, Cats); Paul Kolnik: p. 19, cover (Hairspray); Corbis: p. 4; Martha Swope: p. 14-15, 16, cover (A Chorus Line, Annie).

Performers on Cover (left-right): Zero Mostel (Fiddler On The Roof); (A Chorus Line); (Cats); Andrea McArdle & Reid Shelton (Annie); Marissa Jaret Winokur & Harvey Fierstein (Hairspray); Idina Menzel (Wicked).

This compilation (P) 2004 Universal Classics Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Inc., (C) 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc., 825 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10019. Distributed by Universal Music & Video Distribution, Corp.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 602498635360

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
986 3536	Various	The Best Of Broadway : The American Musical ‎(CD, Comp)	Decca Broadway, Columbia Broadway Masterworks	986 3536	Germany	2004