Fifty Million Frenchmen (1991 Studio Cast)
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Composer: Cole PorterPerformer: Evans Haile
Performer: Howard McGillin
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1992-12-08
Music Label: New World Records
Soundtracks:
- Overture
- You Do Something to Me - Howard McGillin, Susan Powell
- American Express - Company
- You've Got That Thing - Jason Graae
- Find Me a Primitive Man - Kim Criswell, JQ and The Bandits
- I Worship You - Scott Waara
- Do You Want to See Paris? - Peggy Cass, Kim Criswell, James Harder, JQ and The Bandits, Howard McGillin, Karen Zi?mba
- Where Would You Get Your Coat? - Kay McClelland
- At Longchamps Today - Company
- Boyfriend Back Home - Kim Criswell
- I Am in Love - Susan Powell
- Please Don't Make Me Be Good - Karen Zi?mba
- You Don't Know Paree - Howard McGillin
- Entr'acte - JQ and The Bandits
- Somebody's Going to Throw a Big Party
- It Isn't Done - JQ and The Bandits, Jean LeClerc
- Queen of Terre Haute - Peggy Cass
- Let's Step Out - Susan Powell, Karen Zi?mba
- Tale of the Oyster - Kay McClelland
- I'm Unlucky at Gambling - Kim Criswell
- Why Shouldn't I Have You? - Jason Graae, Kay McClelland, Scott Waara, Karen Zi?mba
- Paree, What Did You Do to Me? - Company
Music reviews of Fifty Million Frenchmen (1991 Studio Cast)
Music Review: Maybe not Porter's Greatest Score
Rating: 5 Stars
but as the other reviewers have said this one has the essence of everything he did so well. Number after number is melodic, witty and just wonderful. I would disagree with the reviewer who said that You Don't Know Paris is Porter's most emotionally affecting ballad - So In Love from Kiss Me Kate is my favorite song, bar none, and packs every bit as strong an emotional wallop if it's done well. Argument aside, McGillin does full justice to a very heartfelt love song to Paris. And yes, Porter at his most affecting can wring your heart as thoroughly as Lorenz Hart.
My favorites here are the Tale of the Oyster, Find Me a Primitive Man, and I'm Unlucky at Gambling. The Tale of the Oyster is as witty as a song gets - "Down by the sea lived a lonely oyster, every day getting sadder and moister." Find Me a Primitive Man throbs, and the French translation just sends it over the top - "Trouve-moi un homme primitif," indeed. I'm Unlucky at Gambling is just sly - I took the croupier to a picture show, the croupier impressed me as rather slow, I said 'I like John Gilbert a lot, don't you?' But when the show was over and love was through, I realized that he liked John Gilbert, too." And Porter wrote this in 1929.
As for the rest, there's not a dud in the bunch. Porter had that thing, that certain thing, and this album shows it in spades. Lovingly produced and lusciously rendered. It's a gem and a must have.
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