Ira Gershwin - Oh, Kay! (1955 Studio Cast)
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Artist: Ira GershwinComposer: George Gershwin
Conductor: George Gershwin
Performer: George Gershwin
Conductor: Cy Walter
Performer: Cy Walter
Conductor: Lehman Engel
Performer: Allen Case
Performer: Barbara Ruick
Performer: George Gershwin
Performer: Jack Cassidy
Performer: Mary Martin
Performer: Roger White
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1998-11-10
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Overture
- Woman's Touch
- Don't Ask - Allen Case, Roger White
- Dear Little Girl - Jack Cassidy
- Maybe - Jack Cassidy, Barbara Ruick
- Clap Yo' Hands - Allen Case
- Do Do Do - Jack Cassidy, Barbara Ruick
- Bride and Groom - Jack Cassidy, Barbara Ruick
- Someone to Watch over Me - Barbara Ruick
- Fidgety Feet - Allen Case, Roger White
- Heaven on Earth - Jack Cassidy
- Oh, Kay! - Barbara Ruick
- Finale - Allen Case, Jack Cassidy, Barbara Ruick
- Maybe [*] - Mary Martin
- Someone to Watch over Me [*] - George Gershwin
- Clap Yo' Hands [*] - George Gershwin
Music reviews of Oh, Kay! (1955 Studio Cast)
Music Review: 20s "pattern of musical comedy"
Rating: 4 Stars
This was the analysis given by Broadway historian Stanley Green. I enjoyed this recording; but I am not as gung-ho about it as the previous three reviewers. "Oh, Kay!" includes a few Gershwin songs that have become classics--"Clap Yo' Hands," "Do, Do, Do," "Someone to Watch Over Me"--and a few that might as well be forgotten--"The Woman's Touch," "Bride and Groom." One set of lyrics, "Don't Ask," may have spoken understandably to audiences of the 20s, or even of the 50s when this studio cast recording was made; but it could be interpreted in a totally different vein today.
All in all, this is a pretty true representation of the 20s style musical. It is not presented, as "A Customer" reviewed, as camp or burlesque. Neither does it attempt completely to sound like 20s orchestrations. It does have the vocal sound of early musicals, especially with Jack Cassidy's wide vibrato.
I have also owned the Stet version recorded in 1960, and greatly prefer this one.
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