Jerry Ross - Damn Yankees (1955 Original Broadway Cast)
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Artist: Jerry RossComposer: Richard Adler
Performer: Robert Shafer
Performer: Joan Keenan
Performer: Gwen Verdon
Performer: Janet Hayes
Performer: Jean Stapleton
Performer: Stephen Douglass
Performer: Rae Allen
Performer: Cherry Davis
Performer: Richard Bishop
Performer: Shannon Bolin
Performer: Frank Bouley
Performer: Russ Brown
Performer: Fred Bryan
Performer: Ronn Cummins
Performer: Nathaniel Frey
Performer: Jeanne Grant
Performer: Del Horstmann
Performer: Janie Janvier
Performer: Jimmie Komack
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: RCA Victor Broadway
Soundtracks:
- Overture: Six Months Out Of Every Year
- Goodbye, Old Girl
- Heart
- Shoeless Joe From Hannibal, Mo.
- A Little Brains-A Little Talent
- A Man Doesn't Know
- Whatever Lola Wants
- Heart (Reprise)
- Who's Got The Pain?
- The Game
- Near To You
- Those Were The Good Old Days
- Two Lost Souls
- A Man Doesn't Know (Reprise)
- Finale
Description of Damn Yankees (1955 Original Broadway Cast)
All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, who were protegés of Frank Loesser, composed and wrote lyrics for only two hit shows of their own--The Pajama Game was the other. (Ross died in 1955, shortly after the opening of Damn Yankees.) But what great shows they were, in sensibility and subject matter entrenched in their Eisenhower era, yet eminently revivable today--and as much more than period pieces. Damn Yankees, which was based on Douglas Wallop's novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, neatly combined the national obsession with baseball and its dominant team with the Faust legend. The Devil himself (Ray Walston) offers a middle-aged fan of the Washington Senators the chance to turn into a Mickey Mantle-esque ballplayer (Stephen Douglass) to help his hapless team against those Bronx Bombers. The fan accepts, but with an escape clause in the interest of story-line complications. What makes the plot problematic is not its proven fantasy level; it's that the leading lady, Lola, the Devil's temptress assistant, doesn't appear until way into the first act, and then she is required to dominate the show with just two solos and a couple of duets. Only a star with the guts and stage-holding ability of Gwen Verdon could have managed this in the first place, even though her solos are the estimable "A Little Brains--A Little Talent" and the near-standard "Whatever Lola Wants." Bebe Neuwirth, as Lola, was never able to seize the stage--or the recording--of the 1994 revival, and ultimately that show became about Jerry Lewis as the Devil, for God's sake. Verdon's and Walston's amazing original performances are preserved in the movie version (Tab Hunter took over the ballplayer's role), but this recording is the one to have. The show's breakout hit song, sung by ballplayers and fans, was and is "(You Gotta Have) Heart." Damn Yankees and all its songs have just that. --Robert Windeler
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