Bells Are Ringing (1956 Original Broadway Cast)
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Cast Recording, Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-03-20
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Act I: Overture
- Act I: Bells Are Ringing
- Act I: It's A Perfect Relationship
- Act I: On My Own
- Act I: It's A Simple Little System
- Act I: Is It A Crime?
- Act I: Hello, Hello There!
- Act I: I Met A Girl
- Act I: Long Before I Knew You
- Act II: Mu-Cha-Cha
- Act II: Just In Time
- Act II: Drop That Name
- Act II: The Party's Over
- Act II: Salzburg
- Act II: The Midas Touch
- Act II: I'm Going Back
- It's a Perfect Relationship (Jules Styne plays and sings; previously unreleased)
- Just in Time (Jules Styne plays and sings; previously unreleased)
- Boogie Woogie Shoogie, Baby of Mine (Jules Styne plays and sings; previously unreleased)
Music reviews of Bells Are Ringing (1956 Original Broadway Cast)
Music Review: Judy Holiday shines in this light, attractive score
Rating: 4 Stars
To answer a question from another reviewer, yes BELLS ARE RINGING was the first original cast album that Columbia records taped in both stereo and mono. The mono release came first but in 1958 Columbia issued a stereo edition. (Note to collectors: The mono LP used different takes on some numbers. For example there was no crowd cheerng in Just in Time.) Columbia re-released the abum with a different more glamorous photo of Judy Holiday in 1960 to tie in with the release of the film. The album stayed in print right though the end of the Lp era in the late 1980s.
Thomas Shepard has done his usual masterful job restoring the old tapes and even adding some previously deleted dance music. The only slight drawback is in the final song, I'm going Back, a short section of the stereo tape was damaged. You will note that from 2:28 to 2:59 the sound switches to mono.
A nice touch is using the old Columbia records label on the Cd!
The show itself proved unreviavable a few years ago when the wonderful Faith Prince to a crack at it. She is perhaps the the performer closest in style to Judy Holiday, (though she s NOT a star of the same calbre of Holiday!) but the book is too dated now. It was a pretty simplistic book even in 1956! And while the score has its share of gems, it also has a few non-so-steller moments (Hello Hello There, Salzburg, The Midas Touch) and a leading man (Sydney Chaplin) whose unsteady singing voice ruins his songs.
The movie soundtrack (with Holiday again this time teamed with Dean Martin, recently reissued by DRG) drops five of the songs and adds two new ones and gives us lusher orchestrations.
Despite the best efforts of Faith Prince (and the fact this it is the most complete recording of the score) the 2001 Broadway revival cast is a curiously dull recording that just never sparkles the way this origianl 1956 cast album does.
Description of Bells Are Ringing (1956 Original Broadway Cast)
All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.In 1956, Judy Holliday was at the peak of her fame--she had just won an Oscar for Born Yesterday, and her old buddies Comden and Green were about to write a Broadway show for her. Bells Are Ringing may not be among composer Jule Styne's top-drawer scores, but the show benefits from Comden and Green's reliably zany book and lyrics (it's simply impossible not to crack up at songs like "Mu-Cha-Cha"), and Holliday is magnificent as phone operator Ella Peterson. The bonus tracks include Styne doing "Boogie Woogie Shoogie, Baby of Mine," which was cut from the show because the vocally challenged leading man, Sydney Chaplin, couldn't handle it. But even he can't ruin the show's biggest hit (the wonderful "Just in Time"), which brilliantly manages to be equally emotional and funny--the exact combination that made Holliday such a compelling star, come to think of it. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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