Bye Bye Birdie (1960 Original Broadway Cast)

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Bye Bye Birdie (1960 Original Broadway Cast)
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Artist: Lee Adams
Brand: Sony
Composer: Charles Strouse
Orchestra: Charles Strouse
Performer: Amelia Haas
Performer: Barbara Doherty
Performer: Bob Spencer
Performer: Charles Strouse
Performer: Chita Rivera
Performer: Dean Stolber
Performer: Dick Gautier
Performer: Dick Van Dyke
Performer: Don Farnworth
Performer: Ed Kresley
Performer: Eddie Becker
Performer: Gary Howe
Performer: George Blackwell
Performer: Jeannine Masterson
Performer: Jerry Dodge
Performer: Jessica Albright
Performer: Jim Sisco
Performer: Johhny Borden
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording, Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-05-30
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  1. Bye Bye Birdie/Act 1. Overture
  2. Bye Bye Birdie/Act 1. An English Teacher - Chita Rivera, Dick Van Der Capellen
  3. Bye Bye Birdie/Act 1. The Telephone Hour - The Teenagers
  4. Bye Bye Birdie/Act 1. How Lovely to Be a Woman - Susan Watson
  5. Bye Bye Birdie/Act 1. Put on a Happy Face - Dick Van Dyke
  6. Bye Bye Birdie/Act 1. A Healthy, Normal, American Boy - Neighbors, , Chita Rivera, , The Teenagers, Dick Van Der Capellen
  7. Bye Bye Birdie/Act 1. One Boy - Jessica Albright, Sharon Lerit, Chita Rivera, Susan Watson
  8. Bye Bye Birdie/Act 1. Honestly Sincere - Barbara Doherty, Dick Gautier, The Teenagers
  9. Bye Bye Birdie/Act 1. Hymn for a Sunday Evening (Ed Sullivan) - Johnny Borden, Paul Lynde, Marijane Maricle, Susan Watson
  10. Bye Bye Birdie/Act 1. One Last Kiss - Dick Gautier
  11. Bye Bye Birdie/Act 2. What Did I Ever See in Him? - Chita Rivera, Susan Watson
  12. Bye Bye Birdie/Act 2. A Lot of Livin' to Do - Dick Gautier, The Teenagers, Susan Watson
  13. Bye Bye Birdie/Act 2. Kids - Paul Lynde, Marijane Maricle
  14. Bye Bye Birdie/Act 2. Baby, Talk to Me - George Blackwell, , Dick Van Dyke
  15. Bye Bye Birdie/Act 2. Kids (Reprise) - Johnny Borden, Paul Lynde, Marijane Maricle,
  16. Bye Bye Birdie/Act 2. Spanish Rose - Chita Rivera,
  17. Bye Bye Birdie/Act 2. Rosie - Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke
  18. Bye Bye Birdie/Put on a Happy Face (Excerpted from Live Performance)

Music reviews of Bye Bye Birdie (1960 Original Broadway Cast)

Music Review: Better Than the Movie Soundtrack
Rating: 5 Stars

Bye Bye Birdie (1960 Original Broadway Cast) Many of the classic Broadway musicals of mid-20th century are available as both movie soundtracks and as Broadway cast albums. Though all are enjoyable, the cast albums sound more natural, more enthusiastic, and more spontaneous than the (later) movie soundtracks. Probably that is because the cast albums were recorded shortly after the show opened on Broadway. The original cast album of "Bye Bye Birdie" is in this category. And there is more background about the musical. The excellent and lengthy liner notes recount the story of how the musical was written and developed into the evergreen musical that it became.

Description of Bye Bye Birdie (1960 Original Broadway Cast)

A lighthearted romp reflecting the Elvis revolution, Bye Bye Birdie follows Albert Peterson (a pre-Mary Poppins Dick Van Dyke), the manager of rock?& roller Conrad Birdie (Dick Gautier), who is sweeping through the town of Sweet Apple on a publicity stunt surrounding his being drafted into the Army. Meanwhile, Albert's faithful but exasperated secretary (Chita Rivera) hopes he will give up show business to settle down with her and become a respectable English teacher. In Charles Strouse and Lee Adams's energetic and tuneful score, Van Dyke sings the standard "Put On a Happy Face," the high schoolers are high schoolers ("A Lot of Livin' to Do," "The Telephone Hour," "One Boy") and bewilder their parents ("Kids"), Gautier thrusts his hips ("Honestly Sincere," "One Last Kiss"), and homage is paid to that icon of home entertainment, Ed Sullivan ("Hymn for a Sunday Evening"). Bye Bye Birdie won the 1961 Tony for Best Musical, and Van Dyke reprised his role in the 1963 film version. The 2000 remastering features outstanding clarity as well as a bonus track of Strouse himself introducing and singing "Put On a Happy Face" at a Smithsonian lecture in 1978. --David Horiuchi

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