Lee Adams - Bye Bye Birdie (1960 Original Broadway Cast)
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Artist: Lee AdamsComposer: Charles Strouse
Orchestra: Charles Strouse
Performer: Charles Strouse
Performer: George Blackwell
Performer: Chita Rivera
Performer: Sue Watson
Performer: Karin Wolf
Performer: Paul Lynde
Performer: Jerry Dodge
Performer: Dick Van Dyke
Performer: Johhny Borden
Performer: Eddie Becker
Performer: Jessica Albright
Performer: Vicki Belmonte
Performer: Lynn Bowin
Performer: John Coyle
Performer: Barbara Doherty
Performer: Lada Edmund
Performer: Tracy Everitt
Performer: Don Farnworth
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording, Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-05-30
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Act 1. Overture
- Act 1. An English Teacher
- Act 1. The Telephone Hour
- Act 1. How Lovely to Be a Woman
- Act 1. Put on a Happy Face
- Act 1. A Healthy, Normal, American Boy
- Act 1. One Boy
- Act 1. Honestly Sincere
- Act 1. Hymn for a Sunday Evening (Ed Sullivan)
- Act 1. One Last Kiss
- Act 2. What Did I Ever See in Him?
- Act 2. A Lot of Livin' to Do
- Act 2. Kids
- Act 2. Baby, Talk to Me
- Act 2. Kids (Reprise)
- Act 2. Spanish Rose
- Act 2. Rosie
- Put on a Happy Face
Music reviews of Bye Bye Birdie (1960 Original Broadway Cast)
Music Review: The Lyrics Are Great
Rating: 5 Stars
I keep coming across reviews where people show theydon't"get it," and I always want to defend the person who wasunfairly criticized. When BBB opened on Broadway on April 14, 1960, rock and roll was for kids and Broadway musicals were for adults. Thus -- much more so than in the movie version three years later -- Bye Bye Birdie was a SATIRE of rock and roll. The rock and roll numbers in it are SATIRIZATIONS of the music AND lyrics that were typical of rock and roll at the time. So, when Lee Adams writes "one boy to joke with, have Coke with," or the "banal" lyrics in Honestly Sincere (and they're more than just banal, they're out-and-out DUMB, on purpose), he's SATIRIZING the stupid and banal lyrics of the rock and roll songs of the era. The lyrics for One Last Kiss are as silly as they can be -- and, OF COURSE, this was done on purpose! Lee Adams was actually a very clever lyricist. You can see this clearly in the non-rock-and-roll songs in BBB, especially Normal American Boy, Hymn For a Sunday Evening, Spanish Rose, Kids -- in fact, in ALL the songs for the "adults." Listen, anyone who can rhyme "bickerish" with "licorice" isn't banal!
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 HoriuchiBroadway & Vocalists CDs
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