This was produced for compact disk by Rod McKuen, if you can believe it. It's an odd collection because the songs come so fast and furious that I have to wonder if this recording came from one of those medley EPs. It does not feel like a regular cast recording. This is the show that Dolores Gray really broke through with. My impression is that she was always a bigger star in England than she was in the United States.
Brits catch onto and sustain some of our greatest stars.
The music and lyrics are by Irving Berlin and they fill out the remaining minutes of the CD with Berlin songs performed by other artists. I expected to love the Dolores version much more than the Ethel Merman version, as Ethel is a bit brassy for me. There are tracks that Dolores does better and others that Ethel wails on. I finally found this box at the local library and I have to say that it's a wonderful, crisp remastering of these tracks. I heard new sounds that I hadn't heard before.