I Wants To Be A Actor Lady And Other Hits From Early Musical

Title Tracks for I Wants To Be A Actor Lady And Other Hits From Early Musical Comedies

1. The Black Crook: Amazon's March
2. LITTLE JOHNNY JONES: The Yankee Doodle Boy
3. Evangeline: My Heart
4. The Corsair: Buckets Of Gore
5. In Dahorney: I Wants To Be A Actor Lady
6. The Prince Of Pilsen: The Heidelberg Stein Song
7. The Earl And The Girl: How'd You Like To Spoon With Me?
8. The Widow Jones: May Irwin's 'Bully' Song
9. The Passing Show: Sex Against Sex
10. Wang: A Pretty Girl
11. A Trip To Chinatown: Rueben And Cynthia
12. The Black Crook: The Broadway, Opera and Bowery Crawl
13. Robin Hood: Song Of Brown October Ale
14. Fritz, Our Cousin German: Lullaby
15. A Trip To Chinatown: The Bowery
16. Babes In Toyland: I Can't Do The Sum

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A magnificent historical recreation, June 27, 1999

F. Behrens "Frank Behrens" (Keene, NH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Wants To Be A Actor Lady And Other Hits From Early Musical Comedies (Audio CD)

For lovers of the Broadway musical, this is a find indeed! Here are several entirely authentic recreations of songs from long forgotten shows played and sung the way they were meant to be. Where else can you hear selections from the legendary "The Black Crook"--the show that set the standards for the Broadway music for decades to come? Or from "Robin Hood" or "A Trip to Chinatown" (from which the evergreen "The Bowery" comes). Or to hear Jerome Kern's first big hit "How'd you like to spoon with me"? And so and so on. Some of the songs are wonderfully terrible, especially the one called "Buckets of Blood" that tries so hard to imitate "The Pirates of Penzance." And thanks to New World for including an example of the racist songs so common back then, the "Bully" song. (Try the New World "Don't Give the Name a Bad Place" for an entire program of this genre.) The head of publicity a New...Read more