Celebrates the musicality of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe focusing on four of their collaborations - BRIGADOON PAINT YOUR WAGON MY FAIR LADY and GIGI Performances by an outstanding cast from the world of Broadway Hollywood and the West End headed by Jane Powell Robert Merrill Jan Peerce Phil Harris Maurice Chevalier Tony Bavaar Jeannie Carson and Edmund Hockridge a parade of great Lerner & Loewe songs again bring back a plethora of thrilling music.br /brThe main ingredient of this issue is the double LP set recorded in 1958 An Evening with Lerner and Loewe. Johnny Green led the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra and Chorale in excerpts from Lerner and Loewe&rsquos four major musicals written up to that point. Though the recordings were based solely on work done in the studio the singers engaged (Powell Merrill Harris and Peerce) to perform them all had such an outstanding sense of the theatre that the results were vivid.br /brRarities have been unearthed for this release - 3 &ldquopop&rdquo recordings from PAINT YOUR WAGON recorded by Tony Bavaar who played &ldquoJulio&rdquo in the original 1951 Broadway production and Selections from BRIGADOON from the 1953 ICE CAPADES.br /brMost of the remainder of the set consists of Norrie Paramor&rsquos recording of instrumental and vocal selections from My Fair Lady starring Patricia Clark Michael Sammes and the Bill Shepherd Chorus. This recording was one of the first batch of stereo LPs recorded in Britain in late 1957. Finally Jeannie Carson&rsquos rendition of &ldquoI Could Have Danced All Night&rdquo brings this dazzling forty-nine-track 150 minute collection to a rousing conclusion./font
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