Loesser: The Most Happy Fella [first complete recording]

 
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FRANK LOESSER
Loesser: The Most Happy Fella [first complete recording]
Louis Quilico, Emily Loesser & Karen Ziemba / National Symphony Orchestra, John Owen Edwards

[ TER / JAY / 3 CD Box Set ]

Release Date: Monday 2 August 2010

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The Most Happy Fella frequently has been described as an opera, but some have qualified the term. In his book The World of Musical Comedy, Stanley Green noted that the musical is "one of the most ambitiously operatic works ever written for the Broadway theatre ... Loesser said 'I may give the impression this show has operatic tendencies. If people feel that way - fine. Actually all it has is a great frequency of songs. It's a musical with music.'"
In an article in the Playbill Magazine for the original Broadway production, Loesser wrote, "What was left seemed to me to be a very warm simple love story, happy ending and all, and dying to be sung and danced." Brooks Atkinson, theatre critic (The New York Times), called it a "music drama", noting Loesser "has now come about as close to opera as the rules of Broadway permit." Composer, conductor, and musical theatre teacher Lehman Engel and critic/author Howard Kissel called it a "fresh musical (perhaps opera)".[7] Music Theatre International describes the show: "Filled with sweeping ballads, intense dramatic arias and tuneful, splashy Broadway-style numbers, this ambitious "Broadway opera" has found a home on opera and musical-theatre stages alike."

The Jay Records release from July. 2000, is a "complete" studio recording, including material that had been cut.

Tracks:

Act I
1-1 Overture 3:13
1-2 Scene: Thank You ... 0:28
1-3 Ooh! My Feet 2:24
1-4 Scene: Hey, Where's What's Her Name 0:30
1-5 I Know How It Is 1:15
1-6 Scene: It's Jewelry 0:32
1-7 My Dear Rosabella 1:16
1-8 I Don't Know Nothing About You 0:42
1-9 Scene: Yeah! I Live On My Grape Ranch ... 1:15
1-10 Maybe He's Kind-a Crazy 0:45
1-11 Somebody, Somewhere 2:23
1-12 The Most Happy Fella 3:39
1-13 Scene: Oh, Hallo, Marie 0:34
1-14 I Don't Know Nothing About You 1:59
1-15 Scene: Hi, Boss ... 0:49
1-16 Standing On The Corner 2:48
1-17 Scene: All Right, Break It Up 0:59
1-18 Joey, Joey, Joey 3:18
1-19 Scene: Hey, Tony, What's The Italian ... 0:59
1-20 Soon You Gonna Leave Me, Joe 1:48
1-21 Rosabella 2:23
1-22 Opening Act One Scene Three 0:31
1-23 Abbondanza 1:43
1-24 Scene: And This Is Tony's Barn 1:15
1-25 Plenty Bambini 2:13
1-26 Scene: Hey! Boss! I Just Saw The Yard ... 0:45
1-27 Sposalizio 3:54
1-28 Scene: Bocci Ball Anybody? ... 0:35
1-29 Scene: Well, Here We Are ... 0:46
1-30 I Seen Her At The Station 1:00
1-31 Benvenuta 3:11
1-32 Scene: It's Very Lovely ... 0:22
1-33 Such Friendly Faces 2:47
1-34 Scene: Well, Thank You Very Much ... 2:14
1-35 No Home, No Job 0:38
1-36 Scene: Step Back Everybody ... 4:00
1-37 Don't Cry 4:15

Act II
2-1 Prelude 1:10
2-2 Fresno Beauties Part 1 1:58
2-3 Cold And Dead 1:10
2-4 Fresno Beauties Part 2 0:52
2-5 Scene: Ma Che Brutta Sorte! ... 0:50
2-6 Love And Kindness 2:00
2-7 Scene: Hey! You Mad At Me? ... 0:33
2-8 Happy To Make Your Aquaintance 3:22
2-9 Scene: Oh, Marie ... 0:51
2-10 Happy To Make Your Aquaintance Reprise 0:35
2-11 I Don't Like This Dame 2:01
2-12 Big D 5:15
2-13 How Beautiful The Days 3:37
2-14 Scene Three Opening 1:44
2-15 Scene: Just Look At 'em 0:22
2-16 Young People 1:27
2-17 Warm All Over 2:31
2-18 Old People Gotta Sit Dere An' Die 1:33
2-19 Scene: Now You've Got To Look Out For This Label Glue ... 2:07
2-20 Scene: Oh, Hello, Pasquale ... 0:41
2-21 I Like Ev'rybody 1:26
2-22 Scene Five Opening 0:58
2-23 Scene: Isn't It Wonderful? ... 0:14
2-24 I Love Him 1:19
2-25 Scene: Easy Now ... 0:36
2-26 Like A Woman Loves A Man 1:54
2-27 My Heart Is So Full Of You 2:53
2-28 Scene: Hey, Paesan! ... 0:19
2-29 Hoedown 1:30
2-30 Scene: Rosabella! What's-a Matter? 2:04
2-31 Mamma, Mamma 2:44

Act III
3-1 Prelude 0:27
3-2 Abbondanza (Reprise) 1:30
3-3 Scene: Fellas? Hey Fellas ... 1:11
3-4 I Like Everybody 3:08
3-5 Scene: Folks! Before The Party Begins ... 0:45
3-6 Song Of A Summer Night 2:50
3-7 Scene: Carissima! What's-a Matter ... 1:44
3-8 Please Let Me Tell You 2:04
3-9 Scene: MaChe C'e? ... 1:11
3-10 Scene: So You're Finally Gettin' Out Of Town ... 2:36
3-11 She Gonna Come Home Wit' Me 5:34
3-12 I Made A Fist 1:09
3-13 Scene: He's Gonna Be Tony's Bambino ... 2:08
3-14 I Canno' Leave You Money 1:21
3-15 Finale 1:23
3-16 Exit Music 3:47
Bonus Tracks
3-17 Bonus: House And Garden 2:41
3-18 Bonus: Tony And Marie Duet 5:57
3-19 Bonus: Eyes Like A Stranger 3:26
3-20 Bonus: Is It Fair? 6:19
3-21 Bonus: I'll Buy Everybody A Beer 1:39
3-22 Bonus: Wanting To Be Wanted 1:59