Various Artists incls Eydie Gorme, Fed Astaire, Ethel Merman, Eartha Kitt, Lena Horne, Andrew Sisters, etc
The Essential Collection - Cole Porter [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] We return to the Great American Songbook for our latest release in the highly successful Essential Collection series. Our focus on this re-mastered double CD is on the legendary Cole Porter, surely one of the greatest songwriters of the 20th... |
IRVING BERLIN
Berlin: Call Me Madam (with Porter: Panama Hattie [1940]) Ethel Merman & Dick Haymes / Original 1950 Broadway Cast Recording [ Decca Broadway / CD - released 12/Jul/2001 ] Call Me Madam is a musical written by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. |
JULE STYNE
Styne: Gypsy - a musical fable Ethel Merman & Jack Klugman / Original 1959 Broadway Cast Recording [ RCA Victor / CD - released 17/May/1993 ] Gypsy: A Musical Fable is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. It is loosely based on the 1957 memoirs of striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee. |
IRVING BERLIN
Berlin: Annie Get Your Gun Ethel Merman & Ray Middleton / Original Broadway & Original London Productions recorded in 1946 & 1947 [ Prism / CD - released 2/Feb/2000 ] Annie Get Your Gun is a musical with lyrics and music by Irving Berlin and a book by Dorothy Fields and her brother Herbert Fields. The story is a fictionalized version of the life of Annie Oakley (1860-1926), a sharpshooter who starred in Buffalo... |
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
The Essential Stephen Sondheim Bernadette Peters, Mandy Patinkin, Ethel Merman, Jason Alexander, Angela Lansbury, Elaine Stritch, Victor Garber, Barbara Cook, Carol Burnett & others [ Sony Masterworks Broadway / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2016 ] The Essential Stephen Sondheim spans this iconic artist's unparalleled career, from West Side Story (1957) through Passion (1994), and also includes important works from his forays into television and film. |
Ethel Merman
Doin' What Comes Naturally! [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Jun/1999 ] The irrepressible Ethel Merman, born Ethel Zimmerman in 1909, was one of the great performers of the musical stage. A native New Yorker with a powerful and gutsy voice, she was the star of 14 Broadway musicals in a career that lasted forty years. |
Ethel Merman
It's De-Lovely [ Naxos Nostalgia / CD - released 31/Aug/2007 ] No one ever sang quite like her before; no one has ever sung quite like her since. |
Ethel Merman
Merman Sings Merman / Ethel's Ridin' High [ CD ] |
Ethel Merman & Georgia Brown
Annie Get Your Gun/September [ Vocalion / CD - released 26/Apr/2004 ] |
IRVING BERLIN
Annie Get Your Gun (Original Broadway Cast 1946) / (Original Film 1950) Ethel Merman, Ray Middleton, Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Wynn Keenan & others [ Naxos Nostalgia Musicals / CD - released 28/Nov/2005 ] Annie Get Your Gun began, like many of the greatest musicals, with a series of unexpected events - some happy, some not. Dorothy Fields was a woman at loose ends early in 1945. Her latest show, Up In Central Park, had opened on 27 January, and... |