HIT SONGS FROM BROADWAY CD VARIOUS ARTISTS ethel merman,fred astaire,etc

Jasmine Records (UK) ( July 13, 1999 ), Genre: Pop Vocal

Sepia Records ( May 12, 2009 ), Genre: Pop Vocal

Greatest Hits: Broadway contains a selection of songs from musicals such as The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, The Music Man, Oklahoma!, Annie and Phantom of the Opera, as performed by vocalists like Dick Van Dyke, Ethel Merman, Mary Martin, Doris Day and Topol. Usually, these are the singers that popularized these songs originally, which makes Greatest Hits: Broadway an excellent sampler for casual showtunes fans.

Var\nse Sarabande (USA)

Prism Leisure Corporation (UK) ( November 08, 1998 ), Genre: Pop Vocal

Broadway star Ethel Merman's voice was a mesmerizing force and her vitality was legendary, yet the popular perception of La Merm as the irrepressible wonder falls far short of all that she was and all that she meant to Americans over so many decades. This marvelously detailed biography is the first to tell the full story of how the stenographer from Queens, New York, became the queen of the Broadway musical in its golden age. Mining official and unofficial sources, including interviews with Merman's family and her personal scrapbooks, Caryl Flinn unearths new details of Merman's life and finds that behind the high-octane personality was a remarkably pragmatic woman who never lost sight of her roots.Brass Diva takes us from Merman's working-class beginnings through the extraordinary career that was launched in 1930 when, playing a secondary role in a Gershwin Brothers' show, she became an overnight sensation singing "I Got Rhythm." From there, we follow Merman's hits on Broadway, her uneven successes in Hollywood, and her afterlife as a beloved camp icon. This definitive work on the phenomenon that was Ethel Merman is also the first to thoroughly explore her robust influence on American popular culture.

In 1958, 1959, and 1960, Fred Astaire starred in three television specials, An Evening with Fred Astaire, Another Evening with Fred Astaire, and Astaire Time. In each one, he performed a medley of songs he had introduced in his stage and movie musicals of the past, and those three medleys make up the bulk of this LP. Astaire is accompanied by an orchestra conducted by David Rose as he sings excerpts from standards by Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Cole Porter, Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz, and others, his audiences breaking into applause at the recognition of each successive song. Something is lost without the visual aspect, particularly during the second medley, when the Bill Thompson Singers take up "Puttin' on the Ritz" as Astaire clearly is off dancing. The LP puts the first two medleys on the first side and, having extra time to fill on the second, begins with two full-length songs that were performed in Astaire Time but were not part of the med

Broadway star Ethel Merman's voice was a mesmerizing force and her vitality was legendary, yet the popular perception of La Merm as the irrepressible wonder falls far short of all that she was and all that she meant to Americans over so many decades. This marvelously detailed biography is the first to tell the full story of how the stenographer from Queens, New York, became the queen of the Broadway musical in its golden age. Mining official and unofficial sources, including interviews with Merman's family and her personal scrapbooks, Caryl Flinn unearths new details of Merman's life and finds that behind the high-octane personality was a remarkably pragmatic woman who never lost sight of her roots.Brass Diva takes us from Merman's working-class beginnings through the extraordinary career that was launched in 1930 when, playing a secondary role in a Gershwin Brothers' show, she became an overnight sensation singing "I Got Rhythm." From there, we follow Merman's hits on Broadway, her uneven successes in Hollywood, and her afterlife as a beloved camp icon. This definitive work on the phenomenon that was Ethel Merman is also the first to thoroughly explore her robust influence on American popular culture.

Prism Leisure Corporation (UK) ( June 05, 2002 ), Genre: Soundtracks

Varese (Japan)