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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. |
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IRVING BERLIN
Call Me Madam (Original Broadway Cast 1950) (Studio Recording 1950) Tallulah Bankhead, Ralph Chambers, Pat Harrington, Ethel Merman & others [ Naxos Nostalgia Musicals / CD - released 2/Feb/2009 ] When George S. Kaufman quipped that 'Satire is what closes on Saturday night' he should have added 'unless you've got Ethel Merman in the show'. Call Me Madam is the kind of musical they don't write anymore - and barely did back in 1950, when it... |
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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. |
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Ethel Merman
Merman Sings Merman / Ethel's Ridin' High [ CD ] |
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Ethel Merman & Georgia Brown
Annie Get Your Gun/September [ Vocalion / CD - released 26/Apr/2004 ] |
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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... |