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Artist: Various Artists Title: Jerome Kern's "Roberta" Label:   Columbia Country: USA Catalogue: CL 841 Date: 1956 Format: LP Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  1 Owns Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Orchestra	Overture	Jerome Kern	Rate
A2	Men's Ensemble	Madrigal	Jerome Kern	Rate
A3	Stephen Douglass	You're Devastating	Jerome Kern	Rate
A4	Jack Cassidy, Joan Roberts	Let's Begin	Jerome Kern	Rate
A5	Joan Roberts	(When Your Heart's On Fire) Smoke Gets In Your Eyes	Jerome Kern	Rate
B1	Kaye Ballard, Jack Cassidy	I Won't Dance	Jerome Kern	Rate
B2	Joan Roberts, Frank Rogier	The Touch Of Your Hand	Jerome Kern	Rate
B3	Kaye Ballard, Jack Cassidy	Something Had To Happen	Jerome Kern	Rate
B4	Portia Nelson	Yesterdays	Jerome Kern	Rate
B5	Kaye Ballard	I'll Be Hard To Handle	Jerome Kern	Rate
B6	Joan Roberts, Stephen Douglass	Lovely To Look At	Jerome Kern	Rate
B7	Ensemble	Finale	Jerome Kern	Rate

Notes

(subtitle on labels: "Lovely To Look At")
Joan Roberts, Jack Cassidy, Kaye Ballard, Portia Nelson, Stephen Douglass, Frank Rogier
Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Lehman Engel
Produced for records by Goddard Lieberson
Lyrics by Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh

Images

Number: 2643338  THUMBNAIL Uploaded By: LaurenceD SUBS Description: cover front

Number: 2643339  Uploaded By: LaurenceD SUBS Description: cover back

Number: 2643340  Uploaded By: LaurenceD SUBS Description: label side 1

Number: 2643341  Uploaded By: LaurenceD SUBS Description: label side 2

Comments and Reviews

W.B.lbl 7th Mar 2022		Originally recorded on April 28-May 1, 1952 and released on 10" as CL 6220 (and in other formats, most as below) on May 31, 1952, a special project commissioned in the wake of the 1951 movie Lovely To Look At which also contained songs from that musical - and why the subtitle on this album. In the liner notes of that original release, it was mentioned that this was Kaye Ballard's debut on record. The order of the tracks on the original 10" LP were, based on the sequence here: B6, A4, A3 and B2 on Side 1, and A5, B2, A3 and B5 on Side 2. The matrix numbers on that (LP 9742 and LP 9743) would have been assigned after those for this. My own pressing of this - the 10", natch' - was on styrene, and the center label for Side 1 was die-cut so far off-center that you could see the bleed for the label above it on top. Oh, and the die-cut center hole was 0.344" rather than the customary 0.281" for vinyl LP's. Ms. Ballard was on two tracks on the 10", and four here. Finally, {Images #2643440 & 2643441} are of a Hollywood pressing with Bert-Co label fonts. Here can be seen the Bridgeport variant. Besides the 10" LP, this also came out as both a 78 album (C-311) and 45 box set (B-311), both consisting of four records: - (4-)39756: B6 / B5 - (4-)39757: A3 / A4 - (4-)39758: B1 / B4 - (4-)39759: A5 / B2 This also, later in '52, had gotten the two-record double-pack EP treatment, thus: - 5-1212: B6, A4 / B4, A3 - 5-1213: A5, B5 / B2, B1
LaurenceD SUBS 12th May 2021		Mostly songs from the original 1933 stage production with lyrics by Otto Harbach. The songs "I Won't Dance" and "Lovely To Look At" were introduced in the 1935 film with lyrics by Dorothy Fields.

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