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Du Barry Was a Lady (1943 Movie Soundtrack) (Rhino Handmade)
Cole Porter, Lucille Ball, Red Skelton
Du Barry Was a Lady (1943 Movie Soundtrack) (Rhino Handmade)
Genres: Special Interest, Pop, Soundtracks, Broadway & Vocalists
 
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All Artists: Cole Porter, Lucille Ball, Red Skelton
Title: Du Barry Was a Lady (1943 Movie Soundtrack) (Rhino Handmade)
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Rhino Handmade
Original Release Date: 8/13/1943
Re-Release Date: 5/11/2004
Album Type: Limited Edition, Soundtrack
Genres: Special Interest, Pop, Soundtracks, Broadway & Vocalists
Styles: Comedy & Spoken Word, Vocal Pop, Musicals, Traditional Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 603497785124, 0603497785124, 603497785162
 

CD Reviews

A Casualty of Hollywood Musical Politics
A Reader from | Atlanta GA | 09/15/2004
(2 out of 5 stars)

"I bought the CD to get a hold of Cole Porter's intellegent score. After a few songs in, I realized the movie score wasn't written by Cole, but by a string of Hollywood hacks (the most recognizable of the bunch being Finian Rainbow's Burton Lane)! What a ripoff! And Cole Porter's broadway score is currently not available anywhere. What a waste of resources (mine and Rhino's).



Still...if you want to hear the Tommy Dorsey band at their peak, or hear Red Skelton sing, before his TV tramp days, or Gene Kelly in his prime (Lucille Ball's voice, for the most part, was dubbed by another Hollywood hack, Martha Mears) pick this one up. I figure, when the buying public reads about how the movie moguls handled this project--not giving Ethel Merman the role she originated on Broadway, and replacing Cole's score for a bland, glossy, Hollywood hackjob, this CD will soon go out of print. Nice, bright remastering, though.



My two cents."