Cole Porter - The Ultimate Cole Porter, Vol. 3 [Original Cast Recordings]

Title: The Ultimate Cole Porter, Vol. 3 [Original Cast Recordings] Artist: Cole Porter Release Date: 2003 Label: Pearl Duration: 70:19 Album Type(s): Various artists collection, Greatest Hits, cast recording, composer biography, composition (work) description UPC: 727031019428 Genre: Vocal Music Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 0 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Goodbye little dream goodbye, song (from "O Mistress Mine")
2. Who knows?, song (from film "Rosalie" (unused))
3. I've a strange new rhythm in my heart, song (from "Rosalie")
4. Rosalie, song (from "Rosalie ")
5. It's de-lovely, song (from "Red, Hot and Blue")
6. River god, song (used in the play "The Sun Never Sets")
   - River God
7. Most gentlemen don't like love, song (from "Leave it to Me")
8. My heart belongs to daddy, song (from "Leave It to Me")
9. Do I love you?, song (from "Du Barry was a Lady")
10. But in the Morning, No!, song (from "Du Barry Was a Lady")
11. Friendship, song (from "Du Barry Was a Lady")
12. Most gentlemen don't like love, song (from "Leave it to Me")
13. My heart belongs to daddy, song (from "Leave It to Me")
14. My mother would love you, song (from "Panama Hattie")
15. I've still got my health, song (from "Panama Hattie")
16. Let's be buddies, song (from "Panama Hattie")
17. Make it another old fashioned, please, song (from "Panama Hattie")
18. Ev'rything I love, song (from "Let's Face It")
19. I hate you, darling, song (from "Let's Face It")
20. Farming, song (from "Let's Face It")
21. Let's not talk about love, song (from "Let's Face It")
22. Ace in the hole, song (from "Let's Face It")
23. Farming, song (from "Let's Face It")
24. Let's be buddies, song (from "Panama Hattie")

The third volume of British reissue label Pearl's The Ultimate Cole Porter series begins in 1936 with "Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye," a Porter song interpolated into the 1936 London musical O Mistress Mine, and concludes with British comedians Flanagan and Allen's interpolation of "Let's Be Buddies," introduced in the 1940 Broadway musical Panama Hattie, into their 1941 British show Black Vanities. The series, produced by musical-theater historian Jack Raymond, and based on transfers from his collection of 78s, aims to include initial or early recordings of show or film songs as performed by singers featured in the shows or films themselves. This sounds like the later concept of "original cast" albums, but those didn't start to come in a big way until a few years after the period covered here. More typically, a stage star like Ethel Merman or Mary Martin might be contracted to record a single or two of songs from a show in which the star was appearing. Or, the source may be an aircheck from a radio show. (No soundtrack recordings have been used.) Such material is, naturally, not only incomplete, but actually consists of just a few highlights and rarities. Consider that nothing at all is included here from the Porter musical You Never Know (its score including "At Long Last Love"), and that among the missing songs from the period are "Kaiti Went to Haiti" and "Well, Did You Evah?" This is simply because there were no recordings of these songs by the performers who appeared in the shows in which they were included. Nevertheless, there is plenty of excellent Porter here, including such songs as "Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love," "My Heart Belongs to Daddy," "But in the Morning, No," "Friendship," "I've Still Got My Health," "Make It Another Old Fashioned, Please," and "Let's Not Talk About Love." Many of the recordings come from England, but American stars such as Martin, Merman, Nelson Eddy, and Danny Kaye are also included. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

Name Credits Cole Porter Composer Dwight Blocker Bowers Liner Notes Jack Raymond Digital Transfers, Transfers, Producer Marjorie Lane Vocals Pierre Fresnay Vocals Roger Beardsley Mastering, Digital Processing, Digital Mastering, Digital Transfers Yvonne Printemps Vocals