Silk Stockings [Original Cast Recording]

by Silk Stockings / O.C.R.

Overview

Every year on New Year's Day, another crop of recordings enters the public domain in Europe, where copyright extends for only 50 years, and labels like the U.K.'s Prism Leisure lose no time in getting out their own unlicensed versions of successful albums. January 1, 2006, freed up the recordings of 1955, among them the original Broadway cast album of Silk Stockings, the stage musical adaptation of the Greta Garbo movie Ninotchka with songs by Cole Porter, which concerns a Soviet official who falls in love in Paris. Prism Leisure's version of the album repeats the material from the RCA Victor Records release (still claimed for copyright in the U.S.) in reasonable sound quality. In the past, the reissue label has added to the value of its gray market releases by including useful bonus tracks, but this time only one is featured, Sammy Davis, Jr.'s cover of the show's best-known song, "All of You." ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	12/12/2007
Label:	Rca Victor
UPC:	0090266110223
Rank:	119366

Tracks

1. Overture
2. Too Bad
3. Paris Loves Lovers
4. Stereophonic Sound
5. It's a Chemical Reaction, That's All/All of You
6. Satin and Silk
7. Without Love
8. Hail Bibinski
9. As on Through the Seasons We Sail
10. Josephine
11. Siberia
12. Silk Stockings
13. The Red Blues
14. Finale

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Hildegarde Neff   Primary Artist,Vocals
Don Ameche   Primary Artist,Vocals
The Orchestra   Primary Artist
Gretchen Wyler   Primary Artist,Vocals
Sammy Davis, Jr.   Primary Artist
Leon Belasco   Primary Artist,Vocals
David Opatoshu   Primary Artist,Vocals
Henry Lascoe   Primary Artist,Vocals
Cole Porter   Primary Artist
Tony Gardell   Vocals
Arthur Rubin   Vocals
Silk Stockings Pit Orchestra   Orchestra
Herbert Greene   Conductor,Director
Silk Stockings Cast Ensemble   Choir/Chorus

Technical Credits

Jim Kelly   Associate Producer
Abe Burrows   Book
Elizabeth Yoon   Design,Art Direction
The Orchestra   Performer
Bill Rosenfield   Liner Notes
Cole Porter   Composer,Lyricist
Don Ameche   Performer
Gretchen Wyler   Book,Performer
Didier C. Deutsch   Remastering
David Opatoshu   Performer
Hugo Winterhalter   Producer
Alan Silverman   Mastering
Paul Goodman   Remastering
Hugh Fordin   Producer
Joe Carlton   Producer
Leueen MacGrath   Book
Herbert Greene   Vocal Arrangement
George S. Kaufman   Book
Don Walker   Orchestration
George Tobias   Book
Anaida Garcia   Associate Producer
Robert Kimball   Synopsis,Liner Notes