| re: There must be another reason ... | |
| Posted by: steven_carter 02:07 pm EST 02/13/25 | |
| In reply to: re: There must be another reason ... - sc2 01:35 pm EST 02/13/25 | |
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| It's frustrating that WHERE'S CHARLEY and LOVE LIFE didn't record their albums after the musician's strike was settled. WHERE"S CHARLEY did release a two-sided single 78 rpm, which is why we do have a professional actual Original Broadway Cast recording of "Once in Love with Amy." I think Decca (although they do deserve credit for really mainstreaming the tradition of Broadway Cast albums with OKLAHOMA in 1943) was still very focused on singles. For example, they recorded Mary Martin doing numbers from ONE TOUCH OF VENUS, leaving many other original cast members off the album. And since Mary sold singles, they had her sing on their ON THE TOWN "cast album" set, even though she wasn't even in the show!!! Decca had Alfred Drake, a more marketable singer, sing Howard DaSilva's song in the OKLAHOMA cast album. Maybe the fact that prior to introduction of LPs in late 1948, the suits still thought of albums as bunched together collections of singles. And I believe that even when LPs were introduced, the 78 rpm single set versions still outsold the LPs for quite a while....not everyone had one of the new high fidelity sound systems yet. | |
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