Broadway & Musicals Hits

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Tracklist

CD 1
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Singin’ in the Rain
lead vocals:
Gene Kelly (US dancer/actor)
orchestra:
MGM Studio Orchestra
conductor:
Lennie Hayton
recording of:
Singin’ in the Rain (on 1951-06-05)
lyricist:
Arthur Freed
composer:
Nacio Herb Brown (US songwriter)
publisher:
Robbins Music (publishing company owned by EMI Music Publishing Ltd.), Robbins Music Corp. Ltd., Robbins Music Corporation and シンコーミュージック・パブリッシャーズ
sub-publisher:
EMI Music Publishing (S.E. Asia) Ltd., Taiwan
part of:
Singin’ in the Rain (soundtrack of the 1952 film)
part of:
Singin’ in the Rain (stage musical)
part of:
The Hollywood Revue (1929 MGM musical film)
Gene Kelly4:00
2I’ve Got You Under My Skin
Cab Calloway3:38
3Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo)
Louis Prima2:58
4The Hucklebuck
recording of:
The Hucklebuck
lyricist:
Roy Alfred (Tin Pan Alley lyricist and composer)
additional writer:
Charlie Parker (a.k.a. “Bird”, jazz alto saxophonist)
composer:
Andy Gibson (trumpet, arranger, composer)
Frank Sinatra3:02
5Puttin’ on the Ritz
recording of:
Puttin’ On the Ritz
lyricist and composer:
Irving Berlin (in 1929)
publisher:
Berlin Irving Music Corp and Universal Music Publishing Ltd. (UK subsidiary of Universal Music Publishing Group)
part of:
Idiot’s Delight (film)
Fred Astaire2:52
6Chattanooga Choo Choo
Tex Beneke and His Orchestra2:07
7Baby It’s Cold Outside
vocals:
Ricardo Montalbán and Esther Williams
recording of:
Baby, It’s Cold Outside (Neptune’s Daughter) (in 1949)
lyricist and composer:
Frank Loesser
publisher:
Frank Music Corp., MPL Communications Ltd. (not for release label use! Paul McCartney-related, London-based company), MPL UK Publishing, Sony Music Publishing (Japan) Inc. (song publisher, never a release label) and ヤマハミュージックEH(CM)
part of:
The 22nd Academy Award for Best Original Song (number: 1) and Academy Award for Best Original Song (number: 22)
Esther Williams4:45
8Opus One
recording of:
Opus One (1943 song)
lyricist:
Sidney Reginald Garris
composer:
Sy Oliver
publisher:
Embassy Music Corp. (on 1943-06-23)
part of:
New York, New York (soundtrack of the 1977 film)
Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra3:25
9I’ve got the Sun in the Morning
recording of:
I Got the Sun in the Morning (from “Annie Get Your Gun”)
lyricist and composer:
Irving Berlin
part of:
Annie Get Your Gun
Les Brown and His Orchestra with Doris Day2:36
10Yours
Benny Goodman and His Orchestra3:16
11I’m Beginning to See the Light
recording of:
I’m Beginning to See the Light
lyricist:
Don George (US songwriter/composer, 1909–1987) (in 1944)
composer:
Duke Ellington (US composer, pianist & jazz bandleader) (in 1944), Johnny Hodges (in 1944) and Harry James (US big band leader, trumpeter & actor) (in 1944)
publisher:
Anne-Rachel Music Corp.
Harry James & Kitty Kallen3:16
12Woody Woodpecker SongKay Kyser & Gloria Wood3:04
13Daddy
Sammy Kaye2:58
14Easy Street
June Christy & Stan Kenton3:40
15Once Too OftenElla Fitzgerald2:58
16Rum and Coca Cola
vocals:
The Andrews Sisters
recording of:
Rum and Coca-Cola (calypso)
additional lyricist:
Morey Amsterdam
lyricist:
Lord Invader (calypso vocalist and songwriter)
additional composer:
Paul Baron (conductor) and Jeri Sullivan
composer:
Lionel Belasco (Trinidadian-Venezuelan calypso pianist, composer and bandleader)
publisher:
EMI Feist Catalog Inc. and EMI Partnership Musikverlag GmbH
The Andrews Sisters3:04
17Ain’t Nobody Here but Us ChickensLouis Jordan3:04
18Don’t Sit Under the Apple TreeThe Glenn Miller Orchestra3:11