CABIN IN THE SKY
musical show
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1964 prod. MUSIC: Vernon Duke. WORDS: John Latouche. ORCH & COND: Sy Oliver (for this recording). CAST: Rosetta LeNoire, Ketty Lester, Tony Middleton, Sam Laws, Bernard Johnson, Helen Ferguson. (Cap SW-2073; CD/Angel ZDM-64892, with one addl track.)
1940 album by members of orig prod. COND: Max Meth. VOCALS: Ethel Waters. Overture, "Taking a Chance on Love," "Honey in the Honeycomb," "Cabin in the Sky," "Love Turned the Light Out" (78/Liberty Music Shop album L-310/312; AEI Records 1107 (ALB-982), with Porgy and Bess; CD/AEI CD-017, with Carib Song & Porgy and Bess. Incomplete: ALB-15, ALB-2259. Excerpts: "Cabin in the Sky" (ALB-389, ALB-1123, ALB-1548) "Taking a Chance on Love" (ALB-830, ALB-1123, ALB-1180, ALB-1548, ALB-1825) "Honey in the Honeycomb" (ALB-1123).)
Later records by Ethel Waters of orig cast & 1942 film cast. "Takin' a Chance on Love" (1946: ALB-361, ALB-1062, ALB-1499, ALB-2083) (1959: ALB-99) "Cabin in the Sky" (1946: ALB-361, ALB-1062, ALB-1499, ALB-2083) (1959: ALB-99) (1962: ALB-2241) (Later: ALB-881) From the film: "Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe" (by Harold Arlen & E Y Harburg) (1940 film: ALB-657, ALB-761, ALB-1782) (1947: ALB-393, ALB-2083, ALB-2259) (1951, radio: ALB-923, ALB-2280) (1956: ALB-393, ALB-2159) (1959: ALB-99)
Soundtrack of 1942 film, with addl songs by Harold Arlen & E Y Harburg. ORCH: Roger Edens, George Bassman. COND: George Stoll. CAST: Ethel Waters, Lena Horne, Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson, Kenneth Spencer, Butterfly McQueen, Buck & Bubbles, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington Orch, Hall Johnson Choir. (Hollywood Soundstage 5003; CD/Rhino R2-72245 (ALB-761), with outtakes & other material. Excerpts: Horne: "Ain't It the Truth" (outtake) (ALB-486, ALB-657, ALB-1577, ALB-1682, ALB-1704) "Honey in the Honeycomb" (ALB-1281, ALB-1682) Waters: "Takin' a Chance on Love" (ALB-416, ALB-1704, ALB-2247) "Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe" (ALB-657, ALB-1782) "Li'l Black Sheep" (ALB-657) Armstrong: "Ain't It the Truth" (outtake) (ALB-1764) Waters, Anderson, Hall Johnson Choir: "Cabin in the Sky" (ALB-1772) Horne, Anderson: "Dat Ol' Debbil Consequence" (78/V-Disc 172, ALB-657, ALB-1682). Ellington Orch: "Things Ain't What They Used to Be/Going Up" Buck & Bubbles, Hall Johnson Choir: "Shine" (ALB-1964).)
1953 records by Vernon Duke (composer), piano. "Honey in the Honeycomb" (vocal by Dorothy Richards), "Cabin in the Sky," "Taking a Chance on Love" (ALB-1369, ALB-2217)
2000 recordings. PIANOS: Jeffrey R Smith, David Harris. VOCALS: Donna English, Jerry Dixon, Terry Burrell, Eddie Korbich. "Cabin in the Sky," "Little Poppa Satan," "In My Old Virginia Home (on the River Nile)," "Honey in the Honeycomb," "Love Turned the Light Out," "Taking a Chance on Love," "Do What You Wanna Do," "Finale" (CD/Original Cast 4444, a revue titled "Taking a Chance on Love," with addl material)
From: Show Music on Record by Jack Raymond
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