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FINIAN'S RAINBOW [musical show]
- Title
- FINIAN'S RAINBOW [musical show]
- Opening Date
- January 10, 1947
- Genre
- musical show
- Production and Recordings Information
- Orig prod. MUSIC: Burton Lane. WORDS: E Y Harburg. ORCH: Robert Russell Bennett, Don Walker. COND: Ray Charles. CAST: Ella Logan, Donald Richards, David Wayne, Delores Martin, Maude Simmons, Lorenzo Fuller, Alan Gilbert, Jerry Laws, Louis Sharp. (78/Col album MM-686; Col ML-4062; CD/Col CK-4062; CD/Prism(E) PLATCD-974. With addl material: CD/Col SK-89208 (ALB-1980). Excerpts: Logan, Richards: "That Old Devil Moon" (ALB-830, ALB-1535) Logan: "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" (ALB-1119, ALB-1180, ALB-1535, ALB-2181) "When the Idle Rich" (ALB-1580) Wayne: "When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love" (ALB-1535, ALB-1580).)
- 1946 album. COND: Russ Case. VOCALS: Audrey Marsh, Jimmy Carroll, Jimmy Blair, chorus. (78/Vic album P-167; RCA LKT-1000.)
- 1955 album by Ella Logan of orig prod. COND: George Greeley. (Cap 10" H-561. Excerpt: "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" (ALB-1580).)
- 1960 prod. COND: Max Meth. CAST: Jean Carson, Bobby Howe, Howard Morris, Biff McGuire, Carol Brice, Sorrell Booke. (RCA LSO-1057. More complete: CD/RCA 1057-2-RG.)
- 1963 studio prod. ORCH: Various. COND: Morris Stoloff. CAST: Frank Sinatra (of unproduced 1954 film prod), Rosemary Clooney, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis jr, Clark Dennis, Bing Crosby, Debbie Reynolds, Lou Monte, McGuire Sisters, Hi-Lo's. (Reprise FS-2015; box set CD/Reprise 2-47775, titled "Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre," with addl material.)
- 1968 film soundtrack. COND: Ray Heindorf. CAST: Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Don Francks, Tommy Steele, Keenan Wynn, Brenda Arnau, Avon Long. (Warner Bros BS-2550. More complete: CD/Rhino RHM2-7852. Excerpt: Clark, Francks: "Old Devil Moon" (ALB-1858).)
- 2004 prod. COND: Mark Hartman. CAST: Melissa Errico, Malcolm Gets, Max Von Essen, Terri White, Jonathan Freeman, Joacquin Stevens. (CD/Ghostlight 4402-2, with an addl track (ALB-2184).)
- 2009 prod. ORCH: Robert Russell Bennett, Don Walker, Larry Moore. COND: Rob Berman. CAST: Kate Baldwin, Cheyenne Jackson, Jim Norton, Christopher Fitzgerald, Terri White. (CD/PS Classics PS-1088)
- Album. COND: "Bugs" Bower. VOCALS: Ron Marshall Singers. (Pickwick SPC-3132)
- Records by Burton Lane, composer. Piano & vocal: "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?," "If This Isn't Love" (1966: ALB-671) Piano: "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?," "Old Devil Moon," "When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love," "Look to the Rainbow," "If This Isn't Love" (1989, with vocals by Michael Feinstein: ALB-1313) "Don't Pass Me By" (dropped from the show) (vocal by E Y Harburg, lyricist: ALB-1980)
- Records sung by E Y Harburg, lyricist. "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?," "When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love" (1970s: ALB-1779) (1973: ALB-1980) "Something Sort of Grandish" (1959: ALB-1779) "That Old Devil Moon" (1974: ALB-1779, ALB-2184) "Don't Pass Me By" (dropped from the show) (piano by Burton Lane, composer: ALB-1980)
- Soundtrack of unproduced 1954 cartoon film. COND: Lyn Murray. Ella Logan (of orig cast), Frank Sinatra: "If This Isn't Love," "That Old Devil Moon" Sinatra, Louis Armstrong: "Ad-Lib Blues" Ella Fitzgerald, Sinatra: "Necessity" Sinatra: "Necessity," "That Great Come and Get It Day" (ALB-852, ALB-1568, ALB-2065) "If This Isn't Love" Sinatra, Logan: Finale "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" (ALB-2065) Logan: "When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich" (ALB-852)
- Studio prod. "Ed Sullivan presents Finian's Rainbow." No other credits. (National Academy 12, with Brigadoon)
- Note
- From: Show Music on Record by Jack Raymond
- DigitalID
- loc.natlib.smor.19470110
Last Updated: 08-23-2012