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GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES [musical show]
- Title
- GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES [musical show]
- Alternate Title
- LORELEI
- Opening Date
- December 08, 1949
- Genre
- musical show
- Production and Recordings Information
- Orig prod. MUSIC: Jule Styne. WORDS: Leo Robin. ORCH: Don Walker. COND: Milton Rosenstock. CAST: Carol Channing, Yvonne Adair, Jack McCauley, Eric Brotherson, George S Irving, Rex Evans, Honi Coles, Cholly Atkins, Alice Pearce. (Col ML-4290; CD/Sony SK-48013; CD/Prism(E) PLATCD-921; CD/Naxos(E) 8.120793, with High Button Shoes. Excerpts: Channing: "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" (ALB-1119, ALB-1180, ALB-1535, ALB-1581, ALB-2181) "A Little Girl from Little Rock" (ALB-1535).)
- 1953 film soundtrack, with two new songs by Hoagy Carmichael & Harold Adamson. COND: Lionel Newman. CAST: Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell. (MGM 10" 208; ALB-599; plus addl "Little Girl from Little Rock" material on ALB-452. Incomplete: ALB-76 (with Eileen Wilson for Jane Russell), ALB-1073, ALB-1190, ALB-1264. Excerpts: Russell: "Bye-Bye Baby" (ALB-328, ALB-1101, ALB-1211) "Ain't There Anyone Here for Love? (ALB-1333) Monroe: "Bye-Bye Baby" (ALB-1101, ALB-1108, ALB-1211, ALB-1273) "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" (ALB-1101, ALB-1108, ALB-1156, ALB-1273, ALB-1348) Monroe, Russell: "When Love Goes Wrong" (ALB-1507).)
- 1962 London prod. ORCH & COND: Alyn Ainsworth. CAST: Dora Bryan, Guy Middleton, Donald Stewart, Anne Hart, Robin Palmer, Valerie Walsh, John Griffin, Gerald Stern. (HMV(E) CSD-1464; That's Entertainment(E) 1059.)
- 1973 touring prod titled "Lorelei," with new songs by Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolph Green. ORCH: Philip J Lang, Don Walker. COND: Milton Rosenstock. CAST: Carol Channing of orig prod; Tamara Long, Peter Palmer, Lee Roy Reams, Brandon Maggart, Dody Goodman. (MGM/Verve 5097; CD/Dec B0001407-02, with addl material.)
- 1974 prod titled "Lorelei" (the end product of the 1973 touring prod) with new songs by Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolph Green. ORCH: Philip J Lang, Don Walker. COND: Milton Rosenstock. CAST: Carol Channing of orig prod; Tamara Long, Peter Palmer, Lee Roy Reams, Jack Fletcher, Dody Goodman. (MGM M3G-55; CD/Dec B0001407-02, with addl material.)
- 1989 performance by Jane Russell of 1953 film cast. "Bye-Bye Baby" (ALB-1294)
- 1995 prod. ORCH: Douglas Besterman. COND: Andrew Wilder. CAST: K T Sullivan, Karen Prunzik, George Dvorsk, Allen Fitzpatrick, David Ponting. (CD/DRG Records 94762)
- Records by Carol Channing of orig cast. "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" (Later: ALB-111, ALB-377) (1959, TV: ALB-1510) "Little Girl from Little Rock" (Later: ALB-111, ALB-377) "Homesick Blues" (Later: ALB-204, ALB-377) "Bye Bye Baby" (Later: ALB-111, ALB-377)
- Records of a song added to the 1953 film prod, sung by Hoagy Carmichael, composer. WORDS: Harold Adamson. "When Love Goes Wrong" (1953: 45/Cap F-2593) (1958: ALB-925)
- Note
- From: Show Music on Record by Jack Raymond
- DigitalID
- loc.natlib.smor.19491208
Last Updated: 08-23-2012