Hansel and Gretel / The Yeomen of the Guard
Cast Recording TV Musical


Sepia Records (5055122111252)
TV Series/TV film Musical | Release date: 03/02/2009 | Format: CD, Download
 

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# Track Artist/Composer Duration
Hansel and Gretel
1.The Hansel and Gretel SongRed Buttons & Barbara Cook4:33
2.Market TodayStubby Kaye3:22
3.Men Run the WorldRudy Vallée2:50
4.Evening SongBarbara Cook3:30
5.Morning SongBarbara Cook1:48
6.Eenie, Meenie, Mynie MoePaula Laurence2:23
7.What Are Little Girls Made Of?Red Buttons, Barbara Cook & Paula Laurence2:27
8.FinaleRed Buttons, Barbara Cook, Stubby Kaye, Paula Laurence & Rudy Vallée1:08
 
The Yeomen of the Guard
9.When a Wooer Goes A-WooingBarbara Cook, Celeste Holm, Bill Hayes & Alfred Drake2:26
10.I Have a Song to Sing, OBarbara Cook & Alfred Drake3:31
11.Oh! a Private BuffoonAlfred Drake1:40
12.Were I Thy BrideCeleste Holm1:59
13.Is Life a Boon?Bill Hayes2:15
14.Strange Things Are Happening (Bonus Track)Red Buttons2:39
15.The Ho Ho Song (Bonus Track)Red Buttons2:43
16.The Button's Bounce (Bonus Track)Red Buttons2:20
17.Oh! My Mother-in-Law (Bonus Track)Red Buttons2:52
18.That Girl (Bonus Track)Barbara Cook & Eddie Bracken2:28
19.Sorta On the Border (Bonus Track)Stubby Kaye2:57
20.O (Oh!) (Bonus Track)Stubby Kaye3:01
21.Cheers (Bonus Track)Stubby Kaye2:45
22.The More You Laugh (Bonus Track)Stubby Kaye2:14
23.Let's Do It (Bonus Track)Rudy Vallée3:28
24.I'm Just a Vagabond Lover (Bonus Track)Rudy Vallée2:28
25.The Pig Got Up and Slowly Walked Away (Bonus Track)Rudy Vallée3:19
26.Maine Stein Song (Bonus Track)Rudy Vallée2:10
27.Mad Dogs and Englishmen (Bonus Track)Rudy Vallée2:53
28.Vieni, Vieni (Bonus Track)Rudy Vallée1:59
29.Betty Co-Ed (Bonus Track)Rudy Vallée1:54
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We are delighted to bring to listeners two rare cast recordings from the heyday of TV musical spectaculars, THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD (1957) and HANSEL AND GRETEL (1958). Both star Broadway's legendary lyric soprano ingénue Barbara Cook early in her career and both were broadcast live on NBC-TV
nationwide.

While THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD was an adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan's
famous comic opera, HANSEL AND GRETEL was an original musical version of the
Brothers Grimm's children's story. Composer Alec Wilder and his lyricist
William Engvick provided the light-hearted, lyrical score. Playing Hansel to
Barbara Cook's Gretel was Red Buttons, who had just won an Oscar for his
role in the film SAYONARA, while Rudy Vallee played their father and Stubby
Kaye the town-crier.

THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD also starred Bill Hayes, Celeste Holm and Alfred
Drake, who all feature on the five songs included here. To complement our
television soundtracks, we have included sixteen rare 'bonus tracks' as
performed by its stars. The four singles by Red Buttons, Strange Things Are
Happening, The Ho Ho Song, The Buttons Bounce and Oh! My Mother-in-Law are
comedy novelty songs from 1953 and 1954. Barbara Cook accompanies Eddie
Bracken on a rare 78rpm duet, That Girl recorded in 1953.

During his London engagement in GUYS AND DOLLS, Stubby Kaye recorded these
four sides, Sorta on the Border, O (Oh!), Cheers and The More You Laugh. The
last seven tracks from Rudy Vallee are standards from his career he
re-recorded in 1954, I'm Just a Vagabond Lover, The (Maine) Stein Song,
Vieni, Vieni, comedy patter classics Let's Do It, Mad Dogs and Englishmen,
and novelty numbers The Pig Got Up and Slowly Walked Away, Betty Co-Ed.


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