This Is Broadway’s Best

Various Artists – This Is Broadway’s Best

1961 Columbia Masterworks two-record set, catalog B2WS 1. A collection of 20 Broadway showstoppers featuring performers from classic productions including My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Gypsy, South Pacific, The Sound of Music, Kiss Me, Kate, Pal Joey, Kismet, Candide and more. The set also includes a 16-page Broadway picture story booklet.

Record 1 – Side A

1. Make Believe – Jan Clayton & Charles Fredericks (Show Boat)
2. How Are Things in Glocca Morra? – Ella Logan (Finian’s Rainbow)
3. Another Op’nin’, Another Show – Annabelle Hill (Kiss Me, Kate)
4. Some Enchanted Evening – Ezio Pinza (South Pacific)
5. Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend – Carol Channing (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)

Record 1 – Side B

1. I Could Write a Book – Harold Lang & Beverly Fite (Pal Joey)
2. Hernando’s Hideaway – Carol Haney (The Pajama Game)
3. And This Is My Beloved – Alfred Drake, Doretta Morrow, Richard Kiley & Henry Calvin (Kismet)
4. Two Ladies in De Shade of De Banana Tree – Enid Mosier & Ada Moore (House of Flowers)
5. Standing on the Corner – Shorty Long, John Henson, Alan Gilbert & Roy Lazarus (The Most Happy Fella)
6. I Am Easily Assimilated – Irra Petina, George Blackwell, Thomas Pyle & Barbara Cook (Candide)

Record 2 – Side C

1. The Party’s Over – Judy Holliday (Bells Are Ringing)
2. Tonight – Carol Lawrence & Larry Kert (West Side Story)
3. I Enjoy Being a Girl – Pat Suzuki (Flower Drum Song)
4. The Rain in Spain – Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews & Robert Coote (My Fair Lady)

Record 2 – Side D

1. Everything’s Coming Up Roses – Ethel Merman (Gypsy)
2. The Lonely Goatherd – Mary Martin (The Sound of Music)
3. Kids – Paul Lynde & Marijane Maricle (Bye Bye Birdie)
4. Valse Milieu – Clive Revill & Elizabeth Seal (Irma La Douce)
5. New York, New York – Adolph Green, John Reardon & Cris Alexander (On the Town)