St. Louis Woman [Cast Recording]

st. louis woman [cast recording]

Track Listings
1. Li'l Augie Is a Natural Man - Robert Pope
2. Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home - Ruby Hill
3. I Had Myself a True Love - June Hawkins
4. Legalize My Name - Pearl Bailey
5. Cakewalk Your Lady - Robert Pope,
6. Come Rain or Come Shine - Ruby Hill, Harold Nicholas
7. Lullaby - Ruby Hill
8. Sleep Peaceful (Mr. Used-To-Be) - June Hawkins
9. Leavin' Time
10. It's a Woman's Prerogative - Pearl Bailey
11. Ridin' on the Moon - Harold Nicholas

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St. Louis Woman [Cast Recording]
St. Louis Woman/Harold Arlen and His Songs
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • One of Harold Artelen's best scores
  • ASTONISHING!
 St. Louis Woman/Harold Arlen and His Songs

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ASIN: B000CC4VZQ
Release Date: 2006-01-24

Tracks:

  1. Li'L Augie Is A Natural Man
  2. Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home
  3. I Had Myself A True Love
  4. Legalize My Name
  5. Cakewalk Your Lady
  6. Come Rain Or Come Shine
  7. Lullaby
  8. Sleep Peaceful (Mr. Used-To-Be)
  9. Leavin' Time
  10. It's A Woman's Prerogative
  11. Ridin' On The Moon

Tracks:

  1. I've Got The World On A String
  2. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive
  3. Come Rain Or Come Shine
  4. Let's Fall In Love
  5. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
  6. It's Only A Paper Moon
  7. Blues In The Night
  8. Over The Rainbow
  9. That Old Black Magic
  10. The Gal That Got Away
  11. Two Ladies In De Shade Of De Banana Tree
  12. Stormy Weather

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars One of Harold Artelen's best scores.......2006-08-13

Reviewing the previous Broadway Angel issue I wrote:

Capitol Records made their first original cast album of this 1946 show by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer. The album was issued as a set of five 10-inch 78 RPM records and in the early 1950s was briefly released as a 10-inch Lp. In the late 1960s Capitol re-released it on a 12-inch record in "fake" stereo. None of these editions stayed in the catalogue long.

Neither did Broadway Angel's CD edition which came out in 1992.
The show had only a short run, and has never been revived. (The original orchestrations were lost. A 1998 Encore reconstruction yielded a fuller recording available from Decca.)

This CD preserves the wonderful orginal cast: Pearl Bailey, Ruby Hill and Harold Nicholas. Several songs from this show became standards: "Come Rain or Come Shine," "Any Place I Hang My Hat is Home" and "It's a Woman's Prerogative."

Well, 10 years later the songs are as strong as ever and the performances as definitive as we will likely ever get. The score is truncated, and the soud while very good is not modern digital stereo, but a BIG thanks to DRG for bringing this one back!






5 out of 5 stars ASTONISHING!.......2006-03-09

even having the moire complete Encores version of ST LOUIS WOMAN the original cast is superlative & a must have. Ruby Hill, June Hawkins & of course Bailey are beyond great as are orchestrations of this classic Arlen/Mercer score. & Arlen singing his own songs is something else again. This CD is a keeper for -oh, about forever!
Black And Blue: A Musical Revue (1989 Original Broadway Cast)
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  • Diverse offering full of laughter, love and the blues!!
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ASIN: B000000PIF
Release Date: 1992-04-10

Tracks:

  1. Blues: I'm A Woman
  2. Royal Garden Blues
  3. St. Louis Blues
  4. After You've Gone
  5. If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sittin' On It
  6. I Want A Big Butter And Egg Man
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  16. In A Sentimental Mood
  17. Black And Blue

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Diverse offering full of laughter, love and the blues!!.......1998-12-24

This musical soundtrack is my favorite! It has a diverse offering of artists who range in vocals from a very robust and alluring tenor to enchanting soprano. The types of songs go from fun & upbeat to "somebody-please-get-me-a-tissue" blues. These selections will make you envision whatever scene/theme that is being performed and will force you to crawl into the number and savor/enjoy the fun or the blues of it.

I love it!! I believe you will, too.
St. Louis Woman (1998 Encores!/City Center Cast)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Vanessa Williams and long-forgotten gem of a score
  • Why didn't Vanessa Williams become a Broadway star?
  • Acceptable revival without being at all "special"
  • ARLEN AND MERCER
  • Nice revival, but not really a restoration
 St. Louis Woman (1998 Encores!/City Center Cast)
Harold Arlen , Johnny Mercer , and Vanessa Williams
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ASIN: B00000DBYZ
Release Date: 1998-11-10

Tracks:

  1. Act One: Overture
  2. Li' Augie Is A Natural Man
  3. Sweeten' Water
  4. Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home
  5. I Feel My Luck Comin' Down
  6. I Had Myself A True Love
  7. Legalize My Name
  8. Cakewalk Your Lady
  9. Come Rain Or Come Shine
  10. Chinquapin Bush/Lullaby
  11. Sleep Peaceful, Mr. Used-To-Be
  12. Act Two: Entr'acte
  13. Funeral Scene: Prelude
  14. Leavin' Time
  15. Come Rain Or Come Shine (Reprise)
  16. It's A Woman's Preogative
  17. Ridin' On The Moon
  18. I Wonder What Became Of Me
  19. Least That's My Opinion
  20. Come On Li'l Augie
  21. Finale: Come Rain Or Come Shine

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After it flopped in 1946, Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer's musical about nightclubs and jockeys featuring an all-black cast had simply vanished. The original cast album was long out of print, and, worst of all, no orchestral scores had survived. After lengthy sleuthing, New York's Encores! team brought the show back to life. From pulsing big-band dance stomps to a cakewalk to near-operatic blues (yes, it works) the score is breathtaking, and both orchestra and singers rise up to the challenge, obviously exhilarated by the material. A special mention goes to Vanessa L. Williams, who confirms her natural affinity for Broadway ("Come Rain or Come Shine" with Stanley Wayne Mathis, "Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home"). Original cast recording of the year for 1998, bar none. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Vanessa Williams and long-forgotten gem of a score.......2004-01-28

This 1998 recording of the Harold Arlen-Johnny Mercer ST. LOUIS WOMAN score features the acclaimed Encores! concert cast headed by the lovely Vanessa Williams.

ST. LOUIS WOMAN is yet another of those long-forgotten musicals (SARATOGA and HOUSE OF FLOWERS are two more) which have heavenly scores that hardly anyone have heard. This 1998 recording has done a lot in helping to rectify that situation. The original cast album with Pearl Bailey was issued on CD in the early 90's but was quickly deleted.

Vanessa Williams (INTO THE WOODS) is a dynamite in the lead role, especially fetching belting out "Any Place I Hang My Hat is Home". The score also features "Cakewalk Your Lady", "Ridin' on the Moon", "I Wonder What Became of Me" and "I Had Myself a True Love".

At least one of the numbers from ST. LOUIS WOMAN became a standard for Judy Garland: "Come Rain or Come Shine" (the best-known song in the score).

This great cast album also features Stanley Wayne Mathis and Yvette Cason. [DECCA BROADWAY 314 538 148-2]

4 out of 5 stars Why didn't Vanessa Williams become a Broadway star?.......2003-11-23

The most beautiful of all Miss Americas (with the POSSIBLE exception of only Lee Meriweather), Vanessa Williams has an absolutely gorgeous voice made just for musical theatre. Here, on this Encores! recording of the famous Harold Arlen musical, she gives what I would call the definitive performance of "Anywhere I Hang My Hat is Home," which is saying something given her competition over the decades. Why she never fully turned her talents towards Broadway will mystify you after hearing her on this magnificent recording. The rest of the cast does beautifully with some of Arlen's most beautiful music: I notice here some criticisms of Helen Goldsby, and though her voice isn't always as true here as it could be, she is quite moving on "I Wonder What Became of Me" (she is a marvelous actress, as anyone ever fortunate enough to see her on Broadway in "Master Class" could attest).

3 out of 5 stars Acceptable revival without being at all "special".......2003-04-15

The reviews on this page that have gone before me are rather astute. They cover the disparity of the new orchestrations with what those of 1946 should have sounded like. The cast is, I agree, pulling very hard and doing quite well with the material, but something doesn't click here- even the three standards (ANY PLACE I HANG MY HAT IS HOME; I HAD MYSELF A TRUE LOVE; COME RAIN OR COME SHINE) and the two fine comedy numbers (LEGALIZE MY NAME; IT'S A WOMAN'S PREROGATIVE)are well done but not "special" in any way.

It's certainly important that any serious lover of musical theater hear this score so on that point, I recommend the album.

What noone's ear has been able to pick up thus far in these reviews is the vamp for CAKEWALK YOUR LADY. It's identical to "GASTON'S SOLILOQUY" in GIGI. Note for note. Since MGM backed the staging of ST. LOUIS WOMAN, it owned the rights to Arlen's music. Twelve years later, it seems someone brought this piece of music to the ears of Fritz Loewe for MGM's original musical, GIGI. Listen to it and be amazed. Here's a "steal" that no one has ever reported or admitted, since the original cakewalk music had not been heard until 1998.

All in all, a decent attempt to revive a forgotten show, but nothing extraordinary on its own terms.

4 out of 5 stars ARLEN AND MERCER.......2001-03-01

While they wrote many greats songs together(THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC,BLUES IN THE NIGHT),HAROLD ARLEN and JOHNNY MERCER were never really BROADWAY bound.However, this show had all kinds of misfortunes in 1946 and really deserved the second chance it got in 1998.Of course the original orchestrations were not quite the same as they are here,but the fact that the show could have a rebirth is in itself a reward that can not be denied.VANESSA WILLIAMS is wonderful.The show has one character miscast;it's easy to find out if you listen to the cd at least twice.Try to indentify it because i won't tell you.Overall, this revival is perhaps not perfect, but was certainly worth doing.

4 out of 5 stars Nice revival, but not really a restoration.......2000-10-05

Taken in itself, this is a really nice CD. But it is unique among the ENCORES recordings in that it really is more a revival recording than a careful recreation of the original piece.

The original orchestra parts for this show were lost, but the problem here is that the new ones that Ralph Burns and Luther Henderson created do not sound ANYTHING like what Broadway arrangements sounded like in 1946. Rather, they sound like the kind of arrangements Burns and Henderson crafted starting in the 1960s. These nightclubby/Vegasy sounds are wonderful in themselves, but in the proper sense, ST. LOUIS WOMAN didn't sound like LITTLE ME, SWEET CHARITY and PLAY ON! -- it sounded more like PORGY AND BESS. Saxophones swinging through densely intricate passages as a matter of course as if Ellington and Strayhorn had written the parts, Count Basie pedal point bass lines -- this kind of arranging didn't exist yet in 1946 Broadway pits. As presented on this CD, I FEEL MY LUCK COMIN' DOWN sounds about as unlike what this song surely sounded like in 1946 as the 1971 NO NO NANETTE revival's arrangements -- glorious in themselves -- sounded unlike the originals from that show in 1924 -- and pointedly, it was precisely Burns and Henderson who did the new orchestrations for that revival. If Burns and Henderson, having lived through all of this as a lifetime rather than as a vintage record collection, do not spontaneously draw these kinds of distinctions, surely the youngish aficionados who produce these recordings do.

And how we know what the original sounded like is the ST. LOUIS WOMAN album that was recorded in 1946, and what perplexes me is that even the orchestrations for the songs recorded on that album are altered somewhat for this recording, making them sound more "Sammy Davis/Lena Horne" than what the authors intended.

This is the only ENCORES album which sounds out of period, even the overture sounding like something playing under the opening credits of a 1960s or 1970s TV special rather than what an overture would have sounded like the year after CAROUSEL opened. As much as I hate to say this, I cannot help thinking that somewhere along the line, a sense developed that black entertainment somehow means less attention to details such as period style. This is sad in this case, because part of the glory of that brief original ST. LOUIS WOMAN album is the plangent, quirky, rich sounds from the orchestra, not quite like anything else at the time, but surely not sounding like CHICAGO either.

Furthermore, Helen Goldsby is to my ear quite unimpressive, especially compared to the magnificent singing by June Hawkins on the original cast recording, all the more affecting given how the segregation of the period surely restricted her career. Among the ENCORES recordings, only on the BABES IN ARMS recording is anyone allowed to get away with singing so ordinary outside of "character" parts, and there the reason was the emphasis on casting people who sound like youths -- but what was the reason here? Surely there are dozens of black female singers in New York who could knock you against the wall the way Hawkins did with the very, very good songs her character was given. Why was Goldsby's merely okay rendition considered suitable for such a historic occasion?

I am stressing the negative here because the other reviews cover the positive. I LIKE this CD overall -- but only as a deft reinterpretation of the score through a 1963 lens, and I am not sure why it had to come out this way. I hope ENCORES someday does a CABIN IN THE SKY -- hopefully casting Vanessa Williams again as Georgia Brown -- and makes it sound like the 1940s in all of its particularity, giving it the same loving care in this vein as has regularly been given the likes of PAL JOEY.
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    St. Louis Woman
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • Out-of-Print but worth a hunt!
    		 St. Louis Woman
    Original Broadway Cast
    Manufacturer: Angel Records
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    ASIN: B000008L2J
    Release Date: 1992-11-17

    Tracks:

    1. Li'l Augie Is a Natural Man - Robert Pope
    2. Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home - Ruby Hill
    3. I Had Myself a True Love - June Hawkins
    4. Legalize My Name - Pearl Bailey
    5. Cakewalk Your Lady - Robert Pope,
    6. Come Rain or Come Shine - Ruby Hill, Harold Nicholas
    7. Lullaby - Ruby Hill
    8. Sleep Peaceful (Mr. Used-To-Be) - June Hawkins
    9. Leavin' Time
    10. It's a Woman's Prerogative - Pearl Bailey
    11. Ridin' on the Moon - Harold Nicholas

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars Out-of-Print but worth a hunt!.......2004-03-08

    Capitol Records made their first original cast album of this 1946 show by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer. The album was issued as a set of five 10-inch 78 RPM records and in the early 1950s was briefly released as a 10-inch Lp. In the late 1960s Capitol re-released it on a 12-inch record in "fake" stereo. None of these editions stayed in the catalogue long.

    Neither did Broadway Angel's CD edition which came out in 1992.
    The show had only a short run, and has never been revived. (The original orchestrations were lost. A 1998 Encore reconstruction yielded a fuller recording available from Decca.)

    This CD comes with a great set of notes including a detailed synopsis. Best of all it preserves the wonderful orginal cast: Pearl Bailey, Ruby Hill and Harold Nicholas. Several songs from this show became standards: "Come Rain or Come Shine," "Any Place I Hang My Hat is Home" and "It's a Woman's Prerogative."

    Search high and low for a copy of this one!

    UPDATE: AUGUST 2006...this has been reissued by DRG!

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