[9/4/2011] Comedy Tonight, Labor Day edition: "Take a job for heaven's sake" (Kay Cram, in "Do Re Mi") (continued)

Do Re Mi: Overture

Orchestra conducted by Lehman Engel. Original Broadway Cast recording. RCA, recorded 1961

Around here, as you may know, we like to start, where possible, at the very beginning. And near the start of the Overture -- the first fully stated tune, in fact -- we hear a foreshadowing of Hubie's "angle," which will be announced in what develops into one of my all-time favorite musical-theater production numbers, as he tries to sell his brainstorm to some unsavory characters --

"It's legitimate"

Phil Silvers, George Givot, George Mathews, David Burns, and chorus (vocals); orchestra conducted by Lehman Engel. Original Broadway Cast recording. RCA, recorded 1961

The Do Re Mi team: star Phil Silvers, co-lyricist Betty Comden, writer-director Garson Kanin, co-lyricist Adolph Green, and composer Jule Styne


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