The curtain has just gone up on perhaps the most historically significant collection of theater music. This disc contains the newly-discovered, very-first-ever recordings of tunes from "Hello, Dolly!," "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" and "Gigi"---tunes we all know and love, though no one has ever heard of the singer, a woman named Rose Marie Jun who, between 1957 and 1963, was paid for track to cut these "demos." (It was a way to convince famous singers to record them on their own, before the shows actually opened. It was called smart marketing.) It worked; the 21 songs here have been recorded nearly 100 times by other stars.
- 1. Promises, Promises, Musical Play
- 2. Promises, Promises, Musical Play/What Am I Doing Here
- 3. Promises, Promises, Musical Play/Upstairs
- 4. Promises, Promises, Musical Play/You'll Think of Someone
- 5. Promises, Promises, Musical Play/She Likes Basketball
- 6. Promises, Promises, Musical Play/Let's Pretend We're Grown Up
- 7. Promises, Promises, Musical Play/Wanting Things
- 8. Promises, Promises, Musical Play/Tick Tock Goes the Clock
- 9. Promises, Promises, Musical Play/Whoever You Are, I Love You
- 10. Promises, Promises, Musical Play/Christmas Day
- 11. Flower Drum Song, Musical Play/Love, Look Away
- 12. Flower Drum Song, Musical Play/I Enjoy Being a Girl
- 13. Flower Drum Song, Musical Play/She Is Beautiful
- 14. Flower Drum Song, Musical Play/Sunday
- 15. Flower Drum Song, Musical Play/Like a God
- 16. Flower Drum Song, Musical Play/Grant Avenue
- 17. Flower Drum Song, Musical Play/My Best Love
- 18. Flower Drum Song, Musical Play/Sunday
- 19. Cage aux Folles/La Cage aux Folles
- 20. Cage aux Folles/Song on the Sand
- 21. Cage aux Folles/I Am What I Am
- 22. Cage aux Folles/The Best of Times
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