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| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 01:40 pm EDT 04/02/21 | |
| In reply to: Another Harold Rome musical fan - PlayWiz 12:26 pm EDT 04/02/21 | |
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| The OLC album of Gone With the Wind is a good recording and worth having. Not one of Rome's best, but a solid score. Harve Presnell and June Ritchie are Rhett and Scarlett. Brian Davies (Rolf in Sound of Music and Hero in Funny Thing/Forum) plays Frank Kennedy. I'm sure Sheila Bond is the girl on the cover of the Wish You Were Here liner notes. I would guess that the guy most likely is Paul Valentine, but it could be Sidney Armus. There's a picture of the pool on pages 8 & 9 of the liner notes for the RCA Victor OBC CD. My grandmother loved Eddie Fisher and we watched his TV variety show every week in addition to The Ed Sullivan Show. When Fanny opened on Broadway, Fisher had Florence Henderson as his guest. They did a few numbers from Fanny. When the obscure musical Hazel Flagg was running on Broadway, Fisher performed "How Do You Speak to an Angel?" on his show. My grandmother was so taken with his rendition of the song that she took me to Goldblatt's the next day to buy the OBC LP. I was only 5 years old, but I kept telling her "Grandma, I don't think Eddie Fisher will be on the record. He only sang that song on TV, not Broadway." Anyway, she didn't listen to me. However, we were never able to find the album at Goldblatt's or any other store. Decades later in 2004 when Sepia released the OBC album on CD, I was amazed to discover that Eddie Fisher's version of "Angel" was indeed on the album as a bonus track. So Grandma, you were right after all. |
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| re: Another Harold Rome musical fan | |
| Posted by: Ned3301 03:59 pm EDT 04/03/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Another Harold Rome musical fan - BroadwayTonyJ 01:40 pm EDT 04/02/21 | |
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| The man posing with Sheila Bond in Wish You Were Here's key art is John Perkins, an actor who specialized in roles calling for an athletic physique. You can see him also on the cover of the old paperback of Genet's The Balcony, as he played the Executioner in the off-Broadway staging. |
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| re: Another Harold Rome musical fan | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 03:00 pm EDT 04/02/21 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 02:59 pm EDT 04/02/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Another Harold Rome musical fan - BroadwayTonyJ 01:40 pm EDT 04/02/21 | |
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| Thanks for all of that, Tony! If it is indeed Paul Valentine, I think he is super in a duet with Jacqueline McKeever in "We're Not Children" on the OCR of "Oh, Captain!" That's a very fun score with some super orchestrations. His vocal is very sexy, and looking at his bio, he was a ballet dancer, had a relationship with Sally Rand (of bubble dance fame) and was married to Lili St. Cyr, the famous strip tease artist immortalized at the end of "Zip" in "Pal Joey" by Rodgers and Hart! Not sure about Sidney Armus. I think "Gone With the Wind" may have had a revival in London in more recent years. |
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| re: Another Harold Rome musical fan | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 04:12 pm EDT 04/02/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Another Harold Rome musical fan - PlayWiz 02:59 pm EDT 04/02/21 | |
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| I checked out some pictures of Paul Valentine. He was a really good-looking guy back in the late 40's and early 50's. He played Joe Stefanos in the great film noir, Out of the Past. He was gangster Kirk Douglas' enforcer or capo (I guess you could call him), similar to the character of Al Neri in The Godfather. I believe he is the guy on the Wish You Were Here cover. He sings "Summer Afternoon" and "Relax" in the Rome musical. Thanks for the mention of Oh Captain!. I'm going to dig out the CD and listen to it tomorrow. It has a very enjoyable score with a great cast. |
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