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Studio Cast Recording (CD)

By: Kismet (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Studio Cast Recording (CD) Album By Kismet (Artist)
1   Overture / Sands Of Time / Rhymes Have I
2   Fate
3   Not Since Nineveh
4   Baubles, Bangles And Beads
5   Stranger In Paradise
6   Night Of My Nights
7   And This Is My Beloved - (with Gordon MacRae)
8   Olive Tree, The
9   Zubbediya - Samaris Dance
10   Final
 

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Title Note

A decade after Kismet premiered on Broadway on December 3, 1953, there was no dearth of recordings based on it, starting with the original Broadway cast album on Columbia Records and the 1955 soundtrack album on MGM. But Capitol Records didn't have a version in its catalog, which seems to have inspired the label to sponsor this 1964 studio cast recording, featuring Gordon MacRae and Dorothy Kirsten. With those leading names, this is a well-sung disc, but it is also skimpy. Capitol decided not to plump for two different singers to handle the parts of Hajj and the Caliph, so MacRae sings both parts, the comic "Rhymes Have I," "Fate," and "The Olive Tree," on the one hand, and the romantic "Stranger in Paradise," "Night of My Nights," and "And This Is My Beloved," on the other. That's enough singing to make this seem like the LP should be billed "Gordon MacRae and Friends Songs from Kismet." And it's "Songs from Kismet" because the score has been cut down, with a number of selections, notably "He's in Love," "Gesticulate," "Was I Wazir?," and "Rahadlakum," left out. All of those songs are found on the 1964 studio cast album issued by London Records and billed to Mantovani & His Orchestra, with the singers including Adele Leigh, Robert Merrill, and Kenneth McKellar. That more complete recording is to be preferred over this one, despite MacRae and Kirsten's efforts, but the original Broadway cast album still hasn't been bested. ~ William Ruhlmann

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