Bye Bye Birdie! - Original Broadway Cast
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Bye Bye Birdie! - Original Broadway Cast
Release Date: May 30, 2000
SK89254
CD Longplay
Original Broadway Cast Recording starring Dick Van Dyke, Paul Lynde and Chita Rivera. Includes bonus track "Put on a Happy Face" sung by its composer!

Bye, Bye Birdie is the best kind of Broadway story: a show from nowhere, created by unknowns, sneaking into town and knocking 'em dead. Songs no one had ever heard before — "Put on a Happy Face", "A Lot of Livin' to Do", "Kids" — became instant standards. Who knew?

All tracks are digitally remastered for optimum sound quality, and included as a special bonus is "Put on a Happy Face" sung by its composer Charles Strouse, recorded May 18, 1978 at a lecture/concert given at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC.  


Track listing for CD Longplay


Bye Bye Birdie - Original Broadway Cast (Voice)
     
1    Overture
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2    An English Teacher (Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke)
       ra  wma20  wma32  wma128
3    The Telephone Hour (Teenagers)
       ra  wma20  wma28  wma32  wma56  wma128
4    How Lovely To Be a Woman (Susan Watson)
       ra  wma20  wma32  wma128
5    Put on a Happy Face (Dick Van Dyke)
       ra  wma20  wma28  wma32  wma56  wma128
6    A Normal, Healthy, American Boy (Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke, Teen Trio, Reporters, Teenagers, Neighbors)
       ra  wma20  wma32  wma128
7    One Boy (Susan Watson, Jessica Albright, Sharon Lerit, Chita Rivera)
       ra  wma20  wma28  wma32  wma56  wma128
8    Honestly Sincere (Dick Gautier, Barbara Doherty, Teenagers)
       ra  wma20  wma32  wma128
9    Hymn for a Sunday Evening (Ed Sullivan) (Paul Lynde, Marijane Maricle, Susan Watson, Johnny Borden)
       ra  wma20  wma32  wma128
10    One Last Kiss (Dick Gautier, Ensemble)
       ra  wma20  wma32  wma128
11    What Did I Ever See in Him? (Chita Rivera, Susan Watson)
       ra  wma20  wma32  wma128
12    A Lot of Livin' to Do (Dick Gautier, Susan Watson, Teenagers)
       ra  wma20  wma28  wma32  wma56  wma128
13    Kids (Paul Lynde, Marijane Maricle)
       ra  wma20  wma28  wma32  wma56  wma128
14    Baby, Talk to Me (Dick Van Dyke, Quartet, George Blackwell)
       ra  wma20  wma32  wma128
15    Kids Reprise (Paul Lynde, Marijane Maricle, Johnny Borden, Parents)
       ra  wma20  wma32  wma128
16    Spanish Rose (Chita Rivera, Townspeople)
       ra  wma20  wma32  wma128
17    Rosie (Dick Van Dyke, Chita Rivera)
       ra  wma20  wma32  wma128
18  Put On A Happy Face (Voice)
       ra  wma20  wma32  wma128