1942 ETHEL MERMAN Original Cast COLE PORTER Movie PANAMA HATTIE Decca Album 203
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A series of great JAZZ Records from early Ragtime to Beb-Bop on 78 rpm Victrola Records
Arthur Treacher, Pat Harrington, Ethel Merman, Frank Hyers and Rags Ragland in the original Broadway production of Panama Hattie (1940)
ETHEL MERMAN in her original performance of four songs she created from the COLE PORTER MUSICAL Panama Hattie, in the 1942 Movie Version
This is the rare Album DA-203 version, as records in these gatefold albums are usually broken.
Original Cast Recordings
"Let's Be Buddies" / "Make It Another Old-Fashioned, Please" - Ethel Merman [A-side with Joan Carroll]
- 78 RPM, 1940 [Decca 23199]
"My Mother Would Love You" / "I've Still Got My Health" - Ethel Merman
- 78 RPM, 1940 [Decca 23200]
These four recordings also comprised the following album:
- 78 RPM [2 discs], 1940 [Decca DA-203]
2x10" 78 rpm record w orig Gatefold Album
Condition:
EXCELLENT Faint scuffs. plays very quiet light crackle
Album great, spine and binding solid, interior pristine, tiny roughing upper right side corner
A SUPERB COPY
Panama Hattie is a 1942 American film based upon the Broadway musical of the same name. It was produced by Arthur Freed and directed by Norman Z. McLeod. Substantial retakes were directed by Roy Del Ruth with choreography by Danny Dare and musical numbers staged by Vincente Minnelli. The film used only four of Porter's songs and substituted other songs.[2] The cast featured Red Skelton as Red, Ann Sothern as Hattie Maloney, Rags Ragland as Rags, Ben Blue as Rowdy, Marsha Hunt as Leila Tree, Virginia O'Brien as Flo Foster, Alan Mowbray as Jay Jerkins, Dan Dailey as Dick Bulliard and Lena Horne as Singer in Phil's Place.[2] Songs used in the film are as follows:[2]
"Hattie from Panama" (Roger Edens) - Chorus
"I've Still Got My Health" (Porter) - Ann Sothern
"Berry Me Not" (Phil Moore) [instrumental, danced by the Berry Brothers]
"Just One of Those Things" (Porter)- Lena Horne [from Jubilee]
"Fresh As a Daisy" (Porter) - Virginia O'Brien
"Good Neighbors" (Edens) - Red Skelton, Rags Ragland, Ben Blue and Chorus
"Let's Be Buddies" (Porter) - Sothern with Jackie Horner, and O'Brien with Alan Mowbray
"Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here" (Arthur Sullivan; Theodore F. Morse) [instrumental]
"Did I Get Stinkin' At the Savoy" (E. Y. Harburg and Walter Donaldson) - O'Brien
"The Sping" (Moore and J. LeGon) - Horne [danced by the Berry Brothers]
"The Son of a Gun Who Picks on Uncle Sam" (Harburg and Burton Lane) - Company
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