SOUTH PACIFIC - REPRISE REPERTORY THEATRE - Various Artists (VINYL LP, 1964)
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SOUTH PACIFIC - REPRISE REPERTORY THEATRE - Various Artists (VINYL LP, 1964)
Review from another site: In 1949, Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, and Jo Stafford each scored hit singles with songs drawn from the year's biggest Broadway musical, South Pacific. Sinatra was the skipper of his own record label, Reprise, fourteen years later. Under the rubric of the Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre, Crosby, Shore, and Stafford, along with a number of other pop singers brought together by Sinatra, all recorded for Reprise a series of studio cast albums of Broadway shows from the late '40s and early '50s. South Pacific was the third of them, following Finian's Rainbow and Kiss Me, Kate, and preceding Guys and Dolls.
Sinatra did not bother with the usual practice of assigning one character's songs to a particular singer. For example, the songs sung in the show by female lead Nellie Forbush were spread among Stafford ("A Cock-Eyed Optimist"), Keely Smith ("Twin Soliloquies," "A Wonderful Guy"), Shore ("I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair," "Honey Bun"), and Rosemary Clooney ("Some Enchanted Evening [Reprise]"). And while Morris Stoloff was musical director and conductor, the arrangements were done by nine different people. Sinatra made himself the exception to this diversity. He sang all the songs of male lead Emile de Becque ("Twin Soliloquies," "Some Enchanted Evening," "This Nearly Was Mine," and "Some Enchanted Evening [Reprise]") and had his long-time associate Nelson Riddle handle the charts for them. The resulting album was not so much a studio cast album as a various artists album of songs from South Pacific sung by a series of pre-rock pop singers in their individual styles.
David Finkle, in his liner notes to the 2000 reissue of the box set, suggests that having Smith sing "A Wonderful Guy" was a prank on Sinatra's part, since Smith tended to pronounce all long "i" sounds "ah," and the song is full of them ("Ah'm in love with a wonderful gah"). One might also suspect that giving the 60-year-old Crosby "Younger Than Springtime" was something of a joke, though he brings it off well. But there certainly was nothing funny about assigning Sammy Davis, Jr., the set's sole African American participant, the cautionary song of racial injustice "Carefully Taught," and Davis gave it a characteristically committed reading, after showing a far different side of himself in the swaggering "There Is Nothin' Like a Dame." Some interpretations were better than others, but this South Pacific, peopled with the pop singers of its era, made an interesting gloss on the score. -- Allmusic
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