SITVA - THE SOUND OF MUSIC (ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST) - VARIOUS ARTISTS

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Good morning Sunday people and welcome back to Stuck In The Vinyl Again. Today we remember composer, songwriter and playwright Richard Rodgers, on what would have been his 118th Birthday. He passed away in December of 1979,  after surviving cancer of the jaw, a heart attack, and a laryngectomy . He was 77. With him in mind, we spotlight the last collaboration between him and his longtime creative partner, lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II.  The Sound Of Music (Original Broadway Cast) soundtrack, like the film was released in 1959 on the Columbia Masterworks label. The production, based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers starred  Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel.

A1.1 Preludium
Orchestra – Unknown Artist
Performer [Nuns] – Unknown Artist

A1.2 The Sound Of Music
Performer [Maria] – Mary Martin

A2 Maria
Performer [Mother Abbess] – Patricia Neway
Performer [Sister Berthe] – Elizabeth Howell
Performer [Sister Margaretta] – Muriel O'Malley
Performer [Sister Sophia] – Karen Shepard

A3 My Favorite Things
Performer [Maria] – Mary Martin
Performer [Mother Abbess] – Patricia Neway

A4 Do-Re-Me
Performer [Children, Brigitta] – Marilyn Rogers
Performer [Children, Friedrich] – William Snowden
Performer [Children, Gretl] – Evanna Lien
Performer [Children, Kurt] – Joseph Stewart
Performer [Children, Liesl] – Lauri Peters
Performer [Children, Louisa] – Kathy Dunn
Performer [Children, Marta] – Mary Susan Locke
Performer [Maria] – Mary Martin

A5 Sixteen Going On Seventeen
Performer [Liesl] – Lauri Peters
Performer [Rolf Gruber] – Brian Davies 

A6 The Lonely Goatherd
Performer [Children, Brigitta] – Marilyn Rogers
Performer [Children, Friedrich] – William Snowden
Performer [Children, Gretl] – Evanna Lien
Performer [Children, Kurt] – Joseph Stewart
Performer [Children, Liesl] – Lauri Peters
Performer [Children, Louisa] – Kathy Dunn
Performer [Children, Marta] – Mary Susan Locke
Performer [Maria] – Mary Martin

A7 How Can Love Survive
Performer [Elsa Schraeder] – Marion Marlowe
Performer [Max Detweiler] – Kurt Kasznar

B1 The Sound Of Music (Reprise)
Performer [Captain Von Trapp] – Theodore Bikel
Performer [Children, Brigitta] – Marilyn Rogers
Performer [Children, Friedrich] – William Snowden
Performer [Children, Gretl] – Evanna Lien
Performer [Children, Kurt] – Joseph Stewart
Performer [Children, Liesl] – Lauri Peters
Performer [Children, Louisa] – Kathy Dunn
Performer [Children, Marta] – Mary Susan Locke
Performer [Maria] – Mary Martin

B2 Laendler
Orchestra – Unknown Artist

B3 So Long, Farewell
Performer [Children, Brigitta] – Marilyn Rogers
Performer [Children, Friedrich] – William Snowden
Performer [Children, Gretl] – Evanna Lien
Performer [Children, Kurt] – Joseph Stewart
Performer [Children, Liesl] – Lauri Peters
Performer [Children, Louisa] – Kathy Dunn
Performer [Children, Marta] – Mary Susan Locke

B4 Climb Ev'ry Mountain
Performer [Mother Abbess] – Patricia Neway

B5 No Way To Stop It
Performer [Captain Von Trapp] – Theodore Bikel
Performer [Elsa Schraeder] – Marion Marlowe
Performer [Max Detweiler] – Kurt Kasznar

B6 An Ordinary Couple
Performer [Captain Von Trapp] – Theodore Bikel
Performer [Maria] – Mary Martin

B7 Processional
Performer [Nuns] – Unknown Artist

B8 Sixteen Going On Seventeen
Performer [Liesl] – Lauri Peters
Performer [Maria] – Mary Martin

B9 Edelweiss
Performer [Captain Von Trapp] – Theodore Bikel
Performer [Children, Brigitta] – Marilyn Rogers
Performer [Children, Friedrich] – William Snowden
Performer [Children, Gretl] – Evanna Lien
Performer [Children, Kurt] – Joseph Stewart
Performer [Children, Liesl] – Lauri Peters
Performer [Children, Louisa] – Kathy Dunn
Performer [Children, Marta] – Mary Susan Locke
Performer [Maria] – Mary Martin

B10 Climb Ev'ry Mountain
Performer – Company

Arranged By [Choral Arrangements By] – Trude Rittman

Directed By [Entire Production Directed By] – Vincent J. Donehue

Leader [Musical Director] – Frederick Dvonch

Lyrics By – Oscar Hammerstein 2nd
Music By – Richard Rodgers

Orchestrated By  – Robert Russell Bennett

Photography [Photos] – Friedman-Abeles

Producer [Produced For Records By] – Goddard Lieberson