Leland Hayward, Richard Halliday, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Mary Martin - The Sound Of Music (Original Broadway Cast) (LP, Album, Mono, Gat)

Media Condition:  Very Good Plus (VG+)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Country:    US  
Released:  1959
Genre:       Stage & Screen
Style:         Musical

Visually graded disc, disc is a strong VG+. Cover has very few very light rubbing blemishes on both sides of cover, light shelf wear on corners.

Backstock LP 018

28183942

Notes:

A Rodgers and Hammerstein Records, Inc. Production
(R) "Columbia" "Masterworks"
(C) 1959 Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein 2nd, Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse
Printed in U.S.A.

This Columbia High Fidelity recording is scientifically designed to play with the highest quality of reproduction on the phonograph of your choice, new or old. If you are the owner of a new stereophonic system, this record will play with even more brilliant true-to-life fidelity. In short, you can purchase this record with no fear of its becoming obsolete in the future.

Title as it appears on spine of Gatefold sleeve: The Sound Of Music (Rodgers And Hammerstein) Mary Martin And The Original Broadway Cast

Suggested by "The Trapp Family Singers" by Maria Augusta Trapp.

Nonbreakable

Side 1 = A, XXLP 48555-1AE
Side 2 = B, XXLP 48556-2B

Theodore Bikel appears by courtesy of Elektra Records.

Marilyn Rogers appears credited on front of sleeve, inside sleeve name appears as Marilyn Robers.

Notes not on release:
Tracklisting inside Gatefold sleeve lists performers by name only, liner notes & photos inside sleeve mention the main character names for the respective performers, the [  listed below with the respective performer provides additional character's names not provided in the tracklisting or liner notes of this Original Broadway Cast recording.

"The Sound of Music" opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 16, 1959, and ran for 1,443 performances.  The production shared the Tony Award for Best Musical with Fiorello!.  It also won for Best Actress in a Musical (Mary Martin), Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Patricia Neway), Best Scenic Design of a Musical (Oliver Smith), and Best Musical Direction. And it was nominated for Best Featured Actor in a Musical (both Theodore Bikel and Kurt Kasznar) and Best Director of a Musical (Vincent J. Donehue). The entire children's cast was nominated for Best Featured Actress category as a single nominee, even though two children were boys.

The original Broadway cast album has since sold three million copies.  The Columbia Masterworks  LP was released in 1959 (Stereo edition <a href="">KOS 2020</a>). 1st release is in a Gatefold sleeve with drawing of a guitar on the front, a photo of Mary Martin and the children on the back and extensive notes and photos of the production inside. This was Columbia's first cast album issued in a Gatefold cover and carrying the KOL/KOS prefix.

In the mid 1960s Columbia pressed additional LPs using a standard sleeve with the photo of Mary and the kids on the front and re-printing the synopsis on the back. The catalog number remained the same.

Track List:

A1.1. Preludium
A1.2. The Sound Of Music
A2. Maria
A3. My Favorite Things
A4. Do-Re-Me
A5. Sixteen Going On Seventeen
A6. The Lonely Goatherd
A7. How Can Love Survive
B1. The Sound Of Music (Reprise)
B2. Laendler
B3. So Long, Farewell
B4. Climb Ev'ry Mountain
B5. No Way To Stop It
B6. An Ordinary Couple
B7. Processional
B8. Sixteen Going On Seventeen
B9. Edelweiss
B10. Climb Ev'ry Mountain

Barcode and Other Identifiers:

Matrix / Runout XXLP48555-1CC
Matrix / Runout XXLP48556-1BB
Matrix / Runout XXLP48555-1AD TA [stamped] IIII [etched]
Matrix / Runout XXLP48555-1F [stamped]
Matrix / Runout XXLP48555-1CD TC [stamped]
Matrix / Runout XXLP48556-1CC [stamped]