Overture (2:40) -- An English teacher (2:52) -- The telephone hour (3:03) -- How lovely to be a woman (2:31) -- Put on a happy face (3:18) -- A healthy, normal, American boy (3:53) -- One boy (2:45) -- Honestly sincere (3:22) -- Hymn for a Sunday evening (Ed Sullivan) (2:01) -- One last kiss (1:34) -- What did I ever see in him? (1:55) -- A lot of livin' to do (2:54) -- Kids (1:29) -- Baby, talk to me (2:47) -- Kids reprise (1:09) -- Spanish rose (3:21) -- Rosie (3:35) -- Put on a happy face (2:32)
Note
Book by Michael Stewart.
Originally released as OL/OS 2025, May 1960; track 18 previously unreleased.
Author
Strouse, Charles, composer.
Title
Bye bye Birdie : original Broadway cast / music by Charles Strouse ; lyrics by Lee Adams.
Publisher
[Place of publication not identified] : Sony Classical, [2000]
Copyright date
℗2000
Playing time
004741
Type of content
performed music
Type of medium
computer
Type of carrier
online resource
Digital file characteristics
audio file
Performer
Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke, Kay Medford, Paul Lynde, Dick Gautier, Michael J. Pollard, and Susan Watson, vocals ; with additional singers; orchestra ; Lawrence Elliot, conductor (tracks 1-17); Charles Strouse, vocals (track 18)
Event
Tracks 1-17 recorded 1960 April 24 Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York City.
Track 18 recorded in concert 1978 May 18 Smithsonian Institution.