Kiss Me Kate | |
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![]() Cover used for the album of 45-rpm records (cat. no. A-200) | |
Cast recording by Alfred Drake with the original Broadway cast | |
Released | February 15, 1949 |
Genre | Show tunes |
Label | Columbia Masterworks |
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Kiss Me, Kate, credited to Alfred Drake with the original Broadway cast, [2] is the album containing the original studio cast recording of the 1948 musical Kiss Me, Kate . [3] It was released by Columbia on February 15, 1949. [4]
The album was released as a set of six 78-rpm phonograph records (cat. no. C-200). [5] [ better source needed ] It was also made available on LP (cat. no. ML-4140). [6] [7]
The album spent several weeks at number one on Billboard's Best-Selling Popular Record Albums chart.
12" LP (Columbia Masterworks ML 4140) [8]
No. | Title | Artist(s) | Length |
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1. | "Overture" – "Another Op'nin', Another Show" | Annabelle Hill with Chorus | |
2. | "Why Can't You Behave" | Kirk & Lang | |
3. | "Wunderbar" | Drake & Morison | |
4. | "So in Love" | Morison | |
5. | "We Open in Venice" | Drake, Morison, Kirk and Lang | |
6. | "Tom, Dick or Harry" | Kirk, Lang, Edwin Clay and Charles Wood | |
7. | "I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua" | Drake with Chorus | |
8. | "I Hate Men" | Morison |
No. | Title | Artist(s) | Length |
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1. | "Were Thine That Special Face" | Drake | |
2. | "Too Darn Hot" | Lorenzo Fuller, Eddie Sledge and Fred Davis | |
3. | "Where Is the Life That I Led?" | Drake | |
4. | "Always True to You (in My Fashion)" | Kirk | |
5. | "Bianca" | Lang | |
6. | "So in Love" (Reprise) | Drake | |
7. | "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" | Jack Diamond, Harry Clark | |
8. | "1." "I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple" "2." "Finale" | 1. Morison 2. Drake & Morison |
Chart (1949) | Peak position |
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US Billboard Best-Selling Popular Record Albums [5] | 1 |