Artist: Original Cast Recording
Genre: Musical Theatre
Original Cast Recordings preserve the performances of the original Broadway or West End casts of musical theatre productions. These albums document theatrical music as performed by the artists who created the roles, capturing the specific interpretations and arrangements heard in original productions. Original cast recordings have become essential documents of musical theatre history, preserving shows that might otherwise exist only in memory. From Rodgers and Hammerstein classics to contemporary hits like 'Hamilton,' these recordings allow audiences worldwide to experience theatrical music. The format represents an important intersection of live performance and recorded music.
Original Cast Recording vinyl records (75)
ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING The Black Mikado (Scarce 1975 UK Transatlantic 13-track vinyl LP of vocal highlights from the West End production of the Black Mikado housed in a superb fully laminated picture sleeve with tiny deletion hole. The sleeve shows minimal wear with only a little foxing to sleeve & the vinyl appears barely played - a nice clean copy
£23.00 used
ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING Walking Happy (1966 US 16-track mono vinyl LP - a wonderful original Broadway recording of the Cy Feuer directed musical starring Norman Wisdom Louise Troy & George Rose based on the play Hobsons Choice by Harold Brighouse. Housed in a front pasted gatefold picture sleeve
£9.00 used
ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING Excerpts From Irma La Douce (1958 UK 4-track 7 EP including Our Language Of Love Dis-Donc Dis-Donc & From A Prison Cell front laminated flipback picture sleeve. The sleeve shows mild foxing and some minimal edge wear along the right side & the vinyl shows a few paper scuffs but considering its age its doing well BBE12242)
£9.00 used
IPI N TOMBIA featuring MARGARET SINGANA The Warrior (1975 UK 10-track vinyl LP an original Sabtel South Africa recording offering pastiches of a variety of South African indigenous musical styles originating from the Bertha Egnos Godfrey &Gail Lakier play front laminated gatefold picture sleeve GAL6000) Track Listing: A1 The Warrior 4:00 A2 Misunderstood 2:56 A3 Imyeneni 3:04 A4 Mama Tembus Wedding 2:43 A5 They Took Her Away From The Land 3:21 B1 Ipi N Tombi 3:37 B2 Soweto By Night 2:38 B3 Mother Mary 3:15 B4 Zimbaba 2:10 B5 The Digger 4:17
£17.00 used
ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING Lady Be Good (1978 UK 13-track LP featuring recordings made during the London run of the show at the Old Empire Theatre in Leicester Square in April 1926 with Fred & Adele Astaire [brother and sister] along with George Gershwin himself on piano. Also includes some early film soundtrack recordings housed in a front laminated picture sleeve
£17.00 used
ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING Ben Franklin In Paris (1965 UK 16-track mono LP on the rainbow rim label for the musical featuring Robert Preston Ulla Sallert & Susan Watson front laminated flipback picture sleeve. The sleeve shows minimal wear & after half a century the vinyl still looks barely played W2191) Track Listing: 1
£17.00 used
ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING Excerpts From West Side Story No. 2 (1962 issue of the 1957 UK 4-track 7 vinyl EP on the textured orange CBS label with intact three prong centre featuring more tracks by the original Broadway cast including Prologue/ Jet Song Somethings Coming America and A Boy Like That / I Have A Love housed in a front-laminated flipback picture sleeve with sleevenotes printed on the reverse
£9.99 used
ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING Showboat (1971 UK 15-track stereo LP featuring music by Jerome Kern from the London production starring Andre Jobim Cleo Laine & more front laminated picture sleeve. The sleeve shows just a little light shelfwear & the vinyl looks barely played SCX6480) Track Listing: Opening Act 1: Cotton Blossom Wheres The Mate For Me
£9.00 used
ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING The Hostage (1959 UK 6-track 7 vinyl LP featuring songs from The Theatre Workshops production of Brendan Behans controversial yet realistic play that brings humour to a potentially very dark subject featuring AlfredLynch in the lead role fully laminated flipback picture sleeve
£39.00 used
ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING West Side Story (1959 UK 4-track 7 vinyl EP featuring the Original London Cast of Don McKay & Marlys Watters front laminated flipback picture sleeve. The sleeve shows just a few spots of mild discolouration on the unlaminated back & the vinyl shows only the lightest signs of play 7EG8429) Track Listing: Maria - Don McKay I Feel Pretty - Marlys Watters Tonight - Don McKay & Marlys Watters One Hand One Heart - Don McKay & Marlys Watters
£17.00 used