06 - I'll Hit A New High
The 2003 premiere recording of Kay Swift's hit musical FINE AND DANDY features a 28-piece orchestra and a luminous cast of Broadway and jazz greats headed by Carolee Carmello, Gavin Creel, Andréa Burns, Mark Linn-Baker, Mario Cantone, Deborah Tranelli, Jennifer Laura Thompson and Anne Kaufman – with special appearances by Ann Hampton Callaway, Jack Donahue, Natalie Douglas and Jessica Molaskey & John Pizzarelli. Kay Swift was one of Broadway's first female composers, and FINE AND DANDY one of the biggest hits of Broadway's 1930–31 season, an exuberant blend of musical comedy, vaudeville and social satire. With a cast headed by funnyman Joe Cook, it had the 1930 critics singing its praises. The reviewer for the New York World called it "one of the best shows I have ever seen," while his colleague at the Herald-Tribune crowned it "the blue chip of American musical comedies." Yet this marvelous work has never been recorded – till now! As carefully restored from Kay Swift's original manuscripts by conductor Aaron Gandy and orchestrators Russell Warner & Larry Moore, PS Classics' new recording boasts nearly two-dozen musical numbers. https://goo.gl/LbC3B4
The 2003 premiere recording of Kay Swift's hit musical FINE AND DANDY features a 28-piece orchestra and a luminous cast of Broadway and jazz greats headed by Carolee Carmello, Gavin Creel, Andréa Burns, Mark Linn-Baker, Mario Cantone, Deborah Tranelli, Jennifer Laura Thompson and Anne Kaufman – with special appearances by Ann Hampton Callaway, Jack Donahue, Natalie Douglas and Jessica Molaskey & John Pizzarelli. Kay Swift was one of Broadway's first female composers, and FINE AND DANDY one of the biggest hits of Broadway's 1930–31 season, an exuberant blend of musical comedy, vaudeville and social satire. With a cast headed by funnyman Joe Cook, it had the 1930 critics singing its praises. The reviewer for the New York World called it "one of the best shows I have ever seen," while his colleague at the Herald-Tribune crowned it "the blue chip of American musical comedies." Yet this marvelous work has never been recorded – till now! As carefully restored from Kay Swift's original manuscripts by conductor Aaron Gandy and orchestrators Russell Warner & Larry Moore, PS Classics' new recording boasts nearly two-dozen musical numbers. https://goo.gl/LbC3B4