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Why it took so long for original cast recordings to be produced for Broadway shows is a real mystery to me. I would have thought the composers would have fought like banshees to have ALL of their songs put down on records for posterity rather than having recording stars wax only the few hits a...

I think the producers must have feared that her vocals in comparison to the trained voices of the other major singing stars Keel, Grayson, and Warfield would suffer, and, indeed, reactions to her singing in the first sneak previews were not enthusiastic (though her character was always the...

Of course, there are plenty of Doris Day movies left to appear on Blu-ray, but I have to admit she's been treated very well by the format even if we had to wait a long, long time to get many of them.

Does anybody know right off the length of the runs of Show Boat and An American in Paris at the Music Hall? I honestly didn't even know they played there. I guess I just assumed they'd played the Capitol or the State.

I did buy it, and it looks beautiful, but like every other MGM musical that I've bought on iTunes HD and then bought the Blu, the Blu-ray is one slight notch upward in visual quality.

Dear lord, let's not forget Three Little Words!

Yes, Peterson is on the various LPs and is credited. If I recall, it's the last cut on at least one of the albums of it I have. You're right, SInatra is nowhere to be heard on the LPs, just as Perry Como isn't on the Words and Music soundtrack LPs.

I've owned that album in many different incarnations but never on 78s.

1.33:1 is the ratio for 4:3 television sets and all the shows on them predating the high definition era.

That's perhaps the oddest fact about this incarnation of Show Boat. In every soundtrack release of the film on LP, Ava Gardner's tracks are used for Julie's two big numbers. Before the release of the Rhino CD, the only way to hear Annette Warren was to see the film. You certainly couldn't say...

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