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Was Good News available in stores? I can't believe I missed it.

The raspiness is part of its charm which she has by the mile and is why she's featured in those composer bios singing Cleopatterer and Thou Swell. I was watching on youtube the intro to Good News from TCM featuring Osborne and the author of Charles Walters' bio. They talk about how wonderful...

And it sounds like the exact same voice in all the musicals she did.

That's very surprising because it sounds exactly like Allyson. I've never heard she was dubbed. Kay Thompson said that if she could teach Allyson to sing she could teach anybody.

Do you know what other tracks are in stereo? I would love to have Pass That Peace Pipe and Varsity Drag. Looks like even used copies are very expensive.

Joan McCracken was the girl who fell down in the original cast of Oklahoma. Watch the movie. I always think that it's a slight dig at Balanchine's Serenade by Agnes. The big band arrangement of Lucky in Love that plays when you pull up the menu of Good News sounds like early stereo and much...

Arlene Croce the great dance critic of the New Yorker writing about MGM musicals wrote that Good News was one of the few she felt that worked all the way through. I hadn't seen it but that certainly piqued my interest so I went to see it at Radio City in the late 70s. Unfortunately it was shown...