An Evening With Frank Loesser

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Total Tracks: 22   Total Length: 64:40

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Fantastic!

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This recording is as much fun as full-cast recordings of Guys and Dolls, The Most Happy Fella, and How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. His insight into these classic Broadway shows is invaluale.

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An Evening with Frank Loesser contains performances associated with three Frank Loesser shows — Guys and Dolls, The Most Happy Fella, and How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. Loesser has a good, sometimes gruff voice and puts the material across well while accompanying himself on piano. These are early versions — lyrics changed and songs were replaced before these scores got to Broadway — so this is, in a sense, an album for Broadway scholars, although mere fans will have a good time, too. The material from The Most Happy Fella, dating from three years before the actual production, features Maxene Andrews of the Andrews Sisters and is previously unreleased. – William Ruhlmann

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