“Rodgers And Hammerstein’s South Pacific” by Rodgers and Hammerstein - album review

features in: Album Chart of 1958Album Chart of the Decade: 1950s

TJR says

The stylish “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair” is superior to anything else on this cheese-fest, and “Happy Talk” is, admittedly, a bit of a smiler. I’m also willing to admit there is nothing like the frame of a dame. But I don’t feel the need for a choral singing session with the lads to shout about it. This is a horrible, hideous record full of psuedo-operatic cabaret-garbage. I have now filed it away never to be visited again, of that I’m 99% certain and 100% hopeful.

The Jukebox Rebel
26–Feb–2010

Tracklist
A1 [02:46] 3.2.png Rodgers and Hammerstein - South Pacific Overture (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Film Score / Incidental
A2 [01:16] 1.5.png Rodgers and Hammerstein - Dites-Moi (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Crooner / Cabaret
A3 [01:41] 1.4.png Rodgers and Hammerstein - A Cock-Eyed Optimist (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Crooner / Cabaret
A4 [05:46] 0.7.png Rodgers and Hammerstein - Twin Soliloquies : Some Enchanted Evening (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Operatic / Choral
A5 [01:53] 1.0.png Rodgers and Hammerstein - Bloody Mary (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Crooner / Cabaret
A6 [01:39] 0.4.png Rodgers and Hammerstein - My Girl Back Home (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Crooner / Cabaret
A7 [03:48] 0.9.png Rodgers and Hammerstein - There’s Nothing Like A Dame (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Crooner / Cabaret
A8 [03:41] 0.3.png Rodgers and Hammerstein - Bali Ha’l (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Crooner / Cabaret
B1 [02:55] 5.2.png Rodgers and Hammerstein - I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Crooner / Cabaret
B2 [03:23] 2.3.png Rodgers and Hammerstein - A Wonderful Guy (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Crooner / Cabaret
B3 [04:57] 0.2.png Rodgers and Hammerstein - Younger Than Springtime (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Crooner / Cabaret
B4 [03:44] 4.0.png Rodgers and Hammerstein - Happy Talk (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Crooner / Cabaret
B5 [01:47] 2.2.png Rodgers and Hammerstein - Honey Bun (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Crooner / Cabaret
B6 [01:16] 1.3.png Rodgers and Hammerstein - Carefully Taught (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Crooner / Cabaret
B7 [02:07] 0.1.png Rodgers and Hammerstein - This Nearly Was Mine (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Operatic / Choral
B8 [02:58] 0.3.png Rodgers and Hammerstein - Finale (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) TBA

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