Title:
Hazel
Flagg
(with
bonus
tracks)
Artist:
Original
Broadway
Cast
Catalogue
No:
SEPIA
1035
Barcode:
5055122110354
Release
Date:
5
July
2004
Even
with
music
by
Jule
Styne,
and
starring
Helen
Gallagher,
fresh
from
her
Tony
Award
winning
role
in
the
previous
year’s
Pal
Joey,
the
1953
Broadway
production
of
Hazel
Flagg
was
not
a
successful
musical
running
for
only
190
performances.
Perhaps
it
was
due
to
the
show
being
a
satire
and
satire
is
something
that
rarely
works
in
a
musical.
However
the
score
was
enchanting
and
it
provided
Eddie
Fisher
with
a
Top
Twenty
hit
-
“How
Do
You
Speak
To
An
Angel?”.
The
original
cast
recording
has
long
being
a
collector’s
item
so
we
are
delighted
to
be
re-issuing
it
on
CD
with
bonus
tracks,
most
of
which
are
appearing
on
CD
for
the
first
time.
Thomas
Mitchell
won
a
Tony
Award
for
outstanding
musical
actor
for
Hazel
Flagg
and
Helen
Gallagher
went
on
to
win
a
second
Tony
Award
for
No,
No
Nanette.
Veteran
stage
and
film
actress
Benay
Venuta
played
Dolly
Tate
in
the
film
of
Annie
Get
Your
Gun.
At
the
time
of
the
original
issue
of
the
LP,
it
was
the
fashion
to
make
cover
versions
of
likely
hit
songs
from
a
show
by
commercial
“pop”
artists.
We
have
featured
the
Eddie
Fisher
track
mentioned
above
and
also
included
recordings
by
Sunny
Gale,
Dinah
Shore
and
Guy
Lombardo.
The
last
six
tracks
were
originally
issued
on
a
rare
three
78
set
performed
by
the
delightful
Benay
Venuta
entitled
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Gazette.
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