Annie Get Your Gun, credited to Ethel Merman with Ray Middleton and members of the original cast, chorus and orchestra, under direction of Jay Blackton, is a 1946 album containing the original studio cast recording of that year's Broadway musical "Annie Get Your Gun".
Recording.
The album's recording started 10 days after the musical was premiered on Broadway in May 1946.
Betty Ann Nyman and Kenny Bowers didn't participate in the recording, so "Who Do You Love, I Hope?", the duet they sang in the Broadway production, was recorded for this album by Robert Lenn and Kathleen Carnes.
Release.
The album was originally issued as a set of six 10-inch 78-rpm phonograph records (cat. no. A-468). It contained 12 songs across 12 sides.
In 1949, the album was made available on LP (cat. no. DL 8001).
In 2000, a new 24-bit remastering of this album was released on CD by Decca Records.
Reception.
The album reached number two on "Billboard"'s Best-Selling Popular Record Albums chart.
In his retrospective review for AllMusic, William Ruhlmann calls the album "exactly what a cast album should be, an accurate representation of the music of a show." He also adds that "since this show was a landmark in Broadway history, that made the cast album an important contribution to musical history as well as an aural delight."
Track listing.
Album of six 10-inch 78-rpm phonograph records (Decca A-468)