JULE STYNE "PRETTYBELLE" 1970? RARE BACKERS AUDITION DISC 1 SIDED W/SHEET MUSIC

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THIS RECORD COMES FROM THE TIME I WAS THE MUSIC & PROMOTIONS COORDINATOR FOR A MAJOR NATIONAL RADIO NETWORK BASED IN THE L.A. AREA. WHEN I STARTED WORKING THERE THEY WERE IN THE PROCESS OF GETTING RID OF THEIR RECORDS FOR CD'S. I ALSO HAVE SOME THAT WERE GIFTED TO ME BY AN EMPLOYEE OF THE NETWORK THAT WAS RELOCATING BACK EAST AND DIDNT WANT TO KEEP HAULING THEIR RECORDS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. ALSO A FEW MAY BE THRIFT STORE FINDS. I AM CURRENTLY DOWNSIZING.

THE PHOTO'S MAY BE A LITTLE BLURRY (SORRY ABOUT THAT), BUT THE PHOTO'S ARE OF THE ACTUAL ITEM YOU ARE BIDDING ON. THANKS FOR LOOKING. THIS ITEM IS PLAY GRADED ALSO.

ARTIST- SMALL GROUP COMPOSED OF DRUMS, PIANO,HARPSICHORD, GUITAR, VIOLINS, FLUTE AND A COUPLE OF MALE VOCALISTS AND TRACK 3 A FEMALE SINGER.

TITLE- “ALEXANDER COHEN PRESENTS ANGELA LANSBURY IN PRETTY BELLE (A MUSICAL COMEDY)”

BOOK & LYRICS BY BOB MERRILL

MUSIC BY JULE STYNE

TRACK LISTING-SEE PHOTO & BELOW

1. “PRETTY BELLE” (2:31) GUITAR, HARPSICHORD, DRUMS, BASS MALE SINGER

2. “INDIVIDUAL THING” (4:05) MALE SINGER, PIANO & STRINGS

3. “I MET A MAN” (2:06) FEMALE VOCALIST BASS, DRUMS, ROCK GUITAR W/STRINGSUPBEAT ROCK STYLE

4. “TO A SMALL DEGREE” (3:40) NICE BALLAD BASS, DRUMS, HARPSICHORD, STRINGS.

5. “HOW COULD I KNOW” (3:03) UPTEMPO ROCK BEAT MALE SINGER.

6. “I'M IN A TREE” (2:10) ACOUSTIC GUITAR & CELESTE, MALE VOCAL, BALLAD

7. “PRETTY BELLS” REPRIS OF TRACK 1, SLIGHTLY MORE OF A COUNTRY FLAVORED GUITAR.

YEAR OF RELEASE- 1971 (?)

LABEL- SELF RELEASE

CAT.#- CRP 1001

RECORD CONDITION- THE RECORD IS VISUALLY AND PLAY GRADED. THE RECORD IS VG/VG+ CONDITION.NO VISIBLE WEAR, SCRATCHES, LINES ETC. NICE SHINEY LUSTER TO THE VINYL. LABEL IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. LOOKS AND PLAYS ALMOST NEW. THE BACKSIDE IS BLANK (SEE PHOTO). THERE ARE A FEW VERY LIGHT POPS & CLICKS I NOTICED ON TRACK 2, OTHERWISE THIS PLAYS VERY CLEAN.

JACKET CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN DECENT SHAPE, IT BASICALLY IS A GENERIC WHITE JACKET, BUT HAS A XEROX OF THE ACTUAL CAST LP COVER ART TAPED ON THE FRONT, I THINK THIS WAS FOR EASY IN IDENTIFICATION IN WHOMEVER THIS BELONGED TO'S RECORD COLLECTION.

SHEET MUSIC: THERE ARE SIX COPIES OF ORIGINAL SHEET MUSIC THAT COMES WITH THIS, THERE IS SOME VERY VERY LIGHT AGING, BUT NO TEARS, CREASES OR WRINKLES,ALL IN ALL IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.(SEE PHOTOS). THESE ARE LEAD SHEETS WITH LYRICS FOR ALL THE SONGS ON THE LP.

MORE INFO - THIS RECORD IS WHAT I AM CALLING A “BACKERS AUDITION DISC”. IT HAS FIVE OF THE ORIGINAL SONGS FROM THE MUSICAL, THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN PLAYED TO TRY & FIND FINANCIAL BACKERS FOR THIS SHOW, I RAN INTO A TROVE OF SOME VERY RARE CAST LP'S, HERE IN HOLLYWOOD ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO, AT AN OUT OF THE CLOSET THRIFT STORE IN WEST HOLLYWOOD, THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF RECORDS I BOUGHT AROUND 75, THIS IS ONE OF THEM, WHOMEVER OWNED THEM WORKED IN MUSICAL THEATER AND I HAVE A FEELING PASSED AWAY AND THEN THESE WERE DONATED TO THE THRIFT STORE. THIS WAS NOT SOLD TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC . THIS SHOW NEVER MADE IT TO BROADWAY.

MORE INFO ON THE ARTIST & RELEASE- ANGELA LANSBURY DOES NOT SING ON THIS! JUST A HEADS UP  

Jule Styne born Julius Kerwin Stein, December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994) was a British-American song writer and composer known for a series of Broadway musicals, which include several famous and frequently revived shows which also became successful films, including Gypsy, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Funny Girl.

Early life

Styne was born to a Jewish family in London, England to immigrants from Ukraine, the Russian Empire who ran a small grocery. Even before his family left Britain, he did impressions on the stage of well-known singers, including Harry Lauder who saw him perform and advised him to take up the piano. At the age of eight, he moved with his family to Chicago, where at an early age he began taking piano lessons. He proved to be a prodigy and performed with the Chicago, St. Louis, and Detroit Symphonies before he was ten years old.

Career

Styne attended Chicago Musical College, but before then, he had already attracted attention of another teenager, Mike Todd, later a successful film producer, who commissioned him to write a song for a musical act that he was creating. It was the first of over 1,500 published songs Styne composed in his career. His first hit, "Sunday", was written in 1926. In 1929, Styne was playing with the Ben Pollack band.

Styne was a vocal coach for 20th Century Fox, until Darryl F. Zanuck fired him because vocal coaching was "a luxury, and we're cutting out those luxuries", and told him he should write songs, because "that's forever". Styne established his own dance band, which brought him to the notice of Hollywood, where he was championed by Frank Sinatra and where he began a collaboration with lyricist Sammy Cahn. He and Cahn wrote many songs for the movies, including "It's Been a Long, Long Time" (No. 1 for three weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1945), "Five Minutes More," and the Oscar-winning title song for Three Coins in the Fountain (1954). He collaborated on the score for the 1955 musical film My Sister Eileen with Leo Robin. Ten of his songs were nominated for the Oscar, many written with Cahn, including "I've Heard That Song Before" (No. 1 for 13 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1943), "I'll Walk Alone", "It's Magic" (a No. 2 hit for Doris Day in 1948), and "I Fall In Love Too Easily".

In 1947, Styne wrote his first score for a Broadway musical, High Button Shoes, with Cahn, and over the next several decades wrote the scores for many Broadway shows, most notably Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Peter Pan (additional music), Bells Are Ringing, Gypsy, Do Re Mi, Funny Girl, Lorelei, Sugar (with a story based on the movie Some Like It Hot, but all new music), and the Tony-winning Hallelujah, Baby!.

Styne wrote original music for the short-lived, themed amusement park Freedomland U.S.A. which opened on June 19, 1960.

His collaborators included Sammy Cahn, Leo Robin, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Stephen Sondheim, and Bob Merrill. Carol Channing was the lead in many of his musicals.

He was the subject of This Is Your Life for British television in 1978 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in New York's Time Square.

Styne died of heart failure in New York City at the age of 88. His archive - including original hand-written compositions, letters, and production materials - is housed at the Harry Ransom Center.

Awards

Styne was elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972 and the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981,and he was a recipient of a Drama Desk Special Award and the Kennedy Center Honors in 1990. Additionally, Styne won the 1955 Oscar for Best Music, Original Song for "Three Coins in the Fountain", and "Hallelujah, Baby!" won the 1968 Tony Award for Best Original Score.

Prettybelle is a musical with a book and lyrics by Bob Merrill and music by Jule Styne. It was adapted from Jean Arnold's darkly comic novel Prettybelle: A lively tale of the rape and resurrection (Dial Press, 1970). It starred Angela Lansbury, but never was produced on Broadway and closed in Boston in 1971.

History

Bob Merrill and Jule Styne met with director Gene Saks for several weeks to work on the musical, but Saks eventually decided not to do the show. Merrill then suggested Gower Champion, who agreed to tackle the project because "It grabbed me." Angela Lansbury liked the idea of an intimate show for a small theatre.

The show was plagued with problems from the start. Merrill's and Champion's intent to bring to the stage the techniques and abstractions of avant-garde films never was fulfilled. Champion wanted a "no-glitz approach" and so the set design was a unit set that had to "take on...different aspects...and wasn't complex" Producer Alexander H. Cohen was dissatisfied with director/choreographer Champion's approach to the material and his dictatorial treatment of the cast, and the latter ultimately banned him from rehearsals. Leading lady Angela Lansbury pledged to boycott a move to Broadway unless everything was fixed during the out-of-town tryout in Boston.

Production

Cohen scheduled the Broadway opening at the Majestic Theatre for March 15, 1971, the last day of Tony Award eligibility, in order to get publicity for the show. The Boston tryout opened on February 1, 1971 at the Shubert Theatre. In addition to Lansbury, the cast included Jon Cypher and Charlotte Rae. Champion was the director, scenic design was by Oliver Smith and costumes by Ann Roth. Much to Lansbury's relief, Cohen closed the show in Boston on March 6, 1971.

Although bootleg recordings of the entire show are known to exist, no original cast recording was ever released at the time. In 1982, record producer Bruce Yeko (who headed the Original Cast record label) reunited the principal members of the original cast (Angela Lansbury, Mark Dawson, Peter Lombard and Bert Michaels) to record a new studio album of the show. The LP was re-issued on CD in 1993 by Varèse Sarabande.

Synopsis

A spectral Folksinger sings the ballad of one Prettybelle Sweet... In 1968: Prettybelle is writing her memoirs from an insane asylum ("Manic-Depressives"). She was the ladylike wife of Leroy Sweet, a bigoted sheriff in the Jim Crow South. He was blatantly unfaithful to her ("You Ain't Hurtin' Your Ole Lady None"), and when he suddenly dies, she ambivalently mourns him ("To a Small Degree"). Leroy's ghost returns ("Back from the Great Beyond"), and boasts of his hate crimes against African Americans. She is horrified ("How Could I Know?"), and attempts to make amends by writing checks to the NAACP and offering herself sexually to Mexicans and African American men ("I Never Did Imagine"). Prettybelle becomes involved with Mason Miller, a liberal lawyer ("I Met a Man"). As a result, the Ku Klux Klan attacks Prettybelle's house. However, the local hippies help her clean her house up ("God's Garden"). But, then, at the climax, Mason shockingly betrays Prettybelle and she goes into hiding at the state asylum ("Prettybelle" reprise).

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