I Can Get It For You Wholesale (album)
| I Can Get It for You Wholesale: Original Broadway Cast Recording | ||||
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| Cast recording by Barbra Streisand | ||||
| Released | April 1962 | |||
| Genre | Showtunes | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Goddard Lieberson | |||
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| Singles from I Can Get It for You Wholesale: Original Broadway Cast Recording | ||||
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I Can Get It for You Wholesale: Original Broadway Cast Recording contains the songs from the Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale, with music and lyrics by Harold Rome. The album contains Barbra Streisand's show-stopping solo "Miss Marmelstein", which became the most memorable song of the show.
Barbra Streisand vocals are featured in the songs "I'm Not A Well Man", "Ballard Of The Garment Trade", "Miss Marmelstein" and "What Are They Doing To Us Now?". This album marks Barbra's first professional recording and Columbia Records appearance.[1]
Goddard Lieberson, who produced the album, signed Streisand to a contract, and her first solo album The Barbra Streisand Album was released two months after I Can Get It for You Wholesale closed.
Barbra remembers in Just For The Record: "My first audition for the show was on the morning after Thanksgiving in 1961. Since the action took place in the 1930s, I showed up in a '30s fur coat that I'd bought in a thrift shop for $10. I sang three songs, including my new standby "A Sleepin' Bee." They asked me to come back and gave me "Miss Marmelstein" to learn for my second audition a few hours later."
All songs written by Harold Rome.
The following songs from the musical show were not included in the cast recording:
The songs "Miss Marmelstein" (performed by Barbra Streisand) and "Who Knows?" (performed by Marilyn Cooper) were released to radio as a promotional single in April 1962.[2]
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