| re: Bye Bye Birdie Recordings | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 05:11 pm EDT 05/04/24 | |
| In reply to: Bye Bye Birdie Recordings - EvFoDr 09:17 am EDT 05/04/24 | |
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| The London recording is enjoyable for a second take on the score, but is not as good as the original Broadway recording. Peter Marshall has a more conventionally pleasing singing voice, but he isn't nearly the comic actor (or actor generally) that Van Dyke is. Chita Rivera is very good on both recordings. I've read people who think she's even better on the London recording than on the Broadway recording, but I don't hear it. I think if anything she's a bit better on the Broadway recording. Mary Wilde is a fine Birdie, but I prefer Dick Gautier. And as BroadwayTonyJ says, Robert Nichols is not very funny in the role Paul Lynde originated on Broadway, and Sylvia Tysick isn't much of a singer (or was unwell on the day of the recording session) and not nearly as good as Susan Watson on the Broadway cast recording. I have a friend who much prefers Tysick, I think because she feels Tysick sounds more like a teenager than Watson does, but I'd certainly rather hear the much more secure singing of Watson. And the tapes must have deteriorated a bit because there is distortion in some places on the CD, or perhaps it just wasn't that well recorded in the first place, but it may be a Decca Broadway thing as there is also distortion (worse) on the Decca Broadway issue of I Had a Ball. Although I can't think of other Decca Broadway releases with that problem so it may have just been the tapes for those two recordings. |
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