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The
King
&
I
/
Golden
City
- Original London Cast
1. Overture - Orchestra 3:24
2. I Whistle A Happy Tune - Valerie Hobson 2:48
3. My Lord And Master - Doreen Duke 2:15
4. Hello, Young Lovers - Valerie Hobson 2:53
5. March Of The Siamese Children - Orchestra 3:04
6. March Of The Siamese Children - Orchestra 3:42
7. Getting To Know You - Valerie Hobson 3:37
8. We Kiss In A Shadow - Doreen Duke & Jan Muzurus 3:33
9. Shall I Tell You What I Think Of You? - Valerie Hobson 3:48
10. Something Wonderful - Muriel Smith 2:57
11. I Have Dreamed - Doreen Duke & Jan Muzurus 3:16
12. Shall We Dance? - Valerie Hobson & Herbert Lom Selections from Golden City - Original London Cast 2:39
13. a) It's A Grand Occasion - Norman Lawrence b) One White Glove - Julia Shelley & Norman Lawrence c) The Girl In The Window - Male Quartet 4:32
14. a) It's Love, My Darling, It's Love - Norman Lawrence b) Braaivleis - Judith Whitaker & Ray Buckingham 4:42
15. a) Moonlight On The River - Julia Shelley b) Let's Go Up To Mabel's Saloon - Norman Lawrence c) When The Candle Burns Low - Muriel Brunskill, Julia Shelley, Norman Lawrence, Ray Buckingham & Judith Whitaker 4:50
16. a) The Prettiest Girl In The Town - Norman Lawrence b) All Will Come Right - Muriel Brunskill c) It's Love, My Darling, It's Love/Finale - Company 4:39
17. What More Is There To Say - Eleanor Summerfield 3:36
18. Gold Digging Digger - Eleanor Summerfield 3:28
BONUS TRACKS
19. I Love Him As He Is - Muriel Smith 3:14
20. All On Account Of A Guy - Muriel Smith 3:17
21. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me - Muriel Smith 2:34
22. I'd Love To Fall Asleep - Muriel Smith 2:30
23. Love - Muriel Smith 2:47
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Title:
The
King
And
I
/
Golden
City
(plus
bonus
tracks)
Artist:
Original
London
Cast
Catalogue
No:
SEPIA
1027
Barcode:
5055122110279
Release
Date:
16
February
2004
"The
King
And
I"
arrived
at
the
Theatre
Royal,
Drury
Lane
in
October
1953
where
it
remained
for
over
two
years
chalking
up
946
performances.
With
music
by
Richard
Rodgers
and
lyrics
by
Oscar
Hammerstein
2nd,
it
was
based
on
Margaret
Landon's
"Anna
and
the
King
of
Siam".
The
large
cast
was
headed
by
two
British
stars
of
stage
and
screen
-
Valerie
Hobson
and
Herbert
Lom,
who
both
scored
personal
triumphs
in
their
first
venture
into
musical
theatre.
American
import
Muriel
Smith,
fresh
from
portraying
Bloody
Mary
in
"South
Pacific"
in
London,
also
had
the
critics
praising
her
performance
as
Lady
Thiang.
"Golden
City"
was
set
in
South
Africa
and
showed
the
friction
between
farmers
and
gold
prospectors.
The
love
interest
was
between
an
American
engineer
named
Danny
and
the
lovely
white
South
African
Sarie,
played
by
Norman
Lawrence
and
Julia
Shelley.
Opera
star
Muriel
Brunskill
played
the
girls'
guardian
but
the
star
of
the
show
was
Eleanor
Summerfield
as
Mabel
Page,
a
music
hall
artist
who
moves
north
on
news
of
the
gold
strike
to
open
a
saloon.
"Golden
City"
had
spectacle,
vitality
and
a
black
dance
team
that
was
praised
in
most
of
the
reviews
but
sadly
it
closed
after
140
performances.
Our
bonus
tracks
are
popular
recordings
made
by
Muriel
Smith
-
two
songs
from
the
English
musical
"Bet
Your
Life"
-
'I
Love
Him
As
He
Is'
and
'All
On
Account
Of
A
Guy',
and
in
the
same
year
she
opened
in
"The
King
and
I"
she
had
a
hit
with
'Hold
Me,
Thrill
Me,
Kiss
Me'
which
in
its
seventeen
weeks
in
the
English
charts
reached
the
third
position
-
it
was
her
only
British
hit.
During
this
pop
period
she
also
recorded
'I'd
Love
To
Fall
Asleep'
and
'Love',
all
included
here.
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