Track Listing

1. Overture
2. Loneliness of Evening - Stuart Damon
3. Cinderella March
4. In My Own Little Corner - Lesley Ann Warren
5. Prince Is Giving a Ball - Don Heitgerd
6. Impossible/It's Possible - Celeste Holm, Lesley Ann Warren
7. Gavotte
8. Ten Minutes Ago - Stuart Damon, Lesley Ann Warren
9. Stepsisters' Lament - Pat Carroll, Barbara Ruick
10. Waltz for a Ball - Chorus
11. Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful? - Stuart Damon, Lesley Ann Warren
12. When You're Driving Through the Moonlight/A Lovely Night - Pat Carroll, , Barbara Ruick, Jo Van Fleet, Lesley Ann Warren
13. Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?/The Wedding (Finale)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5471 in Music
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 1993-09-21
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Customer Reviews

A Lovely Listening Experience
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella was originally written in 1957 for CBS television and starred Julie Andrews as Cinderella and Jon Cypher as the Prince. It was broadcast live on television that same year and was seen by a record breaking 107 million people.

In 1965, the network decided to mount a new production of the same show with a new all star cast. This time, the production was videotaped for posterity. While its audience didn't break any records, it nevertheless gained a respectable amount of viewers. It is the cast recording of this 1965 remake that we have here.

This album is not a true soundtrack, but rather, it was treated more like a Broadway show. The entire cast and orchestra went into the recording studio and recorded all of the show's songs, and the album was released in conjunction with the show's premiere. It is because of this that we notice some minor differences between the cast album and the show's soundtrack. For the show, several of the songs have been sped up. Additionally, the character playing the stepmother (Jo Van Fleet in the show itself) does not appear on this album and has been replaced here for the lines she has in "When You're Driving Through the Moonlight."

Nevertheless, we have an excellent recording that belongs right up there with Rodgers and Hammerstein's best.

In my own little corner
For many years,before the advent of the compact disc, you could not beg borrow or steal a copy of this soundtrack,and I made the mistake of loaning mine out.Even then you could only get it from a "special TV offer". Thank goodness for CDs! I own both the original Julie Andrews version as well as this one. I found Lesley Warren to be an excellent Cinderella, although she lacked the depth and range of Julie Andrews. Stuart Damon as the prince is tops,and I found the haunting "Loneliness of evening". It is too bad that the technology we have today and have had since the 60's wasnt around when the original was done... all that remains other than the recordings are some fuzzy clips of Andrew's production. I enjoyed the supporting cast of the '65 edition,especially "why would a fellow" and of course "Its possible" with Celeste Holm. An all around good recording!

A lively, entertaining "Cinderella"
If "Cinderella" is second-string R&H -- John Simon has called it "anodyne" -- it is very entertaining R&H. Even after 37 years the second CBS special has a glow that suffuses this album. It's cruder but livelier than the 1957 affair as this is a true soundtrack album, unlike Goddard Lieberson's strictly studio version; the cast is more energetic, likewise John Green's conducting. The faults are the same; as Alec Wilder said of the sublime "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?", the composer seems to have changed stations before the ending. But it is still great fun, a rare quality found perhaps in "Flower Drum Song" and not much else. Note: the engineers decided to record this not for the stereo systems of 2002 but for the little TV speakers of the mid-sixties, hence the sound is somewhat compressed.