Annie Get Your Gun with Ethel Merman, Ray Middleton, and members of the original cast, chorus and orchestra, under direction of Jay Blackton, is a 1946 album containing a studio recording of that year's Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun made by its original cast.
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Recording
The album was recorded ten days after the musical premiered on Broadway in May 1946.
Betty Ann Nyman and Kenny Bowers did not participate in the recording, so "Who Do You Love, I Hope?", the duet they sang in the Broadway production, was recorded for this album by Robert Lenn and Kathleen Carnes.
Release
The album was originally issued as a set of six 10-inch 78-rpm phonograph records (cat. no. A-468). It contained 12 songs across 12 sides.
In 1949, the album became available on LP (cat. no. DL 8001).
In 2000, a new 24-bit remastering of this album was released on CD by Decca Records.
Reception
The album reached number two on Billboard's Best-Selling Popular Record Albums chart.
In his retrospective review for AllMusic, William Ruhlmann calls the album "exactly what a cast album should be, an accurate representation of the music of a show." He also adds that "since this show was a landmark in Broadway history, that made the cast album an important contribution to musical history as well as an aural delight."
Track listing
Album of six 10-inch 78-rpm phonograph records (Decca A-468)