Favorites in Stereo
| Favorites in Stereo | ||
|---|---|---|
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| Studio album by Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy | ||
| Released | 1959 | |
| Recorded | 1957 and 1958, New York, NY and Hollywood, CA, USA | |
| Genre | operetta, pop | |
| Length | 32:15 | |
| Label | RCA | |
| Producer | Simon Rady, Ed Welker | |
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
Favorites in Stereo is a studio album by Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. The album was recorded in stereo and released by RCA Records in 1959.[1] For its monaural release the title was changed to Favorites in Hi-Fi. The album peaked at number 40 on the Billboard 200 chart.[2] It was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on October 27, 1966.[3]
MacDonald and Eddy had been a popular romantic screen team in a series of eight motion pictures produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer between 1935 and 1941.[4] In 1957 the two reunited on a broadcast of the television series The Big Record starring Patti Page. Their performance of the "Italian Street Song" from their first film together, Naughty Marietta (1935) created a renewed interest for the team. As a result, RCA brought them together to record Favorites in Stereo.[5] In his review of the album music critic Bruce Eder noted:
- The results are impressive, even though both singers' voices had darkened somewhat since their heyday of the '30s – the dimensionality of stereo separation is not pushed artificially, but the division of the voices and the perspective of the orchestral accompaniments does allow for some superb listening moments, particularly on "Italian Street Song" on side one.[1]
Track listing
| Side one | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Performed by | Length |
| 1. | "Will You Remember?" (from Maytime) | Rida Johnson Young | Sigmund Romberg | Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy | 2:48 |
| 2. | "Rosalie" (from Rosalie) | Cole Porter | Porter | Eddy | 2:29 |
| 3. | "Giannina Mia" (from The Firefly) | Otto Harbach | Rudolf Friml | MacDonald | 2:16 |
| 4. | "Rose Marie" (from Rose Marie) | Otta Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II | Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart | Eddy | 3:02 |
| 5. | "Italian Street Song" (from Naughty Marietta) | Rida Johnson Young | Victor Herbert | MacDonald | 2:16 |
| 6. | "Indian Love Call" (from Rose-Marie) | Harbach and Hammerstein | Friml and Stothart | MacDonald and Eddy | 2:16 |
| Side two | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Performed by | Length |
| 1. | "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life" (from Naughty Marietta) | Young | Herbert | MacDonald and Eddy | 3:19 |
| 2. | "The Breeze and I" | Al Stillman | Ernesto Lecuona | MacDonald | 2:32 |
| 3. | "While My Lady Sleeps" | Bronisław Kaper | Gus Kahn | Eddy | 3:26 |
| 4. | "Wanting You" (from New Moon) | Hammerstein | Romberg | MacDonald and Eddy | 3:03 |
| 5. | "Stouthearted Men" (from New Moon) | Hammerstein | Romberg | Eddy | 2:24 |
| 6. | "Beyond the Blue Horizon" (from Monte Carlo) | Leo Robin, Richard A. Whiting, and W. Franke Harling | Robin, Whiting, and Harling | MacDonald | 2:24 |
References
- Footnotes
- Bibliography
- Eder, Bruce. Favorites in Stereo at AllMusic. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
- Turk, Edward Baron (1998). Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA, USA; London, England, UK: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21202-9.