05/27/2026
South Pacific (Original Broadway Cast) Digitally remastered Cd
Sony Classical SK 60722-$5
Columbia's original cast album-with Rodgers & Hammerstein masterpieces like Some Enchanted Evening; This Was Nearly Mine, and Younger Than Springtime -sold over a million copies. This reissue adds four bonus tracks (CD only), including two that were dropped from the original score!
On March 9, 1993, Sony Broadway released a remastered version (SK-53327) with three bonus tracks. Pinza had had one of those Top Ten versions of "Some Enchanted Evening" back in 1949, and that had led Columbia to have him record "Bali Ha'i," a song he did not sing in the show, as a follow-up. In 1951, Martin recorded a one-off single for Columbia of two songs written for but dropped from the show, "Loneliness of Evening" and "My Girl Back Home." These made welcome additions to the 1993 CD. Unfortunately, in returning to the original master tapes, the reissue team mistakenly used an alternate take of "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught," creating a collectable. On November 10, 1998, that error was corrected on a new CD reissue (Sony Classical/Columbia/Legacy SK-60722) that added another bonus track, a nine-minute suite of South Pacific music arranged by Robert Russell Bennett, who had written the original orchestrations for the show, performed by André Kostelanetz and the Philadelphia Orchestra "Pops" in 1951.
Tracks:
1.1 Overture
1.2 Dites-Moi
1.3 A Cockeyed Optimist
1.4 Twin Soliloquies
1.5 Some Enchanted Evening
1.6 Bloody Mary
1.7 There Is Nothin' Like a Dame
1.8 Bali Ha'i
1.9 I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair
1.10 A Wonderful Guy
1.11 Younger Than Springtime
1.12 Happy Talk
1.13 Honey Bun
1.14 You've Got to Be Carefully Taught
1.15 This Nearly Was Mine
1.16 Finale: Dites-Moi (Reprise)
1.17 Loneliness of Evening
1.18 My Girl Back Home
1.19 Bali-Ha'i
1.20 South Pacific: Symphonic Scenario for Concert Orchestra
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