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Thread #153591   Message #3597927
Posted By: MGM·Lion
03-Feb-14 - 01:01 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Tale of a Guinea Pig (G Newman/M Gideon)
Subject: RE: Origins: How can a guinea pig show he's pleased?
Great. Thanks again. Here are details of that recording;

http://castalbums.org/recordings/The-Co-Optimists-Original-Casts/19845

Appears to be an LP double-album. Song in question appears on Side C, track 8.

Didn't they do a lot of Irving Berlin! Presumably the 'Always' listed is his famous song... But an eclectic repertoire, it seems to be, doesn't it?, with their own original comic songs like this one cheek-by-jowl with Irving B & Fred Astaire...

I seem to recall having read somewhere, but can't recall where, that the Co-Optimists might have been the inspiration for the eponymous "Good Companions" concert party of J B Priestley's best-selling novel of 1929. Seems plausible.

~M~