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High Button Shoes is a 1947 musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Sammy Cahn and book by George Abbott and Stephen Longstreet. It was based on the semi-autobiographical 1946 novel The Sisters Liked Them Handsome by Stephen Longstreet .
High Button Shoes was Jule Styne’s first Broadway hit and won Jerome Robbins his first Tony Award for choreography years before West Side Story and Gypsy (another Styne-Robbins collaboration). Follow the hysterical misadventures of two charismatic conmen as they proceed to bamboozle the Longstreet family—inciting a chase from New ...
When fast-talking conman Harrison Floy sets his sights on the quiet Longstreet family of suburban New Jersey, he sets in motion a series of comic misadventures, including dubious auto sales, bogus land schemes, and illegal football wagering.
Bonus tracks include Jack Everly's 1992 RCA recordings of the overtures to HIGH BUTTON SHOES and HAZEL FLAGG. The BLONDES tracks are the original versions heard in the 78 RPM and LP releases, not the alternate takes heard on the Sony CD edition. The songs from SHOES are restored to their proper theatrical order. 1.
Sepia has most happily bundled Seventeen together with the 1947 musical High Button Shoes. Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn were Hollywood pop guys, with a raft of hits to their names (like...
12 de abr. de 2005 · Seventeen / High Button Shoes [Original Broadway Casts] by Original Broadway Cast released in 2005. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at.
Original Broadway Cast, 1947 (RCA/Sepia) (3 / 5) The 24-minute cast album of High Button Shoes contains only eight of the score’s 14 songs; that’s all that could fit on both sides of four 78-rpm records.
