VARIOUS ARTISTS
Movie Musicals (Nimbus Records)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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This is a great CD for anyone who's into classic film musical numbers, especially since a lot of these songs aren't what you usually find on collections like this. There are, of course, lots of Al Jolson songs, selections from The Jazz Singer and the Shirley Temple classic, On the Good Ship Lollipop-however, there's also Mae West (in her absolute prime) singing the title track from I'm No Angel, Fred Astaire singing Irving Berlin's "Let's Face the Music and Dance," and Judy Garland singing the whole movie version of "Dear Mr. Gable (You Made me Love You)" from Broadway Melody. This collection also wisely takes into consideration how bad musicals started to suck after the 1930's, and makes the cut right at 1938 with Broadway Melody, a movie which, in retrospect, seems to have been the death knoll of the whole genre.

© 2001 - Holly Day