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- Artist: Julie Andrews
- Rating:
- Release Date: 1977
- Total Time: 46:17
- Type: Compilation (best of)
- Genre: Vocal Music
Review
In effect, this compilation is "The Best of Julie Andrews on Columbia Records, 1957-1962." It is drawn from five albums released during that period: the television soundtrack to Cinderella (1957); the original London (not Broadway, as the liner notes mistakenly say) cast album for My Fair Lady (1959); the original Broadway cast album for Camelot (1960); and two Julie Andrews solo albums, Broadway's Fair Julie (1962) and Don't Go in the Lion's Cage Tonight (1962). (There is also a previously unreleased recording of Noël Coward's "I'll Follow My Secret Heart" made during the sessions for Broadway's Fair Julie.) The conceit here is that this is all material from Broadway musicals, but that isn't actually true, since the solo recordings include revivals of such independent songs as "By the Light of the Silvery Moon," "Alexander's Ragtime Band," and "Burlington Bertie From Bow" (the last later performed by Andrews in the 1968 film Star!). Never mind that, though. Andrews's stage appearances ended for decades after Camelot, and this set affords the listener a chance to hear what she might have been like in, for example, Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story ("I Feel Pretty") and Wonderful Town ("A Little Bit in Love"), even if it's hard to imagine her ever being cast in such shows. Naturally, she brings her precise phrasing and clear voice to every performance, enthusiastically trying on such diverse material as Lane and Harburg's "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" (from Finian's Rainbow) and Rodgers and Hart's "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (from Too Many Girls). Of course, her familiar performances from the shows with which she is associated remain stellar, though listeners would have preferred the Broadway cast versions of the songs from My Fair Lady (even if they are in mono). ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| In My Own Little Corner | Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II | Julie Andrews | (3:45) |
| I Feel Pretty | Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim | Julie Andrews | (1:58) |
| By the Light of the Silvery Moon | Julie Andrews | (3:02) | |
| The Lusty Month of May | Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe | Julie Andrews | (2:59) |
| Baubles, Bangles and Beads | Robert C. Wright, George Forrest | Julie Andrews | (2:28) |
| I'll Follow My Secret Heart | Julie Andrews | (2:17) | |
| Wouldn't It Be Loverly? | Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe | Julie Andrews | (4:00) |
| Alexander's Ragtime Band | Irving Berlin | Julie Andrews | (2:22) |
| Little Bit in Love | Betty Comden, Adolph Green | Julie Andrews | (3:39) |
| How Are Things in Glocca Morra? | E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, Burton Lane | Julie Andrews | (2:36) |
| How Can I Wait? | Frederick Loewe | Julie Andrews | (2:04) |
| A Lovely Night | Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II | Julie Andrews | (2:10) |
| Burlington Bertie from Bow | Julie Andrews | (3:17) | |
| I Loved You Once in Silence | Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe | Julie Andrews | (3:06) |
| I Didn't Know What Time It Was | Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart | Julie Andrews | (2:37) |
| I Could Have Danced All Night | Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe | Julie Andrews | (3:46) |
