Album Review:
Broadway's Fair Julie/Heartrending Ballads & Raucous Ditties
- Release Date: 2001
- Genre: Vocal Music
- Label: Polygram International
- Artist: Julie Andrews
- Flags: Compilation (best of)
- Type: Compilation
- Rating:
- Style: Traditional Pop
Review
Sony Spain's CD two-fer combines two albums Julie Andrews released originally on Columbia Records in 1962, Broadway's Fair Julie and Don't Go in the Lion's Cage Tonight (or, as it was titled in some territories, Spain among them, Heartrending Ballads & Raucous Ditties). Although they were recorded in sequence, these were very different albums taking very different approaches. Broadway's Fair Julie was the kind of record you might expect from the female star of Camelot, a collection of 12 ballads drawn from Broadway shows, including standards like "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" (Kismet) and "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" (Finian's Rainbow). Proper Englishwoman Andrews rendered such material effectively in her warm voice with its precise intonation. She was a bit less effective taking on character songs that were beyond the usual for her, such as "A Sleepin' Bee" from House of Flowers, but, especially on the more obscure tracks, she shone. Don't Go in the Lion's Cage Tonight revealed a whole other side of her, the kind of songs her Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady might have heard in English music halls in the early years of the 20th century. Andrews broke out her Cockney accent here and there, but always performed these comic numbers with humorous affection. A barbershop quartet sometimes accompanied her, but even on her own she was a delight recalling the early works of Irving Berlin ("Alexander's Ragtime Band," "Everybody's Doin' It Now") as well as character songs like "Burlington Bertie From Bow," which she later performed in the Gertrude Lawrence film biography Star! When you put these two albums together on one disc, the mood shifts radically at track 13, but the combined album provides a well-rounded look at a major talent in her prime. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | iTunes | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Looking for a Boy | Julie Andrews | (2:59) | ||
| How Long Has This Been Going On? | Julie Andrews | (2:32) | ||
| I Feel Pretty |  |
Julie Andrews | (2:01) | |
| A Sleepin' Bee | Harold Arlen, Truman Capote | Julie Andrews | (3:09) | |
| Baubles, Bangles and Beads | |
Julie Andrews | (2:31) | |
| How Are Things in Glocca Morra? | |
E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, |
Julie Andrews | (2:38) |
| A Little Bit in Love | |
Betty Comden, |
Julie Andrews | (3:39) |
| This Is New | Julie Andrews | (2:35) | ||
| A Fellow Needs a Girl | Julie Andrews | (2:25) | ||
| How Can I Wait? | Julie Andrews | (2:08) | ||
| I Didn't Know What Time It Was | |
Julie Andrews | (2:39) | |
| If Love Were All | Noël Coward | Julie Andrews | (2:22) | |
| I Don't Care | Jean Lenox | Julie Andrews | (2:56) | |
| The Honeysuckle and the Bee | Julie Andrews | (3:41) | ||
| Mother Was a Lady and If Jack Were Only Here | Julie Andrews | (3:34) | ||
| Who Threw the Overalls in Mistress Murphy's Chowder? | Julie Andrews | (2:29) | ||
| Everybody's Doin' It Now | Irving Berlin | Julie Andrews | (2:08) | |
| Waiting at the Church (My Wife Won't Let Me) | Fred W. Leigh | Julie Andrews | (2:42) | |
| Don't Go in the Lion's Cage Tonight | Julie Andrews | (2:53) | ||
| Burlington Bertie from Bow | |
Julie Andrews | (3:20) | |
| Alexander's Ragtime Band | |
Irving Berlin | Julie Andrews | (2:25) |
| By the Light of the Silvery Moon | |
Edward Madden, |
Julie Andrews | (3:04) |
| Smarty | Jack Norworth | Julie Andrews | (2:45) | |
| She Is More to Be Pitied Than Censured | Julie Andrews | (3:57) |
