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"Brigadoon" Original Broadway Cast - Come To Me, Bend To Me
Lee Sullivan with Brigadoon Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Franz Allers
From Cheryl Crawford's Production "Brigadoon"
Written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe
78 RPM audio transfer from the Bowness Arts collection of vintage records.
The Members Of The Original Cast – Brigadoon
Label: RCA Victor – P 178
Format: 5 x Shellac, 10", 78 RPM, Album
Original Release: April 1947
Re-release: 1951 (Canada)
Genre: Stage & Screen
Style: Soundtrack, Musical
Track list:
Side 1 Overture / Once In The Highlands / Brigadoon youtu.be/RqFlEyYIFz4
Side 2 Down On MacConnachy Square youtu.be/mZdI6ytnkRA
Side 3 Waitin' For My Dearie youtu.be/IMLGG4XFujI
Side 4 I'll Go Home With Bonnie Jean youtu.be/gYyEcB_GoC8
Side 5 The Heather On The Hill youtu.be/rSwjqt-eeFw
Side 6 Come To Me, Bend To Me youtu.be/WFrc9pqqD1Y
Side 7 Almost Like Being In Love youtu.be/8Ai1sbbNDJ8
Side 8 There But For You Go I youtu.be/34fXmb4mpMA
Side 9 My Mother's Wedding Day youtu.be/2hhNdZvRwQM
Side 10 From This Day On / Brigadoon youtu.be/epRgRl6yb0Y
Presenting songs from Brigadoon as recorded by the original cast on RCA Victor records. David Brooks as Tommy Albright; Marion Bell as Fiona MacLaren; Pamela Britton as Meg Brockie; Lee Sulivan as Charlie Dalrymple.
Act One
Brigadoon is the story of two Americans, Tommy and Jeff, who are lost in the Scottish Highlands and stumble upon a village, not on the map, called “Brigadoon”. At the village fair that sunny May morning, “Down On MacConnachy Square”, Tommy meets a pert and lovely lass named Fiona MacLaren, who is busy today helping her sister prepare for her wedding to young Charlie Dalrymple, which is to take place that evening. Fiona, the older, is not married but is, as she says, “Waitin' For My Dearie”. The men arrive at he square and hear Charlie tell of his feelings about his approaching marriage in “I'll Go Home With Bonnie Jean”. Tommy, intrigued by the talk of a miracle and the odd quaintness of the town and his sudden attraction to Fiona, decides to stay the day out. And he and Fiona go off to gather heather for the wedding, to “The Heather On The Hill”.
Later that day, at the MacLaren house, Charlie arrives to sign the family Bible and, because of the old superstition preventing the bride and groom from seeing each other the day of the wedding, sings to her through the closed door “Come To Me, Bend To Me”. Now Tommy and Fiona return from a lovely day together and tell Jeff they find it's “Almost Like Being In Love”. But Tommy presses her to explain the mystery of the village, and Fiona takes them to visit the schoolmaster of the town who reveals that Brigadoon was miraculously blessed two hundred years ago, and that it lapses into a sleep from which it awakens only one day in every hundred years. No villager is allowed to leave, or the enchantment will be broken and the town will disappear forever. A stranger, however, can stay if he falls in love.
Now all go down to the church yard for the wedding. Following the simple ceremony, the bride's broken-hearted suitor decides to run away and destroy the town. As he runs from the church yard, the curtain falls for the end of Act One.
Act Two
The men, in a chase through the forest, succeed in stopping the runaway, but only when he is found dead, seemingly from having struck his head on a rock.
Back in the glen, Tommy tells Fiona he is in love with her, in “There But For You Go I”, and makes up his mind to stay in Brigadoon with her. Meanwhile, a lass of the village, Meg Brockie, entertains the wedding guests with “My Mother's Wedding Day”.
Now Tommy tells Jeff of his decision to stay. But then he discovers that Jeff was the inadvertent killer of the runaway. The shock of his friend's confession, and Jeff's persuasion that the place is a dream, makes him doubt Fiona and the town. So as the day ends, he leaves her, in “From This day On”.
Note: The first 78 RPM record came into existence around 1894, and in 1912 the Gramophone Company established 78 Rotations Per Minute (RPM) as their recording standard. The production of shellac records continued throughout the 78 rpm era, with "non-breakable" 78 rpm vinyl records being introduced in the 1940s. The popularity of the 33 1/3 rpm "Long Play" record, initially released in 1948, caused the 78 rpm record to become obsolete before the end of the 1950s. As these 78 rpm recordings are quite old, they may contain derogatory language and/or negative stereotypes. It is important to evaluate such recordings within their historical context and consider them as a reflection of the attitudes prevalent at the time. These recordings form an integral part of the historical record and do not represent the views of this poster, channel, or Bowness Arts.
"Brigadoon" Original Broadway Cast - Come To Me, Bend To Me
Lee Sullivan with Brigadoon Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Franz Allers
From Cheryl Crawford's Production "Brigadoon"
Written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe
78 RPM audio transfer from the Bowness Arts collection of vintage records.
The Members Of The Original Cast – Brigadoon
Label: RCA Victor – P 178
Format: 5 x Shellac, 10", 78 RPM, Album
Original Release: April 1947
Re-release: 1951 (Canada)
Genre: Stage & Screen
Style: Soundtrack, Musical
Track list:
Side 1 Overture / Once In The Highlands / Brigadoon youtu.be/RqFlEyYIFz4
Side 2 Down On MacConnachy Square youtu.be/mZdI6ytnkRA
Side 3 Waitin' For My Dearie youtu.be/IMLGG4XFujI
Side 4 I'll Go Home With Bonnie Jean youtu.be/gYyEcB_GoC8
Side 5 The Heather On The Hill youtu.be/rSwjqt-eeFw
Side 6 Come To Me, Bend To Me youtu.be/WFrc9pqqD1Y
Side 7 Almost Like Being In Love youtu.be/8Ai1sbbNDJ8
Side 8 There But For You Go I youtu.be/34fXmb4mpMA
Side 9 My Mother's Wedding Day youtu.be/2hhNdZvRwQM
Side 10 From This Day On / Brigadoon youtu.be/epRgRl6yb0Y
Presenting songs from Brigadoon as recorded by the original cast on RCA Victor records. David Brooks as Tommy Albright; Marion Bell as Fiona MacLaren; Pamela Britton as Meg Brockie; Lee Sulivan as Charlie Dalrymple.
Act One
Brigadoon is the story of two Americans, Tommy and Jeff, who are lost in the Scottish Highlands and stumble upon a village, not on the map, called “Brigadoon”. At the village fair that sunny May morning, “Down On MacConnachy Square”, Tommy meets a pert and lovely lass named Fiona MacLaren, who is busy today helping her sister prepare for her wedding to young Charlie Dalrymple, which is to take place that evening. Fiona, the older, is not married but is, as she says, “Waitin' For My Dearie”. The men arrive at he square and hear Charlie tell of his feelings about his approaching marriage in “I'll Go Home With Bonnie Jean”. Tommy, intrigued by the talk of a miracle and the odd quaintness of the town and his sudden attraction to Fiona, decides to stay the day out. And he and Fiona go off to gather heather for the wedding, to “The Heather On The Hill”.
Later that day, at the MacLaren house, Charlie arrives to sign the family Bible and, because of the old superstition preventing the bride and groom from seeing each other the day of the wedding, sings to her through the closed door “Come To Me, Bend To Me”. Now Tommy and Fiona return from a lovely day together and tell Jeff they find it's “Almost Like Being In Love”. But Tommy presses her to explain the mystery of the village, and Fiona takes them to visit the schoolmaster of the town who reveals that Brigadoon was miraculously blessed two hundred years ago, and that it lapses into a sleep from which it awakens only one day in every hundred years. No villager is allowed to leave, or the enchantment will be broken and the town will disappear forever. A stranger, however, can stay if he falls in love.
Now all go down to the church yard for the wedding. Following the simple ceremony, the bride's broken-hearted suitor decides to run away and destroy the town. As he runs from the church yard, the curtain falls for the end of Act One.
Act Two
The men, in a chase through the forest, succeed in stopping the runaway, but only when he is found dead, seemingly from having struck his head on a rock.
Back in the glen, Tommy tells Fiona he is in love with her, in “There But For You Go I”, and makes up his mind to stay in Brigadoon with her. Meanwhile, a lass of the village, Meg Brockie, entertains the wedding guests with “My Mother's Wedding Day”.
Now Tommy tells Jeff of his decision to stay. But then he discovers that Jeff was the inadvertent killer of the runaway. The shock of his friend's confession, and Jeff's persuasion that the place is a dream, makes him doubt Fiona and the town. So as the day ends, he leaves her, in “From This day On”.
Note: The first 78 RPM record came into existence around 1894, and in 1912 the Gramophone Company established 78 Rotations Per Minute (RPM) as their recording standard. The production of shellac records continued throughout the 78 rpm era, with "non-breakable" 78 rpm vinyl records being introduced in the 1940s. The popularity of the 33 1/3 rpm "Long Play" record, initially released in 1948, caused the 78 rpm record to become obsolete before the end of the 1950s. As these 78 rpm recordings are quite old, they may contain derogatory language and/or negative stereotypes. It is important to evaluate such recordings within their historical context and consider them as a reflection of the attitudes prevalent at the time. These recordings form an integral part of the historical record and do not represent the views of this poster, channel, or Bowness Arts.
