No complaints about the tunes, but not enough notes
08/17/1999
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This CD takes me back to my youth listening to my parents' 78's, where I learned a lot of the great Cole Porter and Irvin Berlin songs. This has all of Ethel Merman songs I wanted on CD, and some surprises, like a duet with Bert Lahr performed before a live audience. The only thing it lacks is anything but the most basic information about the songs. There is no information about the dates of the recordings, the musicians, or even the names of the shows the songs are from. The liner notes have only three pictures of Merman, and one of them is from "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," in which I don't think she sang a single note. Nevertheless, if you want to have everything you need to hear from Ethel Merman on one CD, this is it."