Julie Andrews - The Lass With the Delicate and 44 similar items

Catalog Number: LPM-1403 Condition Details: Vinyl plays with occasional light-crackles (play-graded). Cover has a few creases near edges; light scuffing (front/back); special issue stamp on top-right of back. Inner-sleeve is original (RCA sleeve); seams partially split. Spine is easy-to-read with mild wear. Little shelf-wear along bottom/top-edge. Some wear to corners. Opening shows signs of light use and divots. (Not a cut-out.) Tracks: As I Went A-Roaming London Pride The Floral Dance These Precious Things Where'er You Walk Pedro, The Fisherman Tally-Ho! If My Songs Were Only Winged The Lass With The Delicate Air Canterbury Fair To A Wild Rose O The Days Of The Kerry Dancing About The Record: Julie Andrews was only 22 when she released this, her debut solo album. But she already had an extensive resume as an entertainer that included recordings dating back ten years; numerous appearances on the London stage. She might have been expected to sing show tunes on her own LP, but instead she harked back to her British music hall days as a child and assembled a collection of English folk songs and art songs, tastefully arranged and conducted by Irwin Kostal as well as the World War II anthem, London Pride, a patriotic song written by Noel Coward in 1941 during the Blitz, which Andrews herself had survived. The Lass with the Delicate Air may not have been the most overtly commercial effort she could have made on her first LP, but it no doubt satisfied her old fans back in the U.K., and it demonstrated another side of her talent to her Broadway admirers.