For sale is a 1949 78 RPM ALBUM SET – SOUTH PACIFIC MUSICAL – ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST from Colombia Records. These albums feature the Broadway cast members Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza. This is a seven record set. Album set is the South Pacific musical adaptation by Hammerstein and Logan of James A. Michener’s Pulitzer Prize Winning “Tales of the South Pacific”. Lyrics By Oscar Hammerstein and music by Richard Rodgers. The 10 inch shellac records are untested but appear playable. The records in the set for sale include the following songs:
Overture
Dites Moi
A Cockeyed Optimist
Twin Soliloquies
Some Enchanted Evening
Bloody Mary
There Is Nothin’ Like A Dame
Bali Ha’i
I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair
A Wonderful Guy
Younger Than Springtime
Happy Talk
Honey Bun
Carefully Taught
This Nearly Was Mine
Finale
South Pacific is a musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. The work premiered in 1949 on Broadway and was an immediate hit, running for 1,925 performances. The production won ten Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Libretto, and it is the only musical production to win Tony Awards in all four acting categories.
The plot centers on an American nurse stationed on a South Pacific island during World War II, who falls in love with a middle-aged expatriate French plantation owner but struggles to accept his mixed-race children. A secondary romance, between a U.S. Marine lieutenant and a young Tonkinese woman, explores his fears of the social consequences should he marry his Asian sweetheart. The issue of racial prejudice is candidly explored throughout the musical, most controversially in the lieutenant’s song, “You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught”.
