Classic Julie: Classic Broadway

1	On a Clear Day from "On a Clear Day" 3:37
2	A Cockeyed Optimist / Billy Byers From South Pacific 4:25
3	Hello, Young Lovers From The King and I 3:12
4	Here I'll Stay / Billy Byers From Love Life 4:23
5	My Fair Lady Suite / Billy Byers From My Fair Lady 12:28
6	Getting to Know You From The King and I 4:41
7	Living in the Shadows / Billy Byers From "Victor/Victoria" 3:28
8	Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered / Eddie Karam From Pal Joey 4:56
9	I Have Dreamed / Eddie Karam From The King and I 4:36
10	My Funny Valentine / Ian Fraser From Babes in Arms 3:32
11	Camelot Suite: Camelot/The Simple Joys of Maidenhood/How to Handle ... / Angela Morley 9:09
12	Crazy World / Billy Byers From "Victor/Victoria" 3:19
13	If I Loved You / Angela Morley From Carousel 3:58
14	Edelweiss / Angela Morley From The Sound of Music 3:51
15	The Sound of Music / Angela Morley From The Sound of Music 5:07

Barnes & Noble

Julie Andrews's recorded legacy happily experienced a September renaissance in the mid-'90s, just a few years before unsuccessful throat surgery stilled the legendary voice of one of musical theater's most beloved stars. Classic Julie, Classic Broadway brings together the best of these valedictory performances, recorded for Philips Classics. Andrews's trademark purity of tone, impeccable diction, and stunning range and control are gorgeously intact on such perfect-for-Julie gems as "On a Clear Day," "My Funny Valentine," "If I Loved You," "Bewitched," and "Hello, Young Lovers." Andrews's final Broadway opus, Victor/Victoria, is well represented with the ballads "Living in the Shadows" and "Crazy World." The highlights, though, are two extended medleys from Andrews's own career-defining megahits, Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady and Camelot, that display the singing actress in superb form. Classic Julie is a fitting, and moving, tribute to a lady whose taste and excellence will continue to be an inspiration to generations of film and theater fans. --David Cohen

Barnes & Noble

Julie Andrews' recorded legacy happily experienced a September renaissance in the mid-'90s, just a few years before unsuccessful throat surgery stilled the legendary voice of one of musical theater's most-beloved stars. Classic Julie Classic Broadway collects together the best of these valedictory performances, recorded for Philips Classics. Andrews' trademark purity of tone, impeccable diction and stunning range and control are gorgeously intact on such perfect-for-Julie gems as "On A Clear Day," "My Funny Valentine," "If I Loved You," "Bewitched" and "Hello, Young Lovers." Andrews' final Broadway opus, Victor/Victoria is well represented with the ballads "Living In The Shadows" and "Crazy World." The highlights, though, are two extended medleys from Andrews' own career-defining megahits, Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady and Camelot, that display the singing actress in superb form. Classic Julie is a fitting, and moving, tribute to a lady whose taste and excellence will continue to be an inspiration to generations of film and theater fans. --David Cohen

All Music Guide

After a period of relative inactivity as a recording artist, Julie Andrews, then in her late fifties, returned to the recording studio for a series of projects for the Philips label in the early '90s. First, there was a studio cast recording of The King and I in 1992 in which she naturally took the role of Anna Leonowens, singing songs like "Hello, Young Lovers" and "Getting to Know You." Then there were two songwriter albums, Julie Andrews: Broadway - The Music of Richard Rodgers, released in 1994, and Julie Andrews: Broadway - Here I'll Stay - The Words of Alan Jay Lerner, held for release until 1996. Finally, Andrews took the original Broadway cast album of Victor/Victoria to Philips in 1995. Selections from these releases have been combined to create this compilation. Andrews is heard re-creating some of the music she is best known for, including medleys from My Fair Lady and Camelot, as well as The Sound of Music. But she also takes the opportunity to try out songs she never got the chance to sing onstage or in films, such as "On a Clear Day" from On a Clear Day You Can See Forever and "A Cock-Eyed Optimist" from South Pacific. Even in the works she did do, there are songs which were sung by others that she here appropriates, such as "Edelweiss" from The Sound of Music. Even in her maturity, Andrews retains not only her famous poise and precise intonation, but also a wonderful voice. There are occasions when the orchestrations are overly bombastic, and there are song choices that do not entirely suit the singer, particularly the lusty "Bewitched." But most of the collection is impressive, if poignant, since, at least at the time of its release, it seemed to present the best of Andrews' final recordings. William Ruhlmann