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===Capitol=== [[Capitol Records|Capitol]] recorded ''[[St. Louis Woman]]'' in 1946, mainly because lyricist Johnny Mercer was one of the label's founders. It wasn't until the 1950s, however, that the label began bidding for cast album rights. Their first few choices were generally not big hits: ''[[Flahooley]]'', ''[[Top Banana (musical)|Top Banana]]'', ''[[Three Wishes for Jamie]]'', and the revival of ''[[Of Thee I Sing]]''. They finally got a hit show in 1953 with Cole Porter's ''[[Can-Can (musical)|Can-Can]]'', which remained in print until the end of the LP era. Recordings featuring the film casts of three [[Rodgers and Hammerstein]] films (''[[Oklahoma!]]'', ''[[Carousel (musical)|Carousel]]'', and ''[[The King and I]]'') were also released on Capitol during the 1950s, all earning [[RIAA]] gold record awards. An even bigger hit came along in 1957 with ''[[The Music Man]]'', which reached the #1 spot on the Billboard charts and stayed there for 12 weeks. It was also the label's first stereo cast album. They scored another bestseller in 1964 when Barbra Streisand's label Columbia Records passed on recording ''[[Funny Girl (musical)|Funny Girl]]''. Capitol recorded it, and the album became a million seller. Without a TV/radio network affiliation (such as Columbia had with CBS and RCA with NBC) Capitol sometimes had to content themselves with "also-ran" shows. The 1960s found them with recording rights to a number of minor hits: ''[[No Strings]]'', ''[[The Unsinkable Molly Brown (musical)|The Unsinkable Molly Brown]]'', and ''[[Golden Boy (musical)|Golden Boy]]'' but mostly they got flop shows: ''[[Sail Away (musical)|Sail Away]]'', ''[[Kwamina (musical)|Kwamina]]'', ''[[The Gay Life]]'', ''[[Skyscraper (musical)|Skyscraper]]'', ''[[Walking Happy]]'', and ''[[Zorba (musical)|Zorba]]''. They did record Stephen Sondheim's Broadway debut as a composer with ''[[A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum]]'', but in 1971 they came under fire for refusing to record the complete score of Sondheim's ''[[Follies]]'' as a 2-LP set. The label executives complained that "cast albums don't sell" ignoring the ongoing success of ''Funny Girl'' and ''The Music Man'' and the fact that many of their shows had been outright flops. ''Follies'' was truncated to a single LP missing four songs and abridging many of the others. It would be Capitol's last original cast album. EMI's classical division took over the Capitol Broadway cast catalogue in 1992 and reissued all 40 of the cast albums on the Broadway Angel label. The CDs were well packaged with booklets containing detailed notes and production photos. Although only a half dozen of these releases are still in print as of October 2007, most of the deleted titles have been reissued by DRG keeping the scores available for collectors. Broadway Angel has recorded some recent shows such as: ''[[Crazy for You (musical)|Crazy for You]]'', ''[[Passion (musical)|Passion]]'', ''[[The Color Purple (musical)|The Color Purple]]'', and ''[[Curtains (musical)|Curtains]]'', the 1994 Broadway revival of ''[[Carousel (musical)|Carousel]]'', as well as the Bernadette Peters revivals of ''[[Annie Get Your Gun (musical)|Annie Get Your Gun]]'' and ''[[Gypsy (musical)|Gypsy]]''. In 2013, Universal Music Group acquired EMI and with it Angel and Capitol Broadway catalogues.
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