The Michael Sammes Mikado (1966)
Madge Stephens, soprano
Enid Heard, mezzo-soprano
Helen Landis, contralto
John Camburn, baritone
Nicholas Curtis, tenor
Eric Wilson-Hyde, bass-baritone
Michael Sammes, baritone
The Michael Sammes Singers
Orchestra conducted by John Gregory
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Fontana Special 859 019 FZY |
Michael Sammes made numberous recordings in the 1960s of highlights from
musicals and operettas. His G&S output includes several discs dedicated
to individual operas, plus a
Best of Gilbert and Sullivan
disc consisting of highlights from
all the others. The singers are not credited with specific roles, but
presumably Sammes sang Ko-Ko. Eric Wilson-Hyde was
never a member of D'Oyly Carte, but he made a guest appearance as
Bob Becket, the Carpenter's Mate on the 1960
Pinafore, so presumably he sang either The Mikado
or Pooh-Bah. Helen Landis was the contralto on all the
Gilbert and Sullivan For All recordings.
Contents are as follows:
Side 1
- Overture /
If you want to know who you [sic] are
- A wandering minstrel I
- Our great Mikado
- Behold the Lord High Executioner
- I've got a little list
- Three little maids /
So please you sir we much regret
- Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted
- To sit in solemn silence;
Threatened cloud has passed away /
Oh fool that flee-est /
For he's going to marry Yum-Yum
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Side 2
- Braid the raven hair
- The sun whose rays are all ablaze
- Here's a how-de-do
- Mi-ya-sama /
A more humane Mikado
- The flowers that bloom
- Alone and yet alive
- Willow, tit willow
- There is beauty in the bellow of the blast /
For he's gone and married Yum-Yum
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