As a fan of the EMI London cast album of CAMELOT with Laurence Harvey and Elizabeth Larner and as the owner of the British vocal score, I will rush to your support, Dear Friend BK. I'd vote for Liebersen's SOUND OF MUSIC with Mary Martin as the best sounding cast album, and I've loved the OBC CAMELOT recording, with its glorious color foldout, since I bought it as a high school senior.
The London production with Harvey was Lerner's second attempt to fix the show, the film being the third, and the British production incorporated and published in its score the two songs cut from Broadway: "Fie on Goodness" and "Take Me to the Fair." Because the British production employed Robert Helpmann as choreographer (it was not a duplication of the Broadway show as most American musicals were in London), it had a new overture and all new dance music. Because EMI and Norman Newell, I beleive, was the producer and since neither was affiliated with Columbia Records or CBS, they had their own option of what to record. The Britsh cast of NO NO NANETTE, being on Sony and therefore a CBS affiliate, uses the same cuts and changes that Liebersen made in the OBC. I think the same is true of BYE BYE BIRDIE.
I do wish the British CAMELOT were released on CD, but I also wish that we'd discover that the OBC CAMELOT tapes in the Columbia vaults have missing materials like "The Persuasion" for M'el Dowd and Roddy McDowell or "The Jousts," which is nearly complete on the London recording.
Dear Friend BK, I don't know what site had this buffoon's comments about the mangled CAMELOT OBC, but he's clearly not just a moron but an uneducated one.
