Track Listing

1. There's No Business Like Show Business
2. Everything's Coming Up Roses
3. I Get a Kick Out of You
4. Something For The Boys
5. Some People
6. Alexander's Ragtime Band
7. I Got Rhythm
8. They Say It's Wonderful (Bonus Track)

Product Details

• Released on: 2003-01-28
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

From Amazon.com
The title says it all. This is the disco album "the Merm" recorded in 1979, a few years before her death. Rumor has it that Merman couldn't stand the disco craze that was sweeping the nation in the late '70s, recording her vocals before the instrumental tracks were laid down. Masterminded by Peter Matz, who produced, arranged, and conducted the whole thing, Merman's disco album is one of those jaw-dropping, "what were they thinking?" UFOs that periodically land on the pop landscape. Merman (at her most bombastic, vibrato-laden) barrels through eight of her signature tunes. All are taken at breakneck speed, and even dramatic show-stoppers, such as "Everything's Coming Up Roses" (from Gypsy), become dance-floor burners. Whether you find the album simply horrifying or an entrancing testimony to the power of people to lose their heads as they fall prey to a dance fad, this collision between two completely different American musical traditions is nothing short of, ahem, breathtaking. --Elisabeth Vincentelli