"Annie Get Your Gun (Original London Cast Recording)" and "Annie Get Your Gun: Original London Cast Recording" redirect here. For the original 1947 London production (instead of the original cast of the 1986 revival), see Annie Get Your Gun (musical) § Original productions.
The album was initially released on the First Night/Pinnacle record label as Annie Get Your Gun (1986 London revival cast) and is sometimes (ambiguously) called Annie Get Your Gun (Original London Cast Recording) or Annie Get Your Gun: Original London Cast Recording. It is Quatro's ninth studio album.
Background
The musical Annie Get Your Gun is based on a book of the same name, written by Herbert and Dorothy Fields. The story covers Oakley's romance with Butler while they were exhibition shooters in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. In real life, Butler became Oakley's manager when she became the star attraction in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. Oakley then became the first American female superstar.
Quatro raising her bass guitar above her head during a rock performance at AIS Arena in Canberra, Australia on 26 September 2007
The real Oakley in a Wild West show poster
The real Oakley circa 1899
On 12 April 1982 Quatro appeared in a BBC television program called An Evening with Andrew Lloyd Webber. During his show, Webber suggested that Quatro should star in Annie Get Your Gun.[1]
Names
According to its publisher, this album is called Annie Get Your Gun – 1986 London Cast.[2]
It was originally released as Annie Get Your Gun (1986 London revival cast).[3][4]
The album is sometimes ambiguously referred to as Annie Get Your Gun (Original London Cast Recording) or Annie Get Your Gun: Original London Cast Recording. The term "original cast recording" is ambiguous because it can mean either the cast of the first ever performance of a musical in a particular city, or the cast of the première of a particular production (which may be a revival). The album's cover contains the words "Original London Cast Recording" and its catalogue number contains the characters "OCR" (which stand for Original Cast Recording). This 1986 production is actually the first West End (London) revival of the musical — the first ever London performance of Annie Get Your Gun (starring Dolores Gray) was in 1947.[5]
Recording, production
There were different teams of producers for the theatre and the album.
Quatro's "I Got Lost in His Arms" has also been included in the compilation albums The Divas Collection (2003)[15] and Songs from the Greatest Musicals (2008).[16]
References
^ abcde"Suzi Quatro Timeline". thecoverzone.com. Bristol, USA: Suzi Quatro Rocks - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Mission. Archived from the original on 5 November 2009. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
^Annie Get Your Gun – 1986 London Cast (CD). A Chichester Festival Theatre production. London, United Kingdom: First Night Records. 2001.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
