Eddie Bracken Discography of CDs

Eddie Bracken CD discography DRG Records continues to comb through the Columbia Records vaults for children's material, and this reissue combines two delightful works featuring musical theater performers that first saw release in the 1950s. Don Marquis wrote a series of fanciful stories supposedly recited by a cockroach who typed them on a typewriter by jumping from key to key. The cockroach was named archy, and he was obsessed with a cat named mehitabel (he couldn't be expected to capitalize anything, under the circumstances). Joe Darion (later the lyricist of Man of La Mancha) and composer George Kleinsinger adapted the stories into the musical recitation "archy and mehitabel," narrated by actor David Wayne, with Broadway star Carol Channing playing mehitabel and film star Eddie Bracken as archy; "echoes of archy" added some more stories. Archy is something of a philosopher, and he is always trying to rehabilitate mehitabel, an alley cat who acts like one. The performers had fun with the material, which in 1957 was adapted into a Broadway musical, Shinbone Alley, featuring Bracken. DRG has ...

Eddie Bracken albums Track Listing of songs: Archy And Mehitabel; Echoes Of Archy; Carnival Of The Animals;

Eddie Bracken music CDs Jubilee Radio Shows From 1945 And 1949 Personnel includes: Frances Langford, Bing Crosby, Eddie Bracken. Recording information: 10/21/1942/12/20/1945.