Kiss Me, Kate
Recordings

Please note that in most cases the show's title includes a comma, the major exception being the film version.

Major Recordings

1948 Original Cast Recording
1953 Film Soundtrack
1959 Original Cast Studio Recreation
1968 ABC-TV Soundtrack Recording
1987 Royal Shakespeare Company Recording
1990 EMI Studio Recording
1994 UK Studio Recording
1999 Broadway Revival Recording

Foreign Language Recordings

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Conducted by Pembroke Davenport
Performers: Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk, and Harold Lang
[Go to the Original Production page for further info]

Recording credits from the original release:
Produced for records by Mitchell Ayres
Recording engineer: Harold Chapman
Recorded January 13, 1949 at the CBS 30th Street Studios, NYC

Recording credits from the 1998 re-issue:
Producer: Manie Sachs
Recording Director: Mitchell Ayres
Recording Engineer: Harold C. Marchessault
Recorded January 16 - 24, 1949

All releases are mono


 

Remastered Version

Reissue produced by Didier C. Deutsch and Darcy M. Proper
Reissue engineered by Darcy M. Proper

Selections

• Overture (actually a recording of the Entr'acte) / "Another Op'nin', Another Show" (4:24)
• "Why Can't You Behave?" (3:09)
• "Wunderbar" (3:37)
• "So in Love" (3:36)
• "We Open in Venice" (2:02)
• "Tom, Dick or Harry" (2:05)
• "I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua" (2:12)
• "I Hate Men" (2:13)
• "Were Thine That Special Face" (4:12)
• "Too Darn Hot" (3:36)
• "Where is the Life That Late I Led?" (4:24)
• "Always True to You in My Fashion" (4:00)
• "Bianca" (2:07)
• "So in Love" (reprise) (2:11)
• "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" (1:40)
• "I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple" / Finale (2:39)

Performers: Patti Page, Madelyn Russell, Dinah Washington

1949 Capitol Studio Recording (selections)

Conductor: Paul Weston
Performers: Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae

• "Wunderbar" - Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae
• "Too Darn Hot" - Paul Weston and Orchestra with Vocal Chorus
• "Were Thine That Special Face" - Gordon MacRae
• "I Hate Men" - Jo Stafford
• "Always True to You in My Fashion" - Jo Stafford
• "Bianca" - Gordon MacRae with Vocal Chorus
• "So in Love" - Gordon MacRae
• "Why Can't You Behave?" - Jo Stafford

Studio Cast Recording (selections)

Conductor: Johnny Gregory
Performers: Elizabeth Larner, Barry Kent and the Mike Sammes Singers

1951 London Cast Recording (selections)

Conductor: Freddie Bretherton
Performers: Patricia Morison (Kate), Bill Johnson (Petruchio) , Julie Wilson (Bianca) , Walter Long, Adelaide Hall, Archie Savage, Danny Green, and Sidney James
[Go to the London Production page for further info]

The M-G-M Studio Orchestra conducted by Andre Previn
Arrangements by Saul Chaplin, Andre Previn, and Conrad Salinger
Orchestrations by Skip Martin, Robert Franklyn, Maurice dePackh, Wally Heglin, Conrad Salinger, Andre Previn, and Pete Rugolo
Recorded at the M-G-M Studios, Culver City CA on March 17 - August 20, 1953
[Go to the Kiss Me Kate film page for cast and production info]

• "Too Darn Hot", "Tom, Dick or Harry", "Why Can't You Behave?", "Wunderbar", "Were Thine That Special Face", "I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua", "Always True to You in My Fashion", "Brush Up Your Shakespeare", "From This Moment On", "I Hate Men", "Where is the Life That Late I Led?", "We Open in Venice", "Kiss Me Kate", "So in Love"
  
  

• "Too Darn Hot", "So in Love", "We Open in Venice", "Why Can't You Behave?", "Wunderbar", "Always True to You in My Fashion", "I Hate Men", "From This Moment On", "Brush Up Your Shakespeare", "Kiss Me Kate"
  
  
  
  

• "Too Darn Hot", "So in Love", "We Open in Venice", "Were Thine That Special Face", "Why Can't You Behave?", "I Hate Men", "Tom, Dick or Harry", "Wunderbar", "Always True to You in My Fashion", "I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua", "From This Moment On", "Where is the Life That Late I Led?", "Brush Up Your Shakespeare", "Kiss Me Kate"

• "Too Darn Hot", "So in Love", "We Open in Venice", "Why Can't You Behave?", "Were Thine That Special Face", "Tom, Dick or Harry", "Wunderbar", "Always True to You in My Fashion", "I Hate Men", "I've Come to Wive It Wealthily", "From This Moment On", "Where is the Life That Late I Led?", "Brush Up Your Shakespeare", "Kiss Me Kate"

• Title Music, "So in Love", "Too Darn Hot", "Why Can't You Behave?", "Wunderbar" "So in Love (reprise)", "We Open in Venice", "Tale of the Merchant", "Tom, Dick or Harry", "I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua", "I Hate Men", "Were Thine That Special Face", "Where is the Life That Late I Led?","Always True to You in My Fashion", "Brush Up Your Shakespeare", "From This Moment On", "Kiss Me Kate"

Remastered with bonus tracks

• Overture Medley: "Always True to You in My Fashion" / "Why Can't You Behave" / "Another Openin', Another Show" / "So in Love" [outtake; includes alternate main title] (2:51) - The M-G-M Studio Orchestra
• Main Title ("So in Love" / "Wunderbar") (2:01) - The M-G-M Studio Orchestra
• "So in Love" (2:19) - Kathryn Grayson & Howard Keel
• "Too Darn Hot" (3:25) - Ann Miller with Bill Lee, Hal Hopper, Bob Wacker, Gene Lanham, Mac McLain, Hermes Pan & Saul Chaplin
• "Why Can't You Behave" (4:01) - Ann Miller
• Electric Sign ("Another Openin', Another Show") (0:33)- The M-G-M Studio Orchestra
• Lilli's Cork (1:25) - The M-G-M Studio Orchestra
• "Wunderbar" (4:00) - Kathryn Grayson & Howard Keel
• "So in Love" (Reprise) (1:37) - Kathryn Grayson
• "We Open in Venice" [extended version] (2:16) - Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller & Tommy Rall
• "Tom, Dick or Harry" (4:12) - Ann Miller, Bob Fosse, Tommy Rall & Bobby Van
• "I've Come to Wive It Wealthily In Padua" (2:34) - Howard Keel & The M-G-M Studio Chorus
• "I Hate Men" (3:53) - Kathryn Grayson
• "Were Thine That Special Face" (2:06) - Howard Keel
• Finale: Act One ("Kiss Me Kate") (0:24) - The M-G-M Studio Chorus
• And So to Wed ("We Open In Venice" / "I Hate Men") (1:04) - The M-G-M Studio Orchestra
• "I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua" (Reprise) (0:56) - Howard Keel & The M-G-M Studio Chorus
• "Where is the Life That Late I Led" (5:05) - Howard Keel
• "Bianca" (1:33) - The M-G-M Studio Orchestra
• "Why Can't You Behave" (1:36) - The M-G-M Studio Orchestra
• "Were Thine That Special Face" (1:11) - The M-G-M Studio Chorus
• "Always True to You in My Fashion" (2:43) - Ann Miller & Tommy Rall
• "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" (3:30) - James Whitmore & Keenan Wynn
• Bianca's Wedding ("We Open in Venice") (0:27) - The M-G-M Studio Orchestra
• "From This Moment On" (3:47) - Ann Miller, Tommy Rall, Bobby Van & Bob Fosse
• Down On Kate (includes "So in Love") (1:31) - The M-G-M Studio Orchestra
• "Kiss Me Kate" (Finale: Act Two) (1:28) - Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel & The M-G-M Studio Chorus

Conductor: Lehman Engel
Performers: Lisa Kirk, Helena Bliss and George Britton

• "So in Love"
• "Always True to You in My Fashion"
• "Wunderbar"
• "I Hate Men"

Symphonic Pictures of George Gershwin's Music from Porgy and Bess, Richard Rodger's Music from Oklahoma and Cole Porter's Music from Kiss Me, Kate (selections)

M-G-M Orchestra conducted by Robert Ashley

Broadway Spectacular (selections)

Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra

1958 London Studio Recording

Conductor: Hill Bowen
Performers: Andy Cole, Denis Quilley, Bryan Johnson, Patricia Clark, Ivor Emmanuel, Laurie Cornell, Marie Benson
Liner Notes by Leonard Raphael

• Overture - Orchestra
• "Another Op'nin', Another Show" - Chorus
• "Why Can't You Behave?" - Marie Benson
• "Wunderbar" - Patricia Clark and Ivor Emmanuel
• "So in Love" - Andy Cole
• "I Hate Men" - Marie Benson
• "Were Thine That Special Face" - Bryan Johnson
• "Too Darn Hot" - Denis Quilley
• "Where is the Life That Late I Led?" - Denis Quilley
• "Always True to You in My Fashion" - Laurie Cornell
• "Bianca" - Bryan Johnson

Studio Cast Recording

Performers: The Four Aces, Peggy Lee and Danny Kaye

Four on the Aisle (selections)

The Four Lads with Ray Ellis and his orchestra

• "Another Op'nin', Another Show" *
• "So in Love" *
• "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" *
• "Why Can't You Behave?"
• "We Open in Venice" *
• "Bianca"
• "Where is the Life That Late I Led?" *
• "Too Darn Hot"
• "Wunderbar" *

Mimi Bensell & Felix Knight Sing
Cole Porter's Can-Can and Kiss Me
Kate (selections)

Conductor: Warren Vincent
Performers: Mimi Benzell and Felix Knight
Produced by Ralph Stein

• "Wunderbar" - Mimi Benzell and Felix Knight (2:41)
• "So in Love" - Mimi Benzell (3:43)
• "Why Can't You Behave" - Mimi Benzell (3:45)
• "Were Thine That Special Face" - Felix Knight (3:03)
• "Where is the Life That Late I Led?" - Felix Knight (2:57)

1959 Capitol Studio Recording of the Original Cast

Conductor: Pembroke Davenport
Performers: Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk, Harold Lang, and other members of the original Broadway production, with chorus and orchestra
A Libra Production by Simon Rady and Alfred Drake
Recorded May 1-2 and July 1, 1959
Liner notes by Miles Kreuger

Remastered Version

Digitally remixed and remastered by Bob Norberg
Liner notes by Marc Kirkeby

• Overture - Orchestra (2:25)
• "Another Op'nin', Another Show" - Lorenzo Fuller and Chorus (1:53)
• "Why Can't You Behave?" - Lisa Kirk (2:46)
• "Wunderbar" - Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison (2:29)
• "So in Love" - Patricia Morison (3:38)
• "We Open in Venice" - Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk, Harold Lang (1:56)
• "Tom, Dick or Harry" - Lisa Kirk, Harold Lang, Bob Sands, Ray Drakely (2:06)
• "I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua" - Alfred Drake (2:07)
• "I Hate Men" - Patrica Morison (2:05)
• "Were Thine That Special Face" - Alfred Drake (4:11)
• "Too Darn Hot" - lorenzo Fuller and Boys (3:20)
• "Where is the Life That Late I Led?" - Alfred Drake (3:52)
• "Always True to You in My Fashion" - Lisa Kirk (3:47)
• "Bianca" - Harold Lang (2:06)
• "So in Love" (reprise) - Alfred Drake (2:30)
• "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" - Aloysius Donovan and Alexis Dubroff (1:41)
• "I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple" - Patricia Morison (1:55)
• "Finale - So Kiss Me, Kate" - Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison and Chorus (:47)

Conductor and arranger: Henri Rene
Performers: Gogi Grant, Howard Keel, and Anne Jeffreys
Recorded in Hollywood, February 12-14, 1959
Liner notes by Stanley Green

• "Another Op'nin', Another Show" - Grant, Keel, Jeffreys (3:55)
• "Why Can't You Behave?" - Grant (3:46)
• "Wunderbar" - Keel, Jeffreys (3:24)
• "So in Love" - Grant, Keel (4:47)
• "Tom, Dick or Harry" - Grant with Male Trio (3:06)
• "We Open in Venice" - Grant, Keel, Jeffreys (2:43)
• "Too Darn Hot" - Grant, Keel, Jeffreys (3:04)
• "I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua" - Keel (2:25)
• "Always True to You in My Fashion" - Grant (2:42)
• "Were Thine That Special Face" - Keel (3:38)
• "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" - Grant, Keel, Jeffreys (3:12)
• "I Hate Men" - Jeffreys (4:12)
• "Where is the Life That Late I Led?" - Keel (3:52)

Robert Russel Bennet's Kiss Me
Kate and Oklahoma (sic)

Symphonic Impressions by
The New World Theatre Orchestra
 

1959 Studio Recording

• Overture
• "Another Op'nin', Another Show"
• "Why Can't You Behave"
• "Wunderbar "
• "So in Love"
• "I Hate Men"
• "Were Thine That Special Face"
• "Too Darn Hot"
• "Where is the Life that Late I Led"
• "Always True to You in My Fashion"
• "Bianca"

Great Songs from Cole Porter's
Kiss Me Kate (Studio Recording)

Conductor: Glenn Oster
Performers: Earl Wrightson, Lois Hunt and Mary Mayo
Produced by Ernie Altschuler
Liner notes by Curtis F. Brown

• Overture - Orchestra
• "Another Op'nin', Another Show" - Earl Wrightson, Lois Hunt, and Mary Mayo
• "I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua" - Earl Wrightson
• "I Hate Men" - Lois Hunt
• "So in Love" - Earl Wrightson
• "Why Can't You Behave?" - Mary Mayo
• "Where is the Life That Late I Led?" - Earl Wrightson
• "Wunderbar" - Earl Wrightson and Lois Hunt
• "I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple" - Lois Hunt
• "Were Thine That Special Face" - Earl Wrightson
• "Always True to You in My Fashion" - Mary Mayo
• "We Open in Venice" - Earl Wrightson, Lois Hunt, and Mary Mayo

Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre presents Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate (Studio Recording)

Conductor: Morris Stoloff
Performers: The Hi-Lo's, Jo Stafford, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Johnny Prophet, Phyllis McGuire, Lou Monte, Dinah Shore, and Keely Smith
Conceived and Produced by Frank Sinatra
Associate Musical Director: Ken Lane

• "Overture" - Orchestra [arranger: George Dunning]
• "Another Op'nin', Another Show" - The Hi-Lo's [arrangers: Warren Barker & Gene Puerling]
• "Why Can't You Behave?" - Jo Stafford [arranger: Billy May]
• "We Open in Venice" - Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. [arranger: Billy May]
• "So in Love" - Johnny Prophet [arranger: Nelson Riddle]
• "I Hate Men" - Phyllis McGuire [arranger: Skip Martin]
• "Too Darn Hot" - Sammy Davis Jr. [arranger:George Rhodes]
• "Were Thine That Special Face" - Johnny Prophet [arranger: Herb Spencer]
• "Where is the Life That Late I Led?" - Lou Monte [arranger: Billy May]
• "Wunderbar" - Dinah Shore and Johnny Prophet [arranger: Jerry Fielding]
• "Always True to You in My Fashion" - Keely Smith [arranger: Skip Martin]
• "Bianca" - Dean Martin [arranger: Skip Martin]
• "So in Love" [reprise] - Frank Sinatra and Keely Smith [arranger: Nelson Riddle]

Selections from Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate

• "We Open in Venice" - Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr.
• "Too Darn Hot" - Sammy Davis Jr.
• "So in Love" - Frank Sinatra and Keely Smith
• "Always True to You in My Fashion" - Keely Smith

1967 UK Studio Recording

Conductor: Geoff Love
Performers: Patricia Routledge, David Holliday, Stella Tanner, Alyn Ainsworth Singers, Geoff Love, Alan Page, Dick Avon, Mike Bretoom, and Jill Donahue

• "Another Op'nin', Another Show"
• "Why Can't You Behave?"
• "Wunderbar"
• "So in Love"
• "We Open in Venice"
• "Tom, Dick or Harry"
• "Too Darn Hot"
• "I Hate Men"
• "Were Thine That Special Face"
• "Always True to You in My Fashion"
• "Where is the Life That Late I Led?"
• "Brush Up Your Shakespeare"

Armstrong presents Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate "Original ABC Television Soundtrack."

Recording Produced by Joe Carlton

For further details, go to the page for the 1968 ABC-TV Production

1987 Royal Shakespeare Company Recording

Triumph Theatre Productions and The Old Vic present the Royal Shakespeare Company

Musical Staging and Choreography by Ron Field
Directed by Adrian Noble
Production musical supervision and musical arrangements by Timothy Higgs

Cast
Paul Jones (Fred Graham / Petruchio), Nichola McAuliffe (Lilli Vanessi / Kate), Fiona Hendley (Lois Lane / Bianca), Tim Flavin (Bill Calhoun / Lucentio), Earlene Phillips (Hattie), Peter Alex Newton (Paul), Peter Ledbury (Benjamin Stubbs / Hortensio), Cyril Nri (Chas Gilpin / Gremio), Emil Wolk (Gangster), John Bardon (Gangster)
With Jeffery Dench, Christopher Brown, Edward Phillips, and Barry Linehan

Recording produced by Norman Newell
Engineer: John Kurland; Assistant Engineer: Andrew Fraser
Recorded at EMI Studios, Abbey Road, August 3 and 6, 1987

• Overture - Orchestra
• "Another Op'nin', Another Show" - Hattie & Chorus
• "Why Can't You Behave?" - Lois and Bill
• "Wunderbar" - Lilli and Fred
• "So in Love Am I" - Lilli
• "We Open in Venice" - Kate, Petruchio, Bianca, Lucentio and Chorus
• "Tom, Dick or Harry" - Bianca, Lucentio, Hortensio and Gremio
• "I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua" - Petruchio and Men
• "I Hate Men" - Kate
• "Were Thine That Special Face" - Petruchio and Girls
• "Too Darn Hot" - Paul and Boys
• "Where is the Life That Late I Led?" - Petruchio
• "Always True to You (in My Fashion)" - Lois
• "Bianca" - Lucentio and Girls
• "So in Love Am I" - Fred
• "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" - Gangsters
• "Women Are So Simple" - Kate
• "Finale" - Full Company

Conductor: John McGlinn
Performers: Josephine Barstow; Thomas Hampson; Kim Criswell; George Dvorsky; Karla Burns; Damon Evans; Robert Nichols; David Garrison
Recorded June, 1989, No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London.

For further details, go to the page for the 1990 EMI Studio Recording

Conductor: John Owen Edwards with the National Symphony Orchestra
Performers: Thomas Allen (Fred Graham), Diana Montague (Lilli Vanessi), Diane Langton (Lois Lane), Graham Bickley (Bill Calhoun)
Digitally recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London on December 22 - 24, 1993
Recording Engineer: John Kurlander
Produced by John Yap

Complete Releases

• Overture
• "Another Op'nin', Another Show"
• "Why Can't You Behave?"
• "Wunderbar"
• "So in Love"
• "We Open in Venice"
• "Tom, Dick or Harry"
• Rose Dance
• "I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua"
• "I Hate Men"
• "Were Thine That Special Face"
• "I Sing of Love"
• Dance (Tarantella)
• Finale Act One
• Entr'acte
• "Too Darn Hot"
• "Where is the Life That Late I Led?"
• "Always True to You in My Fashion"
• "Bianca"
• "So in Love" (reprise)
• "Brush Up Your Shakespeare"
• Pavane
• "I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple"
• "Finale - So Kiss Me Kate"
• Shrew / Grand Finale

Bonus tracks

• Can-Can Overture
• Jubilee Overture
• Out of This World Overture

Highlights Releases

• Overture
• "Another Op'nin', Another Show"
• "Why Can't You Behave?"
• "Wunderbar"
• "So in Love"
• "We Open in Venice"
• "I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua"
• "I Hate Men"
• "Too Darn Hot"
• "Where is the Life That Late I Led?"
• "Brush Up Your Shakespeare"

Conductor: Matthew Freeman with the West End Concert Orchestra
Performers: Edmund Hockridge (Fred/Petruchio), Janine Roebuck (Lilli/Katharine), and Jackie Jefferson (Lois/Bianca)
Recorded at CTS Studios, Wembley
Orchestrations by Colin Keyes, Ted Brennan, and Matthew Freeman

• "Another Op'nin', Another Show"
• "Why Can't You Behave?"
• "Wunderbar"
• "So In Love"
• "We Open in Venice"
• "Tom, Dick or Harry"
• "I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua"
• "I Hate Men"
• "Were Thine That Special Face"
• "Too Darn Hot"
• "Where is the Life That Late I Led?"
• "Always True to You in My Fashion"
• "Brush Up Your Shakespeare"
• "I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple"
• "From This Moment On"

Produced by Hugh Fordin, Paul Gemignani, and Don Sebesky
Recorded and Mixed by Cynthia Daniels
 

For further details, go to the page for the 1999 Broadway Revival

Dutch Cast Recording

Conductor: Henk van Dijk
Performers: Lia Dorana, Donald Jones, John Lanting, Pieter Lutz, Annet Nieuwenhuijzen, Jo Vischer, Jr,. Rob de Vries

German Cast Recording

Conductor: Heinz Geese
Performers: Ingeborg Hallstein, Heinz Hoppe, Horst Indra, Wolfgang Kieling, Lore Lorentz, Peter Rubin

German Cast Recording

Conductor: Georg Hahn
Performers: Bernd Birkhahn, Marcus Fritsche, Cordula Gerburg, Rolf Idler, Peter Kollek, Mathias Lange, George Meyer-Groll, Puck Oosthoek, Christoph Schobesberger, Stefan Staudinger, Susanne Tremper, Franz-Xaver Zach

German Studio Recording

Conductor: Johannes Fehring
Performers: Peter Alexander and Olive Moorefield

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