I Can Get It for You Wholesale (album)

I Can Get It for You Wholesale: Original Broadway Cast Recording
Studio album by Barbra Streisand
Released April 1962
Genre Showtunes
Label Columbia
Producer Goddard Lieberson
Barbra Streisand chronology
I Can Get It for You Wholesale: Original Broadway Cast Recording
(1963)		 Pins and Needles: 25th Anniversary of the Hit Musical Revue
(1963)
Singles from I Can Get It for You Wholesale: Original Broadway Cast Recording
  1. "Miss Marmelstein / Who Knows?"
    Released: April, 1962

I Can Get It for You Wholesale: Original Broadway Cast Recording contains the songs from the Broadway musical "I Can Get It for You Wholesale", with music and lyrics by Harold Rome. The album contains Barbra Streisand's show-stopping solo "Miss Marmelstein", which became the most memorable song of the show.

Contents

Album information

Barbra Streisand vocals are featured in the songs "I'm Not A Well Man", "Ballard Of The Garment Trade", "Miss Marmelstein" and "What Are They Doing To Us Now?". This album marks Barbra's first professional recording and Columbia Records appearance.[1]

Goddard Lieberson, who produced the album, signed Streisand to a contract, and her first solo album The Barbra Streisand Album was released two months after I Can Get It for You Wholesale closed.

Barbra remembers in Just For The Record: "My first audition for the show was on the morning after Thanksgiving in 1961. Since the action took place in the 1930s, I showed up in a '30s fur coat that I'd bought in a thrift shop for $10. I sang three songs, including my new standby "A Sleepin' Bee." They asked me to come back and gave me "Miss Marmelstein" to learn for my second audition a few hours later."

Track listing

All songs written by Harold Rome.

  1. "Overture" – 1:27
  2. "I'm Not A Well Man" (performed by Barbra Streisand and Jack Kruschen) – 2:21
  3. "The Way Things Are" (performed by Elliot Gould) – 1:41
  4. "When Gemini Meets Capricorn" (performed by Marilyn Cooper and Elliot Gould) – 2:48
  5. "Momma, Momma, Momma" (performed by Elliot Gould and Lillian Roth) – 2:57
  6. "The Sound Of Money" (performed by Elliot Gould and Sheree North) – 4:15
  7. "Too Soon" (performed by Lillian Roth)– 3:05
  8. "The Family Way" (performed by Elliot Gould, Lillian Roth, Marilyn Cooper, Ken LeRoy and Bambi Linn) – 3:08
  9. "Who Knows?" (performed by Marilyn Cooper) – 3:41
  10. "Ballard Of The Garment Trade" (performed by Barbra Streisand, Elliot Gould, Marilyn Cooper, Ken LeRoy and Bambi Linn) – 3:25
  11. "Have I Told You Lately?" (performed by Ken LeRoy and Bambi Linn) – 3:10
  12. "A Gift Today" (performed by Elliot Gould, Lillian Roth, Marilyn Cooper, Ken LeRoy and Bambi Linn) – 3:55
  13. "Miss Marmelstein" (performed by Barbra Streisand) – 3:22
  14. "A Funny Thing Happened" (performed by Elliot Gould and Marilyn Cooper) – 2:38
  15. "What's In It For Me?" (performed by Harold Lang)– 1:57
  16. "Eat A Little Something" (performed by Elliot Gould and Lillian Roth)– 2:10
  17. "What Are They Doing To Us Now?" (performed by Barbra Streisand – 7:11

Unrecorded Tracks

The following songs from the musical show were not included in the cast recording:

Singles

# Title Date
1. "Miss Marmelstein" / "Who Knows?" April 1962

The songs "Miss Marmelstein" (performed by Barbra Streisand) and "Who Knows?" (performed by Marilyn Cooper) were released to radio as a promotional single in April 1962.[2]

Chart performance

The album peaked at #125 on Billboard's Pop Albums Chart.[3]

Chart (1962) Peak
Position
US Billboard Pop Albums Chart 1

Personnel

Produced by Goddard Lieberson

Music and Lyrics by Harold Rome

Musical Direction and Vocal Arrangements by Lehman Engel

Orchestrations by Sid Ramin

Original Recording Engineers: Fred Plaut and Ed Michalski