Edwin Lester's production of "Song of Norway", a new operetta based on the life and music by Edvard Grieg, or simply Song of Norway, credited to members of the original New York cast, is an album containing the original studio cast recording of the 1944 Broadway musical Song of Norway. It was released by Decca Records in 1945.
Release The album was originally issued as a set of six 10-inch 78-rpm phonograph records (cat. no. A-382).
In 1949, the album was made available on LP (cat. no. DL 8002). It was also available on six 45s (cat. no. 9-1).
Reception The album spent two weeks at number one on Billboards Best-Selling Popular Record Albums chart in April and May 1945.
Track listing Album of six 12-inch 78-rpm phonograph records' (Decca DA-382)
Charts Chart (1945) Peakposition US Billboard Best-Selling Popular Record Albums 1
See also List of Billboard Best-Selling Popular Record Albums number ones of 1945
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