She Loves Me, subtitled The Original Cast Album, is an album containing a recording of the 1963 Broadway musical She Loves Me made by its original cast. The album was released in the same year by MGM Records.
Critical reception
In a retrospective review on AllMusic, William Ruhlmann notes that although the musical "was not a stage success", "the score has been well remembered [...], especially for Barbara Cook's performance." He also notes that the album was originally issued on two LP records and provided a "near-complete recording" of the stage score.
Back in 1963, Billboard picked the album for its "Spotlight" section, commending the "de luxe packaging" "which re-create[d] the giant-sized score of some two dozen tunes, almost twice that of a normal Broadway outing" and its "special price of $6.95 to $7.95" as "an added sales incentive".
Chart performance The album reached number 50 on the Billboards Top LPs chart.
Track listing LP – MGM Records E4118 OC-2 (mono), SE4118 OC-2 (stereo)The records' labels
Personnel Harold Hastings – musical director
Charts Chart (1963) Peakposition US Billboard Top LPs 50
Awards Year Award type Categories Results 1964 Grammy Awards Best Score from an Original Cast Show Album
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