Pins and Needles Cast Album 1962

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Pins and Needles (1962)

Pins and Needles original album cover

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  • ABOUT THE ALBUM
    • Released May 1962
    • Produced by: Elizabeth Lauer and Charles Burr
    • Supervised by: Harold Rome
    • Music and Lyrics: by Harold Rome
    • Original Recording Engineer: George Knuerr
    • Cover Art: Antonakos
    • Back cover photos: Hank Parker
    • CD restored by John Arrias at B&J Studio using the C.A.P. System
    • CD remastered by: Bernie Grundman






  • CATALOG NUMBERS
    • OS 2210 (Stereo LP, 1962)
    • OL 5810 (Mono LP, 1962)
    • CK 57380 (CD)

  • CHARTS

    This album did not chart.


    The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

Tracks

 

  • Sing Me a Song with Social Significance ( Rose Marie Jun ) [2:52]
  • Doing the Reactionary (Barbra Streisand) [2:01] 
  • One Big Union for Two (Jack Carroll, Rose Marie Jun) [2:57]
  • It's Better with a Union Man (Harold Rome) [3:03]
  • Nobody Makes a Pass at Me (Streisand) [4:17] 
  • I've Got the Nerve to Be in Love (Carroll, Jun) [4:46]
  • Not Cricket to Picket (Streisand) [2:29] 
  • Back to Work (Carroll and Chorus) [2:13]
  • Status Quo (Streisand) [4:27]
  • When I Grow Up (The G-Man Song) (Rome) [2:49]
  • Chain Store Daisy (Jun) [3:50]
  • Four Little Angels of Peace (Rome, Carroll, Streisand, Alan Sokoloff) [4:36]
  • Sunday in the Park (Carroll) [3:31]
  • What Good Is Love (Streisand) [3:38]
  • Mene, Mene, Tekel (Rome and Chorus) [3:51]

About the Album

“... ‘Nobody Makes a Pass at Me,’ the tale of a girl who buys every product guaranteed to enhance feminine appear but still remains unnoticed is, of course, an ageless lament. The original version of this ... sung by Millie Wertz, was, until recently, available on the Decca label, but that rendition is now completely surpassed by a gorgeously funny performance by Barbra Streisand, a genuine comedy find ...”

JOHN F. INDCOX, High Fidelity

Harold Rome wrote the music and lyrics for Pins and Needles, a musical revue produced in 1936 by The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and later transferred to Broadway. It had the distinction of being the only hit Broadway show to be produced by a labor union.

In 1962, Columbia Records wanted Rome to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his show by personally supervising a new recording of it. Rome recruited Jack Carroll, Elise Bretton, Stan Freeman, Rose Marie Jun and Barbra Streisand to perform the songs on the record.

“She's nineteen years old, for heaven's sake!” Rome exclaimed about Streisand and her grasp of the 25-year-old material. “She's not a history student. She doesn't know about the period, and yet she gets into the songs as if she'd been born to them. I don't know where it's coming from.”

When Columbia finally released Pins and Needles on CD—restored and remastered by John Arrias—in October 1993, they replicated the original gatefold packaging of the LP, including all the liner notes. On the CD cover, Columbia added “Featuring Barbra Streisand” and an extra row of ribbon on the bottom. Missing from the CD were the photographs from the original 1937 production of Pins & Needles, which were included on the 1962 LP.

“... The [album has] the glittering talents of Barbra Streisand. Whether playing a hysterical society matron in ‘Not Cricket to Picket’ or a wallflower in ‘Nobody Makes a Pass at Me,’ Miss Streisand is irresistible.”



William Mootz, Courier-Journal

Album Cover ...

The photographs on the back cover of Pins and Needles were taken by Columbia Records' staff photographer, Hank Parker.  Streisand's photos were utilized to publicize her early career.
Below:  Click through some of the alternate photographs of Barbra Streisand taken for the cover of this album .... also a couple of behind-the-scenes shots of Streisand recording her songs.

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