Rose-Marie - Recordings

Recordings

The operetta has been recorded a number of times. The 1925 original London cast recorded six numbers along with an orchestral medley. These recordings have been collected on a number of LP and CD editions. Al Goodman recorded the major songs in 1948 as part of his series of operetta recordings for RCA Victor. These were last issued on LP from the budget RCA Camden label in 1958.

Nelson Eddy recorded eight numbers for a Columbia Records ten-inch Lp in 1950. Around the same time, singles recorded by Eddy and MacDonald in 1936, at the time of the film's release, were reissued in an extended Play 45-rpm disc by RCA Red Seal as ERA 220. The sleeve featured a photo of the two of them as they appeared in the film. The M-G-M soundtrack album of the 1954 technicolor and CinemaScope remake was released on records just prior to the film's premiere in March 1954.

The most complete recording was made in 1958 by RCA Victor (LSO-1001) starring Julie Andrews and Giorgio Tozzi. In 1961 EMI issued an LP of selections with Barbara Leigh, David Hughes, Andy Cole and Maggie Fitzgibbon (Cole and Fitzgibbon had appeared together in a 1961 London revival). The following year, Readers' Digest included a recording of one side of highlights in their 12-record Treasury of Great Operettas set.

The Smithsonian Institute recorded a note-complete version of the score that was never commercially released, when the recording wing of the Institute was closed down.