Hans Christian Andersen

About Hans Christian Andersen

Danny Kaye Sings Selections from the Samuel Goldwyn Technicolor Production Hans Christian Andersen, or simply Hans Christian Andersen, is an album by Danny Kaye featuring songs written by Frank Loesser for the 1952 RKO musical film Hans Christian Andersen.

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Release

The album was originally issued by Decca Records on a 10-inch LP (cat. no. DL 5433).

Chart performance

The album reached No. 1 on both the 33⅓ R.P.M. and 45 R.P.M. halves of Billboard's Best Selling Popular Albums chart.

Track listing

10-inch LP (Decca DL 5433)

Personnel

Danny Kaye accompanied by Gordon Jenkins and his orchestra and chorus and Jane Wyman

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Notable quotes

“They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a Princess could be so delicate.”
— The Princess and the Pea
“Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects.”
— The Little Mermaid
“His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.”
— The Ugly Duckling
“Under each arm he carries an umbrella; one of them, with pictures on the inside, he spreads over the good children, and then they dream the most beautiful stories the whole night. But the other umbrella has no pictures, and this he holds over the naughty children so that they sleep heavily, and wake in the morning without having dreamed at all.”
— Ole-Lukøie
“Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.”
— The Story of a Mother
“"I have now learnt to despise you," he said. "You refused an honest prince; you did not appreciate the rose and the nightingale; but you did not mind kissing a swineherd for his toys; you have no one but yourself to blame!"”
— The Swineherd

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