South Pacific, credited to Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza with the original Broadway cast, is the album containing the original studio cast recording of the 1949 musical South Pacific. It was released by Columbia in the same year, on May 9.
The album was released as a set of seven 10-inch 78-rpm phonograph records (cat. no. MM-850). It was also made available on LP (cat. no. ML-4180). According to The Complete Book of 1940s Broadway Musicals, that was the "first Broadway musical issued on the new LP format".
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Recording
The album was recorded in Columbia's 30th Street Studio on April 18 and 19, 1949.
Reception
The album spent a total of 69 weeks at number one on Billboard's popular albums chart.[A]
Legacy
The album was added to the National Recording Registry as being "culturally or historically significant".
Track listing
12" LP (Columbia Masterworks ML 4180)