Based on the novel 7-1/2 Cents by Richard Bissell, The Pajama Game hit Broadway in May 1954 and ran over 1,000 performances. The plot revolves around a labor dispute at the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory, with two couples (Eddie Foy Jr. and Carol Haney, John Raitt and Janis Paige) in the middle of it. The score, by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, includes Raitt's classic ballad "Hey There" (dueting with himself as recorded on a dictation machine), the humorous "Think of the Time I Save," and "Steam Heat" and "Hernando's Hideaway," both set to memorable choreography by a Broadway novice named Bob Fosse. The following year, the Adler-Ross-Fosse team would team up again with Damn Yankees.
The 2000 remastered version of The Pajama Game features vastly improved sound and bonus tracks taken from a 1954 radio show: Raitt's "The World Around Us" (dropped from the show) and Raitt and Paige's "There Once Was a Man," both with a rehearsal pianist, and Adler and Ross themselves singing "Hernando's Hideaway" with Ross at the piano.
1. Overture
2. Pajama Game, The / Racing With The Clock - Eddie Foy Jr./Cast
3. New Town Is A Blue Town, A - John Raitt
4. I'm Not At All In Love - Janis Paige
5. I'll Never Be Jealous Again - Eddie Foy, Jr./Reta Shaw
6. Hey There - John Raitt
7. Her Is - Stanley Prager/Carol Haney
8. Sleep Tite - Janis Paige
9. Once-A-Year-Day! - John Raitt/Janis Paige/Cast
10. Small Talk - John Raitt/Janis Page
11. There Once Was A Man - John Raitt/Janis Paige
12. Steam Heat - Carol Haney/Peter Gennaro/Buzz Miller
13. Think Of The Time I Save - Eddie Foy, Jr.
14. Hernando's Hideaway - Carol Haney/Cast
15. Seven-And-A-Half Cents - Janis Paige/Stanley Prager
16. Finale - Cast
17. Mike Wallace Talks With Jerry Ross
18. World Around Us, The - John Raitt
19. Mike Wallace Talks With Jerry Ross
20. There Once Was A Man - John Raitt/Janis Paige
21. Mike Wallace Talks With Jerry Ross
22. Hernando's Hideaway - Richard Adler/Jerry Ross
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