Alfred Drake

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Alfred Drake / Alexis Dubroff / Aloysius Donovan

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American actor, voice actor and singer.
Inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981.

Born 7 October 1914 in The Bronx, New York, USA from emigrated Italian parents.
Died 25 July 1992 in New York City, New York, USA.

ALBUMS

Robert Wright*, George Forrest - Alfred Drake

2019, 2xCD, Comp, Ltd, RE, RM, Stage Door Records,

Lucky To Be Me - A Life In Music

2019, 2xCD, Comp, Ltd, RM, Stage Door Records,

Mary Martin, Juanita Hall, Ezio Pinza, Alfred Drake, Celeste Holm

Two Original Broadway Classics: South Pacific & Oklahoma !

2017, CD, Comp, RM, Alto,

Alfred Drake, Richard Rodgers

Kismet Original Cast Music Theatre Of Lincoln Center

2016, CD, Album, Masterworks Broadway,

Jerome Kern, Rudolf Friml - Kitty Carlisle, Alfred Drake

Roberta / The Vagabond King

2002, CD, Comp, RM, Decca Broadway,

Alfred Drake Reads Omar Khayyam And Matthew Arnold

The Rubaiyat And Sohrab And Rustum

Spoken Word/Poetry

Lerner & Loewe - Alfred Drake, Agnes Moorehead, Maria Karnilova, Daniel Massey, Karin Wolfe

Gigi ... The Original Broadway Cast Recording

Alfred Drake & Roberta Peters

Show Time / Carousel (Complete) / Westside Story / On The Town / Candide

1973, 2xLP, Album, Command,

Fables Of Leonardo Da Vinci

Alfred Drake, Richard Rodgers

Kismet Original Cast Music Theatre Of Lincoln Center

Richard Burton (2), Hume Cronyn, Alfred Drake, Eileen Herlie, George Rose, George Voskovec* and Original Broadway Cast*, Alexander H. Cohen

Famous Scenes From Sir John Gielgud's Production Of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

Richard Burton (2), Hume Cronyn, Alfred Drake, Eileen Herlie, William Redfield, George Rose, George Voskovec*

John Gielgud's Production Of Hamlet - Origninal Broadway Cast

Alfred Drake And Roberta Peters Wih The Ray Charles Singers And Enoch Light And His Orchestra

Alfred Drake And Roberta Peters Sing The Popular Music Of Leonard Bernstein

Alfred Drake, Chita Rivera

Robert Wright*, George Forrest - Alfred Drake

Kean (Original Broadway Cast)

Andy Williams, Alfred Drake, Lisa Kirk, Ray Walston, Doretta Morrow And Betty Comden & Adolph Green*

Music From Shubert Alley

1959, LP, Mono, Promo, Sinclair,

Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk, Harold Lang

Cole Porter, Saint Subber And Lemuel Ayers Present Alfred Drake And Patricia Morison

1958, 7", EP, Philips, Philips

Alfred Drake, Joan Roberts

1956, 7", EP, CID (2)

Max Liebman Presents Alfred Drake With Doretta Morrow

The Adventures Of Marco Polo

Alfred Drake, Original Broadway Cast*

Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Walter Hampden, Macdonald Carey, Alfred Drake

Man's Right To Knowledge And The Free Use Thereof

1954, 2xLP, Red, Columbia University Educational Discs

Alfred Drake & The Kismet Original Broadway Cast

1954, LP, RE, Columbia Masterworks

Alfred Drake & The Kismet Original Broadway Cast

1954, LP, Album, Mono, Columbia Masterworks,

The Happy Wanderer (Val-De Ri, Val-De Ra)

Alfred Drake & The Kismet Original Broadway Cast

Patricia Morison, Alfred Drake

Wunderbar / So In Love

1951, 10", Promo, Columbia

Alfred Drake, Mimi Benzell, Frances Bible

The Vagabond King

Down In The Valley

Alfred Drake, Burl Ives, Alma Kaye, Bibi Osterwald, Jack McCauley, Juanita Hall

Sing Out, Sweet Land!

Richard Rodgers And Oscar Hammerstein II / "Oklahoma" Orchestra And Chorus* Conducted By Jay Blackton, Alfred Drake

Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison

Alfred Drake And Howard Da Silva / Celeste Holm

Pore Jud Is Daid / I Cain't Say No

1947, Shellac, 10", Brunswick,

Soundtrack/Musical

Oh! What A Beautiful Mornin' / Oklahoma

1947, Shellac, 10", Brunswick

Celeste Holm And Lee Dixon (2) / Alfred Drake

All Er Nothin' / The Surrey With The Fringe On Top

1947, Shellac, 10", Brunswick

Alfred Drake, Betty Garde, Ralph Riggs, Joseph Buloff

Oklahoma! Volume 2

1945, 2xShellac, 10", Album, Decca,

Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach - Kitty Carlisle, Alfred Drake, Paula Laurence, Kathryn Meisle

Roberta (A Musical Production)

Alfred Drake, Doretta Morrow, Richard Oneto, Richard Kiley

Kismet - Vol. 2

7", EP, Mono, Philips,

The World Is Mine / Till The Sands Of The Desert Grow Cold

Lisa Kirk, Harold Lang, Patricia Morison, Alfred Drake

Hits From "Kiss Me Kate" Volume 1

7", Columbia Masterworks

Doretta Morrow, Richard Oneto And Chorus* / Alfred Drake

Shellac, 10", Philips, Philips,

Alfred Drake And Roberta Roberts

The Heather And The Hill / Almost Like Being In Love

Shellac, 10", Rainbow Records (10)

Cole Porter, Saint Subber And Lemuel Ayers Present Alfred Drake And Patricia Morison

Hits From Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate - Volume Two

7", Album, EP, Mono, Columbia Masterworks

Bill Venturo, Alfred Drake And Roberta Roberts

Come To Me - Bend To Me / From This Day On

Shellac, 10", Rainbow Records (10),

Lonely Room / It's A Scandal

Shellac, 10", Decca,

7", EP, Mono, Coronet (2)

Alfred Drake With Lehman Engel And His Orchestra

So In Love / Were Thine That Special Face

Alfred Drake And Joan Roberts / Joan Roberts

People Will Say We're In Love / Many A New Day

APPEARANCES +

Bell Telephone Hour Telecasts 1959-1962

2011, DVD-V, NTSC, VAI Audio,

Sing Out, Sweet Land!

2019, CD, Comp, Ltd, RE, RM, Stage Door Records

Kiss Me, Kate (Original Broadway Cast 1949)

2005, CD, Comp, Naxos Musicals,

Oklahoma! Original Broadway Cast 1943-1944

2005, CD, Comp, Mono, RM, Naxos Musicals,

Two Classic Shows, The King And I, Kismet

2004, CD, Comp, Mono, Living Era,

Rodgers & Hammerstein

The Great Musicals Of Rodgers & Hammerstein (Oklahoma / The King And I / South Pacific)

2003, CD, Comp, Prism Leisure

Richard Crawford

An Introduction to America's Music

2001, 3xCD, Comp, Sony Music Special Products,

Be Thou Now Persuaded - Living In A Shakespearean World

1999, 6xCD, Album, Comp, RM, Box, Rhino Word Beat,

Poetry/Education/Comedy/Monolog/Radioplay/Spoken Word

Music An Appreciation - Sixth Edition / Third Brief Addition

1997, 3xCD, Comp, McGraw-Hill,

Classical/Education

Das Beste Aus Der Welt Der Musicals (Die Berühmtesten Songs Im Original)

Richard Burton's Hamlet Scenes And Soliloquies

I've Heard That Song Before P1

Rodgers & Hammerstein - Vivian Blaine, Dick Haymes

1976, LP, Comp, Mono, RM, JJA

Gigi ... The Original Broadway Cast Recording

The Impossible Dream And Other Great Broadway Hits

1972, LP, Comp, A Columbia Musical Treasury,

Richard Burton (2), Broadway Cast*

Famous Scenes From Sir John Gielgud's Production Of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

Dialogue/Spoken Word

Armando Trovajoli* - Nino Manfredi, Ornella Vanoni, Aldo Fabrizi

Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate

Friml*, Romberg*

The Vagabond King / The Student Prince

Fred Waring And The Pennsylvanians*

Stars And Stripes Forever

Fred Waring And His Pennsylvanians*

Columbia, The Gem Of The Ocean

Richard Rodgers And Oscar Hammerstein II / "Oklahoma" Orchestra And Chorus* Directed By Jay Blackton

Beggar's Holiday / Bet Your Life

LP, S/Edition, Blue Pear Records,

Command Performance By The Voice Of Music

7xLP, Album, Comp, Command, Command, Command, Command, Command, Command, Command Classics

The Flavor Of America

LP, Album, Mic, Fleetwood Marketing Group, Inc.,

Omar Khayyam And Matthew Arnold

The Rubaiyat And Sohrab And Rustum

Lost Broadway 1961

2019, 2xCD, Comp, Ltd, RM, Stage Door Records

Rodgers And Hammerstein*

Oklahoma! The 75th Anniversary Collection

2018, 2xCDr, Comp, Acrobat Music

Carousel / Alfred Drake & Roberta Peters Sing Leonard Bernstein

2016, CD, Album, Ltd, RE, RM, Stage Door Records

2015, 3xCD, Comp, Sony Music,

Pure... Musicals

2013, 4xCD, Comp, Sony Music,

The Perfect Foyle - Music Inspired By Foyle's War

2013, 2xCD, Comp, Memory Lane Media Ltd,

Richard Rodgers

With A Song In My Heart

2013, 2xCD, Comp, Retrospective Records

Now That's What I Call Musicals

2012, 2xCD, Comp, Decca, EMI TV,

Oscar Hammerstein II

Out Of My Dreams

Music Of The Night - The Ultimate Musical Album

2010, 2xCD, Decca

Lover Come Back To Me - Beloved Operetta Favorites

2009, 3xCD, Comp, Dynamic Nostalgia,

Red Buttons, Barbara Cook, Rudy Vallee, Stubby Kaye, Paula Laurence

Hansel And Gretel (Original Television Cast)

2009, CD, RE, Sepia Records (2),

Soundtrack/Opera

The Essential Collection - Broadway Shows

2008, 2xCD, Comp, Avid Entertainment,

The Songs Of Cole Porter - The Ultimate Collection

2007, 4xCD, Comp, The Red Box,

Big Band/Swing/Vocal

Jane Pickens With Al Goodman And His Orchestra And The Guild Choristers

Music In The Air

The Ultimate Musicals Collection

2006, 2xCD, Comp, Naxos Nostalgia, SBS (3),

Composers On Broadway

2006, Box, Comp + 6xCD, RM, Decca Broadway,

Some Enchanted Evening: The Greatest Broadway Hits

2006, 3xCD, Comp, Dynamic Nostalgia

Composers On Broadway - Rodgers & Hammerstein

2006, CD, Comp, Decca Broadway,

The Best Of Musicals

2006, CD, Comp, Universal Music Canada,

20 Original Hit Songs Of 1943

2006, CD, Comp, The CDCard Company,

Ballad/Easy Listening/Swing

Show Time - The Marvellous Musicals

2006, 4xCD, Comp, Rajon Music Group

Broadway's Lost Treasures Collection

2006, 4xDVD-V + Box, Acorn Media,

The Musicals Collection - Oklahoma! / Annie Get Your Gun

2005, 2xCD, Comp, Xtra (2)

Showboat / Kiss Me Kate

2005, CD, Comp, Xtra (2)

The Dillard's Broadway Collection '05

2005, CD, Comp, Universal Music Special Markets,

A Time Of Hope: Broadway 1935-1946

2005, CD, Comp, Decca Broadway

Transports Of Delight

2005, CD, Comp, Mono, Living Era,

Great Broadway Shows

2005, 4xCD, Comp, Avid Entertainment,

Showboat / Kiss Me Kate

2005, CD, Comp, Sli, Xtra (2),

Cole Porter The Ultimate Collection

2004, CD, Comp, Prism Leisure,

Broadway : The American Musical

2004, Box, Comp + 5xCD, Comp, Columbia Broadway Masterworks, Legacy

The Best Of Broadway : The American Musical

Ziggedybop Songs From American Musicals

2003, CD, Album, Comp, Hot Record Society

The Art Of Celebrating (Special Selections For Your Enjoyment)

2003, CDr, Comp, Not On Label,

Мюзиклы II

There's No Business - Hits From Stage And Screen

Greatest Broadway Hits

2001, 3xCD, Comp, Disky

Trésors De La Comedie Musicale

2001, 4xCD, Comp + Box, Disques Vogue

Original Broadway Cast Recordings - South Pacific And Oklahoma!

2001, CD, Comp, Forum (12),

Too Romantic - Melodies Of Love

2001, 3xCD, Comp, Reader's Digest,

20 Great Broadway Showstoppers

2000, CD, Comp, Mono, ASV, Living Era,

Essential Hollywood & Broadway Musicals

2000, 3xCD, Comp + Box, Disky,

L'Age D'Or Des Comedies Musicales De Broadway 1919 - 1946

2000, 2xCD, Comp, Body & Soul (2), Wagram Music

Broadway’s Greatest Love Songs

2000, CD, Decca Broadway,

You're Sensational: Cole Porter in the '20s, '40s, & '50s 1948-1956

1999, 3xCD, Comp, EMI-Capitol Music Special Markets, Sony Music Special Products,

Big Band/Easy Listening/Vocal

Some Exclusive Decca Broadway Songs To Know And Love

1999, CD, Comp, Promo, Smplr, Decca Broadway,

Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack For A Century

1999, Box Set, 26x CD,

Broadway: The Great Original Cast Recordings

Ultimate Broadway

1998, 2xCD, Comp, Arista,

Legendary Singers Of The Century

The Best Of Front Row Center: Selections From The Broadway Gold Box Set

1997, CD, Comp, MCA Records,

The Ultimate Musicals Album - It's Showtime

1997, CD, Comp, Universal,

Das Beste Aus Der Welt Des Musicals (Die Berühmtesten Songs Im Original)

Broadway Highlights

1996, CD, Comp, MCA Records

Introducing You Must Remember This.

1996, CD, Mono, RM, Smplr, Happy Days (4), Conifer,

Comedy/Easy Listening

Front Row Center: The Broadway Gold Box 1935-1988

1996, 4xCD, Comp, MCA Records, Broadway Gold,

Music of Screen & Stage No.3 - Stars of The Stage

1996, CD, Comp, The Music Collection (Sunday Times), The Music Collection (Sunday Times)

You Must Remember This ... Great Theatre Songs

1996, CD, Album, Comp, Mono, Conifer

The Best Of Broadway: The Early 40's

1996, CD, Comp, Rhino Records (2), Time Life Music

Music - An Appreciation - Sixth Edition

1996, 8x Cassette,

Romantic/Classical/Modern/Opera/Impressionist/Baroque/Neo-Classical/Serial/Early/Musique Concrète/Contemporary/Abstract/Experimental/Ragtime/Swing/Big Band/Bop/Modal/Soundtrack/Musical/Indian Classical

1995, CD, Album, Comp, ASV, Living Era

Celebrate Broadway, Vol. 8: Duets

1995, CD, Comp, RCA Victor,

The Best Of Broadway

Those Wonderful Years: On Broadway, Volume 2

The Tip Sheet CD For Issue 55

1994, CD, Comp, Promo, The Tip Sheet,

Celtic/Industrial/Indie Rock/House/Punk/Soul/Reggae-Pop

Three Coins In The Fountain

1994, CD, Comp, Fabbri Editori

Those Wonderful Years: On Broadway

Original Cast! 100 Years Of The American Musical Theater - The Fifties: Part One

1993, 2xCD, Comp, Metropolitan Opera Guild, RCA Special Products,

The Best Of Broadway: The Sullivan Years Volume Two

1993, 2xCD, Comp, Box, TVT Records, 1001 Sundays, Inc.

The Best Of Broadway

1993, 2xCD, Comp, Sony Music Special Products,

American Songbook Series: Oscar Hammerstein II

1992, CD, Album, Comp, Smithsonian Collection, Sony Music Special Products,

American Songbook Series: Alan Jay Lerner

1992, CD, Album, Comp, Smithsonian Collection, Sony Music Special Products

From This Moment On - The Songs Of Cole Porter

Swing/Easy Listening

Ben Bagley's Oscar Hammerstein Revisited

This Is My Country

Cole Porter A Centennial Celebration

The Cole Porter Songbook

1990, CD, Comp, BMG, RCA,

American Musical Theater Volume III

1989, CD, Comp, Smithsonian Collection,

Musical/Soundtrack

American Musical Theater Volume II

1989, CD, Comp, Smithsonian Collection, CBS Special Products

The Smithsonian Collection Of Recordings American Musical Theater Shows, Songs And Stars

The Great American Composers: Cole Porter

Thanks For The Memories

1983, 8xLP, Album, Comp, Mono + Box, Reader's Digest,

Ballad/Big Band/Easy Listening/Soundtrack/Musical

Hits Of The Shows

1983, 2xLP, Comp, MCA Records

The Greatest Recordings Of The Broadway Musical Theater - Show Business Musicals - Vol. 1

1983, LP, Comp, The Franklin Mint Record Society

Hits Of The Shows

1983, 2xLP, Comp, MCA Records,

Thanks For The Memories

1983, 4xCass, Comp, Mono, Box, Reader's Digest

The Greatest Recordings Of The Broadway Musical Theater - Romantic Musicals

Jim Aylward's Beautiful Music, Beautiful Memories, Volume Six: On Stage And Screen

1982, 3xLP, Comp + Box, RCA

Welcome Broadway

1981, LP, Comp, CBS, CBS,

Brass Band/Musical

Welcome Broadway

1981, LP, Comp, CBS, CBS,

Brass Band/Musical

Broadway 40 Magic Moments

1980, 2xLP, Comp, CBS

Sing Out America! A Musical Tribute to Our Great Country

1980, 8xLP, Album, Comp, Reader's Digest

The Great American Musical

1979, 2xLP, Comp, Fleetwood Communications, Fleetwood Communications,

The Golden Age Of Entertainment

Big Band/Swing/Vocal

Remembering The '40s - A Parade Of Nostalgic Hits

They Stopped The Show!

Rodgers & Hammerstein

Enchanted Evenings

1976, 2xLP, Album, Comp, RCA Special Products

50 Greatest Songs From Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern

1975, 5xLP, Comp + Box, RCA Special Products,

Musical/Soundtrack/Theme

I've Heard That Song Before

Yankee Doodle Dandys

1973, LP, Comp, Fleetwood Records (2), Exxon Chemicals

Broadway Spectacular Vol. 1

1973, LP, Comp, Mono, Select Records (7),

Broadway Is Our Beat

1973, LP, Comp, RCA Victor,

Broadway Babies

1973, 3xLP, Comp, Smplr, Columbia Special Products, CSP

In Love Again (Record One, Record Two)

1973, 2xLP, Comp, RCA,

48 Golden Love Songs

1973, 4xLP, Comp, RCA Victor,

Gigi ... The Original Broadway Cast Recording

Delightful, Delicious, De-Lovely Cole Porter

1972, 3xLP, Comp, Pit + Box, Columbia Special Products, Columbia Special Products,

The Great Stars Of Broadway

1972, LP, Comp, RCA

An Anthology Of The American Musical Theater Since 1945

The Best of Broadway

1969, 5xLP, Comp, RCA Victor

The Great Stars (The Golden Years Of Show Business), Record 10, Memories Of Broadway

1968, LP, Comp, Reader's Digest, Reader's Digest,

Hear Them Again!

The Great Stars - The Golden Years Of Show Business

Country/Big Band/Soundtrack/Music Hall

The Sound Of Richard Rodgers' Music - Great Hits From The Great White Way

The Sound Of Broadway

1964, LP, RCA Victor

Audition Autumn 1964 - The Quarterly Sound Magazine Of The Columbia Masterworks Subscription Service

1964, LP, Comp, Mono, Smplr, Sub, Columbia Masterworks Subscription Service

Famous Scenes From Sir John Gielgud's Production Of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

They're The Top

Command Records Volume 11

1963, LP, Smplr, Command

Command Records Volume 10

1962, LP, Smplr, Command

The Music Of Life

1962, 5xLP, Comp + Box, RCA Victor,

Easy Listening/Big Band/Vocal

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II*

1962, 7", Jukebox, Command, Command, Command

1962, LP, Album, Gat, Command, Sparton,

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II*

(This Is) Broadway's Best

1959 Heart Fund February

1959, Vinyl, 16", Transcription, American Heart Association

The Gift of Music - Excerpts from New Albums for October '59

1959, LP, Promo, Smplr, Capitol Records,

The Original Hit Performances! The Middle Forties

Oklahoma! Part 3

1958, 7", EP, Brunswick,

International Trucks' Golden Anniversary Party

1957, LP, Comp, RCA Victor

Sing Out, Sweet Land!

Oklahoma! Featuring Members Of The Original New York Production

Stereo Star Performance

LP, Comp, Command,

Magnavox Presents Command Records

LP, Comp, Command, Command

Silvertone Presents Command Records

5xLP, Comp + Box, Command,

Hits From Kiss Me, Kate - Volume 1

7", EP, Columbia, Columbia

Westinghouse Presents The Best of Command Records

LP, Smplr, Command

General Electric Presents Command Stereo

LP, Comp, Gat, Command

The Sounds Of Broadway

9xLP, Comp + LP, Bon + Box, Reader's Digest, CBS,

The Wonderful World Of Stereophonic High Fidelity

10xLP, Comp + Box, Command

Rodgers And Hammerstein*

Oklahoma! Part 2

7", EP, Brunswick

The Best Of Broadway: The Late 40's

CD, Comp, Rhino Records (2), Time Life Music

Rodgers And Hammerstein*

LP, RE, Glo, Decca

The Men And Their Music Series Vol III

CD, Comp, Payless Entertainment,

Anything Goes (The Best Of Cole Porter)

CD, Comp, Eclipse (4),

LP, Comp, Mono, Cadence (2), Cadence (2)

Cole Porter The Songwriter Series

CD, Comp, Not On Label, Not On Label,

The Songwriter Collection - Cole Porter

CD, Comp, Hit Bound Records, Hit Bound Records

Westinghouse Stereophonic High Fidelity

5xLP, Album + Box, Comp, Command, Command, Command, Command, Command

This Is Broadway's Best

2xLP, Comp, CBS, Chappell's ∙ Sydney,

Golden Memories Of Stage & Screen

4xCD, Album, Comp, Reader's Digest Music,

The Original Hits Performances Of The Thirties Forties & Fifties

Big Band/Vocal/Swing

Showstoppers (Demonstration Record)

The Best Of The Telephone Hour

Musical/Operetta

The Grotto Farm Tapes Vol. 29

1996, Cass, Comp, Unofficial, Not On Label,

Folk Rock/Psychedelic Rock/Prog Rock/Acoustic/Experimental/Pop Rock/Folk/Field Recording/Blues Rock/Ambient/New Age/Free Jazz/Techno/Leftfield/Post Bop/Easy Listening/Indie Rock/Grunge/Vocal/Bop/Cool Jazz/Krautrock/Chanson/Musical/Mambo/Space-Age/Latin Jazz/Garage Rock