South Pacific
1960 Vinyl
Musical

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Light Music Club, Light Music Club
artwork [cover art supervised by] Geoffrey Digby
chorus Mike Sammes Singers
conductor, music director [music supervised and conducted by], arranged by [arrangements by] Johnny Douglas
engineer [sound engineer] Christopher Noel-Smith
engineer [sound engineer] Ron Goodwin
lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
model Adrienne Lever
music by Richard Rodgers
orchestra 20th Century Symphony Orchestra
producer Cyril Ornadel
vocals [billie] Bernard Martin
vocals [bloody mary] Isabelle Lucas
vocals [emile de becque] Ian Wallace
vocals [lt. cable] Peter Grant
vocals [nellie forbush] Joyce Blair
written-by [adapted from "tales of the south pacific" by] James A. Michener
written-by [book by] Joshua Logan
written-by [book by] Oscar Hammerstein II
Record Company World Record International
Record Company World Record Light Music Club
Published By Chappell's ∙ Sydney
Produced For F.C.M. Productions
On labels: Produced by Cyril Ornadel for F.C.M. Productions.
On sleeve: An F.C.M. Production

The orchestra is credited as 20th Century Symphony Orchestra, whereas on the UK WRC version, it's The New World Show Orchestra. The chorus is not named, and is identified from the UK version.

WRC 1st pressing. Mono and stereo versions have same number on back of sleeve (LM 7001) - the mono version has 7001 on pink Light Music Club labels, while the stereo has S-7001. The stereo was issued with a large diamond-shaped S sticker on the front of the sleeve.

World Record Light Music Club:
330 Flinders Lane Melbourne
47 Clarence Street, Sydney
260 Adelaide Street, Brisbane
62 Pulteney Street, Adelaide
Barnett's Buildings, Council Avenue, Perth
Matrix / Runout: 2XS1621 (Side 1 label)
Matrix / Runout: 2XS1622 (Side 2 label)
Matrix / Runout: 2XS 1621 • 4 (Side 1 runout - handwritten)
Matrix / Runout: 2XS 1622 • 3 (Side 2 runout - handwritten)



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