Various Artists - Carmen Jones / O.C.R.

This best-selling recording stayed in the Decca catalog for 30 years, but this is it's first time on CD! Oscar Hammerstein's hit Broadway adaptation of Bizet's Carmen featured an all-black cast and was set in WWII North Carolina and Chicago; this reissue contains two songs absent from previous LP versions plus a bonus Kitty Carlisle performance!

1) Prelude
2) Opening Scene: Lift 'Em Up and Put 'Em Down
3) Dat's Love
4) You Talk Just Like My Maw
5) Dere's a Cafe on de Corner
6) Beat Out Dat Rhythm on a Drum
7) Stan' Up and Fight
8) Whizzin' Away Along de Track
9) Dis Flower
10) De Cards Don't Lie
11) My Joe
12) Dat's Our Man
13) Finale
14) Beat Out Dat Rhythm on a Drum