Andrew Lloyd Webber - Cats [Polydor Records CATX 001] (1981)

Released: 1981
Country: UK
Label: Polydor Records
Catalog: CATX 001
Genre: Stage & Screen

Item# SR-POCATX001
Ratings: C=VG+; LP=NM-


T R A C K L I S T:
01 Overture
02 Prologue: Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats
03 The Naming Of Cats
04 The Invitation To The Jellicle Ball
05 The Old Gumbie Cat
06 The Rum Tum Tugger
07 Grizabella
08 Bustopher Jones
09 Mungojerrie And Rumpelteazer
10 Old Deuteronomy
11 The Jellicle Ball
12 Grizabella, The Glamour Cat
13 Memory
14 The Moments Of Happiness
15 Gus: The Theatre Cat
16 "Growltiger's Last Stand" Including "The Ballad Of Billy McCaw"
17 Skimbleshanks
18 Macavity
19 Mr. Mistoffolees
20 Memory
21 The Journey To The Heavside Layer
22 The Ad-Dressing Of Cats




Cats
Andrew Lloyd Webber


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Album Review

William Ruhlmann [allmusic.com]

Andrew Lloyd Webber's epic Cats takes its characters from T.S. Eliot's book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Though the book contains no narrative structure, Webber has created one, although what drew audiences to the theatre in droves was the charm of the feline characters, not the tale of what happens to them. The score is rather fetching but simple, with moments of elegance, as in during the now-standard ''Memory.'' The longest-running musical of its time, Cats is at times overrated, but as a whole it retains the charm that attracted audiences.