Pippin, subtitled Original Cast Album and Original Cast Recording,The album's covers and labels. is an album containing a recording of the musical Pippin made by its original 1972 Broadway cast. The album was released in the same year by Motown.
Background The album was produced by Phil Ramone and the musical's composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz.
Critical reception
In a contemporary review for AllMusic, William Ruhlmann notes that "the cast album [was] Motown's first venture into show music" and it "spent two and a half months in the charts, the only cast album to reach the charts at all in 1973" and continues: "It deserved to do even better. Schwartz's piano- and guitar-based melodies were as catchy and appealing as any of the soft rock that was dominating the charts in the early '70s, and the cast was accomplished, especially Vereen, and, in "No Time at All," a spry ode to senior citizenship, Irene Ryan, best known as Granny Clampett on the television series The Beverly Hillbillies."
Chart performance The album spent 10 weeks on the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart, peaking at number 129.
Moreover, two songs from the album made Billboards pop and/or soul charts as covered by Motown's artists: "I Guess I'll Miss the Man" (The Supremes) and "Corner of the Sky" (Jackson 5).
Track listing LP' – Motown M760L
2000 CD reissue with bonus tracks On September 26, 2000, the album was reissued on CD, with bonus tracks, by Decca Broadway.
Charts Chart (1973) Peakposition US Billboard Top LPs & Tapes 129
Awards Year Award type Categories Results 1974 Grammy Awards Best Score from the Original Cast Show Album
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