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High Button Shoes is a 1947 musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Sammy Cahn and book by George Abbott and Stephen Longstreet. It was based on the semi-autobiographical 1946 novel The Sisters Liked Them Handsome by Stephen Longstreet.
When fast-talking conman Harrison Floy sets his sights on the quiet Longstreet family of suburban New Jersey, he sets in motion a series of comic misadventures, including dubious auto sales, bogus land schemes, and illegal football wagering.
The BLONDES tracks are the original versions heard in the 78 RPM and LP releases, not the alternate takes heard on the Sony CD edition. The songs from SHOES are restored to their proper theatrical order.
“A very happy musical show, immensely likeable, swift and insane” –The New York Times, reviewing the 1947 Broadway […]
This week's column discusses the CD twofer of the cast recordings of the Booth Tarkington-Milton Berle Seventeen and the Jule Styne-Sammy Cahn-Phil Silvers laugh-fest High Button Shoes...
Sep 20, 1994 · Styne did not write a full score for a Broadway musical until 1947, when he and Cahn turned out High Button Shoes. Starring Nanette Fabray and Phil Silvers, with choreography by Jerome Robbins, it ran two and a half years.
Sep 27, 2019 · Jule Styne was a one of the great composers for the Broadway musical stage, having penned the melodies for such classic scores as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Bells Are Ringing, Gypsy, and Funny Girl. Styne’s first Broadway score, however came in the form of the breezy and bright High Button Shoes , which premiered in 1947.
