I Can Get It for You Wholesale (album)

Album information

Barbra Streisand vocals are featured in the songs "I'm Not A Well Man", "Ballard Of The Garment Trade", "Miss Marmelstein" and "What Are They Doing To Us Now?". This album marks Barbra's first professional recording and Columbia Records appearance.[1]

Goddard Lieberson, who produced the album, signed Streisand to a contract, and her first solo album The Barbra Streisand Album was released two months after I Can Get It for You Wholesale closed.

Barbra remembers in Just For The Record: "My first audition for the show was on the morning after Thanksgiving in 1961. Since the action took place in the 1930s, I showed up in a '30s fur coat that I'd bought in a thrift shop for $10. I sang three songs, including my new standby "A Sleepin' Bee." They asked me to come back and gave me "Miss Marmelstein" to learn for my second audition a few hours later."

Track listing

All songs written by Harold Rome.

1. "Overture" – 1:27
2. "I'm Not A Well Man" (performed by Barbra Streisand and Jack Kruschen) – 2:21
3. "The Way Things Are" (performed by Elliott Gould) – 1:41
4. "When Gemini Meets Capricorn" (performed by Marilyn Cooper and Elliott Gould) – 2:48
5. "Momma, Momma, Momma" (performed by Elliott Gould and Lillian Roth) – 2:57
6. "The Sound Of Money" (performed by Elliott Gould and Sheree North) – 4:15
7. "Too Soon" (performed by Lillian Roth) – 3:05
8. "The Family Way" (performed by Elliott Gould, Lillian Roth, Marilyn Cooper, Ken LeRoy and Bambi Linn) – 3:08
9. "Who Knows?" (performed by Marilyn Cooper) – 3:41
10. "Ballad Of The Garment Trade" (performed by Barbra Streisand, Elliott Gould, Marilyn Cooper, Ken LeRoy and Bambi Linn) – 3:25
11. "Have I Told You Lately?" (performed by Ken LeRoy and Bambi Linn) – 3:10
12. "A Gift Today" (performed by Elliott Gould, Lillian Roth, Marilyn Cooper, Ken LeRoy and Bambi Linn) – 3:55
13. "Miss Marmelstein" (performed by Barbra Streisand) – 3:22
14. "A Funny Thing Happened" (performed by Elliott Gould and Marilyn Cooper) – 2:38
15. "What's In It For Me?" (performed by Harold Lang) – 1:57
16. "Eat A Little Something" (performed by Elliott Gould and Lillian Roth ) – 2:10
17. "What Are They Doing To Us Now?" (performed by Barbra Streisand) – 7:11

Unrecorded Tracks

The following songs from the musical show were not included in the cast recording:

Singles

The songs "Miss Marmelstein" (performed by Barbra Streisand) and "Who Knows?" (performed by Marilyn Cooper) were released to radio as a promotional single in April 1962.[2]

Chart performance

The album peaked at #125 on Billboard's Pop Albums Chart.[3]

Personnel

Produced by Goddard Lieberson

Music and Lyrics by Harold Rome

Musical Direction and Vocal Arrangements by Lehman Engel

Orchestrations by Sid Ramin

Original Recording Engineers: Fred Plaut and Ed Michalski