 | Annie get your Gun
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £3.93 A very cute Mary Martin steals the show in this excellent production, made for TV in 1957
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 | Camelot by Various
Buy used from: £4.12 Lerner + Loewe considered this better than My Fair Lady. This stage version sounds better than the movie
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 | Cats Ocr by Original London Cast
Buy used from: £7.98 Overplayed though it is, the intro to Memory still sends shivers up my spine
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 | Evita - Original London Cast Recording by Original London Cast Various Artists
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £6.99 This original London cast highlights album is the lightest and most cohesive version
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 | High Society by Various
Buy used from: £7.74 Cole Porter's magical songs, Bing, Frank and Louis on top form. Absolutely unbeatable
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 | Jungle Book by Various
Buy used from: £5.13 Inspired casting of Phil Harris as the voice of Baloo. The other songs aren't bad either
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 | The King and I (Kerr, Nixon, Brynner, Moreno) by Original Soundtrack
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £3.25 Politically incorrect it may now be, but Rodgers + Hammerstein's atmospheric score was superb
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 | The Lion King: Original Soundtrack - Special Edition by Elton John
Buy used from: £9.99 Disney proved they could still cut it, with help from Tim Rice and Elton John.
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 | Mary Poppins by Original Soundtrack
Buy used from: £8.97 There's nothing like the original, sugary though it is. Inspired casting of Dick van Dyke and his cockney accent!
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 | My Fair Lady by Various
Buy used from: £3.98 Despite being nearly 50 years old and in mono, this original Broadway cast recording is still the best by miles
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 | Oklahoma! (Macrae, Jones, Greenwood) by Original Soundtrack
Buy new: £6.01 / Used from: £6.33 Another Rodgers + Hammerstein winner. Every song a classic
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 | Oliver (1960 London Cast) by Original Cast Recording
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £2.95 Lionel Bart's songs ooze Victorian East London atmosphere. His next show, Blitz! (see below) was arguably even better
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 | Paint Your Wagon by Soundtrack
Buy new: £5.25 / Used from: £4.89 In truth not one of Lerner + Loewe's or Hollywood's best, but worth it for Lee Marvin's Wand'rin Star alone
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 | The Phantom of the Opera by Original London Cast Andrew Lloyd Webber
Buy new: £12.98 / Used from: £10.99 Well OTT Lloyd Webber.
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 | The Sound of Music: 40th Anniversary Special Edition by Original Soundtrack
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £5.50 Couldn't not include this one, though in truth the sound quality in places was pretty awful
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 | South Pacific by Original Soundtrack
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.85 By turns sassy, satirical and emotional, it's probably R + H's best all-round musical
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![Tell Me on Sunday [VINYL]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41PX3CTZT8L._SL75_.jpg) | Tell Me on Sunday [VINYL] by Marti Webb
Buy used from: £45.75 Written specifically for Marti Webb, she did it full justice, and, sorry, but not even Denise van Outen comes close
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 | West Side Story by Original Soundtrack
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £2.90 Just about the only time Hollywood has brushed up Shakespeare and improved on it
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 | Bernstein: West Side Story
Buy new: £5.43 / Used from: £5.44 Bernstein's own interpretation of his composition, in a very dynamic and operatic setting
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 | Fiddler on the Roof by Topol
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £5.37 A very romantic view of hard, pre-revolution, Jewish life in Russia. I prefer the shorter stage album - Topol's finest hour
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 | Lionel Bart's Blitz! by Various Artists
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.47 A rarity.but even better than Oliver!, Lionel Bart captures life, love and tragedy in wartime East End of London
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