Don't Play Us Cheap > Original Broadway Cast

Show Details

Show: Don't Play Us Cheap (3)
Music: Melvin Van Peebles (6)
Lyrics: Melvin Van Peebles (6)
Book: Melvin Van Peebles (6)

Recording Details

Date: 1972
Type: Audio / Stage Cast
Language: English
Location: US / NY / New York
Liner Notes: Rob Bowman (5)
Conductor: Harold Wheeler (43)
Performer: Thomas Anderson (3), Joshie Armstead (3), Joshie Jo Armstead (2), Nate Barnett (4), Frank Carey (2), Robert Dunn (4), Rhetta Hughes (9), Joe Keyes, Mabel King (6), Avon Long (26), George McCurn, George O. McCurn, Esther Rolle (2), Melvin Van Peebles (6), Jay Vanleer
Shortcode: [r1911]

Releases (3)

Format: CD
Label: Stax 2SCD-88040-2
Released: 1999-10-26
Barcode: 0025218884020
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Also Contains: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song - 1971 Soundtrack
Lists: 13 collectors / 3 wish lists
Shortcode: [rl1560]

Format: CD
Label: Ace/Stax
Released: 1990
Country: Germany
Barcode: 090204872732
Audio: Stereo
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# Tracks: 21
Lists: 18 collectors / 3 wish lists
Shortcode: [rl40662]

1. You Cut Up The Clothes In The Closet Of My Dreams
2. Break That Party And Opening
3. The Eight Day Week
4. Saturday Night
5. The Bowsers Thing
6. The Book Of Life
7. Quittin Time
8. Aint Love Grand
9. Im A Bad Character
10. Know Your Business
11. Feast On Me
12. Aint Love Grand
13. Break That Party
14. Someday It Seems That It Just Dont Even Pay To Get Out Of Be
15. Quartet
16. The Phoney Game
17. It Makes No Difference
18. Bad Character Bossa Nova
19. Quartet
20. The Washingtons Thing
21. (If You See A Divil) Smash Him