The World Is Your Balloon

Original Release Date:  August 30, 2005

Track Listing

• 1. A Little Girl from Little Rock [From Gentleman Prefer Blondes]
• 2. Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend [Gentleman Prefer Blondes]
• 3. Dearie [From the Copacabana Show of 1950]
• 4. I Said My Pajamas (And Put on My Prayers)
• 5. It's So Nice to Have a Man Around the House
• 6. (If I Knew You Were Comin') I'd've Baked a Cake
• 7. Calico Sal
• 8. She's Shimmyin' on the Beach Again
• 9. Hawaii
• 10. Ukulele Lady [From I'll See You in My Dreams]
• 11. The Lake Song (Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg)
• 12. Don't Believe It
• 13. Once Upon a Nickel
• 14. Oldies
• 15. Love Is the Reason [From A Tree Grows in Brooklyn]
• 16. The World Is Your Balloon [From Flahooley]
• 17. Make the Man Love Me [From A Tree Grows in Brooklyn]
• 18. You Say the Nicest Things
• 19. A Husband -- a Wife
• 20. If You Catch a Little Cold (I'll Sneeze for You)

Credits

• Ethel Merman: Vocals
• Sy Oliver: Orchestra Director
• Jimmy Durante: Vocals
• Ray Bolger: Vocals
• Peter DeRose: Composer
• Sammy Fain: Composer
• Dorothy Fields: Composer
• E.Y. "Yip" Harburg: Composer
• Gus Kahn: Composer
• Buddy Kaye: Composer
• Alan Roberts: Composer
• Leo Robin: Composer
• Arthur Schwartz: Composer
• Carl Sigman: Composer
• Jule Styne: Composer
• George Wyle: Composer
• Tony Starr: Composer
• Max O. Preeo: Producer
• Jay Blackton: Orchestra Director
• Mark Omann: Mastering
• Charles Tobias: Composer
• Richard A. Whiting: Composer
• Irving Gordon: Composer
• Al Hoffman: Composer
• Nat Simon: Composer
• Dick Manning: Composer
• Harold Spina: Composer
• Carroll Carroll: Composer
• Clem Watts: Composer
• Hal Borne: Composer
• Jack D. Elliot: Composer
• Rafaela Hernández: Package Coordinator
• Brian Drutman: Reissue Producer
• Edward Pola: Composer
• Fanny Gotschall: Package Coordinator
• Dave Martin: Composer
• Frankie Froba: Performer
• Al F. Koenig, Jr.: Liner Notes, Photography
• Melodeans Quartet: Performer
• Chris Roberts: Executive Producer