Editing The Music Man (section)

==Recordings==
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The first recording of "[[Till There Was You]]" was released before the original cast album version. Promotional copies of the 45 rpm single, Capitol P3847, were released on November 26, 1957, even before the Broadway production had premiered. Produced by [[Nelson Riddle]], it featured his orchestra and 17-year-old vocalist [[Sue Raney]].

The [[cast album|original cast recording]] was released by [[Capitol Records]] on January 20, 1958, in [[stereophonic]] & [[monaural]] versions and held the #1 spot on the [[Billboard 200|Billboard charts]] for twelve weeks, remaining on the charts for a total of 245 weeks. The [[cast album]] was awarded "Best Original Cast Album" at the first [[Grammy Awards]] ceremony in 1958 and was inducted in 1998 as a Grammy Hall of Fame Award winner.<ref>[http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/hall-of-fame Official Grammy Awards site (The Grammy Foundation)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110122042616/http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/hall-of-fame |date=2011-01-22 }}, accessed July 4, 2012</ref>

In 1959, jazz composer and arranger [[Jimmy Giuffre]] released ''[[The Music Man (album)|Jimmy Giuffre and His Music Men Play The Music Man]]'', consisting of jazz arrangements of tunes from the musical.<ref>[http://www.discogs.com/Jimmy-Giuffre-And-His-Music-Men-The-Music-Man/release/1853037 "''Jimmy Giuffre and His Music Men* – The Music Man''"], Discogs, accessed July 6, 2015</ref> "Till There Was You" was covered by [[Anita Bryant]] in 1959 as a single for [[Carlton Records]], reaching No. 30 on the [[Billboard Hot 100]].<ref>[http://www.billboard.com/artist/279363/anita-bryant/chart?page=1&f=379 "Chart History: Anita Bryant"], Billboard.com, accessed January 11, 2015</ref> [[The Beatles]] covered "Till There Was You" on their 1963 album ''[[With the Beatles]]'' (issued on ''[[Meet the Beatles!]]'' in the United States). Rosemary Willson later told ''The New York Times'' that her husband's estate had received more money from the royalties of the Beatles' recordings of "Till There Was You" than it did from the musical's original production.<ref name=CommunityPlayers>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121028005813/http://thecommunityplayers.com/tcpshows/musicman12/TheCommunityPlayer2012.pdf "The Music Man, On Stage, Screen – and LP"], ''The Community Player'', May 2012, accessed February 24, 2017</ref>

A cast recording featuring the 2022 revival cast was recorded at [[Manhattan Center]] and was released on December 9, 2022 by Accidental Jacket Entertainment, produced by Robert Sher, Brian Gillet and Huck Walton.<ref>Hornik, Caitlin. [https://broadwaynews.com/2022/07/27/the-music-man-to-release-broadway-cast-recording "''‘The Music Man’ to release Broadway cast recording''"], Broadway News, July 27, 2022, accessed August 6, 2022</ref>