Various Artists

Following The Show Time Series EP Collection Volume One, Stage Door Records has released Volume Two of the series premiering RCA Victor's 1953 Show Time EPs on CD.  The single-CD 20-track release features five musicals:

• Mademoiselle Modiste (Victor Herbert/Henry Blossom);
• Naughty Marietta (Victor Herbert/Rida Johnson Young);
• Shuffle Along (Eubie Blake/Noble Sissle);
• Blackbirds of 1928 (Jimmy McHugh/Dorothy Fields); and
• The Band Wagon (Arthur Schwartz/Howard Dietz).

Cast members include Doretta Morrow, Thelma Carpenter, Avon Long, Cab Calloway, Harold Lang, and Edie Adams.  This release is limited to just 500 units.  Orders are shipping now directly from Stage Door; it's due from Amazon on June 25 in the U.K. and July 2 in North America.