Your choice between the original Broadway cast and the movie soundtrack depends largely on your preference for either Janis Paige on the former and Doris Day on the latter.

Day sings it better, however the Broadway cast album has better sound as well as an overture and three songs, "A New Town is a Blue Town", "Her Is" and "Think of the Time I save" were dropped from the movie.

The soundtrack album, however, includes extended dance music from "I'll Never Be Jealous again" and "Once-a-year-day" and despite the boxy Warner Bros soundtage sound, the music is given a lively performance.

This is an exellent soundtrack baby. Doris Day has the purrfect vocie, full righ and clear. I'm only 16 and realize taht Doris posseses the finest vocie of any female on the planet. If you like the mvoe or Doris' singing you will LOVE this cd.

THE PAJAMA GAME was successfully turned into a hit film starring Doris Day and the bulk of the original Broadway cast (almost unheard-of in Hollywood musicals). The original soundtrack album is a pure joy, and has now been reissued on the Collectables (Sony Special Markets) label.

Doris Day fits perfectly into the role of feisty Babe Williams (Janis Paige played the role on Broadway. Ironically, Day and Paige's careers intertwined several times. They co-starred in ROMANCE ON THE HIGH SEAS, which was Day's movie debut and later played together in PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES). Day's voice fits the music of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross to a tee, and she's especially fetching belting out the anthemic "I'm Not at All in Love".

John Raitt, repeating his Broadway role of the hardnosed superintendent Sid Sorokin, is wonderful, singing the show's beloved ballad "Hey There" and the country-flavoured duet with Doris Day, "There Once Was a Man".

Eddie Foy Jr., Reta Shaw and Carol Haney, all from the Broadway cast, perform with joy and showmanship. Standout numbers include "Once-a-Year Day", "Steam Heat" and "I'll Never Be Jealous Again".

Included as a bonus is "The Man Who Invented Love", a song written and later cut from the film version, recorded by Doris Day with Frank DeVol and his orchestra.

OK for what it is. But it isn't the 33.3 rpm that I remember and love. It's true CD compared with vinyl is lack luster. It has all the songs and that's great. Plus extra Doris Day songs -- never really wanted. It's kind of disappointing, but you cannot return to the past. I think it's better if I just buy a record player and find an old 33.3 rpm.

Growing up I listened to this RECORD with my mom and knew all the words! Never watched the movie until I was an adult.