PS Classics marks its one-hundredth release with a recording over twenty years in the making: George and Ira Gershwin's 1930 hit Broadway musical Strike Up The Band.

A result of the late Mrs Ira Gershwin's efforts to preserve the great unrecorded Gershwin scores, Strike Up The Band was restored and partially recorded during a period that also yielded acclaimed studio cast albums of the Gershwins' Girl Crazy, Lady Be Good! and Oh, Kay!

An earlier version of the score, as heard during the show's pre-Broadway try-out in 1927, was released in 1991, but the final score, extensively revised by the Gershwins and rapturously received by critics and audiences during the 1929-30 Broadway season, was never fully tracked, nor put into post-production – until now.

Under the supervision of original producer Tommy Krasker, the recording – featuring Brent Barrett, Don Chastain, Rebecca Luker, Jason Graae, Beth Fowler, Charles Goff, Juliet Lambert, Jeff Lyons and James Rocco, plus a 16-member chorus, a tap-dancing ensemble and an orchestra of 28 conducted by John Mauceri – was completed during the spring of 2011 with the support of the Ira and Leonore Gershwin Trusts and the Music Division of the Library of Congress.

Boasting a hit score brimming with soaring melodies and infectious syncopation, and lyrics that both provoke and delight, the Strike Up The Band 1930 continues PS Classics' forgotten musicals series in high style.

Track Listing:
1. Overture
2. Fletcher's American Chocolate Choral Society
3. I Mean to Say
4. "Not apologize exactly…"
5. Typical Self-Made American
6. "Have a nice talk?…"
7. Soon
8. Dream Music
9. The Unofficial Spokesman
10. Patriotic Rally
11. "Has the war started yet..."
12. If I Became the President
13. Hangin' Around with You
14. Finaletto Act I
15. Strike Up the Band
16. Opening Act II
17. Mademoiselle in New Rochelle
18. I've Got a Crush on You
19. How About a Boy?
20. Soldiers' March
21. Dream Music II
22. Official Résumé
23. Ring-a-Ding-a-Ding-Dong Dell
24. Final Ultimo