British budget reissue label Prism Leisure takes advantage of European copyright law, which puts recordings over 50 years old into the public domain, to release its own version of the 1949 original Broadway cast album of South Pacific. Theoretically, it should not be available in the U.S., where Sony still claims copyright on the recording, originally issued on Columbia Records and still in print, but upon release the Prism version was for sale through American mail-order firms for only about $8. For that, you get an adequate-sounding, but clearly inferior mastering made from secondary sources and poor annotations in which, amazingly enough, Oscar Hammerstein IIs name is misspelled. You also get four bonus tracks, pop versions of songs from the show by Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Perry Como. Of course, the result cannot be recommended over the full-priced Columbia version, but its a lot cheaper.