The first recording I ever found of The King and I was a cast recording with Gertrude Lawrence. It was an LP from my high school library- nearly 40 years after the fact so the sound quality had deteriorated to the point of being horrible and Yul Brynner sounded like he was 10 years old since the bass was gone.Several years later I found the LP recording of this Constance Towers cast recording from my public library. It’s a wonder I didn’t wear it out. The library has since done away with all of its LPs to save space, but it has not acquired the CD edition of the Towers production. So after many years I have finally purchased a CD copy for myself.A lot of Broadway cast recordings suffer greatly in sound quality when they are transferred to CD. There are times when it sounds as if the singers have their backs turned to the microphone. I didn’t pay all that much for this CD, but I was scared to death that it would have this problem. But, thankfully, it does not. Everything is pitch perfect. Nobody misses a beat. I know that Constance Towers is divorced from her first husband. If Hammerstein could have written the divorce decree and the 1st husband could have been cast as the King of Siam, Constance Towers would have been lethal.There are certain places throughout history where I would like to have been a fly on the wall- the Council of Nicaea, the conferences held by the translators of the King James Bible, the Constitutional Convention, the Atlanta premiere of Gone With the Wind, Judy Garland’s Carnegie Hall concert and at least one of the performances of this production of The King and I.After having lived in Georgia for a couple of years while my father was in school and my parents got divorced, my mother and I spent Labor Day weekend moving back to my home state Florida. I was 7 years old, but I can still remember watching a bit of the Jerry Lewis MDA telethon as we were packing the U-haul. One of the performances was a woman with a bunch of children singing Getting to Know You. I don’t have a clue who they were, or where they came from. But, sadly, it could not have been Constance Towers; it was only 1975.But we have this CD production for posterity.