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| Posted by: AlanScott 12:22 am EDT 03/15/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Encores plans LOVE LIFE and CITY OF ANGELS, says Mary-Mitchell Campbell - AlanScott 05:55 pm EDT 03/14/23 | |
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| Here is a slightly revised version of the list of songs from Love Life that have been commercially recorded that I posted here and elsewhere some years ago. This list is, I'm sure, not complete, but it was the best I could do. Doubtless some new recordings have since appeared. I have not tried to update it, but I've made a few slight adjustments. I have listed the songs in the order that they occur in the show. Where I'm certain that the original orchestration is used on a recording, I have mentioned it. But the vast majority of these recordings are accompanied just by piano or by a smallish combo. Some of these are out of print. I had previously indicated those with (OP), but I have deleted that indication as some but not all of them are now again available (in some cases perhaps on different labels), and I can’t keep track of them all. And now it is often fairly easy to get hold of OP recordings or find them on youtube or elsewhere. On the Berlin to Broadway With Kurt Weill recordings, I may not have the list of singers on individual tracks exactly correct. I could check, but feeling too lazy. Just putting this together again is enough. Who Is Samuel Cooper? My Name Is Samuel Cooper: Thomas Hampson and chorus — Kurt Weill on Broadway, EMI. Original orchestration Here I'll Stay: Thomas Hampson and Jeanne Lehman — Kurt Weill on Broadway, EMI. Original orchestration Bryn Terfel — If Ever I Would Leave You, Deutsche Grammophon. Original orchestration but only records the first part of the song. Steven Kimbrough — Kurt Weill on Broadway, Koch/Schwann. I believe that this recording uses the original orchestration but only records the first part of the song. Kaye Ballard — Lyrics by Lerner, DRG Liza Minnelli — Live at Carnegie Hall, Telarc (medley with "Our Love Is Here to Stay") Liza Minnelli — Live at Radio City Music Hall, Sony (medley with "Our Love Is Here to Stay") Julie Andrews — Here I'll Stay: The Words of Alan Jay Lerner, Philips Julie Wilson — Julie Wilson Sings the Kurt Weill Songbook, DRG (medley with "What Good Would the Moon Be?") Company (?) — Lerner, Loewe, Lane and Friends, Varese Sarabande Jo Stafford — Jo Stafford on Capitol Steve Ross — Live At The Algonquin, Stolen Moments Anthony Newley — On A Wonderful Day Like Today: The Anthony Newley Collection Sammy Davis Jr. — Yes I Can!: The Sammy Davis Jr. Story, Rhino Warner Archives R2 75972 Sammy Davis Jr. — Here's... Sammy Davis Jr., Charly (probably the same version as on Rhino) Diahann Carroll — The Time Of My Life, CD/Sterling S1015-2 Karen Akers — Unchained Melodies, DRG Esther Ofarim — Is It Really Me!, Philips Dee Dee Bridgewater — This is New, Universal Caterina Valente — Kurt Weill American Songs, Bear Family Ronny Whyte — The Songs Of Kurt Weill, Audiophile Urs Affolter — Stay Well, Antes John Bunch Plays Kurt Weill, Chiaroscuro Warren Chiasson — Good Vibes For Kurt Weill, Audiophile Anita Ammersfeld — Ich Liebe Dich Nicht, Preiser Felicia Sanders — Songs Of Kurt Weill, Time Maurice Levine conducting the Warner Bros. Orchestra — Speak Low: The Great Music Of Kurt Weill For Orchestra, Warner Bros. Progress: Alan Jay Lerner — Lyrics by Lerner, DRG Roddy McDowall, Nancy Walker, chorus — Alan Jay Lerner Revisited, Painted Smiles Jerry Lanning, Hal Watters — Berlin to Broadway With Kurt Weill, Paramount (never issued on CD) Helen Schneider — A Walk on the Weill Side, Sony (to be avoided) Helen Schneider — Songs of Kurt Weill, Rhino I Remember It Well: Thomas Hampson and Jeanne Lehman — Kurt Weill on Broadway, EMI, original orchestration Jo Sullivan, John Reardon — I Remember It Well, Kurt Weill Revisited, Painted Smiles Green-Up Time: Kaye Ballard — Lyrics by Lerner, DRG Lotte Lenya — Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill, Sony Brent Barrett — The Alan Jay Lerner Album, Fynsworth Alley Kurt Weill American Songs, CD/Bear Family BCD 16044 AH (Caterina Valente) Ronny Whyte — The Songs Of Kurt Weill, Audiophile Green Up Time: Ellen Zachos Sings Botantical Broadway, Plantiques Piero Odorici Quintet Play Kurt Weill, Neljazz Buddy Clark — Kurt Weill, Smithsonian Collection Warren Chiasson — Good Vibes For Kurt Weill, Audiophile Riki Turofsky Sings Kurt Weill, Fanfare Felicia Sanders — Songs Of Kurt Weill, Time Maurice Levine conducting the Warner Bros. Orchestra — Speak Low: The Great Music Of Kurt Weill For Orchestra, Warner Bros. Economics: Quartet (unidentified singers) — Lyrics by Lerner, DRG Dorothy Loudon and the Girls — Alan Jay Lerner Revisited, Painted Smiles Brent Barrett — The Alan Jay Lerner Album, Fynsworth Alley Betty Garret — Lerner, Loewe, Lane and Friends, Varese Sarabande Hudson Shad — Music Box Ronny Whyte — The Songs Of Kurt Weill, Audiophile Mother's Getting Nervous: unrecorded My Kind of Night: Arthur Siegel, Kurt Weill Revisited, Vol. II, Painted Smiles Women's Club Blues: unrecorded Love Song: Alan Jay Lerner — Lyrics by Lerner, DRG Jerry Orbach — Alan Jay Lerner Revisited, Painted Smiles Hal Watters, with Margery Cohen, Judy Lander, and Jerry Lanning — Berlin to Broadway With Kurt Weill, Paramount Andrea Marcovicci — Andrea Marcovicci: Live from London, Cabaret Records Ronny Whyte — The Songs Of Kurt Weill, Audiophile Lambert Wilson — Musicals, EMI (original orchestration) I'm Your Man: Robert Marks, Arthur Siegel — Alan Jay Lerner Revisited, Painted Smiles (this track was only on the CD issue) Ho, Billy O! (aka Madrigal; aka Modern Madrigal) : Songs of Humor and Satire — Gregg Smith Singers, Premier The Locker Room: John Reardon, Arthur Siegel — Kurt Weill Revisited, Painted Smiles Is It Him or Is It Me?: Ann Miller — Kurt Weill Revisited, Painted Smiles (This recording uses the sheet music lyrics, somewhat different from what is sung in the show) Angelina Reaux — Stranger Here Myself, Koch International Classics Carole Farley — Kurt Weill Songs, ASV (I don't know which version of the lyric is on this recording) Rosamund Shelley — Love Shouldn't Be Serious..., mmp (Not sure about the lyric) Ballet: Punch and Judy Get a Divorce — unrecorded This Is the Life: Jerry Orbach — Alan Jay Lerner Revisited, Painted Smiles Steven Kimbrough — This Is the Life and Other Unrecorded Songs, Arabesque Steven Kimbrough — Kurt Weill on Broadway, Koch/Schwann, original orchestration Thomas Hampson — Kurt Weill on Broadway, EMI, original orchestration Bryn Terfel — If Ever I Would Leave You, Deutsche Grammophon, original orchestration Mr. Illusion's Minstrel Show (aka We're Sellin' Sunshine): unrecorded Madame Zuzu: unrecorded Takin' No Chances On Nothin': unrecorded Miss Ideal Man: unrecorded Mister Right: Kaye Ballard — Lyrics by Lerner, DRG (This recording is a somewhat truncated version of the song) Dorothy Loudon — Alan Jay Lerner Revisited, Painted Smiles Judy Kaye — Diva by Diva, Fynsworth Alley, original orchestration Deborah Boily — The Song Remembers When, Dress Circle Cindy Benson — Out On A Whim, LML Music Songs cut before Broadway: Susan's Dream: Lotte Lenya — This was a live performance on a long out-of-print LP on the Rococo label, later reissued by Bear on a big Lenya CD set. I believe an orchestration adapted from Weill's orchestration was used, even though Lenya sang it in a lower key or perhaps down an octave. Kaye Ballard — Lyrics by Lerner, DRG Martha Schlamme — The World of Kurt Weill in Song, MGM You Understand Me So: Chita Rivera — Kurt Weill Revisited, Painted Smiles I look at this now and I marvel that I had the energy to put it together and I don't remember how I found some of this. |
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