MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ben Bagley's Vernon Duke Revisited Vol III - show tunes -- many of them never before recorded.
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VERNON DUKE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ben Bagley's Vernon Duke Revisited Vol III - show tunes -- many of them never before recorded.
Kaye Ballard, Ann Hampton Calloway, Tammy Grimes, Mary Cleere Haran, Dorothy Loudon, Sula, etc
[ Painted Smiles Records / CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 5 May 1994
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Back in 1955 and 1957, Bagley, who was in his early 20's, dazzled critics with two brilliant Shoestring Revues produced Off-Broadway. Reviewers were mesmerized by the young man's uncanny ability to discover bright new talent (Beatrice Arthur, Chita Rivera, Dody Goodman, Arte Johnson, Paul Mazursky, Dorothy Greener, etc.) but also by his unerring taste in selecting their hilarious, sassy sketches and songs by future titans Sheldon Harnick, Michael Stewart, Charles Strouse, lee Adams, Tom Jones, Harvey Schmidt and Arthur Siegel.
In 1971, Ben embarked on a new and impressive career. He founded Painted Smiles Records and since then has produced 47 highly distinctive albums of show tunes -- many of them never before recorded.
There are degrees of obscurity, from songs that just weren't hits to songs that were in unsuccessful shows, to songs that were cut from shows, and so on. Digging down for a third (well, second and a half) Vernon Duke album, Ben Bagley reached a deeper level of obscurity, drawing nearly half the material from shows that were never produced. Shows like Nantucket, which had lyrics by Harold Rome. But there were also songs from the 1936 Ziegfeld Follies Duke scored with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, from Cabin in the Sky, and from the Eddie Cantor vehicle Banjo Eyes. A cast led by Kaye Ballard, Tammy Grimes, and Dorothy Loudon effectively presented this lively, romantic material, which hung together surprisingly well given the disparate sources and the nine different lyricists.
VERNON DUKE REVISITED VOL 3 is limited to 500 copies of the CD
Tracks:
1 Time Marches On (The Patios)
2 Small World (Dorothy Loudon)
3 Dancing In The Streets Medley (Kaye Ballard, Arthur Siegel & company)
4 Once I Fall (Ann Hampton Calloway)
5 What Happened? (Arthur Siegel & company)
6 My Heart Decided (Tammy Grimes)
7 You After All These Years (Mary Cleere Haran)
8 Red Letter Day (Sula)
9 I Used To Be Above Love (Sandy Stewart)
10 Maharanee (Arthur, Andre & Albert Siegel & Sandy Stewart)
11 Love Me Tomorrow (Dorothy Loudon)
12 Love Turned The Light Out (Mary Cleere Haran)
13 Fancy, Fancy (Kaye Ballard, Arthur Siegel)
14 Does A Duck Like Water (The Patios)
15 I Knew You Well (Tammy Grimes)
16 Who's Excited? (Ann Hampton Calloway)
17 There You Are Again (Mary Cleere Haran)
18 Make With The Feet (Arthur Siegel & company)
19 I Ask You (Sandy Stewart)
20 Not A Care In The World (Dorothy Loudon)
21 Song Without Words (Kaye Ballard)
22 This Is Not A Song (Sula & company)
23 Too Too Divine (Kaye Ballard, Arthur Siegel & company)
24 They Never Told Me (Mary Cleere haran)
25 Dancing To Our Score (The Patios)
