Replies: 63 Unseemly Comments
I would chose: (In chronological order)
Call Me Madam (Start the decade with Memrman)
The King and I
Judy Garland at the Palace "Two a Day"
Pal Joey (Revival)
Kiss Me Kate
New Faces of 1952 (Ibcredible cast of future stars & writers)
Can-Can (Gwen Verdon)
The Bad Seed
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof
Inherit the Wind
Damn Yankees
The Diary of Anne Frank
Hatful of Rain
My Fair Lady
Waiting For Godot
The Most Happy Fella
Auntie Mame
Long Days Journey Into Night
Li'L Abner
Bells Are Ringing
West Side Story
The Music Man
Whoop-Up (To have seen this train wreck)
Sweet Bird of Youth
Raisin in the Sun
Gypsy (End the Decade with Merman)
Posted by Michael Shayne @ 08/01/2002 02:22 AM PST
Hmmm, this will take some thought. So, instead, I don't think I'm breaking the don't answer for BK rule, but Michael, I also have the Gerry Dieffenbach CD of which you speak. I don't have any current information but I first heard him years ago at The Duplex, a piano bar/cabaret in the Village. He and the bartender and the waitress had a very funny act. Who knew that such a funny, cute and talented piano player could also write such songs (and perform them as well). He's no longer at the Duplex (as far as I know) but he still performs in cabarets around the city. According to some Web pages
"A Songbook showcase of Gerry's music has been produced by Arts and Artists at St. Paul's at the Donnell Library Theater, NYC, and he is a Songwriters Guild of America board member and a voting member of The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS)"
and
"Gerry was on the development team as musical director, pianist, and singer for two composer-based musicals - Dream, the new show based on the songs of Johnny Mercer which opened at the Royale Theatre in April 1997, and Stardust, the remounting of the Mitchell Parish musical"
It also seems that he works as a musical director and directs cabaret acts.
I am a fan of his. As you say, I like what he has to say in his songs. Mr. Dieffenbach is indeed a good find.
KERRY: Hooray! You know what it's for.
Posted by Ben @ 08/01/2002 04:32 AM PST
Difficult choices. The fifties I think. Kismet, My Fair Lady, Pajama Game and Music Man would be my first night choices.(I was tempted by the sixties just to see Streisand in Funny Girl!)
Posted by Tom from OZ @ 08/01/2002 04:38 AM PST
I would have to go with the fifties, specifically for West Side Story, The Music Man and Gypsy. Chita, Barbara and the Merm...who could ask for anything more?
I was tempted to say the forties so I could pick up Oklahoma! and Carousel, but the fifties won out.
Now, I have a most excellent idea, ladies and gents. Seeing how it is the first day of August--typically the hottest month of the year--and the amount of energy we're using is amazingly high in the city, let's turn off the air conditioning in the busiest of subway lines, shall we? I mean, forget about all the energy we're wasting with those massive, over-lit billboards and moving peanut cans in Times Square (those are tourist attractions--we can't get rid of those)...let's just kill the people who live and work here instead! Isn't that just a peachy idea? (JASON removes himself from his soapbox, packs up his toys and goes home...in a taxi.)
Posted by Jason @ 08/01/2002 05:50 AM PST
My God, where is everyone?
Posted by Jason @ 08/01/2002 07:20 AM PST
The 50s wins hands down. The whole decade was great whereas the 40s didn't really get started until halfway through and the 60s petered out in the middle.
By the way, the Archives for July is missing yesterday 7/31. I wanted to check last minute comments. Will it ever be added?
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 08/01/2002 07:33 AM PST
William...7/31 is there. Just go back to "Unseemly Archives" and keep scrolling down. You'll see it.
Posted by Jason @ 08/01/2002 07:34 AM PST
Oh...you may have to click the refresh button once you get to the archive to make it show up.
Posted by Jason @ 08/01/2002 07:36 AM PST
As much as I'd love to see the classic musicals of the forties and fifties, I have audio recordings of most of those. I would be most intrigued to see the great stars of the 20s and 30s whose recordings give very little hint of their stage appeal -- Gertrude Lawrence, Jessie Matthews and Bea Lillie (in Charlot's Revue of 1924), Fred & Adele Astaire (in anything, but especially The Band Wagon), etc.
And much as I dislike bootlegs, I would certainly bring a tape recorder with me!
Posted by Robert Armin @ 08/01/2002 07:51 AM PST
Jason---
I finally found yesterday's notes, but not under July. In the August section of the Archives after today's notes is a place to click for July 31.
Thanks.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 08/01/2002 07:55 AM PST
Silly me, I went to look at yesterdays comments and went and answered one of them. Since Tom of Oz probably won't be looking there today, I'm reprinting my response to his comments about Ben Bagley here:
Tom - have you visited my Painted Smiles website at http://www.showmusic.com/PaintedSmiles/? I was working with Ben on his autobiography when he died. I will have to get back to transcribing the tapes one of these years.
Posted by Robert Armin @ 08/01/2002 08:10 AM PST
I would go to the thirties to see La Merm stop the show cold for the first time in ANYTHING GOES, then jet to the sixties for Streisand's Opening Night in FUNNY GIRL, Channing's in HELLO DOLLY and the first night of FIDDLER.
(Of course, I would accompany BK on any of his named time travels to the fifties as well, but I would have to add MY FAIR LADY to his list.)
Posted by Phil Crosby @ 08/01/2002 08:16 AM PST
Well, for starters, I must go to the opening night of My Fair Lady, just to see if the audience really did gasp when she finally got "The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain" right.
Lehman Engel's story is that he couldn't understand why the audience was laughing so uproariously at the hoary old lines in the dialogue--not until he realized that this was a musical theatre audience, and they didn't know from Shaw.
Posted by William F. Orr @ 08/01/2002 08:17 AM PST
I'm torn. Oh, yes! I'm torn!
Oy!
I've always had the idea that I was born a decade or so too late. I LOVE THE FORTIES! I love the music, I love the energy of a country revving itself into gear to kick Nazi ass and become a superpower. Of course, along with that is the sadness of war, but since I couldn't change it, it's still a time I'd have liked experiencing. I think I'd also have been intent on acquiring one-sheets and inserts and title cards from movie theaters for my heirs to complain about at the end of the century until they discovered how valuable these things had become!
Anyway, the time machine awaits. Musical openings I'd have liked to attend:
Gypsy
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
She Loves Me
Hello, Dolly!
Mame
Follies
A Little Night Music
A Chorus Line
Annie
Candide (Harold Prince revival)
Sweeney Todd
Dream Girls
Into the Woods
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 08/01/2002 08:23 AM PST
Oh, yes...and one more:
The Music Man
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 08/01/2002 08:24 AM PST
Well, if we're talking strictly opening nights that we'd like to have been a part of--decade irrelevant--I'd have to list the following:
ShowBoat, Oklahoma!, Carousel, West Side Story, The Music Man, Hello Dolly!, Gypsy, Sweeney Todd, Dreamgirls, Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita (Viva La LuPone!), Candide, The King and I and finally, The Producers just because of all the hype. Quite the list, ain't it?
Posted by Jason @ 08/01/2002 08:33 AM PST
To Robert Armin:
Was there anything Mr. Bagley recorded that was not released prior to his death? If so, will this material ultimately be released?
Thanks.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 08/01/2002 08:34 AM PST
William, Ben didn't record anything for a number of years before his death and, as far as I know, everything he did record was released. There aren't even master tapes of many of the recordings anymore. Ben's estate is still very much up in the air probate-wise, so the record company can only continue to sell what they already have. I would like to help them reconfigure some of their recordings for release. For example, I gave Ann Hampton Callaway a very nice compilation album of many of her Bagley recordings. The same thing could be done for many other artists. I also hope to complete Bagley's autobiography one of these years and include a new compilation as a bonus CD.
Posted by Robert Armin @ 08/01/2002 08:44 AM PST
William, Ben didn't record anything for a number of years before his death and, as far as I know, everything he did record was released. There aren't even master tapes of many of the recordings anymore. Ben's estate is still very much up in the air probate-wise, so the record company can only continue to sell what they already have. I would like to help them reconfigure some of their recordings for release. For example, I gave Ann Hampton Callaway a very nice compilation album of many of her Bagley recordings. The same thing could be done for many other artists. I also hope to complete Bagley's autobiography one of these years and include a new compilation as a bonus CD.
Posted by Robert Armin @ 08/01/2002 08:44 AM PST
That was an internet foul-up - not mine!
Posted by Robert Armin @ 08/01/2002 08:45 AM PST
Robert --- Thanks for your prompt answer. I have every CD that Painted Smiles ever released and play them a lot more frequently than I do other CDs I have. Only Bruce has come close to or equaled the quality of material and performance on the Revisited series and I think that any fans of Bruce's compilation CDs would enjoy the Bagley CDs as well. I thought that there were some Jerome Kern songs that had been released on LP but were not part of the reconfigured Kern CDs, but I guess that wasn't the case.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 08/01/2002 08:57 AM PST
I'd have to go with the 60s, just to get to see the opening nights of:
DOLLY
FIDDLER
CABARET
1776
PROMISES, PROMISES
There is one other that has not yet been mentioned, but I would need to go just a couple of months into the subsequent decade:
I would have loved to have seen the opening night of Lauren Bacall in APPLAUSE.
APPLAUSE opened right around the time my parents started taking me to the theatre, but they must have thought Merman in DOLLY was the better way to start me off, rather than taking me to see a musical that had a scene set in a gay bar. Not sure that I agree, but I will say seeing La Merm in my first Broadway show was a terrific way to start off.
Posted by Stuart @ 08/01/2002 09:03 AM PST
Would it be pedantic of me to point out that the chord you mention in your first paragraph is in actuality an Am(maj7), sometimes referred to as the "My Funny Valentine" chord. Yes, probably.
There is also an elegant Percy Faith arrangment of the Sand Pebbles theme, but you probably knew that.
Posted by JMK @ 08/01/2002 09:11 AM PST
William -- there were some songs from the LPs (especially by Kenward Elmslie) that were not licensed for CD release. Elmslie took back his album and the Mostly Mercer CD was withdrawn from Painted Smiles. Unless I'm mistaken (which has happened twice in my life), all of the other songs from the LPs made it to CD in some configuration. I have a complete list of every song available on my Painted Smiles website so anyone with an LP collection is free to do a comparison. I know Ben mixed and matched quite a bit for the Kern and Porter albums.
Posted by Robert Armin @ 08/01/2002 09:11 AM PST
I'm so glad I'm not the only music nerd to noticed the unseemly lack of a C# in that chord.
Posted by Jason @ 08/01/2002 09:29 AM PST
Robert: There might be one or two songs missings. I only know this because a friend of mine is on the LP of Jerome Kern Volume 4 and when I saw Volume 3 on CD I was going to get it for him as a gift. Then I noticed that it said that the CD of Volume 3 was a compilation of the LPs of V. 3 and V. 4. Unfortunately, my friend's track from the album didn't make it to the CD. Oh, well. At least I have the album. I'm at work right now so I can't give you the name of the song that didn't make it but I'll find it after work and post it later.
I think I would love to have seen Merman in Gypsy if I had to choose. There are so many others that I would like to have seen. West Side Story, Music Man, She Loves Me, Chorus Line, Follies, Pacific Overtures, the original Candide, Promises, Promises, Fiddler, Funny Girl, Anything Goes (Merman again). I'll stop there...for now.
Posted by Ben @ 08/01/2002 09:55 AM PST
Robert: I visited your site. I don't recognize any of those song titles. Are these songs that had never been heard before?
How many CDs are available? I'm still trying to make a dent in the Bruce Kimmel catalog...but love to diversify.
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 08/01/2002 09:59 AM PST
The thirties. Most of the big shows from the '40s onwards can be revived in more or less the original form; there are original cast recordings and reasonably faithful films. But the '30s, despite the awesome caliber of talent (writers, composers, directors, stars) and the huge number of worthwhile musicals, are not revived, have no original cast recordings, and the movies always dropped all the songs and rewrote the scripts. Hence the myth that the Golden Age of the Musical began with OKLAHOMA!, since it's only starting with OKLAHOMA! that we can really get a sense of what musicals were *like*.
As to what opening night I'd pick...I guess DUBARRY WAS A LADY. Ethel Merman. Bert Lahr. Cole Porter. Herbert Fields. A young Betty Grable and a young Charles Walters (later director of EASTER PARADE and LILI among other MGM movies). "Katie Went To Haiti" and "Friendship." You can't get a more fascinating night.
Posted by Jaime Weinman @ 08/01/2002 10:00 AM PST
My message sounds a little confusing. That shows to go you what proofing before posting will do (or not do). I actually asked, at Footlight, about Vol. 4 on CD and was told that Vol. 3 on CD was the compilation. That's when I noticed my friend's song missing.
I had a difficult time getting here for a while. It seems like the board was down. Couldn't get into it at all for over an hour this morning but now it seems fine.
Posted by Ben @ 08/01/2002 10:05 AM PST
To Jason: To paraphrase Robert Preston's "Madam, I am not a shyster, I am a quack" line in S.O.B., may I just say, "I am not a nerd, I am a geek!"
Posted by JMK @ 08/01/2002 10:37 AM PST
I'll check what Kern lps I have and see if I can find the missing tracks. Just a few more items to add to my CD transfer project. Now that I think about it, I seem to remember some frustration regarding the weird configuration of the Kern albums. I had thought Ben had made it up later, but apparently not.
I have a feeling that the missing tracks will never make it too CD officially -- at least not through Painted Smiles. But one never knows, do one?
Posted by Robert Armin @ 08/01/2002 11:06 AM PST
JMK...so sorry. Haha!
Posted by Jason @ 08/01/2002 11:17 AM PST
I would most definitely go for the opening night of SHOW BOAT, so, I guess I'd have to go back to the 1920's. While I was there, I would look up Ruth Etting, too. Maybe go to California and watch the making of THE JAZZ SINGER. I would also track down Winnie Lightener, and make sure that she had a better career!
On a side note, I got my issue of Scarlet Street in the mail today - and there's BK himself being interviewed by SS's editor, Richard Valley. Further back in the issue is my (2nd) review of TFNM. Plus there's a great big, grand article on Ellery Queen! Yeah!
Posted by td @ 08/01/2002 11:47 AM PST
I couldn't pick one decade over another, but I know without any doubt what opening night I would attend:
THE CRADLE WILL ROCK.
Posted by Pam @ 08/01/2002 12:02 PM PST
Pam - I'd arrive one day earlier so I could see the final dress rehearsal, too, complete with sets and full orchestra!
Posted by Robert Armin @ 08/01/2002 12:33 PM PST
Ron - Ben Bagley specialized in recording songs that were not otherwise available. Although many of his recordings have inspired later versions, his were often the first. Bruce's improvement on Ben was in the use of fuller, less kitschy arrangements, but the Bagley series still offers the best or only recordings of a lot of great songs.
Posted by Robert Armin @ 08/01/2002 01:49 PM PST
Thank you, JMK, for pointing out the true identity of our opening chord for this month, as the discrepency was quite bothersome to me as well. While I am rather fond of a nice minor-major 7 chord, I'm not sure it's quite how we wish to start off an August! Much more a November chord, I'd think.
As to theatrical time travel, I'd have to join the masses heading to the '50s for West Side Story or Gypsy. Close second would be the '70s for A Chorus Line, Company, or Sweeney Todd.
Posted by Jed @ 08/01/2002 02:42 PM PST
Previously mentioned regarding mr. Bagley recordings. I have his entire series on CD except Marshall Baer which is 123 and Kenward Emslie which is 114.
There is another LP that I am sure never made to it CD. That was the cast album of Different Times. Also Lola although eventually was released complete on cd it did appear in a mini release with the Grass Harp.
Posted by Michael Shayne @ 08/01/2002 02:51 PM PST
Thanks Robert for your words on Ben Bagley.I will now probably start updating my collection. (I only have 2 or 3 on CD). the records are sill favourites.
Posted by Tom from OZ @ 08/01/2002 03:10 PM PST
Re: BK's comments this morning on the Nick Redman-produced Varese Sarabande CD club release of "The Sand Pebbles" -- I cannot wait to listen to my copy, which arrived in today's mail along with copies of the other releases "Romancing the Stone," "The Bride" and (drum roll) "The Fury."
I listened to "The Fury" at lunch and it is breathtaking! The original album was a re-recording arranged and conducted by composer John Williams from his score proper, and recorded by the LSO exclusively for the album
The OST from the movie's tracks was done in California (LA? Hollywood? Culver City?) and the performance is spacious, warm, brilliant and totally dazzling! This is one of the John Williams' most beautiful and stylish scores from the last 1970s, with gorgeous themes, powerful cues of grand opera proportions -- a glorious confection of bravura composition.
This Brian DePalma film was considered overripe by most critics, but Amy Irving turned in a really nice performance, and Kirk Douglas was appropriately intense as a man who was targeted by assassins who kidnap his telekinetically empowered son to kidnappers. John Cassavetes goes way over the top -- in fact, no ham has ever been quite so spoiled -- in his portrayal of a bad friend and sadistically evil government flak with too much power.
This score is on 2-CDs...the first CD offers the original music tracks for the first time ever, and the second CD offers a remastering of the re-recording Williams conducted for the album release. They are both sensational!
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 08/01/2002 04:38 PM PST
editing -25
(drop the words "to kidnappers" from that sentence up there where they just sit making me look stupider than usual).
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 08/01/2002 04:41 PM PST
I never made Robert's connction to Ben Bangley before this. So I took it as a challenge unto myself to try and track Bagley's LP releases to see what was not released. I was able to find his releases from #1331 to 1381. There were only two numbers I could not match to any releases. #1333 & 1349.
The titles that were released on LPs that were not released as Cds were Different Times, Lola, Palais Bimbo Show, Street Songs, Martin Charnin's Upstairs at O'Neals.
Now since Bagley combined some Composer volumes together and recorded new material for the CD releases it is possible that some individual songs were not transfered to CDs. Here I cannot tell which ones they may be.
If anyone is interested I can post a list of the LP releases.
Posted by Michael Shayne @ 08/01/2002 04:43 PM PST
I'd like to hop over to 1927 to see Helen Morgan in Show Boat and then to 1936 for Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante and Bob Hope in Red, Hot and Blue. Then jump to the 50's to see Merman again in Gypsy, and Robert Preston n Music Man.
The opening nights for Follies and Chorus Line would be next choice.
Posted by Kerry @ 08/01/2002 04:53 PM PST
Okay Robert I have to know about some of the singers that have appeared on Painted Smiles releases. Were/Are they real groups or solo Artists?
The Patios
The Populaires
Patti Wyss
Kieffer Twins
Tanya Moberly
The Wiseguys
David Loud's Men
Jamie Rocco
The Satisfactions
SRO aka S*R*o
and the Dennis Deal Singers/New Deals
Posted by Michael Shayne @ 08/01/2002 05:07 PM PST
I think I have something else of interest for our dear readers. When I was trying to track down the Bagley releases on LP I was using my past issues of Show Music. (I have the complete collection) I came across a LP review of interest for our group.
Here is a review about our very own Bruce Kimmel. I have transcribed it below.
Show Music June 1983 Volume 2, Number 4
Bruce Kimmel's TOGETHER AGAIN (Cerberus Records COC 0301) is a musical about a comedy group, "The Odd Ducks", who have found that their split-up hasn't brought the individual success they'd hope for. They've gotten back together, and the personal and professional problems which have to be sorted out are the basis for this show. Mr. Kimmel (who wrote STAGES) has given us a number of bright and witty songs, some which show a Sondheim influence. We liked the amusing "The Real World", in which the group sings of their failure in the year they were apart; the two-part "Creating", which aptly details the creative process; Deborah Tilton's sensative "A Slight Neurotic" which explains why she turned to being funny; the list of things one can do to keep busy when "Falling Out of Love"; and the hunger-making "Desserts". Mr. Kimmel not only wrote, the book, music and lyrics for this show. but also performed with it with the Los Angeles cast.
Posted by Michael Shayne @ 08/01/2002 05:25 PM PST
Robert -
Since I have already seen Gertrude in King and I (HA!) I have no need to go back and relive that moment (HA HA!). But (or tuchas) seriously... I would love to see her in King and I... Ethel Merman in GYPSY and many more that I just cant think of because I am working diligently on a special secret project that not even I know what it is yet LOL
Posted by Craig @ 08/01/2002 06:12 PM PST
Well, dear readers, I'm back and to prove it I'm here. Today was about as much fun as a rectal probe but I got through it okay and feel pretty decent. Tomorrow is another heavy day, but I'll talk about that in tomorrow's notes which, by the way (BTW, in Internet lingo) I shall once again be writing tonight.
Posted by bk @ 08/01/2002 06:28 PM PST
Robert: You seem to have become the surrogate Bruce for today. Your knowledge of Bagley is wonderful. I discovered his albums soon after I moved here in 1980 and then my friend did a track, Nice to Be Near, on the 1983 Jerome Kern V. 4 album. I have many, but not all of the albums and a few of the CDs. Now that I know where to get them, I can pick up some more. As much as I like them, I don't want to pay the Footlight prices for them. I have found many of them in used record stores paying a dollar or two, and the records are in surprisingly good shape. I would love to read a bio of Mr. Bagley. He sounds like a fascinating man.
Posted by Ben @ 08/01/2002 06:30 PM PST
Jamie Rocco...? Was he artistic director for Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma for a while?
Posted by Jason @ 08/01/2002 07:02 PM PST
Ben -- Thanks for the kind words but no one can take the place of Bruce!
Michael -- I don't know all the details about the "groups" that appeared on Ben's albums but the ones I know were made up names for his backup singers. A lot of terrific musical comedy performers, including Denise Nolin and Susan Stroman sang backup on his albums. Ben's liner notes are 97% fabrication except for a few of the "facts"" regarding the sources of the songs. His bios of the singers, for example, are almost complete lies. Ben was, after all, incurably insane.
Posted by Robert Armin @ 08/01/2002 07:09 PM PST
I always wondered how he was never sued for some of the outlandish things he said about his performaners. But then again how many people could have actually got Katharine Hepburn to record for his label.
Posted by Michael Shayne @ 08/01/2002 07:14 PM PST
There is so many possibilities than can be done with his albums.
One can combine the tracks from three different cds and have a good collection of songs from Love Life.
Or how about the Best of.....
Dorothy Loudon
Sandy Stewart
Ann Hampton Callaway
Blossom Dearie
Barbara Cook
etc etc
Just pull tracks from the various
cds they appeared
Posted by Michael Shayne @ 08/01/2002 07:18 PM PST
Michael -- That's been my dream for years. I've already made a Love Life and One Touch of Venus collection from his albums and the artist compilations would be great, but as I wrote above, there are some ownership issues that have to be dealt with.
I just dug out my old Ben Bagley lps and discovered that the two songs on Jerome Kern III that didn't make it to CD seem to be Joanne Woodward's Go Little Boat and Ginny Crutcher's Shadow of the Moon. I don't seem to have Jerome Kern II or IV so I can't check those. Any help would be appreciated.
Speaking of Katharine Hepburn, a little known fact is that when Hepburn first heard the recording of Coco she hated the sound. Many people know that there were two versions of the album available on lp, but few know that it was Ben who was called in to remix the cast album for the second release. That's how buddy-buddy he was with Kate!
Posted by Robert Armin @ 08/01/2002 07:31 PM PST
Here are the listings for the album Kern V. 4
Side One
Tonight is Opening Night (Kaye Ballard)
Dreaming (Jennifer Bassey)
The Shorty George (Rod McKuen)
April Fooled Me (Henrietta Valor)
Two Hearts are Better than One (Blythe Walker)
Gentlemen Unafraid Medley (Ron Raines)
Abe Lincoln Has Just One Country (Bruce Hubbard & male chorus)
How Would I Know (Armelia McQueen & company)
Side Two
Bullfrog Patrol (Joanne Woodward)
What's Good About Good Night? (Rod McKuen)
Dance Like a Fool (Andy Anselmo)
Nice to Be Near (my friend, David Gebel, and this is not on the CD compilation J. Kern V. 3)
Left All Alone Again Blues (Armelia McQueen)
That Lucky Fellow (Rod McKuen)
Once in a Million Moons (Blythe Walker)
Cover Girl (Larry Conroy)
That's it for Jerome Kern Revisited Vol. 4 on LP.
Dont have Vol. 2, although according to the listing on the back, they came out one after the other, Numbers 1378, 1379 and 1380
Posted by Ben @ 08/01/2002 07:45 PM PST
Thanks, Ben. I just found the info for Volume II and IV. The missing songs are The Sun About To Rise and Drift With Me from Volume II and Dance Like A Fool, Once In A Million Moons and Nice To Be Near from Volume IV. So that's a total of seven lost songs from the Bagley Kern albums.
Posted by Robert Armin @ 08/01/2002 07:52 PM PST
This is taken from the review in Show Music Volume 3 Number 2
jerom Kern Volume 2
Medley from Oh Boy; contains a song written for a 1930 film musical which was to have been called STOLEN DREAMs, but which,when was finally released had no songs at all and was known as MEN OF THE SKY; anothre medlye from Oh, Lady! Oh, Lady!; I dreamed Too Much (From the film of the same name), The Ladn Where the Good Songs Go, Joanne Woodward singing debut Drift With Me. Kaye Ballard, Sandy Stewart, Arthur Siegel, Karen Wyman, Stiller & Mear (singing Nesting Time In Flatbush), Angelina Reaux, Sarah Rice and Sheldon Harnick.
Posted by Michael Shayne @ 08/01/2002 08:01 PM PST
I knew Jamie Rocco years ago when he was a teen actor in a production of CHILD'S PLAY at Buffalo's Studia Arena Theatre going under the name of Jamie Alexander Rocco. I don't know about the Lyric Theatre, but during the 90s he was featured (as James Rocco) in lead roles in several productions at New Jersey's Papermill Playhouse.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 08/01/2002 08:01 PM PST
I guess I was too late. oh well
Posted by Michael Shayne @ 08/01/2002 08:02 PM PST
I would go back in time to the early 1900s to see Evelyn Nesbit in Floradora Girls. And then I would boogie on over to England to catch the original Scarlet Pimpernel.
Posted by Sandra @ 08/01/2002 08:06 PM PST
And then on the way back to 2002, I'd stop off in 1990 to see Jason Graae in Forever Plaid.
Posted by Sandra @ 08/01/2002 08:19 PM PST
Yes, I'm a culpa regarding that chord, JMK, which will be fixed momentarily. Here is what happened: I originally had an Abmaj7 chord, then changed my mind at the last minute and made it an Amaj7 chord. However, after changing the A and E to naturals I was in such a hurry to sharp the G that I totally forgot about sharping the C. We must always sharp the C and I shall do so right about now.
Posted by bk @ 08/01/2002 08:27 PM PST
Michael. I assume you have the missing Bagleys on record. I do have the Elmslie if you need it. (on record that is!)
I found? a copy of Roger Smith's "Beach Romance" in a junk shop yesterday. I have yet to play it but it now has a home with my Connie Stevens, Ed Byrnes and Ralke discs. "Hopefully there are enough people there who can remember (fondly)"77 Sunset Strip". I should be able to find my Dr Kildare and Ben Casey songs if I look deeper inot the untouched for decades boxes of records. Nostalgia is such fun.
Posted by Tom Guest (from OZ) @ 08/01/2002 10:55 PM PST
When will I learn to proof read?
Posted by Tom from OZ @ 08/01/2002 10:56 PM PST
