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Finian’s Rainbow 12. That Great Come And Get It Day 3:12 20. Almost Like Being In Love 2:42 Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; music by Original 1947 Broadway Cast Ella Logan, Donald Richards, Lyn Murray David Brooks & Marion Bell Frederick Loewe Singers 21. There But For You Go I 3:36 Orchestra & Chorus conducted by Franz Allers 1. Overture 3:15 RCA Victor 45-0028/32 in set K-7; Orchestra Lyrics by E. Y.Harburg; music by David Brooks Burton Lane mx D7-VB-670/1 & 676/83, all take 1 2. This Time Of The Year 3:02 22. My Mother’s Wedding Day 2:39 Orchestra conducted by Ray Charles Recorded 19 & 23 March, 1947, New York Sonny Terry,Alan Gilbert, Lyn Murray Singers Pamela Britton with Chorus Columbia 4391/6-M in album MM 686; 3. How Are Things In Glocca Morra? 23. From This Day On—Brigadoon 3:19 mx CO 37550/61, all take 1 Marion Bell & David Brooks with Chorus 3:13 Recorded 3 April 1947, New York Ella Logan Transfers & Production: David Lennick • Digital Restoration: Graham Newton 4. If This Isn’t Love 3:12 13. Medley From Brigadoon 7:17 Special Thanks: Jack Raymond,Anthony Middleton Ella Logan, Donald Richards, Lyn Murray (Lerner–Loewe, arr. Leroy Anderson) Singers Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops Cover illustration by J.W.Whimper from ‘Natural Phenomena’, c.1860 (Mary Evans Picture Library) 5. Look To The Rainbow 3:12 RCA Victor 12-1281/0, mx E0-RC-1144/5 Ella Logan, Donald Richards Recorded 19 June 1950, New York 6. Old Devil Moon 3:21 Brigadoon Ella Logan, Donald Richards, Lyn Murray Original 1947 Broadway Cast Singers 14. Overture—Once In The Highlands— 7. Something Sort Of Grandish 2:59 Also available in the Naxos Broadway Musicals series ... Brigadoon 3:01 Ella Logan, David Wayne Chorus & Delbert Anderson 8. Necessity 3:04 15. Down On MacConnachy Square 3:08 Deloris Martin, Maude Simmons, Lyn Murray Jeff Warren, Earl Redding, Shirley Robbins, Singers and Hayes Gordon with Brigadoon Chorus 9. When The Idle Poor Become The Idle 16. Waitin’ For My Dearie 3:41 Rich 3:18 Marion Bell with Girls’ Chorus Ella Logan, Lyn Murray Singers 17. I’ll Go Home With Bonnie Jean 3:05 10. The Begat 3:07 Lee Sullivan with Chorus Lorenzo Fuller, Jerry Laws, Lewis Sharp 18. The Heather On The Hill 3:37 11. When I’m Not Near The Girl I Love David Brooks & Marion Bell 3:18 8.120785 8.120788 8.120790 David Wayne 19. Come To Me, Bend To Me 3:27 Lee Sullivan These titles are not for retail sale in the USA
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iconic 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz, which career-making role for David Wayne, built largely Year). While preparing the last one, Loewe doubtless because of the raunchy lyrics. Her Finian’s Rainbow Original 1947 Broadway Cast featured, among other gems,“Over the Rainbow”. on two solos that show Harburg’s wordplay at its breezily remarked one day that ‘faith could move second song My Mother’s Wedding Day Lyrics by E. Y. Harburg • Music by Burton Lane But more than just a songwriter, Harburg was deftest: Something Sort Of Grandish and mountains’ and the image stuck in Lerner’s mind survives, although the lyric alluding to the singer’s a social activist and prominent participant in When I’m Not Near The Girl I Love. and he took it further. Could faith move a illegitimacy (‘It was a day beyond compare / I Original 1947 Broadway Cast many of the left wing organizations of the time. There’s still, however, a bit of social comment whole town? ought to know cause I was there’) was cut. Brigadoon When Harburg looked around America in the in the pair of sly numbers for the blacks in the It was the kind of question a humanist like It’s the love ballads that make Brigadoon Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner • Music by Frederick Loewe years following the Second World War, he saw a cast: Necessity and The Begat, as well as the Lerner would ask as he saw his friends and truly endure. From the heroine’s ‘wanting’ song country choking on its own prosperity and blind Act II opener, When The Idle Poor Become colleagues coming back shell-shocked and Waiting For My Dearie, through to the most In the early months of 1947, two musicals solemn show,with opening and closing choral to its overwhelming racism. The Idle Rich. disillusioned from the Second World War. The charming of all meetings The Heather On The opened on Broadway eight weeks apart: Finian’s sections that are positively hymn-like. Finian’s And so he decided to address these issues This recording features the original cast, with media kept trumpeting how well America was Hill, right down to the Hit Parade styled Almost Rainbow and Brigadoon. Rainbow, on the other hand, is breezily (and with a tongue-in-cheek fable about the Irish a pair of oddities worth noting. That Great doing, but Lerner saw the malaise underneath. Like Being In Love, it’s a score of lasting beauty. They shared both certain similarities and sometimes scathingly) satirical, with its moments Finian, who steals the leprechauns’ pot of gold Come And Get It Day was moved to the end of Although he never acknowledged it, a And the songs of loss in Act II, There But differences, but the one thing that no one can of romance and uplift more than compensated from the end of the rainbow,and buries it in the the album to provide a ‘big finish’,but it’s actually German folk tale called ‘Germelshausen’ contains For You Go I and From This Day On, can still argue about is the melodic richness and lyrical for by a cheeky irreverence. fictional American state of Missitucky. the first act finale. And Albert Sharpe, who virtually the same plot as that of Brigadoon.A break the heart sixty years later. invention of both scores, something worth Both shows were driven from conception There’s also a parallel plot about three wishes, played the leading role of Finian, is never heard mysterious town appears for one day every The original cast are featured, although celebrating on this re-issue of their original cast through execution by their lyricist/librettists, a with one of them turning a racist senator black because – in one of the strangest bits of century. Its residents live as they always have prominent roles played by James Mitchell, recordings. pair of idiosyncratic men who couldn’t have so he could feel the sting of his hatred first-hand. composition in American musical theatre – he and then they vanish for another hundred years. William Hansen and George Keane don’t exist How were the two shows alike? Well, they been more different. But interestingly enough, if you listen to the doesn’t sing a note. Lerner moved the action to the Scottish here because their characters never sang. each offered the flavour of Celtic Britain: Ireland Yip Harburg and Alan Jay Lerner were born original cast recording, you’ll find scant evidence If Finian’s Rainbow is vintage Harburg, then highlands and imagined two jaded New York Lerner made Marion Bell, the show’s leading from Finian’s Rainbow and Scotland from in New York City and loved to play with words – of any of this. Brigadoon is classic Lerner, a reflection of the hunters who stumbled on the place and became lady,his second wife in 1947, but they divorced Brigadoon. but that’s where all similarities between the two Harburg and Lane (and co-librettist Fred writer, his life and his beliefs. part of its world for that one magical day,finding in 1949. They also both dipped heavily into the realm end. Harburg was from a poor family of Russian Saidy) decided to restrict their satire largely to The son of a philandering father who owned hope and love in the process. This collection also includes Arthur Fiedler’s of fantasy,with Finian’s Rainbow’s three wishes Jewish immigrants on the lower East Side; Lerner the book of the show and to let the score sing a lucrative dress business, Lerner was to wind up Loewe was always a master at capturing a 1950 Boston Pops Medley From Brigadoon. and leprechaun, Og, being matched by came from the well-to-do Wasp establishment primarily of whimsy and romance. marrying eight times and writing some of Broad- musical tone without resorting to pastiche and It was arranged by Leroy Anderson and – in Brigadoon’s vanishing town and omniscient and grew up on Park Avenue. Songs like How Are Things In Glocca way’s finest scores (My Fair Lady, Camelot). Brigadoon displays that gift beautifully. From addition to six songs from the show,it also dominie, Mr. Lundie. Born in 1898, Harburg was the older man Morra?, Look To The Rainbow, If This Isn’t He was educated at Harvard and thought he the opening choral statement, through such includes a goodly chunk of Anderson’s own Most interestingly,each explored in their and he had carved out an interesting career Love and Old Devil Moon waft over us with might want to be a boxer until he lost the sight genre pieces as Down On MacConnachy Irish Suite. Who knows? Perhaps one day he own way the wave of optimism that was generally before Finian’s Rainbow made it big. Starting at warm, luscious melodies and lightly poetic lyrics. in his left eye during an accident in the ring. He Square and Come To Me, Bend To Me, the intuited that Brigadoon would be matched up to have followed the ending of World War II. an early age, he had provided the scores for The thick-as-peat-moss brogue of Ella Logan also began writing witty lyrics for campus shows, but score exudes the essence of the Highlands. with Finian’s Rainbow. It seems like destiny has Each show looks at postwar America and finds it sixteen revues and musicals, although only one sees to it that this is one show where the Blarney after graduation, he drifted into the worlds of One of the obligatory pair of comic pieces wanted that to happen from the start. choking in materialism and misplaced values. of them, Bloomer Girl, written in 1944 with Stone is kissed as often as the leading lady. radio and advertising, simply marking time. for the hoydenish female comic that the period The differences between the shows lie in the Harold Arlen, remains with us today. If we need further charming, that comes After meeting Frederick Loewe in 1942, the loved (“The Real Love Of My Life”) is omitted, Richard Ouzounian way they make their statements. Brigadoon, Harburg is perhaps best remembered for along in the person of the Leprechaun, Og, who pair wrote a trio of forgotten shows (The Life of despite some comic relief, is a serious, almost a another partnership with Arlen:the score for the is gradually changing into a human. It was a the Party, What’s Up? and The Spring of Next
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iconic 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz, which career-making role for David Wayne, built largely Year). While preparing the last one, Loewe doubtless because of the raunchy lyrics. Her Finian’s Rainbow Original 1947 Broadway Cast featured, among other gems,“Over the Rainbow”. on two solos that show Harburg’s wordplay at its breezily remarked one day that ‘faith could move second song My Mother’s Wedding Day Lyrics by E. Y. Harburg • Music by Burton Lane But more than just a songwriter, Harburg was deftest: Something Sort Of Grandish and mountains’ and the image stuck in Lerner’s mind survives, although the lyric alluding to the singer’s a social activist and prominent participant in When I’m Not Near The Girl I Love. and he took it further. Could faith move a illegitimacy (‘It was a day beyond compare / I Original 1947 Broadway Cast many of the left wing organizations of the time. There’s still, however, a bit of social comment whole town? ought to know cause I was there’) was cut. Brigadoon When Harburg looked around America in the in the pair of sly numbers for the blacks in the It was the kind of question a humanist like It’s the love ballads that make Brigadoon Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner • Music by Frederick Loewe years following the Second World War, he saw a cast: Necessity and The Begat, as well as the Lerner would ask as he saw his friends and truly endure. From the heroine’s ‘wanting’ song country choking on its own prosperity and blind Act II opener, When The Idle Poor Become colleagues coming back shell-shocked and Waiting For My Dearie, through to the most In the early months of 1947, two musicals solemn show,with opening and closing choral to its overwhelming racism. The Idle Rich. disillusioned from the Second World War. The charming of all meetings The Heather On The opened on Broadway eight weeks apart: Finian’s sections that are positively hymn-like. Finian’s And so he decided to address these issues This recording features the original cast, with media kept trumpeting how well America was Hill, right down to the Hit Parade styled Almost Rainbow and Brigadoon. Rainbow, on the other hand, is breezily (and with a tongue-in-cheek fable about the Irish a pair of oddities worth noting. That Great doing, but Lerner saw the malaise underneath. Like Being In Love, it’s a score of lasting beauty. They shared both certain similarities and sometimes scathingly) satirical, with its moments Finian, who steals the leprechauns’ pot of gold Come And Get It Day was moved to the end of Although he never acknowledged it, a And the songs of loss in Act II, There But differences, but the one thing that no one can of romance and uplift more than compensated from the end of the rainbow,and buries it in the the album to provide a ‘big finish’,but it’s actually German folk tale called ‘Germelshausen’ contains For You Go I and From This Day On, can still argue about is the melodic richness and lyrical for by a cheeky irreverence. fictional American state of Missitucky. the first act finale. And Albert Sharpe, who virtually the same plot as that of Brigadoon.A break the heart sixty years later. invention of both scores, something worth Both shows were driven from conception There’s also a parallel plot about three wishes, played the leading role of Finian, is never heard mysterious town appears for one day every The original cast are featured, although celebrating on this re-issue of their original cast through execution by their lyricist/librettists, a with one of them turning a racist senator black because – in one of the strangest bits of century. Its residents live as they always have prominent roles played by James Mitchell, recordings. pair of idiosyncratic men who couldn’t have so he could feel the sting of his hatred first-hand. composition in American musical theatre – he and then they vanish for another hundred years. William Hansen and George Keane don’t exist How were the two shows alike? Well, they been more different. But interestingly enough, if you listen to the doesn’t sing a note. Lerner moved the action to the Scottish here because their characters never sang. each offered the flavour of Celtic Britain: Ireland Yip Harburg and Alan Jay Lerner were born original cast recording, you’ll find scant evidence If Finian’s Rainbow is vintage Harburg, then highlands and imagined two jaded New York Lerner made Marion Bell, the show’s leading from Finian’s Rainbow and Scotland from in New York City and loved to play with words – of any of this. Brigadoon is classic Lerner, a reflection of the hunters who stumbled on the place and became lady,his second wife in 1947, but they divorced Brigadoon. but that’s where all similarities between the two Harburg and Lane (and co-librettist Fred writer, his life and his beliefs. part of its world for that one magical day,finding in 1949. They also both dipped heavily into the realm end. Harburg was from a poor family of Russian Saidy) decided to restrict their satire largely to The son of a philandering father who owned hope and love in the process. This collection also includes Arthur Fiedler’s of fantasy,with Finian’s Rainbow’s three wishes Jewish immigrants on the lower East Side; Lerner the book of the show and to let the score sing a lucrative dress business, Lerner was to wind up Loewe was always a master at capturing a 1950 Boston Pops Medley From Brigadoon. and leprechaun, Og, being matched by came from the well-to-do Wasp establishment primarily of whimsy and romance. marrying eight times and writing some of Broad- musical tone without resorting to pastiche and It was arranged by Leroy Anderson and – in Brigadoon’s vanishing town and omniscient and grew up on Park Avenue. Songs like How Are Things In Glocca way’s finest scores (My Fair Lady, Camelot). Brigadoon displays that gift beautifully. From addition to six songs from the show,it also dominie, Mr. Lundie. Born in 1898, Harburg was the older man Morra?, Look To The Rainbow, If This Isn’t He was educated at Harvard and thought he the opening choral statement, through such includes a goodly chunk of Anderson’s own Most interestingly,each explored in their and he had carved out an interesting career Love and Old Devil Moon waft over us with might want to be a boxer until he lost the sight genre pieces as Down On MacConnachy Irish Suite. Who knows? Perhaps one day he own way the wave of optimism that was generally before Finian’s Rainbow made it big. Starting at warm, luscious melodies and lightly poetic lyrics. in his left eye during an accident in the ring. He Square and Come To Me, Bend To Me, the intuited that Brigadoon would be matched up to have followed the ending of World War II. an early age, he had provided the scores for The thick-as-peat-moss brogue of Ella Logan also began writing witty lyrics for campus shows, but score exudes the essence of the Highlands. with Finian’s Rainbow. It seems like destiny has Each show looks at postwar America and finds it sixteen revues and musicals, although only one sees to it that this is one show where the Blarney after graduation, he drifted into the worlds of One of the obligatory pair of comic pieces wanted that to happen from the start. choking in materialism and misplaced values. of them, Bloomer Girl, written in 1944 with Stone is kissed as often as the leading lady. radio and advertising, simply marking time. for the hoydenish female comic that the period The differences between the shows lie in the Harold Arlen, remains with us today. If we need further charming, that comes After meeting Frederick Loewe in 1942, the loved (“The Real Love Of My Life”) is omitted, Richard Ouzounian way they make their statements. Brigadoon, Harburg is perhaps best remembered for along in the person of the Leprechaun, Og, who pair wrote a trio of forgotten shows (The Life of despite some comic relief, is a serious, almost a another partnership with Arlen:the score for the is gradually changing into a human. It was a the Party, What’s Up? and The Spring of Next
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iconic 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz, which career-making role for David Wayne, built largely Year). While preparing the last one, Loewe doubtless because of the raunchy lyrics. Her Finian’s Rainbow Original 1947 Broadway Cast featured, among other gems,“Over the Rainbow”. on two solos that show Harburg’s wordplay at its breezily remarked one day that ‘faith could move second song My Mother’s Wedding Day Lyrics by E. Y. Harburg • Music by Burton Lane But more than just a songwriter, Harburg was deftest: Something Sort Of Grandish and mountains’ and the image stuck in Lerner’s mind survives, although the lyric alluding to the singer’s a social activist and prominent participant in When I’m Not Near The Girl I Love. and he took it further. Could faith move a illegitimacy (‘It was a day beyond compare / I Original 1947 Broadway Cast many of the left wing organizations of the time. There’s still, however, a bit of social comment whole town? ought to know cause I was there’) was cut. Brigadoon When Harburg looked around America in the in the pair of sly numbers for the blacks in the It was the kind of question a humanist like It’s the love ballads that make Brigadoon Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner • Music by Frederick Loewe years following the Second World War, he saw a cast: Necessity and The Begat, as well as the Lerner would ask as he saw his friends and truly endure. From the heroine’s ‘wanting’ song country choking on its own prosperity and blind Act II opener, When The Idle Poor Become colleagues coming back shell-shocked and Waiting For My Dearie, through to the most In the early months of 1947, two musicals solemn show,with opening and closing choral to its overwhelming racism. The Idle Rich. disillusioned from the Second World War. The charming of all meetings The Heather On The opened on Broadway eight weeks apart: Finian’s sections that are positively hymn-like. Finian’s And so he decided to address these issues This recording features the original cast, with media kept trumpeting how well America was Hill, right down to the Hit Parade styled Almost Rainbow and Brigadoon. Rainbow, on the other hand, is breezily (and with a tongue-in-cheek fable about the Irish a pair of oddities worth noting. That Great doing, but Lerner saw the malaise underneath. Like Being In Love, it’s a score of lasting beauty. They shared both certain similarities and sometimes scathingly) satirical, with its moments Finian, who steals the leprechauns’ pot of gold Come And Get It Day was moved to the end of Although he never acknowledged it, a And the songs of loss in Act II, There But differences, but the one thing that no one can of romance and uplift more than compensated from the end of the rainbow,and buries it in the the album to provide a ‘big finish’,but it’s actually German folk tale called ‘Germelshausen’ contains For You Go I and From This Day On, can still argue about is the melodic richness and lyrical for by a cheeky irreverence. fictional American state of Missitucky. the first act finale. And Albert Sharpe, who virtually the same plot as that of Brigadoon.A break the heart sixty years later. invention of both scores, something worth Both shows were driven from conception There’s also a parallel plot about three wishes, played the leading role of Finian, is never heard mysterious town appears for one day every The original cast are featured, although celebrating on this re-issue of their original cast through execution by their lyricist/librettists, a with one of them turning a racist senator black because – in one of the strangest bits of century. Its residents live as they always have prominent roles played by James Mitchell, recordings. pair of idiosyncratic men who couldn’t have so he could feel the sting of his hatred first-hand. composition in American musical theatre – he and then they vanish for another hundred years. William Hansen and George Keane don’t exist How were the two shows alike? Well, they been more different. But interestingly enough, if you listen to the doesn’t sing a note. Lerner moved the action to the Scottish here because their characters never sang. each offered the flavour of Celtic Britain: Ireland Yip Harburg and Alan Jay Lerner were born original cast recording, you’ll find scant evidence If Finian’s Rainbow is vintage Harburg, then highlands and imagined two jaded New York Lerner made Marion Bell, the show’s leading from Finian’s Rainbow and Scotland from in New York City and loved to play with words – of any of this. Brigadoon is classic Lerner, a reflection of the hunters who stumbled on the place and became lady,his second wife in 1947, but they divorced Brigadoon. but that’s where all similarities between the two Harburg and Lane (and co-librettist Fred writer, his life and his beliefs. part of its world for that one magical day,finding in 1949. They also both dipped heavily into the realm end. Harburg was from a poor family of Russian Saidy) decided to restrict their satire largely to The son of a philandering father who owned hope and love in the process. This collection also includes Arthur Fiedler’s of fantasy,with Finian’s Rainbow’s three wishes Jewish immigrants on the lower East Side; Lerner the book of the show and to let the score sing a lucrative dress business, Lerner was to wind up Loewe was always a master at capturing a 1950 Boston Pops Medley From Brigadoon. and leprechaun, Og, being matched by came from the well-to-do Wasp establishment primarily of whimsy and romance. marrying eight times and writing some of Broad- musical tone without resorting to pastiche and It was arranged by Leroy Anderson and – in Brigadoon’s vanishing town and omniscient and grew up on Park Avenue. Songs like How Are Things In Glocca way’s finest scores (My Fair Lady, Camelot). Brigadoon displays that gift beautifully. From addition to six songs from the show,it also dominie, Mr. Lundie. Born in 1898, Harburg was the older man Morra?, Look To The Rainbow, If This Isn’t He was educated at Harvard and thought he the opening choral statement, through such includes a goodly chunk of Anderson’s own Most interestingly,each explored in their and he had carved out an interesting career Love and Old Devil Moon waft over us with might want to be a boxer until he lost the sight genre pieces as Down On MacConnachy Irish Suite. Who knows? Perhaps one day he own way the wave of optimism that was generally before Finian’s Rainbow made it big. Starting at warm, luscious melodies and lightly poetic lyrics. in his left eye during an accident in the ring. He Square and Come To Me, Bend To Me, the intuited that Brigadoon would be matched up to have followed the ending of World War II. an early age, he had provided the scores for The thick-as-peat-moss brogue of Ella Logan also began writing witty lyrics for campus shows, but score exudes the essence of the Highlands. with Finian’s Rainbow. It seems like destiny has Each show looks at postwar America and finds it sixteen revues and musicals, although only one sees to it that this is one show where the Blarney after graduation, he drifted into the worlds of One of the obligatory pair of comic pieces wanted that to happen from the start. choking in materialism and misplaced values. of them, Bloomer Girl, written in 1944 with Stone is kissed as often as the leading lady. radio and advertising, simply marking time. for the hoydenish female comic that the period The differences between the shows lie in the Harold Arlen, remains with us today. If we need further charming, that comes After meeting Frederick Loewe in 1942, the loved (“The Real Love Of My Life”) is omitted, Richard Ouzounian way they make their statements. Brigadoon, Harburg is perhaps best remembered for along in the person of the Leprechaun, Og, who pair wrote a trio of forgotten shows (The Life of despite some comic relief, is a serious, almost a another partnership with Arlen:the score for the is gradually changing into a human. It was a the Party, What’s Up? and The Spring of Next
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Finian’s Rainbow 12. That Great Come And Get It Day 3:12 20. Almost Like Being In Love 2:42 Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; music by Original 1947 Broadway Cast Ella Logan, Donald Richards, Lyn Murray David Brooks & Marion Bell Frederick Loewe Singers 21. There But For You Go I 3:36 Orchestra & Chorus conducted by Franz Allers 1. Overture 3:15 RCA Victor 45-0028/32 in set K-7; Orchestra Lyrics by E. Y.Harburg; music by David Brooks Burton Lane mx D7-VB-670/1 & 676/83, all take 1 2. This Time Of The Year 3:02 22. My Mother’s Wedding Day 2:39 Orchestra conducted by Ray Charles Recorded 19 & 23 March, 1947, New York Sonny Terry,Alan Gilbert, Lyn Murray Singers Pamela Britton with Chorus Columbia 4391/6-M in album MM 686; 3. How Are Things In Glocca Morra? 23. From This Day On—Brigadoon 3:19 mx CO 37550/61, all take 1 Marion Bell & David Brooks with Chorus 3:13 Recorded 3 April 1947, New York Ella Logan Transfers & Production: David Lennick • Digital Restoration: Graham Newton 4. If This Isn’t Love 3:12 13. Medley From Brigadoon 7:17 Special Thanks: Jack Raymond,Anthony Middleton Ella Logan, Donald Richards, Lyn Murray (Lerner–Loewe, arr. Leroy Anderson) Singers Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops Cover illustration by J.W.Whimper from ‘Natural Phenomena’, c.1860 (Mary Evans Picture Library) 5. Look To The Rainbow 3:12 RCA Victor 12-1281/0, mx E0-RC-1144/5 Ella Logan, Donald Richards Recorded 19 June 1950, New York 6. Old Devil Moon 3:21 Brigadoon Ella Logan, Donald Richards, Lyn Murray Original 1947 Broadway Cast Singers 14. Overture—Once In The Highlands— 7. Something Sort Of Grandish 2:59 Also available in the Naxos Broadway Musicals series ... Brigadoon 3:01 Ella Logan, David Wayne Chorus & Delbert Anderson 8. Necessity 3:04 15. Down On MacConnachy Square 3:08 Deloris Martin, Maude Simmons, Lyn Murray Jeff Warren, Earl Redding, Shirley Robbins, Singers and Hayes Gordon with Brigadoon Chorus 9. When The Idle Poor Become The Idle 16. Waitin’ For My Dearie 3:41 Rich 3:18 Marion Bell with Girls’ Chorus Ella Logan, Lyn Murray Singers 17. I’ll Go Home With Bonnie Jean 3:05 10. The Begat 3:07 Lee Sullivan with Chorus Lorenzo Fuller, Jerry Laws, Lewis Sharp 18. The Heather On The Hill 3:37 11. When I’m Not Near The Girl I Love David Brooks & Marion Bell 3:18 8.120785 8.120788 8.120790 David Wayne 19. Come To Me, Bend To Me 3:27 Lee Sullivan These titles are not for retail sale in the USA
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Finian’s Rainbow 12. That Great Come And Get It Day 3:12 20. Almost Like Being In Love 2:42 Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; music by Original 1947 Broadway Cast Ella Logan, Donald Richards, Lyn Murray David Brooks & Marion Bell Frederick Loewe Singers 21. There But For You Go I 3:36 Orchestra & Chorus conducted by Franz Allers 1. Overture 3:15 RCA Victor 45-0028/32 in set K-7; Orchestra Lyrics by E. Y.Harburg; music by David Brooks Burton Lane mx D7-VB-670/1 & 676/83, all take 1 2. This Time Of The Year 3:02 22. My Mother’s Wedding Day 2:39 Orchestra conducted by Ray Charles Recorded 19 & 23 March, 1947, New York Sonny Terry,Alan Gilbert, Lyn Murray Singers Pamela Britton with Chorus Columbia 4391/6-M in album MM 686; 3. How Are Things In Glocca Morra? 23. From This Day On—Brigadoon 3:19 mx CO 37550/61, all take 1 Marion Bell & David Brooks with Chorus 3:13 Recorded 3 April 1947, New York Ella Logan Transfers & Production: David Lennick • Digital Restoration: Graham Newton 4. If This Isn’t Love 3:12 13. Medley From Brigadoon 7:17 Special Thanks: Jack Raymond,Anthony Middleton Ella Logan, Donald Richards, Lyn Murray (Lerner–Loewe, arr. Leroy Anderson) Singers Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops Cover illustration by J.W.Whimper from ‘Natural Phenomena’, c.1860 (Mary Evans Picture Library) 5. Look To The Rainbow 3:12 RCA Victor 12-1281/0, mx E0-RC-1144/5 Ella Logan, Donald Richards Recorded 19 June 1950, New York 6. Old Devil Moon 3:21 Brigadoon Ella Logan, Donald Richards, Lyn Murray Original 1947 Broadway Cast Singers 14. Overture—Once In The Highlands— 7. Something Sort Of Grandish 2:59 Also available in the Naxos Broadway Musicals series ... Brigadoon 3:01 Ella Logan, David Wayne Chorus & Delbert Anderson 8. Necessity 3:04 15. Down On MacConnachy Square 3:08 Deloris Martin, Maude Simmons, Lyn Murray Jeff Warren, Earl Redding, Shirley Robbins, Singers and Hayes Gordon with Brigadoon Chorus 9. When The Idle Poor Become The Idle 16. Waitin’ For My Dearie 3:41 Rich 3:18 Marion Bell with Girls’ Chorus Ella Logan, Lyn Murray Singers 17. I’ll Go Home With Bonnie Jean 3:05 10. The Begat 3:07 Lee Sullivan with Chorus Lorenzo Fuller, Jerry Laws, Lewis Sharp 18. The Heather On The Hill 3:37 11. When I’m Not Near The Girl I Love David Brooks & Marion Bell 3:18 8.120785 8.120788 8.120790 David Wayne 19. Come To Me, Bend To Me 3:27 Lee Sullivan These titles are not for retail sale in the USA
5 8.120791 6 8.120791 Lyrics by E. Y. Harburg ADD FINIAN’S RAINBOW Music by Burton Lane ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST 1947, CONDUCTOR RAY CHARLES Ella Logan SHARON MCLONERGAN • Donald Richards WOODY MAHONEY 8.120791 David Wayne OG,A LEPRECHAUN • Sonny Terry SUNNY • Lyn Murray Singers ENSEMBLE Alan Gilbert 1ST SHARECROPPER • Deloris Martin SINGER • Maude Simmons 4TH SHARECROPPER Lorenzo Fuller, Jerry Laws, Lewis Sharp THREE PASSION PILGRIM GOSPELEERS 1. Overture 3:15 8. Necessity SINGER,4TH SHARECROPPER & ENSEMBLE 3:04
2. This Time Of The Year SUNNY,1ST SHARECROPPER & 9. When The Idle Poor Become The Idle Rich FINIAN’S RAINBOW • BRIGADOON ENSEMBLE 3:02 SHARON & ENSEMBLE 3:18 3. How Are Things In Glocca Morra SHARON 3:13 10. The Begat THREE PASSION PILGRIM GOSPELEERS 3:07 4. If This Isn’t Love SHARON,WOODY & ENSEMBLE 3:12 11. When I’m Not Near The Girl I Love OG 3:18 5. Look To The Rainbow SHARON & WOODY 3:12 12. That Great Come And Get It Day SHARON, 6. Old Devil Moon SHARON,WOODY & ENSEMBLE 3:21 WOODY & ENSEMBLE 3:12 7. Something Sort Of Grandish SHARON & OG 2:59 Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner BRIGADOON Music by Frederick Loewe 13. Medley From Brigadoon (arr. Leroy Anderson) 7:17 Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST 1947, CONDUCTOR FRANZ ALLERS Marion Bell FIONA MACLAREN • David Brooks TOMMY ALBRIGHT • Lee Sullivan CHARLIE DALRYMPLE Delbert Anderson STUART DALRYMPLE • Jeff Warren SANDY DEAN • Earl Redding MACGREGOR Shirley Robbins, Hayes Gordon SINGERS • Pamela Britten MEG BROCKIE 14. Overture—Once In The Highlands— 18. The Heather On The Hill TOMMY & FIONA 3:37 Brigadoon CHORUS & STUART 3:01 19. Come To Me, Bend To Me CHARLIE 3:27
FINIAN’S RAINBOW • BRIGADOON 15. Down On MacConnachy Square SANDY, 20. Almost Like Being In Love TOMMY & FIONA 2:42 AC REGOR INGERS HORUS M G ,S & C 3:08 21. There But For You Go I TOMMY 3:36 IONA IRLS HORUS 16. Waitin’ For My Dearie F & G ’C 3:41 22. My Mother’s Wedding Day MEG & CHORUS 2:39 HARLIE 17. I’ll Go Home With Bonnie Jean C & 23. From This Day On—Brigadoon FIONA,TOMMY & HORUS C 3:05 CHORUS 3:19 Transfers and Production: David Lennick Total Time 78:58 8.120791 Digital Restoration: Graham Newton NOTES AND FULL RECORDING DETAILS INCLUDED www.naxos.com Made in the EU h & g 2006 Naxos Rights International Ltd. Design: Ron Hoares 8.120791