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Discographies and Recordings of British musical plays
- No 1: Noel Coward - Reviewing principal original
cast recordings of the musical plays: Ace
of Clubs , After
the Ball , Bitter
Sweet , Conversation Piece
- The Girl
Who Came To Supper , Operette
, Pacific 1860
, Sail Away
and, by other hands, musicals adapted from Coward's plays: High Spirits
, Mr and Mrs
- For more information on Noel Coward see: The
Noel Coward Society web site
No 2:Julian Slade: Discography
- The
Music of Julian Slade , Salad
Days , Free
As Air , Follow
That Girl
- Hooray
For Daisy , Wildest
Dreams , Vanity
Fair , Trelawny
Looking
For A Piano , Look
Who's Here
- For more on Julian Slade see here!
No 3:Lola
Montez
- This should have been a British musical. In fact, the sound
and atmosphere of this delectable score is more British than
some of the British shows that were around in 1958.
No
4:Murder, Mystery & Mayhem
Reviewing recordings of British and American musicals
that dealt with different sorts of chaos…
- Belle
Blitz!
, The Fields
of Ambrosia , Jack
The Ripper , Mutiny!
- The
Mystery of Edwin Drood , Parade
, Prettybelle
, Sherlock
Holmes
- Somethings
Afoot , Two
Cities
No
5: Some Musicals with a Social Conscience Reviews
of recordings of ...
- Annie
, Barnardo
, Love
On The Dole , The
Matchgirls , Spend,
Spend, Spend
No
6: Vivian Ellis - A selection of recordings on LP and CD
- '…can also be used as a burglar alarm. Two records,
tied with adhesive tape, will make up into a wolf proof brassiere
- many dealers preferring to sell them for this specific purpose
only.' Vivian Ellis on one of his recordings
- Click on titles to read reviews of:
- And
So To Bed , Big
Ben , Bless
The Bride , Follow
A Star , Jill
Darling
Listen
To The Wind , Mr
Cinders , Streamline
, Tough
At The Top
The
Water Gipsies
Vivian
Ellis: Spread A Little Happiness [single CD]
Vivian
Ellis: Spread A Little Happiness
(The Music and Songs of Vivian Ellis) [2 CDs]
You've
Never Had It So Good
- No 7: British Biographical
Musicals Reviewing some of the recordings of British
musicals based on the lives of the famous and infamous…
Click on titles to read reviews of:
- Always
, Barnardo
, The
Biograph Girl , I
And Albert , Josephine
[concept]
- Man
Of Magic , The
Mitford Girls , Mrs.
Wilson's Diary , Sing
A Rude Song
- Summer
Song , Thomas
And The King
- No.
8 Flops of the 1950s Reviewing original cast recordings
of British shows of the 1950s - including one show, The Crystal
Heart, that was American …
Chrysanthemum
, The
Crystal Heart , Harmony
Close , Marigold
Romance
in Candlelight , Twenty
Minutes South , Wild
Grows the Heather
No 9 Reviewing
the Revues - Some favourite
revues on record …
- Revue has had mixed fortunes when it comes to the recording
studio, but here are reviews of several almost forgotten gems
…
- Airs
On A Shoestring
Alec
Wilder - Clues To A Life
(more a collection of songs than a revue proper
- and the only American show in the list)
Cranks
4
To The Bar
Living
For Pleasure
Look
Whose Here!
The
Lord Chamberlain Regrets
One
Over The Eight
Pieces
Of Eight
- No 10 Remembering Three
Blue Musicals from the 1920s
- Blue Eyes
- The
Blue Kitten
The Blue
Train
- No 11 Ivor Novello Recordings
- Reviewing
Arc
de Triomphe
Careles
Rapture
Crest
of the Wave
The
Dancing Years
Gay's
the Word
Glamorous
Night
King's
Rhapsody
Perchance
to Dream
- Shine
Through My Dreams
- Marilyn
Hill Smith Sings Ivor Novello
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