The History Of The Musical > Various Artists
Recording Details
- Type
- Audio / Vocal Recording / (Compilation)
- Language
- English
- Performer
- Mark Adams (10), Thomas Allen (53), Kenny Baker [1] (31), Adam Bareham (5), John Barrowman (85), Seymour Beard (3), Josephine Blake (17), Ann Brown (7), Len Cariou (32), Peggy Coudray (2), Kim Criswell (120), Vaughn De Leath (3), John Diedrich (21), Jamieson Dodds (2), George Edwardes, Mary Ellis (32), Ruth Etting (46), Eva Jessye Choir (9), Nick Farranti, Beverly Fite (3), Julian Forsyth (15), Ethan Freeman (70), Sarah French (10), Maria Friedman (76), Jane Froman (20), Edward Fuller (2), Kurt Gerron (10), Olive Gilbert (16), Louise Gold (36), Brian Greene (21), Simon Green (43), Michael Gruber (21), Binnie Hale (28), Ray Heatherton (4), Seymour Hicks (5), Mike Holloway (2), Ann Howard (17), Walter Huston (23), Dan Jones (6), Trefor Jones (11), Janis Kelly (38), Ingrid Kertesi (4), Dorothy Kirsten (49), Felix Knight (14), Lupino Lane (18), Harold Lang [1] (17), Jerry Lanning (20), Gertrude Lawrence (104), Christopher Lee (13), Shona Lindsay (37), Paul Manuel (16), Helen Marshall, Valerie Masterson (61), Christina Matthews (9), Donald Maxwell (32), George Metaxa (10), Margaret Mitchell (6), Ron Moody (35), Helen Morgan (48), Sylvia Nelis (2), Caroline O'Connor (68), Tinuke Olafimihan (27), Frank Parker (5), Siân Phillips (43), Catherine Porter (25), Shezwae Powell (23), Jonathan Pryce (34), Louise Quilico, Ron Raines (70), Issy Van Randwyck (44), Frederick Ranslow, David Rendall (13), Grania Renihan (19), Dick Robertson (4), Paul Robeson (50), Howard Samuels (11), Julia Sanderson (5), Jules Schmidt (2), Harry Secombe (36), Rosamund Shelley (3), Julia Shore (19), Teddie St Denis (2), Don Stephenson (24), Richard Tauber (47), Richard Van Allan (28), Ethel Waters (73), Milton Watson, Clifton Webb (15), Jane Wellman (6), Lee Wiley (59), Jane Wilson (8), Iva Withers (4), Peggy Wood (19), Howard Worster, Matt Zimmerman (22)
- Notes
- Richard Fawkes audiobook of "The History Of The Musical" read by Kim Criswell with nearly 100 musical extracts
- Shortcode
- [r22181]
Releases
- Format
- 4-CD
- Label
- Naxos Audiobooks NA422712
- Released
- 2001-11-20
- Country
- UK
- Barcode
- 9789626342275
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- # Tracks
- 197
- Length
- 5:14:04
- Lists
- 14 collectors / 3 wish lists
- Shortcode
- [rl33241]
Disc 1
1. Memory - Cats - 1:21
2. The origins of The Musical - The Beggars Opera (John Gay) 1728 - 2:13
3. Were I laid on Greenland's Coast - The Beggars Opera (John Gay) 1728 - 1:26
4. Vaudevilles, Burlesques in Europe - Adolphe Adam - 1:55
5. Oh Qu'il Etait Beau, Le Postillon de Longjumeau (Adolphe Adam) 1836 - 1:33
6. Opera-bouffes in Paris - Herve (Florimond Roger) and Jacques Offenbach - 3:45
7. Can Can - Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach) 1858 - . 1:17
8. Andre Messager and Charles Lecoq - Brussels and Paris - 2:46
9. La Diuspute - La Fille De Madame Angot (Charles Lecoq) 1872 - 1:02
10. Vienna - Franz von Suppe - 2:21
11. Overture - Die Schone Galathee (Franz von Suppe) - 0:41
12. Vienna - Johann Strauss - 1:31
13. Overture Die Fledermaus (Johann Strauss) 1874 - 1:27
14. England - Sir Arthur Sullivan and W.S. Gilbert - 2:08
15. The Moon and I - The Mikado (Gilbert and Sullivan) 1885 - 1:07
16. London - George Edwardes and The Gaity Theatre - 2:22
17. And Her Golden Hair was Hanging Down Her Back - The Shop Girl (Ivan Caryll/Felix McGlennon) 1894 - 1:11
18. Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton - 2:25
19. The Girl With a Brogue - The Arcadians (Lionel Monckton) 1909 - 0:47
20. Sydney Jones - The Geisha - 1:26
21. The Amorous Goldfish - The Geisha (Jones/Hall/Greenbank) 1896 - 1:38
22. Edward German - complete's Sullivan's last opera and writes Merrie England - 1:22
23. Dan Cupid Hath a Garden - Merrie England (Edward German) 1902 - 1:21
24. USA and London - Ivan Caryll and Gustave Kerker - 1:19
25. Teach me How to Kiss - The Belle of New York (Gustave Kerker) 1897 - 1:47
26. Vaudeville - George M. Cohan - 1:02
27. Give My Regards to Broadway - Little Johnny Jones 1904 (George M. Cohan) - 0:42
28. USA - Victor Herbert - 1:23
29. Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life - Naughty Marietta (Victor Herbert) 1910 - 1:39
30. Viennese operetta - Franz Lehar - 2:00
31. Vilja - The Merry Widow (Lehar) 1905 - 1:12
32. USA - Sigmund Romberg - 0:55
33. Will You Remember - Maytime (Sigmund Romberg) 1917 - 1:50
34. London - Chu Chin Chow by Frederic Norton: 2,235 performances - 1:35
35. The Cobbler's Song - Chu Chin Chow (Frederic Norton) 1916 - 0:44
36. USA - The end of World War I and the Jazz Age - 2:03
37. I'm Just Wild About Harry - Shuffle Along (Eubie Blake) 1921 - 1:13
38. USA - Vincent Youmans - 0:43
39. Tea for Two - No No Nanette (Vincent Youmans) 1923 - 1:14
40. Broadway - Rudolf Friml - 1:39
41. Indian Love Call - Rose Marie (Rudolf Friml) 1924 - 1:42
42. USA - George Gershwin: Lady Be Good (1924), The Song of the Flame (1925) - 2:44
43. Cossack Love Song - The Song of the Flame (George Gershwin) 1925 - 1:07
44. USA - American operetta and musical comedies: 45. Gershwin, Friml, Romberg, Herbert - and Jerome Kern - 2:23
45. They Didn't Believe Me - The Girl From Utah (Kern/Reynolds) 1913 - 1:23
46. USA - Jerome Kern and Show Boat - 2:30
47. Make Believe - Show Boat (Kern/Hammerstein) 1927 - 1:08
48. Why was Show Boat so differenet? - 2:44
49. Ol' Man River - Show Boat (Kern/Hammerstein) 1927 - 1:16
Disc 2
1. Bill - Show Boat (Kern/Hamerstein) 1927 - 1:39
2. Hollywood and film musicals - 5:15
3. Softly as in a Morning Sunrise - The New Moon (Romburg/Hammerstein) 1928 - 1:36
4. Dance Spectaculars - Busby Berkeley; George Gershwin and the American sound - 3:16
5. The Man I Love - Lady Be Good (Gershwin/Gershwin) 1924 - 1:30
6. George Gershwin: Strike Up The Band & Girl Crazy - 2:56
7. I Got Rhythm - Girl Crazy (Gershwin/Gershwin) 1930 - 0:42
8. George Gershwin: Of Thee I Sing - 1:20
9. Love is Sweeping the Country - Of Thee I Sing (Gershwin/Gershwin/Kaufman/Ryskind) 1931 - 0:53
10. George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess - 2:44
11. Summertime - Porgy and Bess (George Gershwin) 1935 - 1:34
12. USA - Cole Porter - 2:10
13. Let's Do It - Paris (Cole Porter) 1928 - 0:53
14. Cole Porter - Anything Goes 1934 - 2:42
15. I Get a Kick Out of You - Anything Goes (Porter) 1934 - 1:41
16. USA - Marc Blitzstein and The Cradle will Rock 1937 - 2:51
17. Art for Art's Sake - The Cradle Will Rock (Marc Blitzstein) 1937 - 0:51
18. USA - Irving Berlin - 3:06
19. Easter Parade - As Thousands Cheer (Irving Berlin) 1933 - 1:29
20. USA - Richard Rodgers and Larry Hart - 1:56
21. Here in My Arms - Dearest Enemy (Rodgers/Hart) 1925 - 0:47
22. Rodgers and Hart: Songs - 1:30
23. Ten Cents and Dance - Simple Simon (Rodgers/Hart) 1930 - 1:15
24. Rodgers and Hart: Babes in Arms - 1:26
25. The Lady is a Tramp - Babes in Arms (Rodgers/Hart) 1937 - 1:23
26. Europe - Franz Lehar and Richard Tauber - 2:20
27. You are My Heart's Delight - The Land of Smiles (Franz Lehar) 1929 - 1:01
28. England - Noel Coward - 2:12
29. I'll See You Again - Bitter Sweet (Noel Coward) 1929 - 1:56
30. England - Ivor Novello - 1:31
31. Shine Through My Dreams - Glamorous Night (Novello/Hassall) 1935 - 1:10
32. England - Vivian Ellis - 1:03
33. Spread a Little Happiness - Mr Cinders (Vivan Ellis) 1929 - 2:04
34. England - Cole Porter - 1:02
35. How Could We be Wrong? Nymph Errant (Cole Porter) 1933 - 1:08
36. Berlin - Im Weissen Rossl (The White Horse Inn) - 1:30
37. Your Eyes - The White Horse Inn (Benatsky/Stolz) 1930 - 0:51
38. Hitler's Germany: Jewish composers, including Kurt Weill, leave - 1:53
39. Moritat (Mack The Knife) - The Threepenny Opera (Weill/Brecht) 1928 - 0:45
40. USA - Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya in New York, 1935 - 2:25
41. September Song - Knickerbocker Holiday (Weill/Anderson) 1938 - 1:33
42. England - Noel Gay: Me and My Girl 1937 - 1:46
43. The Lambeth Walk - Me and My Girl (Gay/Furber/Rose) 1937 - 0:42
44. Europe - War. Ivor Novello: The Dancing Years - 2:28
45. I Can Give You The Starlight - The Dancing Years (Ivor Novello) 1939 - 2:01
Disc 3
1. Falling in Love with Love - The Boys from Syracuse (Rodgers/Hart) 1938 - 3:07
2. USA - Escapist musicals - Dubarry was a Lady, Cabin in the Sky (Vernon Duke) - 2:36
3. Taking a Chance on Love - Cabin in the Sky (Duke/Latouche) 1940 - 1:13
4. Rodgers and Hart: Pal Joey (1940) - 1:44
5. I Could Write a Book - Pal Joey (Rodgers/Hart) 1940 - 1:20
6. USA - Seill and Gershwin: Lady in the Dark - 1:33
7. My Ship - Lady in The Dark (Weill/Gershwin) 1941 - 1:02
8. USA - Kurt Weill teams up with Ogden Nash for One Touch of Venus - 0:58
9. West Wind - One Touch of Venus (Weill/Nash) - 1:06
10. USA - Rodgers and Hammerstein: Oklahoma! - 2:10
11. People Will Say We're in Love - Oklahoma! (Rodgers/Hammerstein) 1943 - 0:51
12. USA - Rodgers and Hammerstein: Carousel - 2:04
13. What's the Use of Wonderin' - Carousel (Rodgers/Hammerstein) 1945 - 1:11
14. USA - Leonard Bernstein - 2:07
15. Lonely Town - On the Town (Bernstein/Comden/Green) 1944 - 1:18
16. USA - Irving Berlin: Annie Get Your Gun (1946) - 3:09
17. Anything You Can Do - Annie Get Your Gun (Berlin) 1946 - 1:05
18. USA - Forrester and Wright...and Grieg - 2:31
19. Strange Music - Song of Norway (Wright/Forrester/Grieg) 1944 - 1:02
20. And This is My Beloved - Kismet (Wright/Forrest/Borodin) - 3:15
21. My Heart and I - Old Chelsea 1943 - 1:09
22. England - Ivor Novello: Perchance to Dream (1945) - 0:48
23. We'll Gather Lilacs - Perchance to Dream (vor Novello) 1945 - 2:05
24. England - Vivian Ellis: Bless the Bride (1947) - 0:39
25. USA - Cole Porter: Kiss Me Kate (1948) - 2:41
26. Brush Up Your Shakespeare - Kiss Me, Kate! (Porter) 1948 - 1:01
27. USA - Rodgers and Hammerstein: South Pacific - 2:21
28. Some Enchanted Evening - South Pacific (Rodgers/Hammerstein) 1949 - 1:02
29. USA - Lerner and Loewe: Brigadoon (1947) - 1:42
30. The Heather on the Hill Brigadoon (Lerner/Loewe) - 0:57
31. USA - Lerner and Loewe: Paint Your Wagon (1951) - 0:51
32. They Call the Wind Maria - Paint Your Wagon (Lerner/Loewe) 1951 - 0:57
33. USA - Lerner and Loewe: My Fair Lady (1956) - 2:22
34. I Could Have Danced All Night - My Fair Lady (Lerner/Loewe) 1956 - 1:01
35. England - Julie Andrews; Sandy Wilson/The Boyfriend (1954) - 2:23
36. I Could Be Happy with You - The Boyfriend (Wilson) 1954 - 1:05
37. England - Julian Slade: Salad Days (1954) - 0:50
38. We Said We Wouldn't Look Back - Salad Days (Slade/Reynolds) 1954 - 1:44
39. USA - Frank Loesser: Guys and Dolls (1950) - 2:21
40. Sit Down You're Rockin' The Boat - Guys and Dolls (Loesser) 1950 - 0:44
41. USA - Anna and the King of Siam - 2:07
42. Shall We Dance? - The King and I (Rodgers/Hammerstein) 1951 - 1:02
43. USA - The Film Musical - 1:02
44. Singin' in The Rain - Singin' in The Rain (Brown/Freed) 1952 - 1:23
45. More films - 1:33
46. USA - A new generation: Richard Adler and Jerry Ross - 1:15
47. Hey There - The Pajama Game (Adler/Ross) 1954 - 1:18
48. USA - Frank Loesser: The Most Happy Feller (1956) - 2:06
49. Mamma, Mamma - The Most Happy Fella (Loesser) 1956 - 0:55
50. USA - Something's coming - Overture West Side Story - West Side Story (Bernstein/Sondheim) 1957 - 1:35
Disc 4
1. America - West Side Story (Bernstein/Sondheim) 1957 - 2:03
2. I am Easily Assimilate - Candide (Bernstien/Wilbur/Sondheim/Latouche) 1956 - 1:01
3. USA - Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story - 1:59
4. Maria - West Side Story (Bernstein/Sondheim) 1957 - 1:07
5. USA - Rodgers and Hammerstein's final musical - 0:43
6. Do-Re-Me - The Sound of Music (Rodgers/Hammerstein) 1959 - 1:47
7. England - Lionel Bart: Fings Ain't What They Used to be/Oliver - 4:11
8. Reviewing The Situation - Oliver! (Bart) 1960 - 1:23
9. England - The demise of Bart/Anthony Newley - 1:49
10. What Kind of Fool Am I? - Stop The World I Want to Get Off (Newley/Bricusse) 1961 - 0:39
11. England - Cyrill Ornadel/Wolf Mankowitz: Pickwick - 2:03
12. If I Ruled The World - Pickwick (Ornadel/Bricusse) 1963 - 0:59
13. England - Musicals on classical themes - 1:16
14. USA - Broadway: early 1960s - 2:50
15. If I were a Rich Man - Fiddler On The Roof (Harnick/Bock) 1964 - 1:01
16. Hollywood: One of the last great MGM musicals: Gigi - 1:11
17. I Remember It Well - Gigi (Lerner/Loewe) 1958 - 1:13
18. USA - Broadway: The changing styles of the 1960s - 5:25
19. Mame - Mame (Herman) 1966 - 0:43
20. USA - Off Broadway, a sensation: The Fantasticks - 1:53
21. Try to Remember - The Fantasticks (Jones/Schmidt) 1960 - 0:57
22. USA - The musical nobody wanted - 1:47
23. The Impossible Dream - Man of La Mancha (Leigh/Darion) 1965 - 1:09
24. USA - Political Protest: a new kind of musical: John Kander and Fred Ebb - 2:24
25. Money Money - Cabaret (Kander/Ebb) 1966 - 1:00
26. USA - Cy Coleman - 1:16
27. Big Spender - Sweet Charity (Coleman/Fields) 1966 - 1:00
28. USA - Sixties Flower Power - 1:18
29. Aquarius - Hair (MacDermot/Radio/Ragni) 1967 - 0:49
30. USA - The backward-looking rock musical - 0:52
31. Sweet Transvestite - The Rocky Horror Show (O'Brien) 1973 - 1:04
32. USA - Stephen Sondheim - 1:58
33. Company - Company (Sondheim) 1970 - 1:16
34. A Little Night Muisc (Sondheim) - 0:38
35. Send In The Clowns - A Little Night Music (Sondheim) 1973 - 1:17
36. England - Andrew Lloyd Webber - 3:57
37. I Don't Know How To Love Him - Jesus Christ Superstar (Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice) 1971 - 1:13
38. England - Jeeves followed by Evita - 1:18
39. Another Suitcase, Another Hall - Evita (Lloyd Webber/Rice) 1978 - 0:57
40. England - T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Cats - 0:44
41. Memory - Cats (Lloyd Webber/Eliot/Nunn) 1981 - 1:03
42. USA - Kander and Ebb: 1920s jazz flashback - 0:45
43. All That Jazz - Chicago (Kander/Ebb) 1975 - 0:56
44. USA - The back-stage setting - 0:36
45. What I Did For Love - A Chorus Line (Hamlish/Kablan) 1976 - 1:03
46. USA - A show re-appears - 1:00
47. Tomorrow - Annie (Strouse/Charnin) 1977 - 1:03
48. England - Lloyd Webber spectaculars - 1:26
49. USA - Stephen Sondheim - 1:17
50. Sweeney Todd - Sweeney Todd (Sondheim) 1979 - 1:40
51. France - Alain Boubill and Claude-Michel Schonberg - 2:46
52. The People Song - Les Miserables (Schonberg/Boublil) 1985 - 1:30
1. Memory - Cats - 1:21
2. The origins of The Musical - The Beggars Opera (John Gay) 1728 - 2:13
3. Were I laid on Greenland's Coast - The Beggars Opera (John Gay) 1728 - 1:26
4. Vaudevilles, Burlesques in Europe - Adolphe Adam - 1:55
5. Oh Qu'il Etait Beau, Le Postillon de Longjumeau (Adolphe Adam) 1836 - 1:33
6. Opera-bouffes in Paris - Herve (Florimond Roger) and Jacques Offenbach - 3:45
7. Can Can - Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach) 1858 - . 1:17
8. Andre Messager and Charles Lecoq - Brussels and Paris - 2:46
9. La Diuspute - La Fille De Madame Angot (Charles Lecoq) 1872 - 1:02
10. Vienna - Franz von Suppe - 2:21
11. Overture - Die Schone Galathee (Franz von Suppe) - 0:41
12. Vienna - Johann Strauss - 1:31
13. Overture Die Fledermaus (Johann Strauss) 1874 - 1:27
14. England - Sir Arthur Sullivan and W.S. Gilbert - 2:08
15. The Moon and I - The Mikado (Gilbert and Sullivan) 1885 - 1:07
16. London - George Edwardes and The Gaity Theatre - 2:22
17. And Her Golden Hair was Hanging Down Her Back - The Shop Girl (Ivan Caryll/Felix McGlennon) 1894 - 1:11
18. Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton - 2:25
19. The Girl With a Brogue - The Arcadians (Lionel Monckton) 1909 - 0:47
20. Sydney Jones - The Geisha - 1:26
21. The Amorous Goldfish - The Geisha (Jones/Hall/Greenbank) 1896 - 1:38
22. Edward German - complete's Sullivan's last opera and writes Merrie England - 1:22
23. Dan Cupid Hath a Garden - Merrie England (Edward German) 1902 - 1:21
24. USA and London - Ivan Caryll and Gustave Kerker - 1:19
25. Teach me How to Kiss - The Belle of New York (Gustave Kerker) 1897 - 1:47
26. Vaudeville - George M. Cohan - 1:02
27. Give My Regards to Broadway - Little Johnny Jones 1904 (George M. Cohan) - 0:42
28. USA - Victor Herbert - 1:23
29. Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life - Naughty Marietta (Victor Herbert) 1910 - 1:39
30. Viennese operetta - Franz Lehar - 2:00
31. Vilja - The Merry Widow (Lehar) 1905 - 1:12
32. USA - Sigmund Romberg - 0:55
33. Will You Remember - Maytime (Sigmund Romberg) 1917 - 1:50
34. London - Chu Chin Chow by Frederic Norton: 2,235 performances - 1:35
35. The Cobbler's Song - Chu Chin Chow (Frederic Norton) 1916 - 0:44
36. USA - The end of World War I and the Jazz Age - 2:03
37. I'm Just Wild About Harry - Shuffle Along (Eubie Blake) 1921 - 1:13
38. USA - Vincent Youmans - 0:43
39. Tea for Two - No No Nanette (Vincent Youmans) 1923 - 1:14
40. Broadway - Rudolf Friml - 1:39
41. Indian Love Call - Rose Marie (Rudolf Friml) 1924 - 1:42
42. USA - George Gershwin: Lady Be Good (1924), The Song of the Flame (1925) - 2:44
43. Cossack Love Song - The Song of the Flame (George Gershwin) 1925 - 1:07
44. USA - American operetta and musical comedies: 45. Gershwin, Friml, Romberg, Herbert - and Jerome Kern - 2:23
45. They Didn't Believe Me - The Girl From Utah (Kern/Reynolds) 1913 - 1:23
46. USA - Jerome Kern and Show Boat - 2:30
47. Make Believe - Show Boat (Kern/Hammerstein) 1927 - 1:08
48. Why was Show Boat so differenet? - 2:44
49. Ol' Man River - Show Boat (Kern/Hammerstein) 1927 - 1:16
Disc 2
1. Bill - Show Boat (Kern/Hamerstein) 1927 - 1:39
2. Hollywood and film musicals - 5:15
3. Softly as in a Morning Sunrise - The New Moon (Romburg/Hammerstein) 1928 - 1:36
4. Dance Spectaculars - Busby Berkeley; George Gershwin and the American sound - 3:16
5. The Man I Love - Lady Be Good (Gershwin/Gershwin) 1924 - 1:30
6. George Gershwin: Strike Up The Band & Girl Crazy - 2:56
7. I Got Rhythm - Girl Crazy (Gershwin/Gershwin) 1930 - 0:42
8. George Gershwin: Of Thee I Sing - 1:20
9. Love is Sweeping the Country - Of Thee I Sing (Gershwin/Gershwin/Kaufman/Ryskind) 1931 - 0:53
10. George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess - 2:44
11. Summertime - Porgy and Bess (George Gershwin) 1935 - 1:34
12. USA - Cole Porter - 2:10
13. Let's Do It - Paris (Cole Porter) 1928 - 0:53
14. Cole Porter - Anything Goes 1934 - 2:42
15. I Get a Kick Out of You - Anything Goes (Porter) 1934 - 1:41
16. USA - Marc Blitzstein and The Cradle will Rock 1937 - 2:51
17. Art for Art's Sake - The Cradle Will Rock (Marc Blitzstein) 1937 - 0:51
18. USA - Irving Berlin - 3:06
19. Easter Parade - As Thousands Cheer (Irving Berlin) 1933 - 1:29
20. USA - Richard Rodgers and Larry Hart - 1:56
21. Here in My Arms - Dearest Enemy (Rodgers/Hart) 1925 - 0:47
22. Rodgers and Hart: Songs - 1:30
23. Ten Cents and Dance - Simple Simon (Rodgers/Hart) 1930 - 1:15
24. Rodgers and Hart: Babes in Arms - 1:26
25. The Lady is a Tramp - Babes in Arms (Rodgers/Hart) 1937 - 1:23
26. Europe - Franz Lehar and Richard Tauber - 2:20
27. You are My Heart's Delight - The Land of Smiles (Franz Lehar) 1929 - 1:01
28. England - Noel Coward - 2:12
29. I'll See You Again - Bitter Sweet (Noel Coward) 1929 - 1:56
30. England - Ivor Novello - 1:31
31. Shine Through My Dreams - Glamorous Night (Novello/Hassall) 1935 - 1:10
32. England - Vivian Ellis - 1:03
33. Spread a Little Happiness - Mr Cinders (Vivan Ellis) 1929 - 2:04
34. England - Cole Porter - 1:02
35. How Could We be Wrong? Nymph Errant (Cole Porter) 1933 - 1:08
36. Berlin - Im Weissen Rossl (The White Horse Inn) - 1:30
37. Your Eyes - The White Horse Inn (Benatsky/Stolz) 1930 - 0:51
38. Hitler's Germany: Jewish composers, including Kurt Weill, leave - 1:53
39. Moritat (Mack The Knife) - The Threepenny Opera (Weill/Brecht) 1928 - 0:45
40. USA - Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya in New York, 1935 - 2:25
41. September Song - Knickerbocker Holiday (Weill/Anderson) 1938 - 1:33
42. England - Noel Gay: Me and My Girl 1937 - 1:46
43. The Lambeth Walk - Me and My Girl (Gay/Furber/Rose) 1937 - 0:42
44. Europe - War. Ivor Novello: The Dancing Years - 2:28
45. I Can Give You The Starlight - The Dancing Years (Ivor Novello) 1939 - 2:01
Disc 3
1. Falling in Love with Love - The Boys from Syracuse (Rodgers/Hart) 1938 - 3:07
2. USA - Escapist musicals - Dubarry was a Lady, Cabin in the Sky (Vernon Duke) - 2:36
3. Taking a Chance on Love - Cabin in the Sky (Duke/Latouche) 1940 - 1:13
4. Rodgers and Hart: Pal Joey (1940) - 1:44
5. I Could Write a Book - Pal Joey (Rodgers/Hart) 1940 - 1:20
6. USA - Seill and Gershwin: Lady in the Dark - 1:33
7. My Ship - Lady in The Dark (Weill/Gershwin) 1941 - 1:02
8. USA - Kurt Weill teams up with Ogden Nash for One Touch of Venus - 0:58
9. West Wind - One Touch of Venus (Weill/Nash) - 1:06
10. USA - Rodgers and Hammerstein: Oklahoma! - 2:10
11. People Will Say We're in Love - Oklahoma! (Rodgers/Hammerstein) 1943 - 0:51
12. USA - Rodgers and Hammerstein: Carousel - 2:04
13. What's the Use of Wonderin' - Carousel (Rodgers/Hammerstein) 1945 - 1:11
14. USA - Leonard Bernstein - 2:07
15. Lonely Town - On the Town (Bernstein/Comden/Green) 1944 - 1:18
16. USA - Irving Berlin: Annie Get Your Gun (1946) - 3:09
17. Anything You Can Do - Annie Get Your Gun (Berlin) 1946 - 1:05
18. USA - Forrester and Wright...and Grieg - 2:31
19. Strange Music - Song of Norway (Wright/Forrester/Grieg) 1944 - 1:02
20. And This is My Beloved - Kismet (Wright/Forrest/Borodin) - 3:15
21. My Heart and I - Old Chelsea 1943 - 1:09
22. England - Ivor Novello: Perchance to Dream (1945) - 0:48
23. We'll Gather Lilacs - Perchance to Dream (vor Novello) 1945 - 2:05
24. England - Vivian Ellis: Bless the Bride (1947) - 0:39
25. USA - Cole Porter: Kiss Me Kate (1948) - 2:41
26. Brush Up Your Shakespeare - Kiss Me, Kate! (Porter) 1948 - 1:01
27. USA - Rodgers and Hammerstein: South Pacific - 2:21
28. Some Enchanted Evening - South Pacific (Rodgers/Hammerstein) 1949 - 1:02
29. USA - Lerner and Loewe: Brigadoon (1947) - 1:42
30. The Heather on the Hill Brigadoon (Lerner/Loewe) - 0:57
31. USA - Lerner and Loewe: Paint Your Wagon (1951) - 0:51
32. They Call the Wind Maria - Paint Your Wagon (Lerner/Loewe) 1951 - 0:57
33. USA - Lerner and Loewe: My Fair Lady (1956) - 2:22
34. I Could Have Danced All Night - My Fair Lady (Lerner/Loewe) 1956 - 1:01
35. England - Julie Andrews; Sandy Wilson/The Boyfriend (1954) - 2:23
36. I Could Be Happy with You - The Boyfriend (Wilson) 1954 - 1:05
37. England - Julian Slade: Salad Days (1954) - 0:50
38. We Said We Wouldn't Look Back - Salad Days (Slade/Reynolds) 1954 - 1:44
39. USA - Frank Loesser: Guys and Dolls (1950) - 2:21
40. Sit Down You're Rockin' The Boat - Guys and Dolls (Loesser) 1950 - 0:44
41. USA - Anna and the King of Siam - 2:07
42. Shall We Dance? - The King and I (Rodgers/Hammerstein) 1951 - 1:02
43. USA - The Film Musical - 1:02
44. Singin' in The Rain - Singin' in The Rain (Brown/Freed) 1952 - 1:23
45. More films - 1:33
46. USA - A new generation: Richard Adler and Jerry Ross - 1:15
47. Hey There - The Pajama Game (Adler/Ross) 1954 - 1:18
48. USA - Frank Loesser: The Most Happy Feller (1956) - 2:06
49. Mamma, Mamma - The Most Happy Fella (Loesser) 1956 - 0:55
50. USA - Something's coming - Overture West Side Story - West Side Story (Bernstein/Sondheim) 1957 - 1:35
Disc 4
1. America - West Side Story (Bernstein/Sondheim) 1957 - 2:03
2. I am Easily Assimilate - Candide (Bernstien/Wilbur/Sondheim/Latouche) 1956 - 1:01
3. USA - Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story - 1:59
4. Maria - West Side Story (Bernstein/Sondheim) 1957 - 1:07
5. USA - Rodgers and Hammerstein's final musical - 0:43
6. Do-Re-Me - The Sound of Music (Rodgers/Hammerstein) 1959 - 1:47
7. England - Lionel Bart: Fings Ain't What They Used to be/Oliver - 4:11
8. Reviewing The Situation - Oliver! (Bart) 1960 - 1:23
9. England - The demise of Bart/Anthony Newley - 1:49
10. What Kind of Fool Am I? - Stop The World I Want to Get Off (Newley/Bricusse) 1961 - 0:39
11. England - Cyrill Ornadel/Wolf Mankowitz: Pickwick - 2:03
12. If I Ruled The World - Pickwick (Ornadel/Bricusse) 1963 - 0:59
13. England - Musicals on classical themes - 1:16
14. USA - Broadway: early 1960s - 2:50
15. If I were a Rich Man - Fiddler On The Roof (Harnick/Bock) 1964 - 1:01
16. Hollywood: One of the last great MGM musicals: Gigi - 1:11
17. I Remember It Well - Gigi (Lerner/Loewe) 1958 - 1:13
18. USA - Broadway: The changing styles of the 1960s - 5:25
19. Mame - Mame (Herman) 1966 - 0:43
20. USA - Off Broadway, a sensation: The Fantasticks - 1:53
21. Try to Remember - The Fantasticks (Jones/Schmidt) 1960 - 0:57
22. USA - The musical nobody wanted - 1:47
23. The Impossible Dream - Man of La Mancha (Leigh/Darion) 1965 - 1:09
24. USA - Political Protest: a new kind of musical: John Kander and Fred Ebb - 2:24
25. Money Money - Cabaret (Kander/Ebb) 1966 - 1:00
26. USA - Cy Coleman - 1:16
27. Big Spender - Sweet Charity (Coleman/Fields) 1966 - 1:00
28. USA - Sixties Flower Power - 1:18
29. Aquarius - Hair (MacDermot/Radio/Ragni) 1967 - 0:49
30. USA - The backward-looking rock musical - 0:52
31. Sweet Transvestite - The Rocky Horror Show (O'Brien) 1973 - 1:04
32. USA - Stephen Sondheim - 1:58
33. Company - Company (Sondheim) 1970 - 1:16
34. A Little Night Muisc (Sondheim) - 0:38
35. Send In The Clowns - A Little Night Music (Sondheim) 1973 - 1:17
36. England - Andrew Lloyd Webber - 3:57
37. I Don't Know How To Love Him - Jesus Christ Superstar (Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice) 1971 - 1:13
38. England - Jeeves followed by Evita - 1:18
39. Another Suitcase, Another Hall - Evita (Lloyd Webber/Rice) 1978 - 0:57
40. England - T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Cats - 0:44
41. Memory - Cats (Lloyd Webber/Eliot/Nunn) 1981 - 1:03
42. USA - Kander and Ebb: 1920s jazz flashback - 0:45
43. All That Jazz - Chicago (Kander/Ebb) 1975 - 0:56
44. USA - The back-stage setting - 0:36
45. What I Did For Love - A Chorus Line (Hamlish/Kablan) 1976 - 1:03
46. USA - A show re-appears - 1:00
47. Tomorrow - Annie (Strouse/Charnin) 1977 - 1:03
48. England - Lloyd Webber spectaculars - 1:26
49. USA - Stephen Sondheim - 1:17
50. Sweeney Todd - Sweeney Todd (Sondheim) 1979 - 1:40
51. France - Alain Boubill and Claude-Michel Schonberg - 2:46
52. The People Song - Les Miserables (Schonberg/Boublil) 1985 - 1:30