Film and tv stars feature on new theatre recordings on CD

[julian_craster]

NEW CD Releases of West End Cast recordings from MUST CLOSE SATURDAY

RECORDS.....



FOLLOW THAT GIRL : Original London Cast



AND



A TALENT TO AMUSE: Noel Coward's 70th Birthday Concert



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CD - FOLLOW THAT GIRL : Original London Cast

Stereo

MUST CLOSE SATURDAY RECORDS MCSR 3047



Must Close Saturday Records - Catalogue





FOLLOW THAT GIRL is one of Slade and Reynolds' most

delightful works, the successor to their Salad Days, which

it followed into the Vaudeville Theatre in the Spring of

1960. A fantasy about the love between Victoria and Tom,

a young playwright, it begins in the present day and

reverts to the Victorian era when Tom's characters come to

life. The score has an entrancing title song and many other

attractive, typically Slade, melodies, not least 'Solitary

Stranger'. The qualities of the music are well displayed by

the splendid Michael Collins' orchestral selection which

make one of the bonus tracks for this release (along with

a foxtrot of the title song from Victor Sylvester!).



Invaluable, too, is the recording the Bristol Old Vic

Company made of some of the numbers from Slade and

Reynolds next show, the Christmas entertainment

HOORAY FOR DAISY! Here we have a bouquet of these simple, unaffected items.



Cast:

Susan Hampshire, Peter Gilmore, Marion Grimaldi,

Patricia Routledge, James Cairncross, Newton Blick



Stereo - original London cast recording restored for CD by Alan Bunting





Tracks:



FOLLOW THAT GIRL - Original West End Cast



1. Overture

2. Tra La La

3. I'm Away

4. Follow That Girl

5. Solitary Stranger

6. Life Must Go On

7. Three Victorian Mermaids

8. Doh Ray Me

9. Song and Dance

10. The Chase

11. Taken For a Ride

12. Shopping in Kensington

13. Waiting For Our Daughter

14. Lovely Meeting You at Last

15. One Two Three One

16. Evening in London

17. Finale



PLUS.....

HOORAY FOR DAISY! - Bristol Old Vic Company



18. She's Coming on the 4.48

19. I Feel As If I'd Never Been Away

20. No Lullaby

21. How When and Where?

22. If Only You Needed Me

23. Nice Day

24. Madam Will You Dine?

25. Wine Is a Thing

26. I'm Sorry

27. Let's Do a Duet

28. Personally

29. Soft Shoe Shuffle





30. MICHAEL COLLINS Orchestra- selection from FOLLOW THAT GIRL



31.VICTOR SYLVESTER & HIS ORCHESTRA - FOLLOW THAT GIRL : Slow Foxtrot





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CD - A TALENT TO AMUSE: Noel Coward's 70th Birthday Concert

Highlights from the concert given at the Phoenix Theatre, London on 16

December 1969







MUST CLOSE SATURDAY RECORDS MCSR 3048



Must Close Saturday Records - Catalogue



For the first time extracts from this landmark occasion are

available to hear after forty unheard years in the vault. This

release is made possible by the kind co-operation of the

Noel Coward Society.



Edited and essayed by John Hunter Knowles



Sound restoration by Alan Bunting



A CAST OF STARS:



Richard Attenborough

Jeremy Brett

Richard Briers

June Bronhill

John Dankworth

Maggie Fitzgibbon

John Gielgud

Joyce Grenfell

Susan Hampshire

Stanley Holloway,

Celia Johnson

Cheryl Kennedy

David Kernan

Pat Kirkwood,

Cleo Laine

Danny La Rue

Jessie Matthews

Denis Quilley

Cyril Ritchard

Anne Rogers

Patricia Routledge,

Elisabeth Welch

Irene Worth

Mark Wynter

Susannah York

Jessie Matthews

Avril Angers

Hy Hazell



CD Tracks:



1. The Boy Actor: John Gielgud

2. Introduction: Richard Attenborough

3. Early Mourning: Irene Worth

4. My Child's Book: Robert Morley

5. I've Been To a Marvellous Party: Danny La Rue

6. A Room With a View: Cheryl Kennedy, David Kernan

7. Private Lives scene: Richard Briers, Susannah York

8. If Love Were All: Joyce Grenfell

9. I've Just Come Out From England: Celia Johnson

10. Matelot: Mark Wynter

11. London Pride: Stanley Holloway

12. You Were There: Susan Hampshire, Denis Quilley

13. Chase Me Charlie: Pat Kirkwood

14. Twentieth Century Blues: Elisabeth Welch

15. Why Do the Wrong People Travel?: Maggie Fitzgibbon

16. Mary Make-Believe: Jessie Matthews

17. That Is the End of the News: Angers, Hazell etc

18. I'll Follow My Secret Heart: Patricia Routledge

19. Nina: Cyril Ritchard

20. Time and Again: Anne Rogers, Jeremy Brett

21. Melanie's Aria: June Bronhill

22. Mad About the Boy: Cleo Laine

23. Presentation & Speech by Attenborough & Noel Coward





MUST CLOSE SATURDAY RECORDS website:

http://www.must-close-saturday-records.co.uk



E-mail enquiries to :

enquiries@must-close-saturday-records.co.uk

[didi-5]

A Talent to Amuse might be interesting ...

[julian_craster]

I see that they also have a special promotion running during June 2010......



This is taken from their website:



A June 2010 'Summer Bundles' CD Promotion from MUST CLOSE SATURDAY

RECORDS.......



This promotional offer ends on 30 JUNE 2010....



Buy our special bundles of CDs - 4 at a time - for UK £25 (excellent for

adding more MCSR CD titles to your collection or for presents......)



To take advantage of this special promotional offer, you need to

follow the two 'Add to Basket' link(s) from this webpage:

http://www.must-close-saturday-records.co.uk



Two 'bundles' are available -



BUNDLE 1:

REVUES (4 CDs) Bundle price: £25.00



PIECES OF EIGHT - MCSR 3006

With: Kenneth Williams, Fenella Fielding



ONE OVER THE EIGHT - MCSR 3017

With: Kenneth Williams, Sheila Hancock



CRANKS (PLUS: WILD GROWS THE HEATHER OCR) - MCSR 3037

With: Anthony Newley, Annie Ross



STREAMLINE / JILL DARLING - MCSR 3021

With: John Mills, Florence Desmond, Frances Day



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BUNDLE 2:

BRITISH SHOWS OF THE 1950s (4 CDs) Bundle price: £25.00





SUMMER SONG (PLUS: PLAIN AND FANCY) - MCSR 3036

With: Sally Anne Howes, David Hughes



FREE AS AIR (complete OCR)- MCSR 3040

With Patricia Bredin, Gerald Harper



THE MUSIC OF JULIAN SLADE/THE DUENNA/LADY MAY

With: Eleanor Drew, John Neville with linking commentary by David Jacobs



BRITISH MUSICALS OF 1957 - MCSR 3042

Excerpts from HARMONY CLOSE (w Bernard Cribbens), GRAB ME A GONDOLA (w

Joan Heal, Denis Quilley), FREE AS AIR (medley) and THE GOOD

COMPANIONS [1957 film]



Further details (and sample tracks) of these CD releases can be found here:

Must Close Saturday Records - Catalogue



For any enquiries relating to this offer, e-mail MCSR at:

enquiries@must-close-saturday-records.co.uk



MUST CLOSE SATURDAY RECORDS:

http://www.must-close-saturday-records.co.uk

[didi-5]

Incidentally regarding A Talent to Amuse, does anyone know what happened with the Noel Coward Society's plan to sort the rights to release the full show on CD, not just the highlights? Sod's law being what it is there are several bits of the recording I'm interested in which hasn't made the highlights disc.