Tuesday, March 06, 2012

Mar. 7: Dorothy Fields



'erbie Fitch's Twitch - Gwen Verdon, Redhead (RCA)
Dorothy Fields History - Dorothy Fields, An Evening with Dorothy Fields (DRG)
I Can't Give You Anything but Love - Angela Hall; Eugene Fleming, Black & Blue [Original Broadway Cast] (DRG)
On the Sunny Side of the Street - Barbara Cook, Lucky in the Rain (DRG)
It's Not Where You Start - Tommy Tune, See Saw (Original Cast) [DRG] (DRG)
A Fine Romance - Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, Ginger & Fred at RKO (2 of 2) (Rhino)
Doin' the New Low Down - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson; Don Redman & His Orchestra, American Musical Theatre: Shows, Songs and Stars, Vol. 1 (Smithsonian)
When She Walks In The Room - Wilbur Evans, Up In Central Park/Arms And The Girl (Decca)
That's What I Told Him Last Night - Florenz Ames, Up In Central Park/Arms And The Girl (Decca)
Charity's Theme - Orchestra, Sweet Charity [Original Broadway Cast]
Big Spender - Dorothy Fields, Sweet Charity (2005 Broadway Revival Cast) (DRG)
Pink Taffeta Sample Size 10 [cut from Sweet Charity] - Sally Mayes, The Dorothy Fields Songbook (DRG)
Pick Yourself Up - John Lithgow, Sunny Side of the Street (Razor & Tie)
Don't Blame Me - Barbara Cook, Lucky in the Rain (DRG)
Make the Man Love Me - Johnny Johnston; Marcia Van Dyke, Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Sony)
The Way You Look Tonight - Bruce Hubbard, Great American Songwriters (Capitol)
I'm in the Mood for Love - Frances Langford, American Songbook Series: Dorothy Fields (Smithsonian Collection)
See-Saw - Randy Graff, Doing Something Right: Randy Graff Sings Cy Coleman (Varèse Sarabande)
If My Friends Could See Me Now - Gwen Verdon, American Songbook Series: Dorothy Fields (Smithsonian Collection)

As I post this, I'm listening to the new musical "Once" for next week's episode, Irish music. And it starts out with a busker singing an Irish take of Dorothy Fields's "On the Sunny Side of the Street." As the late Robert Sherman remarked, it's a small world after all.

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