[78-L] The Day Before Spring

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Wonderful. Thanks for sending this, Dave.

Cary


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From: David Weiner <djwein at earthlink.net>
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Subject: [78-L] The Day Before Spring



Checking my friend Darrel Karl's voluminous theater music website,
http://mysite.verizon.net/darrelkarl/index.html

(an exhaustive listing of "cover" recordings from every vintage Broadway
musical) 

Here are the recordings of songs from the show: 

   THE DAY BEFORE SPRING

Composer: Frederick Loewe
Lyricist: Alan Jay Lerner

Opened: November 22, 1945, National Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 165

The Day Before Spring:

1. Alan Jay Lerner Revisited, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-141 (Blossom Dearie
with musical direction by Norman Paris)
A radio transcription is known to exist performed by Nat Brandwynne's
Orchestra.


God's Green World:

1. Alan Jay Lerner Revisited, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-141 (Jerry Orbach and
the Boys with musical direction by Norman Paris)
2. Life's A Funny Present, CD/Rialto SLRR 9306 (Richard Nichol and Chorus
with musical direction by David Holcenberg)
A radio transcription is known to exist performed by Music of Manhattan
conducted by Norman Cloutier.


I Love You This Morning:

1. Alan Jay Lerner Revisited, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-141 (Blossom Dearie and
Chorus with musical direction by Norman Paris)
A radio transcription is known to exist performed by Music of Manhattan
conducted by Norman Cloutier.


A Jug Of Wine:

1. 78/Majestic 1030 (Thelma Carpenter with orchestra conducted by Eddie
Sauter) [reissued on Seems Like Old Times, CD/Sepia 1080]
2. Woody Herman: The Thundering Herds, 1945-1947, Columbia CJ 44108 (Woody
Herman, vocal, with Woody Herman and His Orchestra) [reissued on the
Complete Columbia Recordings of Woody Herman & His Orchestra & Woodchoppers,
CD/Mosaic 223; see also The Great American Composers: Lerner & Loewe, CD/
Columbia House 8306]
3. Lerner & Loewe & Chevalier, MGM (M) E4015 P (Maurice Chevalier with
orchestra conducted by Joe Harnell) [see also Paris To Broadway, MGM Records
4120]
4. Lyrics By Lerner: Alan Jay Lerner Performs His Own Songs, 10"/Heritage
(M) 0600 (Kaye Ballard with orchestra directed by Herb Harris) [ reissued on
CD/DRG 5246]
5. Alan Jay Lerner Revisite
d, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-141 (Dorothy Loudon)
A radio transcription is known to exist performed by Music of Manhattan
conducted by Norman Cloutier.


My Love Is A Married Man:

1. Here I'll Stay: The Words Of Alan Jay Lerner, CD/Philips 446219 (Julie
Andrews with the London Musicians Orchestra conducted by Ian Fraser)
2. Alan Jay Lerner Revisited, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-141 (Ann Hampton
Callaway)
3. The Broadway Musicals Of 1945, CD/Bayview RNBW039 (Christiane Noll, Karen
Mason, and Kerry Butler with the Ross Patterson Little Big Band)


This Is My Holiday:

1. Alan Jay Lerner Revisited, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-141 (Roddy McDowall and
Blossom Dearie with musical direction by Norman Paris)
2. Life's A Funny Present, CD/Rialto SLRR 9306 (Mary Gordon Murray with
musical direction by David Holcenberg)
A radio transcription is known to exist performed by Richard Leibert, organ.


You Haven't Changed At All:

1. 78/Sonora 3006 (Larry Butler with Bob Chester and his Orchestra)
2. Complete Columbia Recordings of Woody Herman & His Orchestra &
Woodchoppers, CD/Mosaic 223 (Lucille Linwood and The Blue Flames with Woody
Herman & His Orchestra) (previously unissued) (see also The Great American
Composers: Lerner & Loewe, CD/Columbia House 8306]
3. 78/Musicraft 15059 (Lynne Stevens with George Auld and His Orchestra)
[reissued on George Auld 1945-1946, CD/Classics 1351]
4. The Little Prince, CD/Blue Dalmation CD-1004 (Frederick Loewe, piano,
1945)
5. One More Rose: A Tribute to Alan Jay Lerner, CD/Audiophile 230 (Jackie
Cain & Roy Kral)
6. Lerner In Love: The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner, CD/LML Music 193 (Barbara
Brussell with musical direction by Tedd Firth)
7. Alan Jay Lerner Revisited, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-141 (Roddy McDowall and
Nancy Walker with musical direction by Norman Paris )
8. The Broadway Musicals Of 1945, CD/Bayview RNBW039 (Karen Mason and Eddie
Korbich with the Ross Patterson Little Big Band)
9. The Alan Jay Lerner Album, CD/Fynsworth Alley 062161 (Brent Barrett with
musical direction by Christopher Denny)
A 
radio transcription is known to exist performed by Music of Manhattan
conducted by Norman Cloutier.


Other Songs:

Act I Finale
Act II Finale
Ballet Of The Book According To Alex
Ballet Of The Book According To Gerald
The Book
Friends To The End
The Invitation
Katherine Receives Advice
Where's My Wife?

N.B. David Hummel's book also lists a private tape of Arthur Siegel
performing "The Day Before Spring," "God's Green World," "This Is My
Holiday," and "I Love You This Morning." Richard Norton informs me that Al
Goodman also recorded a vocal medley.

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