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HOORAY FOR DAISY! - MCSR 3050

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Another welcome retro blast from the 1960s - Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds' magical Christmas musical HOORAY FOR DAISY! This original London cast recording, only ever issued in mono, emerges with fresh splendour in an immaculately remastered new release. The memorable melodies include 'No Lullaby' and 'I Feel as If I'd Never Benn Away' in a story of parochial pantomimes and upsets in the Gloucestershire village of Milbury. They don't write them like this any more! Of especial interest is the generous selection of live extracts from the Bristol Old Vic production of 1959, revealing the star performance of Dorothy Reynolds as the doyenne of Milbury. As it says in that remarkably fine book about British musicals, A Tanner's Worth of Tune, 'What had the audiences watching HOORAY FOR DAISY! been doing all week, except drinking too much coffee at mothers' meeting, and attending bridge parties? ... Few other musicals have held up so gleaming a mirror to middle-class audiences who came to the theatre and discovered themselves on stage.' Three cheers for Daisy!

Sound restoration by Alan Bunting

With: Eleanor Drew, Robin Hunter, Dorothy Reynolds

Tracks:

HOORAY FOR DAISY!

Original London Cast

1. Opening: Wine is a Thing
2. She's Coming on the 4.48
3. I Feel as if I'd Never Been Away
4. Nice Day
5. No Lullaby
6. Soft Hoof Shuffle
7. If Only You Needed Me
8. How, When and Where
9. See You on the Moon
10. Going Up

11. Wine is a Thing
12. He's Got Absolutely Nothing
13. Ting-a-Ling
14. It Won't be the Same
15. Madam, Will You Dine?
16. I'm Sorry
17. Let's Do a Duet
18. Personally
19. Reprise: Soft Hoof Shuffle

BONUS TRACKS

20-26

Extracts from the 1959

Bristol Old Vic production of

HOORAY FOR DAISY!

Live stage recording

[Archival Sound]