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LIVING WITH PLEASURE - MCSR 3001

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Revue may be a lost art, but during the 1950s and 1960s it reached a Golden Age, with its glorious performers including Hermione Gingold, Dora Bryan, Joan Sims and Ian Carmichael. This unique disc brings together many of the outstanding numbers of such shows, from such writers as Vivian Ellis,  Peter Myers, John Pritchett and Richard Addinsell, as well as two songs from American revue. Adrian Wright and William Rayner (piano) catch the sharp tone of these shows with such previously unrecorded songs as the glorious ‘Siren Song’ and ‘Case history’. From a Monty Norman revue of the period there are two hitherto ‘lost’ songs, ‘The only thing I missed’ and ‘The wisherman’s song’, and the immortal ‘Mr Henderson’ also appears.
Wright and Rayner also perform on the MCSR disc ‘I Wanted To See The World’.

With: Adrian Wright, William Rayner

 

  
 

 

Tracks:

    
  1. Over the moon [Over The Moon]
  2. The pretty Miss Brown [Living For Pleasure]
  3. Shadow love [New Cranks]
  4. Small time [Over The Moon]
  5. Lost in the forest of Elizabeth Arden [High Spirits]
  6. Not to worry [Not To Worry]
  7. Song of a wood nymph [On The Brighter Side]
  8. Wallflower waltz [Share My Lettuce]
  9. No better than she should be [Living For Pleasure]
  10. The only thing I missed [The Art of Living]
  11. Irish folk song [Noel Coward]
  12. Someone’s been sending me flowers [Ben Bagley’s Shoestring Revues]
  13. Case history [High Spirits]
  14. There are fairies at the bottom of our garden
  15. The shape of things [The Littlest Revue]
  16. The wisherman’s song [The Art of Living]
  17. Mr Henderson [High Spirits]
  18. Siren song [Intimacy at 8.30]
  19. Over the moon: reprise [Over The Moon]