Overtures and Ballet Music

London Sinfonietta
Conducted by John McGlinn
Produced by Simon Woods
Balance Engineer: John Kurlander
Editor: Matthew Cocker
Recorded December, 1990 at No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
Liner notes by Robert Kimball

Selections

• Something for the Boys Overture (3:34)
  Assembled by Hans Spialek and Walter Paul
• "Something for the Boys" (orch. Don Walker)
• "He's a Right Guy" (orch. Spialek)
• "Hey Good Lookin'" (orch. Walker and Paul)
• Du Barry Was a Lady Overture (3:36)
  Orchestration: Hans Spialek and Walter Paul
• "Every Day a Holiday"
• "It Was Written in the Stars"
• "Do I Love You?"
• "Friendship"
• "The Snake in the Grass" [Ballet from Fifty Million Frenchmen] (6:40)
  Orchestration: Unknown (possibly Robert Russell Bennett or Maurice B. DePackh)
• Ballet: Within the Quota (16:11)
  Orchestration: Charles Koechlin
• "Opening" (3:25)
• "Heiress" (1:31)
• "Heiress Reformer" (1:18)
• "Colored Gentleman" (1:42)
• "Colored Gentleman Reformer" (0:31)
• "Jazz Baby" (2:30)
• "Jazz Baby Reformer" (0:46)
• "Cowboy" (1:41)
• "Sweetheart of the World" (1:40)
• "Finale" (1:05)
• Leave It to Me Overture (3:01)
  Orchestration: Don Walker
• "From Now On"
• "Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love"
• "Get Out of Town"
• You Never Know Overture (4:23)
  Orchestration: Hans Spialek and Walter Paul
• "From Alpha to Omega"
• "At Long Last Love"
• "You Never Know"
• "For No Rhyme or Reason"
• Anything Goes Overture (5:02)
  Orchestration: Hans Spialek)
• "Anything Goes"
• "All Through the Night"
• "You're the Top"
• "Blow, Gabriel, Blow"
• Fifty Million Frenchmen Overture (3:44)
  Assembled and linked by F. Henri Klickmann
• "I'm in Love" (orch. Klickmann)
• "You've Got That Thing" (orch. Spialek)
• "The Happy Heaven of Harlem" (orch. DePackh)
• "You Do Something to Me" (orch. Spialek and Bennett)
• "Paree, What Did You Do to Me" (orch. Spialek)
• Gavotte [from Du Barry Was a Lady] (3:49)
  Orchestration: Hans Spialek
• Can-Can Overture (4:21)
  Orchestration: Philip Lang
• "Can-Can"
• "Allez-vous-en"
• "If You Loved Me Truly"
• "I Love Paris"
• "Montmartre"
• Gay Divorce Overture (5:10)
  Orchestration: Hans Spialek and Robert Russell Bennett
• "How's Your Romance?"
• "After You, Who?"
• "You're in Love"
• "I've Got You on My Mind"
• "Salt Air"
• Kiss Me Kate Overture (6:17)
  Orchestration: Robert Russell Bennett
• "Too Darn Hot"
• "Why Can't You Behave?"
• "Wunderbar"
• "So in Love"
• "Bianca"
• "Night and Day" [from Gay Divorce] (5:28)
  Orchestration: Hans Spialek [not the same as for the original stage production]
• Out of This World Overture (4:55)
  Orchestration: Robert Russell Bennett
• "Use Your Imagination"
• "Climb Up the Mountain"
• "Where, Oh Where"
• "Nobody's Chasing Me"
• "I Am Loved"

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