Fuck Yeah Stephen Sondheim
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Andrea Burns, with Tom Murray at the piano:
“Someone Woke Up” from Do I Hear A Waltz?
at Wall to Wall Sondheim
Elizabeth Allen & Sergio Franchi perform “Do I Hear A Waltz?” and “Take The Moment” on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Percy Faith
“Here We Are Again” from Do I Hear A Waltz?
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
from Do I Hear A Waltz? Percy Faith and His Orchestra Play Songs From The Richard Rodgers - Stephen Sondheim Broadway Musical HitIt was tempting to launch this blog with “The Bravest Individual” from Sweet Charity, since that song actually takes place in an elevator, but the only instrumental Sweet Charity album I had handy doesn’t include that number. So instead, we launch with a song whose sentiment is totally appropriate for my umpteenth launch of a blog, rendered in swinging style by Percy Faith.
One of the things I love about these instrumental Broadway cover albums, and particularly those by the masters of the craft, is the way the arrangements really elevate the songs that are overlooked in their original contexts. “Here We Are Again” feels like filler on the Waltz cast album, but here it’s a showstopper.
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Do I Hear a Waltz? | Someone Woke Up
Alyson Reed and Eddy Martin on the 2001 Pasadena Playhouse cast recording
Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim
Book: Arthur Laurents
Interview with lyricist Stephen Sondheim, book writer Arthur Laurents, and designer Beni Montresor about their 1966 musical Do I Hear a Waltz? on the TV show Camera 3. Part 2 of 2. (Part one)
Interview with lyricist Stephen Sondheim, book writer Arthur Laurents, and designer Beni Montresor about their 1966 musical Do I Hear a Waltz? on the TV show Camera 3. Part 1 of 2. (Part two)
For someone who hadn’t been involved in a serious relationship until much later in his life, young Sondheim really nailed breakup songs, don’t you think?
“Thank You So Much” from Do I Hear A Waltz?
(Demo Recording - I think it’s Rose Marie Jun singing.)
Thank you so much, sir.
Wasn’t it fun?
No reason at all to cry.
Let’s keep in touch, sir,
Now that it’s done,
You can’t say we didn’t try.
Did it go by so quickly?
Really, it seems a crime,
But thank you so much for
Something between
Ridiculous and sublime.
Thank you for such a little but lovely time.
Posting from the airport, y’all!
“Perhaps,” cut from Do I Hear A Waltz?
Demo Recording
Ugh.
