THE CAREFREE HEART

(aka THE LOVE DOCTOR)



Composer: Robert Wright and George Forrest
Lyricist: Robert Wright and George Forrest

Opened: September 30, 1957 at the Cass Theatre in Detroit, Michigan, and closed on October 26, 1957 at the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio. A revised version opened at the Picadilly Theatre in London on October 12, 1959 and closed after 16 performances.


Anatomy:

1. Composer Demo (Robert Wright and George Forrest)


Be-Deviled (unused; added to THE LOVE DOCTOR):

1. Composer Demo (Robert Wright and George Forrest)


Bleed And Purge:

1. Composer Demo (Robert Wright and George Forrest)


The Carefree Heart:

1. Composer Demo (Robert Wright and George Forrest)
2. 45EP/Columbia 45-DB 4356 (Orchestra conducted by Michael Collins)
3. 45/Columbia 45-DB 4360 (Gracie Fields with the Rita Williams Singers and accompaniment directed by Geoff Love) [reissued on Gracie Fields, CD/Music For Pleasure; Gracie Fields, CD/EMI)
4. 45/Decca 9-30467 (Chorus and orchestra conducted by Jack Pleis)
5. 45/Vik 4X-0303 (Chorus and orchestra conducted by Marty Gold)


Formula, Formulae, Formulorum:

1. Composer Demo (Robert Wright and George Forrest)


His Father's Son (unused):

1. Composer Demo (Robert Wright and George Forrest)


I Am Your Man:

1. Composer Demo (Robert Wright and George Forrest)


I Would Love You Still:

1. Composer Demo (Robert Wright and George Forrest)
2. 45/Columbia 45-DB 4354 (Victor Silvestri and his Ballroom Orchestra)
3. 45EP/Columbia 45-DB 4356 (Orchestra conducted by Michael Collins)
4. 45/Coral 9-61896 (Johnny Desmond with orchestra conducted by George Cates)
5. 45/Decca 9-30466 (The Four Aces featuring Al Alberts with chorus with orchestra conducted by Jack Pleis)
6. 45/His Master's Voice 45-POP 652 (Joe Loss and his Orchestra)
7. 45/His Master's Voice 45-POP 662 (Roberto Cardinali with the Rita Williams Singers and Geoff Love and his Orchestra)
8. 45/London 45-1774 (Vera Lynn with orchestra conducted by Glen Somers)


Loose in The Foot, Light In The Heart (unused; added to THE LOVE DOCTOR):

1. Composer Demo (Robert Wright and George Forrest)
2. 45EP/Columbia 45-DB 4354 (Orchestra conducted by Michael Collins)


Odds And Ends (unused; added to THE LOVE DOCTOR):

1. Composer Demo (Robert Wright and George Forrest)


Other Than That (unused; added to THE LOVE DOCTOR):

1. Composer Demo (Robert Wright and George Forrest)


Promised (unused; added to THE LOVE DOCTOR):

1. Composer Demo (Robert Wright and George Forrest)
2. 45EP/Columbia 45-DB 4356 (Orchestra conducted by Michael Collins)


Rich Man, Poor Man:

1. Composer Demo (Robert Wright and George Forrest)
2. 45EP/Columbia 45-DB 4356 (Orchestra conducted by Michael Collins)
3. 45/Coral 9-61896 (Johnny Desmond with orchestra conducted by George Cates)
4. 45/Decca 30468(Carmen McRae with orchestra conducted by Jack Pleis)
5. 1956 British Hit Parade: Britain's Greatest Hits, Vol. 5, Pt. 1: January - July, CD/Acrobat 7002 (Jimmy Young) (unverified; credited at Allmusic.com to Wright & Forrest, but questionable give the recording date)


She's Appealing, She's Alluring, She's Dumb:

1. Composer Demo (Robert Wright and George Forrest)


Sunflower Seed (unused; added to THE LOVE DOCTOR):

1. Composer Demo (Robert Wright and George Forrest)


'Toinette (unused; same music as "Amsterdam" cut from KEAN):

1. Composer Demo (Robert Wright and George Forrest)
2. Anasatasia: The Musical, CD/Original Cast OC-9837 (Douglas Holmes and Marcia Lewis with Mark Hummel, piano) ("Amsterdam")


Unpromised (unused; added to THE LOVE DOCTOR):

1. Composer Demo (Robert Wright and George Forrest)


Who Is? You Are! (unused; added to THE LOVE DOCTOR):

1. Composer Demo (Robert Wright and George Forrest) (2 renditions)
2. 45/Columbia 45-DB 4339 (Dennis Lotis and the Rita Williams Singers) [reissued on Lost West End Vintage 2, CD/Stage Door STAGE 9056]
3. 45EP/Columbia 45-DB 4356 (Orchestra conducted by Michael Collins)
4. 45/Decca 9-30463 (Sylvia Syms with chorus with orchestra conducted by Jack Pleis)


Would I Were:

1. Composer Demo (Robert Wright and George Forrest)
2. 45/Coral 9-61898 (Teresa Brewer with chorus and orchestra conducted by Dick Jacobs)
3. 45/Decca 9-30464 (Pat Kirby with chorus and orchestra conducted by Jack Pleis)
4. 45/His Master's Voice 45-POP 652 (Joe Loss and his Orchestra)


Other Songs:

Aristotle
At The Bottom Of It - Love!
Bane Of My Life
Be-Angeled (unused; added to THE LOVE DOCTOR)
Madam Is Mad (unused)
Moliere
Seventh Daughter (added to THE LOVE DOCTOR)
To Cook My Gander's Goose
To The Clinic
Woman Talk (added to THE LOVE DOCTOR)