THE DANCING YEARS



Composer: Ivor Novello
Lyricist: Christopher Hassall

Opened: March 23, 1939, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London
Performances: 187

Note: Only recordings of songs not found on the 1996 studio cast album, CD/That's Entertainment Records TER Orbis MUS C N58, are noted below.


Rainbow In The Fountain (included in the 1968 London production):

1. The Dancing Years, RCA Internation (S) INTS-1049 (June Bronhill with the Saville Theatre Company orchestra conducted by Robert Probst)


Three Ballet Tunes:

1. 78/HMV B8897 (Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra conducted Ivor Novello) [reissued on A Tribute To Ivor Novello, CD/Music For Pleasure EMI 7 81488 2]
2. 78/Chappell Music 1/2 (soundtrack)


When It's Spring In Vienna (The Winter's Over):

1. The Dancing Years, Columbia TWO-188 (Ann Howard and Chorus with Orchestra conducted by Geoff Love) [reissued on The Dancing Years/King's Rhapsody, CD/EMI Classics For Pleasure 3 35985 2]


Unrecorded Material:

Dawn Prelude
Entr'acte
In Praise Of Love
Incidental Music #1
Incidental Music #2
Incidental Music #3
Incidental Waltz #1
Incidental Waltz #2
Incidental Waltz #3
A Masque Of Vienna
Melos