GYPSY
Composer: Cy
Coleman
Lyricist: Carolyn Leigh
Opened:
Unproduced
These songs were written on spec in the hopes of being selected by the producers to write the score for GYPSY.
Dimples (later used in LITTLE ME:
1. 45/Warner Bros. 5329 (Lou
Busch and his Orchestra)
2. Little Me Demo, Private LP (M) no number (Cy
Coleman and Carolyn Leigh)
3. Little Me, CD/RCA Victor 09026-61482-2
(Virginia Martin and chorus with orchestra directed by Charles Sanford)
4.
Little Me, CD/DRG 13111 (Eileen Gourlay and chorus with orchestra directed by
Ed Coleman)
5. Little Me, CD/Varese Sarabande VSD-6011 (Faith Prince,
Michael Arnold, Jeffrey Hankinson, Ned Hannah, and Denis Jones with orchestra
conducted by David Chase)
Firefly:
1. If My Friends Could See Me
Now, Columbia (M) CL 2578 (Cy Coleman with orchestra)
2. 45/Columbia 4-41237
(Tony Bennett with chorus and orchestra conducted by Ray Ellis)
3. To My
Wonderful One, Columbia (S) 8226 (Tony Bennett with orchestra conducted by
Frank DeVol)
4. In Person!, Columbia (S) CS-8104 (Tony Bennett with Count
Basie And His Orchestra) [reissued as CD/Columbia 4882812; also found on The
Great American Composers: Cy Coleman, CD/Columibia House 2C2 8653]
5. Tony
Bennett At Carnegie Hall, June 9, 1962, Columbia (S) C2S-23 (Tony Bennett with
Ralph Sharon and his Orchestra) [reissued as CD/Sony 64609]
6. The
Playground, CD/Sony 69380 (Tony Bennett with the Ralph Sharon Quartet)
7.
Pandemonium! : Hines, Hines & Dad, Columbia (S) CS 9679 (Maurice, Gregory,
and Chink Hines)
8. Julie Wilson Sings The Cy Coleman Songbook, CD/DRG 5252
(Julie Wilson with William Roy, piano)
9. Moonlight Cocktails, CD/Original
Cast OC-6011 (Leslie Orofino with music direction by Ross Patterson)
To
Be A Performer (later used in LITTLE ME):
1. Little Me Demo, Private LP (M)
no number (Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh)
2. Little Me, CD/RCA Victor
09026-61482-2 (Joey Faye, Mort Marshall, and Virginia Martin with orchestra
directed by Charles Sanford)
3. Little Me, CD/DRG 13111 (Jack Francoise,
Laurie Webb and Eileen Gourlay with orchestra directed by Ed Coleman)
4.
Little Me, CD/Varese Sarabande VSD-6011 (Martin Short, Michael McGrath, and
Faith Prince with orchestra conducted by David Chase)
5. I Happen To Like
New York/Valente on T.V., CD/Dutton Vocalion 4193 (Caterina Valente with John
Keating and his Orchestra)
6. Caterina Valente In Las Vegas Live At The
"Desert Inn", CD/Orchard 106892 (Caterina Valente)