THE LISBON STORY
Composer: Harry
Parr Davies
Lyricist: Harold Purcell
Opened: June 17, 1943, Hippodrome Theatre, London; closed
on July 8, 1944; reopened on October 17, 1944, Stoll Theatre,
London
Performances: 546 (combined runs)
April
In The Spring Of Love:
A recording performed by Gregory Moore with Brian
Adamson, piano, is known to exist.
Follow The Drum (not in programs):
1. 78/Columbia DB2118
(Patricia Burke with orchestra directed by Debroy Somers)
[reissued on The Buccaneer, CD/Sepia 1059]
For The First Time (I've Fallen In
Love) (not in programs):
1. 78/Columbia FB-2985
(Leslie Douglas with Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel
Orpheans)
Happy Days:
1. Harry Parr Davies:
Songs From His Musicals, Revues & Films, CD/Must Close
Saturday Records MCSR 3029 (Gabrielle Bell with Rex Walford,
piano)
Madame Louisa:
A recording performed by Gregory
Moore with Brian Adamson, piano, is known to exist.
Music At Midnight:
A recording performed by Gregory
Moore with Brian Adamson, piano, is known to exist.
(You Must/We Must) Never Say Goodbye:
1. 78/Columbia DB2118
(Patricia Burke with the London Hippodrome Orchestra directed by
Debroy Somers) [reissued on The Buccaneer, CD/Sepia 1059]
2. 78/Decca F.8335 (Alan Kane with orchestra conducted by
Mantovani) [also found on 78/Decca D8335]
3. 78/Decca MW.145 (Harry Fryer and His Orchestra)
4. 78/Parlophone RO 20545 (Richard Tauber with orchestra
conducted by Henry Geehi) [reissued on Popular Songs, Vol. 1,
CD/Verona 28036]
5. Harry Parr Davies: Songs From His Musicals, Revues &
Films, CD/Must Close Saturday Records MCSR 3029 (Gabrielle Bell
with Rex Walford, piano)
Paris In My Heart (used in the film
version):
1. Harry Parr Davies:
Songs From His Musicals, Revues & Films, CD/Must Close
Saturday Records MCSR 3029 (Gabrielle Bell with Rex Walford,
piano)
Pedro The Fisherman:
1. 78/Parlophone F1993
(Vincent Tildsley's Mastersingers with pipe-organ accompaniment
by H. Robinson Cleaver) [reissued on You Must Remember This…:
The Great Theatre Songs, CD/Happy Days 75605 52284 2]
2. 78/Columbia FB 2985 (Leslie Douglas with Carroll Gibbons and
the Savoy Hotel Orpheans)
3. 78/London 319 (Gracie Fields with the Phil Green orchestra
and S. Torch, organ) [reissued on The Best Of Gracie Fields,
CD/Decca 5442752]
4. 78/HMV BD.5821 (New Mayfair Dance Orchestra with vocal
refrain) [reissued on Back To Those Happy Days, CD/Vocalion
6089]
5. 78/Decca MW.145 (Harry Fryer and His Orchestra)
6. 78/Parlophone RO 20545 (Richard Tauber with orchestra
conducted by George Melachrino) [also found on 78/Parlophone RO
20523; 78/Parlophone AR394; reissued on Popular Songs, Vol. 1,
CD/Verona 28036]
7. 78/Pathe PA 2525 (Georges Guetary) (as "Pedro de Pachuer")
8. The Lass With The Delicate Air, RCA Victor (M) LPM-1403
(Julie Andrews with orchestra conducted by Irwin Costal)
[reissued as CD/BMG Japan 37247]
9. Living Strings Play All The Music From Camelot/Living Strings
Play Music Of The Sea, CD/ Collectors' Choice Music 96 (Living
Strings) (bonus track)
10. Through The Decades With The Mighty Wurlitzer: The 1940's,
CD/Os Digital 235 (Nigel Ogden, Wurlitzer organ)
11. Edmund Hockridge Sings For You, Pye
(M) NPL 18072 (Edmund Hockridge with the Peter Knight Orchestra
and Singers)
A Serenade For Sale:
1. Harry Parr Davies:
Songs From His Musicals, Revues & Films, CD/Must Close
Saturday Records MCSR 3029 (Gabrielle Bell with Rex Walford,
piano)
Someday We Shall Meet Again:
1. 78/Columbia DB2118
(Patricia Burke with the London Hippodrome Orchestra directed by
Debroy Somers) [reissued on The Buccaneer, CD/Sepia 1059]
2. 78/Parlophone R.3253 (Luton Girls Choir with orchestra
conducted by George Melachrino) [reissued on The Luton Girls
Choir, CD/EMI 3418722]
3. 78/Parlophone R.O. 20523 (Richard Tauber with orchestra
conducted by Henry Geehi) [reissued on Popular Songs, Vol. 1,
CD/Verona 28036]
4. 78/Decca F. 8335 (Alan Kane with orchestra conducted by
Mantovani) [also found on 78/Decca D8335]
5. 78/Decca MW.145 (Harry Fryer and His Orchestra)
6. Harry Parr Davies: Songs From His Musicals, Revues &
Films, CD/Must Close Saturday Records MCSR 3029 (Gabrielle Bell
with Rex Walford, piano)
The Song Of The Sunrise:
1. Harry Parr Davies:
Songs From His Musicals, Revues & Films, CD/Must Close
Saturday Records MCSR 3029 (Gabrielle Bell with Rex Walford,
piano)
Unrecorded Material:
Act I Ballet
A Ballet: Wisdom; Innocence; Piety; Evil; Attendants to Piety
and Evil
Finale Act 1 of "La Comtesse"
Portuguese Peasant Festival Dance
Very Odd Fish (added for the 1945 tour)