THE MUSIC MAN



Composer: Meredith Wilson
Lyricist: Meredith Wilson

Opened: December 19, 1957, Majestic Theatre, NYC
Performances: 1,375

Note: Only numbers not found on the original Broadway cast album and the soundtrack are noted below.


The Blue Ridge Mountains (early non-show precursor of "The Wells Fargo Wagon):

1. The Music Man, CD/Sepia 1173 (Meredith Wilson)


I Want To Go To Chicago (cut or unused):

1. The Music Man, CD/Sepia 1173 (Meredith Wilson) (demo)


Ice Cream:

1. The Music Man, CD/Q Records 92915-2 (Craig Bierko, Michael-Leon Wooley, John Sloman, Jack Doyle & Blake Hammond)


In Love With The Memory Of You (cut or unsued):

1. The Music Man, CD/Sepia 1173 (Meredith Wilson) (demo)


It's You (ballet):

1. The Music Man, CD/Telarc CD-80276 (The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra conducted by Erich Kunzel)


Mother Darlin' (cut):

1. The Music Man, CD/Sepia 1173 (Meredith Wilson) (demo)


My White Knight (original, longer version):

1. Barbara Cook At Carnegie Hall, Columbia (S) M-33438 (Barbara Cook with orchestra conducted by Wally Harper) [reissued as CD/Sony 62017]
2. The Music Man, CD/Walt Disney 860077 (Kristin Chenoweth) (N.B. Ms. Chenoweth sings a reconstructed and edited version of the original "My White Knight" on the television soundtrack, although she performs the shorter Broadway version in the television movie adaptation)
3. Beyond The Ingenue, CD/No label 42858 (Niffer Clarke)


River City, Go, Go, Go (cut):

1. The Music Man, CD/Sepia 1173 (Meredith Wilson) (demo)


(I've Already Started In) To Try To Figure Out A Way To Go To Work To Try To Get You (cut; later used in THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN as "I've A'Ready Started In"):

1. 45/Capitol 4478 (The Four Preps with orchestra directed by Lincoln Mayorga)
2. The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Capitol SWAO (S) 1509 (Harve Presnell with orchestra directed by Herbert Greene) [reissued as CD/Angel ZDM 0777 7 64761 2 4]
3. The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Frank Music (M) KB-502/503 (Sandy Stewart with the Elliot Lawrence Orchestra) (demo) [reissued commercially on Selections From The Unsinkable Molly Brown, RCA Camden (M) CAL 667]
4. The Unsinkable Jonah Jones Swings The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Capitol (M) T1532 (The Jonah Jones Quartet)
5. Swing - Dance - Dream To The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Capitol (M) T1576 (Ray Anthony and His Orchestra)
6. The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Columbia (S) CS 8376 (Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra)


Too Soon Old And Too Late Smart (cut or unused):

1. The Music Man, CD/Sepia 1173 (Meredith Wilson) (demo)


A Wonderful Plan (cut):

1. The Music Man, CD/Sepia 1173 (Meredith Wilson) (demo)


You Don't Have To Kiss Me Goodnight (cut):

1. The Music Man, CD/Sepia 1173 (Meredith Wilson) (demo)
2. Lost In Boston III, CD/Varese Sarabande VSD-5563 (Lynnette Perry and Sal Viviano with musical direction by Tom Fay)


Unrecorded Songs:

Amarillys At The Piano (ASCAP/Library of Congress only)
Blessings (ASCAP/Library of Congress only)
Chicago (ASCAP/Library of Congress only)
Fireworks (cut)
I Found A Horseshoe (cut)
Rasmussin's Law (cut)
Tomorrow (cut; also cut from THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN)