ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER
Composer: Burton
Lane
Lyricist: Alan Jay Lerner
Opened: October 17, 1965, Mark Hellinger Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 280
Note: The original working title for this show was I PICKED A DAISY when it was a colloboration betwen Alan Jay Lerner and Richard Rodgers. None of Rodgers' music was used in the final produced version. Only numbers not found on the original Broadway cast album are noted below.
Dancing Lesson (unused):
1. Michael Feinstein Sings
The Burton Lane Songbook Vol. 2, CD/Elektra Nonesuch 9 79285-2
(Burton Lane, piano)
Go To Sleep (written for the film
version; cut from 1980 Seattle revival):
1. On A Clear Day You Can
See Forever, Columbia (S) S-30086 (Barbra Streisand with
orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle) [reissued as CD/Columbia
CK57377]
He Isn't You (female version of "She
Wasn't You" used in the film):
1. On A Clear Day You Can
See Forever, Columbia (S) S-30086 (Barbra Streisand with
orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle) [reissued as CD/Columbia
CK57377]
2. Ami - 'Sugar And Spice And Everything Nice,'" Decca (M) DL
4778 (Ami Rouselle with orchestra conducted by Sy Oliver)
Love With All The Trimmings (written
for the film version):
1. On A Clear Day You Can
See Forever, Columbia (S) S-30086 (Barbra Streisand with
orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle) [reissued as CD/Columbia
CK57377]
2. She Isn't Me, CD/Stage Door STAGE 9007 (Dee Shipman with
musical direction by Roger Webb)
Love With All The Trimmings (reprise)
(written for the film version):
1. On A Clear Day You Can
See Forever, Test Pressing ARS-296901 (Barbra Streisand with
orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle)
Someone In April (cut; subsequently
used in CARMELINA):
1. Carmelina, CD/Original
Cast THT CD 9224 (Georgia Brown and Grace Keagy with orchestra
directed by Don Jennings)
[Thank God For] People Like Me (aka
"E.S.P.") (written for the film version but not used):
1. Unreleased soundtrack
recording (Yves Montand)
Who Is There Among Us Who Knows (second
version with music newly written for the film version to
lyrics originally written for I PICKED A DAISY):
1. On A Clear Day You Can
See Forever, Test Pressing ARS-296901 (Jack Nicholson with
orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle) [also found on Burton Lane
In Hollywood, JJA (M) 19824; Cut! Out Takes From Hollywood's
Greatest Musicals Volume One, Out Take (M) OFT-1; reissued on
The Great Screen Lovers Collection, CD/Déjà Vu 5117-2]
Unrecorded Numbers:
At The Hellrakers' (dance)
(dropped for subsequent 1966 National Tour)
Come Back To Me (original version with music by Richard Rodgers)
(unused; written when show was entitled I PICKED A DAISY)
Dolly's Seduction (cut)
The Domestic Champagne Waltz (cut)
First Regression (added for the 1967 National Tour but dropped
thereafter)
The Gout (dance) (added for the 1968 National Tour)
He Wasn't You (added to the National Tour)
I Picked A Daisy (M: Richard Rodgers) (unused; written when show
was entitled I PICKED A DAISY)
I'll Not Marry (replaced immediately after opening with "Tosy
And Cosh"; cut from 1980 Seattle revival)
Marriage A La Mode (added for the 1966 National Tour but dropped
thereafter)
Marriage Contract (unused)
Mom (cut from I PICKED A DAISY
Mom (unused) (M: Richard Rodgers) (unused version; written when
the show was entitled I PICKED A DAISY)
The Normal Thing To Do (cut)
Ring Out The Bells (dropped for the 1966 National Tour)
She Isn't You (film version reprise) (cut)
The Solicitor's Song (added for the 1967 National Tour including
music from "Ring Out The Bells")
Song In Four Languages (unused)
The Spasms (dance) (added for the 1967 National Tour but dropped
thereafter)
Student's Demonstration Song (unused)
Trelawney No. 1 (added for the 1968 National Tour)
What Did I Have That I Don't Have? (M: Richard Rodgers)
When I Come Around Again (added for the National Tour; rewritten
version of "When I'm Being Born Again")
Who Is There Among Us Who Knows (M: Richard Rodgers) (unused
original version; written when show was entitled I PICKED A
DAISY)
Yankee Doodle (cut from the 1980 Seattle revival)