POUSSE-CAFÉ
Composer: Duke
Ellington
Lyricist: Marshall Barer; Fred Tobias
Opened:
March 18, 1966, 46th Street Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances:
3
Be A Man (cut but reinstated for 1989/1990 studio cast recording):
1. Pousse-Café, Audiophile
ACD-263 (Marshall Barer with music direction by Ellis Larkins)
C'est Comme Ca:
1. Pousse-Café, Audiophile
ACD-263 (Barbara Lea with music direction by Ellis Larkins)
2.
Pousse-Café, Audiophile ACD-263 (Marshall Barer with music direction by
Ellis Larkins)
3. B.J. Ward Sings Marshall Barer, CD/Feinery FCD-3103-2
(B.J. Ward with music direction by Scott Lavender)
4. I Wanna Be Loved,
CD/Chez Perrier Records 3331 (Denise Perrier)
5. Jubilee, CD/Arbors 19224
(Daryl Sherman with Dave McKenna, piano)
Fleugel Street Rag (cut but reinstated for 1989/1990 studio
cast recording):
1. Pousse-Café, Audiophile
ACD-263 (Marshall Barer with music direction by Ellis Larkins)
Follow
Me Up The Stairs:
1. Pousse-Café, Audiophile
ACD-263 (Barbara Lea with music direction by Ellis Larkins)
Goodbye Charlie (L: Marshall Barer; Fred Tobias):
1. Pousse-Café, Audiophile
ACD-263 (Barbara Lea with music direction by Ellis Larkins)
If I Knew Now (What I Knew Then) (cut but reinstated
for 1989/1990 studio cast recording; same music as "Maybe I Should Change My
Ways" originally used in BEGGARS' HOLIDAY):
1. 18 Interesting Songs From
Unfortunate Shows, Take Home Tunes (S) THT-777 (Betty Garrett with music
conducted by Buster Davis)
2. Pousse-Café, Audiophile ACD-263
(Marshall Barer with music direction by Ellis Larkins)
3. The Time Has
Come! The Songs Of Marshall Barer, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-123 (Marshall Barer
with David Ross, piano)
4. If I Knew Now (What I Knew Then), CD/Lookoutjazz
(Cynthia Crane)
For recordings of "Maybe I Should Change My Ways," see:
1. 78/Columbia 38576 (Duke
Ellington and his Orchestra) [reissued on The Columbia Years: 1927-1962,
CD/Sony 92684]
2. The Chronological Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: 1947,
CD/Classics 1086 (Duke Ellington and His Orchestra)
3. The Chronological
Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: 1946-1947, CD/Classics 1051 (Duke Ellington
and his Orchestra)
4. Cabu Collection, CD/Masters Of Jazz 8028 (Billy
Strayhorn and Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra)
5. The Alternate
Takes, Vol. 9: 1942-1947, CD/Neatwork 2056 (Duke Ellington and his Orchestra)
6. Happy Birthday, Duke! April 29th Birthday Sessions, Vol. 4,
CD/Laserlight 15786 (Duke Ellington and his Orchestra)
7. Live At Click
Restaurant Philadelphia 1949, Vol. 4, CD/Raretone 5005 (Duke Ellington and his
Orchestra)
8. Taking A Chance On Love, Original Cast OC-4444 (Jerry Dixon
and Terry Burrell with Jeffrey R. Smith & David Harris at the pianos)
Let's (Rehearsal
Scene):
1. Pousse-Café, Audiophile
ACD-263 (Marshall Barer with music direction by Ellis Larkins)
My Heart Is A Stranger (cut but reinstated for 1989/1990
studio cast recording):
1. Pousse-Café, Audiophile
ACD-263 (Barbara Lea with music direction by Ellis Larkins)
Overture:
1. Pousse-Café, Audiophile
ACD-263 (Ellis Larkins, piano)
Pousse-Café (cut but reinstated for 1989/1990 studio
cast recording):
1. Pousse-Café, Audiophile
ACD-263 (Barbara Lea with music direction by Ellis Larkins)
Settle For Less (cut but reinstated for 1989/1990 studio
cast recording):
1. Pousse-Café, Audiophile
ACD-263 (Marshall Barer with music direction by Ellis Larkins)
Someone
To Care For:
1. Pousse-Café, Audiophile
ACD-263 (Barbara Lea with music direction by Ellis Larkins)
The Spider And The Fly (cut but reinstated for 1989/1990
studio cast recording):
1. Pousse-Café, Audiophile
ACD-263 (Barbara Lea with music direction by Ellis Larkins)
2. The Secret
Life Of A W.A.S.P., CD/Original Cast 9211 (Cynthia Crane with Bob Goldstone,
piano)
The Swivel (cut but reinstated for
1989/1990 studio cast recording):
1. Pousse-Café,
Audiophile ACD-263 (Marshall Barer with music direction by Ellis
Larkins)
Take Love Easy (L: John Latouche)
(cut but reinstated for 1989/1990 studio cast recording; originally used in
BEGGAR'S HOLIDAY):
1. Beggar's Holiday, Blue Pear
(M) BP 1013 (Bernice Parks)
2. 78/Columbia 38519 (Dolores Parker with Duke
Ellington and His Orchestra) [see also 45/Columbia 1-266; reissued on The World
of Duke Ellington, CD/Columbia CG 33961]
3. 78/MGM 10108 (Lena Horne with
orchestra conducted by Luther Henderson) [reissued on Deed I Do, 45EP/MGM
x1027GM; Cocktail Hour, CD/Columbia River 218009]
4. Serenade To Sweden,
Reprise (S) RS-5024 (Alice Babs with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra)
5.
The Alternate Takes, CD/Neatwork 2061 (Duke Ellington and His Orchestra)
6.
Take Love Easy, Pablo (S) 2310-702 (Ella Fitzgerald with Joe Pass, guitar)
[reissued as CD/Pablo PACD-2310-702-2]
7. Love Letters From Ella,
CD/Concord CCD 30213 (Ella Fitzgerald with Joe Pass, guitar) (alternate take
with the addition of the London Symphony Orchestra)
8. Introducing Janice
Mars, CD/Baq Room 2860 (Janice Mars with orchestra conducted by Milton
Rosenstock)
9. Dompan!, CD/Fresh Sounds 5032 (Arne Domnerus)
10. Duke's
Sound Of Love, CD/Laika no number (Silvia Droste)
11. Earl Hines Plays Duke
Ellington, CD/New World 361 (Earl Hines)
12. May The Music Never End,
CD/Verve 076028 (Shirley Horn)
13. Shouldn't I?, CD/Cambria 1124 (Carol
Merrill)
14. I'm A Dreamer, Aren't We All, CD/Baldwin Street Music 204
(Daryl Sherman)
15. Romantic Ellington, CD/DRG 8480 (Carol Sloane with
music directed by Mike Renzi)
16. Swing That Music, CD/Telarc CD-83317
(Bobby Short with the Howard Alden-Dan Barrett Quintet)
17. Turned To Blue,
CD/Telarc 1022 (Nancy Wilson)
18. Pousse-Café, CD/Audiophile ACD-263
(Marshall Barer with musical direction by Ellis Larkins)
19. Take Love
Easy: The Lyrics Of John Latouche, CD/Audiophile ACD-206 (Richard Rodney
Bennett)
20. Taking A Chance On Love, Original Cast OC-4444 (Jerry Dixon
and Terry Burrell with Jeffrey R. Smith & David Harris at the pianos)
Thank You, Ma'am:
1. Pousse-Café, Audiophile
ACD-263 (Marshall Barer with music direction by Ellis Larkins)
Up Your
Ante (cut but reinstated for 1989/1990 studio cast
recording):
1. Pousse-Café, Audiophile
ACD-263 (Barbara Lea with music direction by Ellis Larkins)
Unrecorded Material:
Amazing (ASCAP/Library Of
Congress only)
Colonel's Lady (ASCAP/Library Of Congress only)
Do Me A
Favor (ASCAP/Library Of Congress only)
Easy To Take
The Eleventh
Commandment (M: Michael Leonard; L: Herbert Martin)
Forever (ASCAP/Library
Of Congress only)
The Good Old Days
Here You Are (ASCAP/Library Of
Congress only)
If You Knew Now (What I Knew Then) (cut)
Je Ne Ai Rien
(ASCAP/Library Of Congress only)
Natchez Trace (ASCAP/Library Of Congress
only)
Old World Charm
Rules And Regulations
Spacious And Gracious
(ASCAP/Library Of Congress only)
The Spider And The Fly (M: Michael
Leonard; L: Herbert Mann)
Sugar City (ASCAP/Library Of Congress only)
These Are The Good Old Days (ASCAP/Library Of Congress only)
The
Wedding