SARATOGA
Composer: Harold
Arlen
Lyricist: Johnny Mercer
Opened: December 7, 1959, Winter Garden Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 80
Note: Only numbers not found on the original Broadway cast recording are noted below.
Baby (M: Steve Allen) (not used):
1. The Songs Of Steve Allen, Dot 9009 (Denise Jannah)
Have You Heard? (The Gossip Song):
1. 45/RCA Victor 47-7651
(Larry Elgart and His Orchestra) [also found on Saratoga, RCA
Victor LSP (S)-2166, reissued on New Sounds At The
Roosevelt/Music From The Broadway Hit Production Saratoga,
CD/Fresh Sound Records FSR-CD 921]
Lessons In Love (cut):
1. Tal Farlow Plays the
Music of Harold Arlen, Verve (S) MGVS-6144 (Tal Farlow)
[reissued on The Complete Verve Tal Farlow Sessions, CD/Verve
9863050]
The Parks Of Paris (not used):
1. Saratoga, Imperial (S)
12039 (Paul Smith Trio)
2. Saratoga, LSP (S)-2166 (orchestra conducted by Larry Elgart)
[reissued on New Sounds At The Roosevelt/Music From The Broadway
Hit Production Saratoga, CD/Fresh Sound Records FSR-CD 921]
You For Me (cut):
1. Saratoga, Imperial (S)
12039 (Paul Smith Trio)
2. Saratoga, LSP (S)-2166 (orchestra conducted by Larry Elgart)
[reissued on New Sounds At The Roosevelt/Music From The Broadway
Hit Production Saratoga, CD/Fresh Sound Records FSR-CD 921]
Unrecorded Numbers (cut):
Al Fresco
(not used)
Bon Appetit (aka "Menu Son") (not used)
The Gamblers (dance; lyrics cut prior to opening and now lost)
Folks (not used; lyric missing)
Here Goes Nothing (not used; same music as "You Or No One")
I'm Headed For Big Things (cut)
Lasso (not used; lyric missing)
The Polka (dance)
Promenade (Market Cries) (not used)
Reading The News (cut; lyric missing)
To Make A Fine Lady (not used)
Workman's Songs (not used; music kept as incidental
underscoring)