SMALL WONDER
Composer: Mostly by Albert
Selden and Baldwin Bergesen
Lyricist: Mostly by Albert Selden, Burt
Shevelove (as Billings Brown), and Phyllis McGinley
Opened:
September 15, 1948, Coronet Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances:
134
The
Commuters' Song (Between The 5:08 And The 8:01) (C: Baldwin Bergesen; L:
Phyllis McGinley):
1. Songs From Movie Movie/Doin'
The Obscuriana, Filmscore (M) FS 7914 (Buster Davis)
2. Introducing Janice
Mars, CD/Baq Room Records BRR0725-2860 (Janice Mars with orchestra conducted by
Milton Rosenstock)
Get Married Shirley
(cut) (C: Albert Selden; L: Burt Shevelove) [later used in A MONTH OF SUNDAYS
and WALK TALL]:
1. I Can Cook Too, Dolphin 2
(Nancy Walker with David Baker at the piano) [reissued as Broadway Bombshell,
Stet 2002; My Square Laddie/I Can Cook Too, CD/Sepia 1090]
No Time
(C: Baldwin Bergesen; L: Phyllis McGinley):
1. Everyone Else Revisited,
CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-146 (The Populaires)
Nobody Told Me (C: Baldwin Bergesen; L: Phyllis
McGinley):
1. Everyone Else Revisited,
CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-146 (Patty Wyss and Arthur Siegel)
2. Introducing
Janice Mars, CD/Baq Room Records BRR0725-2860 (Janice Mars with orchestra
conducted by Milton Rosenstock)
Saturday's Child (C: Baldwin Bergesen; L: Phyllis
McGinley):
1. Make Mine Manhattan &
Great Revues Revisited, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-119 (Dolores
Gray)
Show Off (C/L: Albert
Selden):
1. Make Mine Manhattan &
Great Revues Revisited, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-119 (Carleton
Carpenter)
When I Fall In Love (C/L: Albert
Selden):
1. Blues On The Other Side, Argo
706 (Mike Mainieri) (unverified) [reissued as CD/Argo 706]
2. Easy
Listening, Roost (S) RS-2233 (Johnny Smith) [reissued on The Complete Roost
Johnny Smith Small Group Sessions, CD/Mosaic 8216 (Johnny Smith)]
2. Old
World New World, CD/DMP 487 (The Dolphins) (unverified)
4. Sweethearts Of
The Blues, CD/Bear Family 15960 (Shirley Goodman and Leonard Lee)
(unverified)
"When I Fall In Love" is also the title of a popular song by
Victor Young and Edward Heyman (originally featured in the movie ONE MINUTE TO
ZERO). One or more of the above recordings may actually be the Young &
Heyman song.
Other
Songs:
Badaroma (C: Albert Selden; L:
Burt Shevelove)
Ballad For Billionaires (C: Albert Selden; L: Burt
Shevelove)
Count Your Blessings (C: Baldwin Bergesen; L: Phyllis
McGinley)
Flaming Youth (C: Albert Selden; L: Burt Shevelove)
From A To Z
(C: Albert Selden; L: Burt Shevelove)
I Like A Man Around The House (cut)
(C: Baldwin Bergesen; L: Phyllis McGinley)
Just An Ordinary Guy (C: Albert
Selden; L: Phyllis McGinley and Burt Shevelove)
Pistachio (C/L: Mark
Lawrence)
Things (cut) (C: Irma Jurist; L: Burt Shevelove)
William
McKinley High (C: Albert Selden; L: Burt Shevelove)
Young Man's Blues: Some
Sweet Day (cut) (C: Irma Jurist; L: Millard Lampell)
Sketches:
The Civilized Thing (by Richard
F. Maury)
D-e-m-ocracy (by Louis Laun and Charles Spaulding)
Divorce
(cut) (by Charles Spaulding)
The Hall Of Fame (cut)
The Happy Ending (by
George Axelrod, also used in FROM A TO Z)
The Human Body
I Could Write A
Book (by Louis Laun and Charles Spalding)
The Normal Neurotic (by Charles
Spalding)
This Is An Adv. (by Max Wilk)