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)