SON OF FOUR BELOW



Composer: Various
Lyricist: Various

Opened: September 27, 1956, Downstairs Room, NYC
Performances: Unknown


Election Spectacular (M/L: Bud McCreery) (subsequently revised for use in PIECES OF EIGHT and updated for FOUR IN HAND):

1. Pieces Of Eight, Offbeat (M) O-4016 (Ceil Cabot, Del Close, Gordon Connell, Jane Connell, Gerry Matthews, and Estelle Parsons with William Roy and Carl Norman at the plural pianos)


Guess Who Was There (M/L: Bud McCreery) (later used in DEMI-DOZEN and MEDIUM RARE):

1. Demi-Dozen, Offbeat (M) O-4015 (Jean Arnold with Gordon Connell and Stan Keen, pianos) [reissued on CD/Kritzerland KR 20033-2]
2. Live At The Alqonquin, Stolen Moments SM 1939 (Steve Ross, piano and voice) [reissued as CD/Stolen Moments SMCD 1939]
3. Steve Ross At The Don Burrows Supper Club: Live In Australia, 1986, ABC Records (S) L-38638 (Steve Ross, piano and voice) [reissued on Ross Redux, CD/Stolen Moments SMCD 1941]
4. An Evening With Beatrice Lillie, CD/LLP101 (Layne Littlepage with Barney Hulse, piano)


It's a Wonderful Day To Be Seventeen (M: Ronny Graham; L: Tom Jones) (subsequently used in FOUR BELOW STRIKES BACK):

1. Four Below Strikes Back, Offbeat (M) O-4017 (Nancy Dussault with Robert Colston and Paul Trueblood at the plural pianos)


Laddie (M/L: Jim Mahoney) (originally used in STOCK IN TRADE; also used in SHOESTRING REVUE, FOUR BELOW, and FOUR IN HAND):

1. Shoestring Revue, Offbeat (M) O-4011 (Fay de Witt with Dorothea Freitag and Liza Redfield, duo pianos, and Ralph Roberts, percussion) [reissued on Shoestring Revues, Painted Smiles PS-1360; Shoestring Revue '57, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-130]
2. Off Broadway, MGM (M) E 4056 (Jerry Orbach with music conducted by Norman Paris) [reissued as CD/Decca Broadway 012 159 254-2]


Leave Your Mind Alone (M/L: Ronny Graham) (subsequently used in FOUR BELOW STRIKES BACK):

1. Four Below Strikes Back, Offbeat (M) O-4017 (Nancy Dussault and Cy Young with Robert Colston and Paul Trueblood at the plural pianos)


Literary Time (sketch by Tom Jones) (subsequently used in FOUR BELOW STRIKES BACK):

1. Four Below Strikes Back, Offbeat (M) O-4017 (Cy Young and Jenny Lou Law)


The Night the Hurricane Struck (M/L: Bud McCreery) (subsequently used in SHOESTRING REVUE IN FORT WORTH and in PIECES OF EIGHT):

1. Pieces Of Eight, Offbeat (M) O-4016 Ceil Cabot, Jane Connell, Gordon Connell, and Gerry Matthews with William Roy and Carl Norman at the plural pianos)


The Rochelle Hudson Tango (M: Claibe Richardson; L: Paul Rosner) (subsequently used in SHOESTRING '57 and PIECES OF EIGHT):

1. Shoestring '57, Offbeat (M) O-4012 (Dody Goodman and G. Wood with Dorothea Freitag and Liza Redfield, duo pianos, and Ralph Roberts, percussion) [reissued as Painted Smiles (M) PS-1362; CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-130]


Unrecorded Numbers:

Afraid (M: Gerald Alters; L: Herb Hartig)
The Appian Way (C/L: Bud McCreery; L: Ronny Graham) (subsequently used in PIECES OF EIGHT)
Crustacean Universe (sketch by Tom Jones) (likely cut during the run)
Go and Find Your Love (M/L: Ronny Graham)
Grand Opening: Splice of Traveler; Son of Four Below (M/L: Bud McCreery)
Hello My Town (M: Harvey Schmidt; L: Tom Jones)
I've Just Slipped Away From My Wedding (M/L: Bud McCreery) (previously used in SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS SHOW 1955 and subsequently used in SHOESTRING '57)
Likenesses (sketch by Jack Fletcher)
Love Happens (M: Harvey Schmidt; L: Tom Jones)
Remember When? (M/L: David Hollister, Herb Hartig) (likely cut during the run)
Sirloin Sagacity (sketch by Herb Hartig)
Spend Your Life on a Merry-Go-Round (M/L: Bob Arthur)
Take Five (M/L: Bud McCreery)
The Titaness Tessatura (M: Stan Keen; L: Tom Jones with additional dialogue by Tom Jones)