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)