THE STUDENT GYPSY



Composer: Rick Besoyan
Lyricist: Rick Besoyan

Opened: September 30, 1963, 54th Street Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 16

Live performance recordings of the Broadway production and the 1968 Los Angeles revival (edited down) are known to exist. A second demo was made for Samuel French but appears to be lost.


It's A Wonderful Day To Do Nothing:

1. Publisher's Demo, Private LP (M) Student 1001 (unidentified singer(s))
2. New From Broadway, RCA Camden (S) CAS-790 (Living Strings conducted by Hill Bowen)


My Love Is Yours:

1. New From Broadway, RCA Camden (S) CAS-790 (Living Strings conducted by Hill Bowen)
2. Opening Night With Ed Ames, RCA Victor (S) LSP-2781 (Ed Ames with orchestra conducted by Claus Ogerman)


Our Love Has Flown Away:

1. Publisher's Demo, Private LP (M) Student 1001 (unidentified singer(s))


Romance:

1. Publisher's Demo, Private LP (M) Student 1001 (unidentified singer(s))
2. New From Broadway, RCA Camden (S) CAS-790 (Living Strings conducted by Hill Bowen)
3. Times Like This, CD/Original Cast OC 6061 (Linn Maxwell with Tedd Firth, piano)


Seventh Heaven Waltz:

1. Times Like This, CD/Original Cast OC 6061 (Linn Maxwell with Tedd Firth, piano)


Somewhere:

1. Publisher's Demo, Private LP (M) Student 1001 (unidentified singer(s))
2. New From Broadway, RCA Camden (S) CAS-790 (Living Strings conducted by Hill Bowen)
3. Opening Night With Ed Ames, RCA Victor (S) LSP-2781 (Ed Ames with orchestra conducted by Claus Ogerman)
4. Times Like This, CD/Original Cast OC 6061 (Linn Maxwell with Tedd Firth, piano)


Ting-A-Ling Dearie:

1. Publisher's Demo, Private LP (M) Student 1001 (unidentified singer(s))
2.The Broadway Musicals Of 1963, CD/Bayview RNBW036 (The Ross Patterson Little Big Band)


Very Much In Love:

1. Lost Broadway And More, CDr/Original Cast (Brooke Sunny Moriber with William Zeffiro, piano)


Wake Up Singing (cut prior to opening; reinstated in the 1968 Los Angeles revival):

1. Looking Back With Love: My Life In Song, CD/No label (Richard-Charles Hoh)


A Woman Is A Woman is A Woman:

1. Publisher's Demo, Private LP (M) Student 1001 (unidentified singer(s))


Other Songs:

The Drinking Song
Greetings
The Grenadiers' Marching Song
A Gypsy Dance
The Gypsy Life
Gypsy Of Love
Gypsy Violin And I
Hail To The Lad (part of Finale Act One)
Kiss Me
Merry May
Schtine, Schtine (Sleep, Sleep)
Singspielia
There's Life In The Old Folks Yet (cut in the subesequent 1968 Los Angeles revival)
Wake Up Singing
Walk On
Welcome Home Anthem
A Whistle Works (cut in the subesequent 1968 Los Angeles revival)
You're A Man (part of Finale Act One)