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)