WILDCAT



Composer: Cy Coleman
Lyricist: Carolyn Leigh

Opened: December 16, 1960, Alvin Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 172

Note: Only numbers not found on the original Broadway cast recording are noted below.


Ain't It Sad (cut):

1. Wildcat, Kapp (S) KS-3223 (Jack Jones and Beth Adlam with the Pete King Chorale & Orchestra)


Angelina (cut):

1. 45/Capitol 4523 (Les Baxter and His Orchestra) [also found on Les Baxter's Broadway '61, Capitol (M) T1480]
2. Cy Coleman Plays His Own Compositions From Wildcat, Indigo (M) GBM-502A (Cy Coleman, piano; Dave Bailey, drums; Bill Takas, bass; Ralph Dorsey, conga)
3. Broadway, Right Now!, Verve (S) MG VS 62146 (Mel Torme and Margaret Whiting with orchestra conducted by Russell Garcia) [reissued as CD/Flare ROYCD310]
4. What's A Nice Girl Like You..., CD/2die4 99012 (Darrin Baker and Karen Mason)
5. A Time For Love, CD/Orchard 805317 (Jon Lucien)
6.  You Fascinate Me So, CD/Harbinger HCD-3102 (Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh, with Cy Coleman, piano)


(We Keep) Bouncing Back For More (cut; later used in HELLZAPOPPIN '67):

1. Witchcraft: The Songs Of Carolyn Leigh, CD/Harbinger Records HCD 1702 (Sara Zahn with musical direction by Christopher Denny)


(You're) Far Away From Home (cut):

1. 45/RCA Victor 47-7817 (Sam Fletcher with orchestra conduced by Sammy Lowe)
2. Les Baxter's Broadway '61, Capitol (M) T1480 (Les Baxter and His Orchestra)
3. Broadway, Right Now!, Verve (S) MG VS 62146 (Mel Torme and Margaret Whiting with orchestra conducted by Russell Garcia) [reissued as CD/Flare ROYCD310]
4. Young Man Of Manhattan, CD/Harbinger HCD 1503 (Eric Comstock)
5. What's A Nice Girl Like You..., CD/2die4 99012 (Darrin Baker and Karen Mason)
6.  You Fascinate Me So, CD/Harbinger HCD-3102 (Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh, with Cy Coleman, piano)


Little What-If, Little Could-Be (cut):

1. Composer Demo (Cy Coleman, piano and voice)
2. Doing Something Right: Randy Graff Sings Cy Coleman, CD/Varese Sarabande VSD-5652 (Randy Graff with music conducted by Tom Fay)


Thinkability (cut; music later used for "We're Heading For A Wedding" in THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES):

1. The Will Rogers Follies, CD/Columbia CK 48606 (Keith Carradine, Dee Hoty and the Four Wedding Couples with orchestra directed by Eric Stern) ("We're Heading For A Wedding")


Unrecorded Numbers:

The Day I Do (cut)
Foller It Through (cut)
I Got My Man (cut)
I Like The Ladies (cut)
Joe Dynamite's Dentistry Song (cut)
We Have So Much In Common (cut)