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Noël Coward : the complete lyrics
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Noël Coward : the complete lyrics / edited and annotated by Barry Day ; designed by Bernard Schleifer.
ISBN
0879518960
9780879518967
Edition
First edition.
Published
Woodstock, New York : The Overlook Press, 1998.
Physical Description
367 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Zab W8311 Zz998C: Number line on title page verso indicates 1st printing: 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2. Dust jacket. From the David Wolf Papers. Accompanied by: Overlook Press press release for the book (4 leaves, stapled).
Summary
"Playwright, actor, composer, poet, painter and songwriter, Noel Coward was perhaps the most complete entertainer the twentieth century - or any other - produced. But with his sophisticated manner and his clipped wit he became something more ... an icon of his times, the embodiment of "cool" before the term was ever thought of. On the centenary of his birth, amid the revival of his complete works, it is time to take stock of Coward the songwriter. For sixty years he produced a steady stream of words and music that was both lyrical and literate, romantic and satirical. Arguably only Cole Porter matched his reach and range. "I'll See You Again," "Some Day I'll Find You," "Mad Dogs and Englishmen," "A Room With A View," Don't Put Your Daughter On The Stage, Mrs. Worthington," "I'll Follow My Secret Heart," "I Went To A Marvellous Party," "London Pride" ... all the Coward classics are here, arranged chronologically show by show. But editor Barry Day - with the cooperation of the Coward Estate - has researched Coward's personal archives as well as other sources to compile 500 songs - over 200 more than the original 1965 volume. None of them have been published and most are totally unknown. Among them are songs from his unrecorded collaboration with Jerome Kern ... four unfinished musicals ... numbers dropped from shows ... and additional verses for well known favorites. The Complete Lyrics are lavishly illustrated throughout with more than 280 photographs of people and productions - many from his personal albums - as well as program covers, sheet music and Coward's own handwritten manuscripts. Barry Day's text, augmented by Coward's own comments, set the songs in the context of their times."--Jacket.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 359) and indexes.
Contents
After dinner music
Alas, the time is past
Alice is at it again (Sweet Alice)
All my life ago (After the ball)
All my life ago (Pacific 1860)
All the fun of the farm
All things bright and beautiful
Always be nice to father
Always be nice to the gentlemen
Anna the auctioneer
Any little fish
As long as you love me a little
Baby's bottle
Back to nature
Ballet announcement
Bar on the Piccola Marina, a
Baseball rag, the
Beatnik love affair
Bertha from Balham
Bertie from the Bath Club
Blue lanterns
Bonne nuit, merci
Bright was the day
Bright young people
Britannia rules the waves
Bronxville Darby and Joan (Dear old couple)
Bubble
Bunch, bunch
Burchells of Battersea Rise, the
Bygone days
Caballero (A Spanish fantasy)
Call of life, the
Carrie (was a careful girl)
Champagne
Charming, charming
Chase me, Charlie
Chauve-souris
Children of the Ritz
Choirboys' song
Church parade
Cinderella song
City
Clear bright morning
Co-communists, the
Co-octogenerians, the
Cocktail chorus
Coconut girl, the
Come a little closer
Come back to the island
Come be my true love
Come the wild, wild weather
Come to me
Coronation chorale (It's all so wonderful)
Corsets
Cosmopolitan lady
Could you please oblige us with a Bren Gun?
Couldn't we keep on dancing?
Countess Mitzi
Créme de la créme
Crissa (Chrissa)
Cross your heart
Curt, clear and concise
Customer's always right, the
Cycling home
Damn good show
Dance, little lady
Dear friends, forgive me, pray
Dear little soldiers
Dear Madame Salvador
Dearest love
Debutantes, the
Deep in the heart of Texas
Devon
Devon (1951)
Don't let Father see the frescoes
Don't let's be beastly to the Germans
Don't make fun of the fair
Don't take our Charlie for the Army
Don't turn away from love
Down with the whole darn lot!
Dream girl
Dream is over, the
Dream your dream again
Dreams
Drinking song (Here's a toast)
Duke of York's
Eeeny, meeny, miny, mo
Eldorado
Elizabeth May
English lesson, the
English lido
Even clergymen are naughty
Evening in summer
Evermore and a day
Everybody says that I'm a chatterbox (I mustn't say that)
Everybody's jazzing mad
Fairyland
Family dirge
Family grace
Faraway land
Farewell song
First love
Follow a star
Foolish virgins (1931)
Foolish virgins
Footmen quartette
For you I'm pining
Forbidden fruit (It's the peach)
Fortune telling duet (I'd like to see you try)
Fragonard impression, a
Free speech
French song (Paris est toi)
Fresh as a daisy
Fumfumbolo
Get out those old records
Ginger up
Gipsy melody
Girls I am leaving in England
Girl with the dull brown eye, the
Girls of the C.I.V., the
Give me the Kingston by-pass
Go, I beg you, go
Go slow, Johnny
Goldeneye calypso
Gondola on the Rhine, the
Good evening, Lady Windermere
Goodbye, old friend
Green carnation (We all wore a)
Half-caste woman
Hall of fame, the
Has anybody seen our ship?
He never did that to me
Hearts and flowers
Heavenly moment
Here and now
Here in the summertime
Hey, nonny no
His Excellency regrets
Home
Home again
Home sweet heaven
Housemaid's knees
How do you do, middle age?
I always wanted to be true to you
I am no good at love
I can't think
I dreamed you
I gave my heart away
I knew that you would be my love
I like America
I live in a world of my own
I love my babies best
I mustn't say that
I never know
I offer you my heart
I remember
I saw no shadow
I take the high road
I take to you
I travel alone
I want a man about the house
I wanted to show you Paris
I wish I wasn't quite such a big girl
I wonder what happened to him? (Indian Army officer)
I'd like to see you try
I'd never never know
I'll follow my secret heart
I'll remember her
I'll see you again
I'm a lonely man
I'm a spy
I'm not a fool as a rule
I'm not that kind of girl! (Dancing duet)
I'm old fashioned
(I'm) So in love
I've been invited to a party
I've been to a marvellous party (I went to a marvellous party)
If I were a man
If love were all
If only a girl could be sure
If only Mrs. Applejohn were here
If we'd met
If you could only come with me
Imagine the Duchess's feelings
In a boat, on a lake, with my darling
Invitation to the waltz
Irish song (Rosie O'Grady)
Is she happy?
Island of Bollamazoo
Isn't there any little thing?
It doesn't matter how old you are
It isn't what you do
It was horrid
It's always the man that's pursued
It's only me
Japanese love song
Japanese spies
Je t'aime
Jessie Hooper
Josephine
Journée heureuse
Journey's end (Announcement)
Just people
Ka tahua
Kiss me
Kleine pupchen (Journey's end)
Ladies of the town
Lady
Lady from Vienna
Lady Windermere's aria
Ladybird
Land, sea and air
Last dance, the
Last Wednesday on the Piazza
Later than spring
Let my dreams return
Let's be sincere
Let's do it
Let's fly away
Let's have one more try
Let's live dangerously
Let's say goodbye
Letter song
Lido beach, the
Life in the morning
Life without love
Light is the heart
Lilac time
Lilies of the valley
Listen to me
Little bundle of dreams
Little café (Dear little café)
Little French lady
Little girl
Little lacquer lady
Little ones' ABC
Little slut of six (After dinner music)
Little women
London at night
London is a little bit of all right
London pride
Lonely
Long ago
Long live the Bourgeoisie
Long live the King (If he can)
Lorelei
Louisa
Louise
Love a little
Love and war (Journey's end)
Love, life and laughter.
Mad about the boy
Mad about you (I'm)
Mad dogs and Englishmen
Madeleine
Maggie
Make way for their Excellencies
Marriage is a fatal curse
Marriage is the game for me
Mary make-believe
Matador
Matelot
Maudie (Everything's closing down)
Maudie Golightly
May I have the pleasure?
Melanie's aria
Même les anges
Memories
Men about town
Merry wives of Windsor, the
Mexico
Midnight matinée
Mirabelle waltz (Love of my dreams)
Miss Mouse
Morganatic love (If you will be my morganatic wife)
Most of every day
Mother and daughter
Mother's complaint
Mother's lament
Mothers and wives
Mr. Hopper's chanty
Mrs. 'Arris
Mrs. Lowborough-Goodby
Mrs. Worthington (Don't put your daughter on the stage)
Music box
Musical memories
My dear Miss Dale
My (shady) family tree
My horse has cast a shoe
My kind of man
Never again
Nevermore
Nina
Nineteen hundred and six
Ninety minutes is a long, long time
No more
Nothing can last for ever
Now I'm a widow
Office hours
Officers' chorus
Oh, baby
Oh, Mr. Kaiser
Oh, what a century it's been
Oh, what a season this has been
Old Scottish air
Old story
One fine day
One fine day (Tamaran)
One, two, three
Opening chorus (Cochran's 1931 Revue)
Opening chorus (Operette)
Opening chorus (This year of grace)
Operette
Other girls
Over the hill
Paddy McNeil and his automobile
Park your fanny blues
Parisian Pierrot
Parting of the ways, the
Party's going with a swing, the
Party's over now, the
Passenger's always right, the
Patterson, Pennsylvania
Planters' wives
Play, orchestra, play
Play the game
Pom-pom
Poor lady in the throes of love
Poor little rich girl
Portrait of a lady
Prenez garde, Lisette
Pretty little bridesmaids
Pretty white dove (Little white dove)
Princes and princesses
Prologue, Act 1 (Operette)
Prologue, Act 2 (Operette)
Prologue, Act 1 (Conversation piece)
Prologue, Act 2 (Conversation piece)
Put not your trust in princes
Put out my shooting-suit, Waters
Raspberry time in Runcorn, opening chorus
Regency rakes
Ribbon in her hair, a
Room with a view, a
Roses have made me remember, the
Rug of Persia
Russian blues
Saggy boo, the
Sail away (Ace of clubs)
Sail away (Sail away)
Satsiama
Saturday night
Saturday night at the rose and crown
Sentiment
Shake your feet
She shall have music
She was a good girl then
Siberia
Sigh no more
Silken cord, the
Sing for joy
Sir or Ma'am
Society, the
Soliloquies
Someday I'll find you
Something about a sailor
Something on a tray
Something to do with spring
Something very strange
Sometimes when I'm weary
Song of the rice grove
Spanish grandee
Specially for you
Spinning song, the
Spinsters' quartette
Spinster quartette
Stately homes of England, the
Stay on the side of the angels
Story of Peter Pan, the
Suburbia
Sun, the moon, and you, the
Sunday afternoons
Sunshine Susie
Sweet day
Swing song
Taking after dear old Dad
Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay
Tamaran
Tamarisk town
Te quiero (Journey's end)
Teach me to dance like Grandma
Tell me if you knew
Tell me, what is love?
Temperamental honeymoon
That girl's you
That is the end of the news
That is the time to go
That was before your day
That wonderful melody
That'll be very useful later on
Then
There are bad times just around the corner
There are good times coming
There have been songs in England
There may be days
There was once a little village by the sea
There will always be
There's a pixie in my garden
There's always something fishy about the French
There's life in the old girl yet
There's life
There's no more to say
This could be true
This is a changing world
This is a night for lovers
This is the night
This moment
This time it's true love
This year, next year
This year of Grace! (Finale)
This year of grace! (American finale)
Three juvenile delinquents
Three theatrical dames
Three white feathers
Time and again
Time gentlemen, please
Time will tell
Tit willow
Together with music
Tokay
Top of the morning
Touch of a woman's hand, the
Touring day
Travel in a train with me
Try to learn to love
Twentieth century blues
Twilight
Uncle Harry
Ursuline
Useless useful phrases
Vicarage dance, the
Violet seller's song
Violets
Wait a bit, Joe
Wait for me
Waiting in a queue
Waiting in the wings
Walla walla boola, the
Waltzing
Water lily pond, the
We are living in a changing world
We live our lives in city streets
We must all be very kind to Aunt Jessie
We were dancing
We'll always sigh
We've got the country at the corner of the street
Weary of it all (I'm so)
Wedding toast
Welcome to Pootzie Van Doyle
What a saucy girl
What can it mean (Mrs. Erlynne's aria)
What has happened to Charles
What ho, Mrs. Brisket
What is to become of the children?
What love means to girls like me
What's going to happen to the tots?
What's the matter with a nice beef stew?
When did you first discover you were different?
When foreign princes come to visit us
When my ship comes home
When the journey's over
When we were girls together
When women come into their own
When you come home on leave
When you want me
Where are the songs we sung?
Where shall I find him?
Why am I always alone?
Why do the wrong people travel?
Why does love get in the way?
Why is it the woman who pays?
Why must the show go on?
Wife of an acrobat, the
Willy
Woman of the world
World weary
Would you like to stick a pin in my balloon?
Yasni koskolai (Carpathian national anthem)
Yodelling song (Journey's end)
You and I
You and you alone
You were there
You're a long, long way from America
You're the top
You've gone away
You've got a little piece of love in your heart
Younger generation
Zigeuner.
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