Recordings by Harold Lang
Look Ma, I'm Dancin'! Original Broadway Cast (1948) - set of 78 rpms
Music & Lyrics: Hugh Martin
Book: Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
Premiere: Thursday, January 29, 1948
Adelphi Theatre, (New York)
Performances: 188
Recording year: 1948
Label: Columbia X-14879
Length: 24:00
Conductor: Pembroke Davenport
Singers:
Nancy Walker
Harold Lang
Sandra Deel
Bill Shirley
Hugh Martin
Songs:
1. Gotta dance
2. I'm the first girl in the second row
3. I'm not so bright
4. I'm tired of Texas
5. Tiny room
6. The little boy blues
7. If you'll be mine
8. Shauny O'Shay
Kiss Me, Kate CD Original Broadway Cast (1948)
Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter
Book: Bella & Sam Spewack
Premiere: Thursday, December 30, 1948
New Century Theatre, (New York)
Performances: 1070
Recording year: 1948
Label: Columbia SK 60536
Length: 55:16
Tracks: 19
Conductor: Pembroke Davenport
Singers:
Alfred Drake
Lisa Kirk
Harold Lang
Harry Clark
Patricia Morison
Lorenzo Fuller
Edwin Clay
Fred Davis
Jack Diamond
Annabelle Hill
Eddie Sledge
Charles Wood
Songs:
1. Another op'nin', another show
2. Why can't you behave?
3. Wunderbar
4. So in love
5. We open in Venice
6. Tom, Dick or Harry
7. I've come to wive it wealthily in Padua
8. I hate men
9. Were thine that special face
10. I sing of love
11. Too darn hot
12. Where is the life that late I led?
13. Always true to you in my fashion
14. Bianca
15. Brush up your Shakespeare
16. I am ashamed that women are so simple
17. Kiss me, Kate
18. It was great fun the first time
19. We shall never be younger
20. A woman's career
21. What does your servant dream about?
22. I'm afraid, sweetheart, I love you
23. If ever married I'm
24. From this moment on
Pal Joey Studio Cast (1950)
Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics: Lorenz Hart
Book: George Abbott + John O'Hara
Premiere: Wednesday, December 25, 1940
Ethel Barrymore Theatre, (New York)
Performances: 374
Recording year: 1950
Label: Columbia 4364
Length: 44:23
Tracks: 14
Conductor: Lehman Engel
Singers:
Harold Lang
Vivienne Segal
Barbara Ashley
Beverly Fite
Jo Hurt
Kenneth Remo
Songs:
1. You mustn't kick it around
2. I could write a book
3. Chicago
4. That terrific rainbow
5. What is a man?
6. Happy hunting horn
7. Bewitched, bothered and bewildered
8. Pal Joey
9. The flower garden of my heart
10. Zip
11. Plant you now, dig you later
12. In our little den
13. Do it the hard way
14. Take him
15. I didn't know what time it was
16. There's a small hotel
17. My funny Valentine
18. The lady is a tramp
19. I'm Talkin' To My Pal
Make a Wish LP Original Cast members (1951)
Music: Hugh Martin
Lyrics: Hugh Martin
Book: Preston Sturges
Premiere: Wednesday, April 18, 1951
Winter Garden Theatre, (New York)
Performances: 102
Recording year: 1951
Label: RCA LOC-1002
Conductor: Milton Rosenstock
Singers:
Helen Gallagher
Stephen Douglass
Harold Lang
Nanette Fabray
Dean Campbell
Songs:
1. The tour must go on
2. I wanna be good 'n' bad
3. What I was warned about
4. Suits me fine
5. Hello, hello, hello
6. Tonight you are in Paree
7. Who gives a sou?
8. Make a wish
9. I'll never make a Frenchman out of you
10. Paris, France
11. When does this feeling go away?
12. Over and over
13. The sale
14. That face!
15. Take me back to Texas with you
The Band Wagon LP Studio Cast (1953)
Music: Arthur Schwartz
Lyrics: Howard Dietz
Book: Howard Dietz + Geroge S. Kaufman
Premiere: Wednesday, June 3, 1931
New Amsterdam Theatre, (New York)
Performances: 262
Recording year: 1953
Label: RCA LPM-3155
Conductor: Jay Blackton
Singers:
Edith Adams
Harold Lang
George Britton
Songs:
1. It better be good
2. Sweet music
3. High and low
4. Hoops
5. Confession
6. New sun in the sky
7. Miserable with you
8. I love Louisa
9. Dancing in the dark
10. Where can he be?
11. White heat
12. Nanette
13. That's entertainment
14. A shine on your shoes
15. Triplets
16. By myself
17. I guess I'll have to change my plan
18. Louisiana hayride
Kiss Me, Kate (stereo) Original Cast members
Recording year: 1959
Label: Angel 64760
Length: 45:57
Tracks: 18
Conductor: Pembroke Davenport
Notes: LP: CAP STAO-1267
Singers:
Alfred Drake
Lisa Kirk
Harold Lang
Patricia Morison
Lorenzo Fuller
Ray Drakely
Bob Sands
Songs on this recording:
1. Another op'nin', another show
2. Why can't you behave?
3. Wunderbar
4. So in love
5. We open in Venice
6. Tom, Dick or Harry
7. I've come to wive it wealthily in Padua
8. I hate men
9. Were thine that special face
10. I sing of love
11. Too darn hot
12. Where is the life that late I led?
13. Always true to you in my fashion
14. Bianca
15. Brush up your Shakespeare
16. I am ashamed that women are so simple
17. Kiss me, Kate
18. It was great fun the first time
19. We shall never be younger
20. A woman's career
21. What does your servant dream about?
22. I'm afraid, sweetheart, I love you
23. If ever married I'm
24. From this moment on
I Can Get It For You Wholesale CD Original Broadway Cast (1962)
Music & Lyrics: Harold Rome
Book: Jerome Weidman
Premiere: Thursday, March 22, 1962
Shubert Theatre, (New York)
Performances: 300
Recording year: 1962
Label: Columbia 53020
Length: 53:22
Tracks: 60
Conductor: Lehman Engel
Notes: LP: COL 2180
Singers:
Barbra Streisand
Harold Lang
Marilyn Cooper
Kelly Brown
Elliot Gould
Jack Kruschen
Lillian Roth
Steve Curry
Ken Le Roy
Bambi Linn
Luba Lisa
Sheree North
Pat Turner
Wilma Curley
James Hickman
Barbara Monte
William Reilly
Edward Verso
Songs:
1. I'm not a well man
2. The way things are
3. When gemini meets capricorn
4. Momma, Momma
5. The sound of money
6. Too soon
7. The family way
8. Who knows?
9. Ballad of the garment trade
10. Have I told you lately?
11. A gift today
12. Miss Marmelstein
13. A funny thing happened
14. What's in it for me?
15. Eat a little something
16. What are they doing to us now?
The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter
CD - Original Off-Broadway Cast (1965)
Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter
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Book: Bud McCreery
Premiere: Tuesday, March 30, 1965
Square East Theatre, (New York)
Performances: 273
Recording year: 1965
Label: Painted Smiles
Length: 71:04
Tracks: 25
Conductor: Skip Redwine
Singers:
Carmen Alvarez
Kaye Ballard
Harold Lang
William Hickey
Elmarie Wendel
Songs:
1. I introduced
2. I'm a gigolo
3. The leader of the big-time band
4. I loved him
5. I happen to like New York
6. What shall I do?
7. Tomorrow
8. Farming
9. Give him the oo-la-la
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10. Make it another old fashioned, please
11. Down in the depths
12. Most gentlemen don't like love
article from Show Music, v1 n4 (1984)