Vernon Duke: The Serious Songs > Kaye McCracken Duke

Recording Details

Date: 1978
Type: Audio / Vocal Recording
Method: Studio
Language: English
Music: Vernon Duke (141)
Lyrics: Hamilton Aide, William Allingham, Thomas Ashe, F. W. Bourdillion, Franco Carco, Austin Dobson, Ogden Nash (59), John V. A. Weaver
Translation: Kay McCracken Duke, Emmanuelle Schwartz
Producer: John Kniest (3)
Liner Notes: Nicolas Slonimsky
Music Director: David Berfield
Performer: Kay McCracken Duke
Notes: A studio recording of four song cycles composed by Vernon Duke and sung by his widow, mezzo sopranao Kay McCracken Duke.
Shortcode: [r11014]

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Format: LP
Label: Glendale Records GLS 6016
Released: 1978
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Side A
La Boheme et Mon coeur (poems by Francis Carco)
1. L'heure du poete
2. Quelle voix?
3. Printemps
4. Carte postale (1)
5. Carte postale (2)
6. Il pieut
7. Toulouse-Lautrec
Ten Songs "in American" (poems by John Weaver)
8. October
9. "Catfish" Green
10. Fair exchange
11. Ghost
12. The City
13. Au Revoir
14. Revisited
15. Two ways
16. Moonlight
17. Pets
Side B
Musical Zoo (lyrics by Ogden Nash)
1. The Duck/The Cow/The Ant/The Dog/The Frog
2. The Mouse/The Turkey/The Kitten/The Pig/The Centipede
3. The Calf/The Rooster/The Jellyfish/The Germ/The Sparrow
4. The Seagull/The Fly/The Firefly/The Termite/The Pigeon
Five Victorian Songs (poems by Victorian poets)
5. Remember to forget
6. O Spirit of the Summertime
7. No and Yes
8. The Night has a Thousand Eyes
9. The Ladies of St James