The Beatles recorded only one song from a Broadway musical Till There Was You, from which musical did it come?
"You"" and was valued at over £10,000. The disc eventually sold for well over its estimated value - £77,500. Till There Was You ""Till There Was You"" is a song written by Meredith Willson for his musical play ""The Music Man"" (1957), and which also appeared in the 1962 movie version. It is sung by librarian Marian Paroo (performed by Barbara Cook on Broadway, and by Shirley Jones in the film) to ""Professor"" Harold Hill (portrayed in the film by Robert Preston) toward the end of Act Two. The song became a hit for Anita Bryant in 1959, reaching number"
"Warren. In 1959, American singer Anita Bryant recorded the song ""Till There Was You"" and released it as a single. Her version reached number 30 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart and number 14 on the ""Cashbox"" Top 100. ""Till There Was You"" was included on the Beatles albums ""With the Beatles"" (UK release, 1963) and ""Meet the Beatles!"" (US release, 1964). It was the only Broadway song that the group recorded. Paul McCartney was introduced to Peggy Lee's cover of the song through his older cousin, Bett Robbins, who would occasionally baby-sit the two McCartney brothers. McCartney said:"
"Records in London on January 1, 1962. It was the second of five songs the group performed during their first appearance on ""The Ed Sullivan Show"" on February 9, 1964. Live versions of the song were released on ""Live at the BBC"" (1994) and ""Anthology 1"" (1995). A live performance of ""'Till There was You"" by Paul McCartney appears on his 2006 DVD ""The Space Within US"". In 2016, the BBC announced that a ""holy grail"" Beatles record would be auctioned in March of that year. A private pressing, it features two songs, ""Hello Little Girl"" and ""Till There Was"
"and arranger Jimmy Giuffre released ""Jimmy Giuffre and His Music Men Play The Music Man"", consisting of jazz arrangements of tunes from the musical. ""Till There Was You"" was covered by Anita Bryant in 1959 as a single for Carlton Records, reaching #30 on the Billboard Hot 100. ln 1963, The Beatles covered ""Till There Was You"" on their second LP ""With the Beatles"" (issued on ""Meet the Beatles!"" in the United States). Willson's widow later told ""The New York Times"" that his estate made more money from the royalties of the Beatles' recordings of ""Till There Was You"" than"
"the early Broadway appearances of actress Glenn Close, her first in a musical. Until the Canadian premiere of ""Rex"" in 2010, this show was the only Richard Rodgers work since the 1940s not available for performance from the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization. Clive Barnes, reviewing for ""The New York Times"", wrote that it was ""one of the most interminable musicals in years."" Andrew Lloyd Webber persuaded his then-wife, Sarah Brightman to record the ballad ""Away From You"", the only song from the musical that has been separately released. Years after the show closed, and after Rodgers's death, Sheldon Harnick and"
"The Beatles Movie Medley ""The Beatles' Movie Medley"" is a compilation of snippets from various Beatles songs. It remains the only Beatles single not released on CD. The single peaked at #12 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, and #10 on the British charts in 1982. The songs were chosen from the Beatles' films, ""A Hard Day's Night"", ""Help!"", ""Magical Mystery Tour"", ""Yellow Submarine"" and ""Let It Be"". The songs included in the medley are ""Magical Mystery Tour"", ""All You Need Is Love"", ""You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"", ""I Should Have Known Better"", ""A Hard Day's Night"", ""Ticket to"
"of having, for example, a 1928 recording of the London cast of ""Show Boat"", but no recording with the actual 1927 Broadway cast, and a recording of the London cast of Sigmund Romberg's ""The Desert Song"", but not of the 1926 Broadway cast - even though both of these shows are Broadway musicals, rather than British ones. Prior to the development of original cast recordings, there had been recordings of songs from musicals, and collections of several such songs, and recordings of songs performed by cast members; but they were recordings of ""songs"", that is, they were recorded as stand-alone"
"From Me to You ""From Me to You"" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released in April 1963 as their third single. It was written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon. The song was the Beatles' first number 1 hit on what became the official UK singles chart but the second, after ""Please Please Me"", on most of the other singles charts published in Britain. ""From Me to You"" failed to make an impact in the United States at the time of its initial release. Instead, a 1963 cover version released by Del Shannon"
"Only a Northern Song ""Only a Northern Song"" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1969 soundtrack album ""Yellow Submarine"". Written by George Harrison, it was recorded mainly in February 1967 during the sessions for ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" but the Beatles chose not to include it on that album. Instead, it was the first of the four new songs that the band provided for the 1968 animated film ""Yellow Submarine"", to meet their contractual obligations to United Artists. Harrison wrote ""Only a Northern Song"" out of dissatisfaction with his status as a"
"A Broadway Musical A Broadway Musical is a musical with a book by William F. Brown, lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse. The Broadway production closed after 14 previews and only one performance on December 21, 1978. The plot about a sleazy white theatre producer's attempt to adapt an African-American writer's serious play as a commercial stage musical was inspired by Adams and Strouse's real-life experiences with their 1964 Broadway production of ""Golden Boy"". The star of the musical-within-the-musical (""Sneakers"", about a basketball star) closely resembles ""Golden Boy"" star Sammy Davis, Jr. When the star opts to"
"in the United States, ""I Saw Her Standing There,"" and in the UK with ""This Boy"" from the original November 1963 release. Neither ""I Want to Hold Your Hand"" nor ""This Boy"" had appeared on album at the time in the UK, while ""I Saw Her Standing There"" had been the lead-off track to the band's debut album. The other nine tracks on ""Meet the Beatles!"" are duplicated from its nearest UK counterpart album ""With the Beatles"". Those were Beatles original songs and not cover versions of songs done by other artists with exception of ""Till There Was You"". The"
"King"", ""Tarzan"", ""Mary Poppins"", ""Newsies"", and more recently, ""The Little Mermaid"". DRG – Hugh Fordin's Discovery Record Group records Broadway cast albums and Cabaret performances. Recently the label has reissued a number of out-of-print cast albums from the Capitol, Columbia, and RCA Victor catalogues. David SERERO Records - DSM Prod French baritone David Serero produced and arranged on his own label the only Broadway musical by Duke Ellington: ""Beggar's Holiday"". David Serero has also arranged and produced ""I Wish You L.O.V.E"" by Jermaine Jackson from his one-man musical called ""You Are Not Alone"". Fynsworth Alley – Although now defunct, the"
"Till I Loved You (song) ""Till I Loved You"" is a song from the never-staged musical "","" based on the life of the Spanish artist Francisco Goya. It was written by American composer Maury Yeston. The original was sung by tenor Plácido Domingo and American singer Dionne Warwick. It was subsequently released as a single by Domingo with another collaborator to the album Jennifer Rush. The song reached #24 on the UK Charts in 1989, and was featured on the concept album of the musical. It was covered (although released first) as a duet by Barbra Streisand and Don Johnson,"
"national ""Billboard"" Country Chart. The Beatles covered this song once for the BBC radio show, ""From Us To You"", on 1 May 1964, with George Harrison on lead vocals. The song is notable for being the last time the Beatles performed a song for the BBC that wasn't recorded for EMI. The song is also notable for its double-time rhythmic changes during the bridge. The band was becoming more experimental at the time; after they recorded ""I Call Your Name"", they used that song's ska-influenced middle section again for ""I Forgot to Remember to Forget"". The song wasn't officially released"
"fatally underpowered evening. The Charles Strouse-Lee Adams score had its moments."" Mandelbaum noted that ""the characters were all clichés. ... A shallow treatment of a theme with potential ... was capped with an absurd ending"". A Broadway Musical A Broadway Musical is a musical with a book by William F. Brown, lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse. The Broadway production closed after 14 previews and only one performance on December 21, 1978. The plot about a sleazy white theatre producer's attempt to adapt an African-American writer's serious play as a commercial stage musical was inspired by Adams"
"songs by The Beatles: ""Got To Get You Into My Life"", ""Hey Jude"", and ""Something"". One single was issued from this album, that being ""I Got You Babe"", backed with an edited version of ""Danny Boy"". The song ""Laugh at Me"" was performed by Bono as solo while ""Danny Boy"" and ""Once in a Lifetime"" (after which Sonny can be heard saying approvingly ""Not bad, not bad"") were performed only by Cher. A portion of this album was re-released on the ""Cher and Sonny & Cher Kapp/MCA Anthology All I Ever Need"", and on the 1990 compilation album ""All I"
"working with the Beatles again ""felt like going backwards"". Harrison presented the song after it was decided to exclude his composition ""Only a Northern Song"", which the Beatles recorded in February 1967. In contrast to his prominence as a songwriter on ""Revolver"", ""Within You Without You"" was Harrison's sole composition on ""Sgt. Pepper"". The recording features musical contributions from only Harrison, Beatles aide Neil Aspinall, and a group of London-based Indian musicians. As with his Indian accompanists on ""Love You To"", Harrison sourced these contributors through the Asian Music Circle in north London. Harrison missed a Beatles recording session to"
"The musical was nominated for eleven Tony Awards and won seven. The original production, the most costly performed on Broadway to that date, ran for over 500 performances but ultimately lost its entire investment. The musical has had a number of major revivals, and several of its songs have become standards, including ""Broadway Baby"", ""I'm Still Here"", ""Too Many Mornings"", ""Could I Leave You?"", and ""Losing My Mind"". After the failure of ""Do I Hear A Waltz?"" (1965), for which he had written the lyrics to Richard Rodgers's music, Sondheim decided that he would henceforth work only on projects where"
"18 songs from a Beatles show in mid-1962 at the Cavern Club, recorded from the audience. The tape includes several cover versions of songs not available elsewhere by the Beatles, including the Bruce Channel number one ""Hey! Baby"", James Ray's ""If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody"", and the Bobby Vee hit ""Sharing You"". McCartney bought the tape at a 1985 auction, and since none of it was used for ""Anthology"", it has been assumed to be of poor sound quality. Many demo recordings are known to have been made by the individual Beatles but have yet to become"
"Songs that were in the original movie but omitted from the musical are: A deleted song for Mrs. Banks was called ""What I Can Do"", according to an interview with George Stiles and Richard Sherman. It was thought to be a sort of 1920s-style number, so they later wrote ""Being Mrs. Banks"" instead. The original London cast recording of the show was released shortly after its West End premiere. It features most of the major musical numbers from the show's score. When the Broadway production opened, a recording was released featuring several songs with the original American cast, including an"
"for seven weeks. ""From Me to You"" featured Lennon playing harmonica in a Jimmy Reed-inspired blues style he had learned from Delbert McClinton, another American who was on the same bill with the Beatles in the early Sixties. ""It's chiseled in stone now that I taught Lennon how to play harmonica,"" McClinton said. ""John said, 'Show me something.' I was in a pretty unique position, because there just weren't a lot of people playing harmonica in popular music."" ""From Me to You"" was the first Beatles song to reach number one in Britain and is widely considered to be their"
"Only part one of that track was released on this LP. ""In the Beginning (Circa 1960)"" was also the only Beatles album not owned by EMI though Universal's purchase of Polydor and the Beatles' main catalogue put them under the same ownership. For a time, ""In the Beginning (Circa 1960)"" was the only Beatles album available on the iTunes Store until the full catalogue of the Beatles was made available in 2011, although it is not available for purchase any longer. All vocals by Tony Sheridan unless otherwise indicated. In the Beginning (Circa 1960) In the Beginning (Circa 1960) is"
"1968, Bryant frequently joined Bob Hope on holiday tours for the United Service Organizations. She again traveled with Hope for televised shows during the Vietnam War. Bryant was given the Silver Medallion Award from the National Guard for ""outstanding service by an entertainer,"" and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Leadership Gold Medallion. Bryant placed a total of 11 songs on the U.S. Hot 100, although most were at the bottom reaches of the chart. She had a moderate pop hit with ""Till There Was You"" (1959, US #30), from the Broadway production ""The Music Man"". She also saw three hits"
"not Lennon that was responsible for the break-up of The Beatles. McCartney blocked a proposed film version of the musical. John, Paul, George, Ringo ... and Bert John, Paul, George, Ringo … and Bert is a 1974 musical by Willy Russell based on the story of The Beatles. It premiered at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool in May 1974 where it ran for eight weeks and later moved to the Lyric Theatre in London in August 1974, where it ran for a year and was later named ""Best Musical of 1974"" by the Evening Standard Theatre Awards and London Critics'"
"if it is Katie Brayben (London) whereas Jessie Mueller (Broadway) needed piano lessons so she could mime. The Broadway cast album was recorded in February 2014 by Ghostlight Records and was released in digital form on April 1, 2014. It was in stores as of May 13, 2014. (The Broadway cast album includes the song ""You've Got a Friend"", although that song is not listed in the opening night playbill.) The album was also released on a vinyl format. Ben Brantley, reviewing for ""The New York Times"", called the musical a ""friendly, formulaic bio-musical"". He wrote that the musical shows"
"did not re-work the lyrics or music. ""Real Love"" remained solely credited to Lennon, becoming the only Beatles song to have Lennon by himself in the writing credit. Disc one contains three unreleased compositions, one being an instrumental entitled ""12-Bar Original"", recorded for ""Rubber Soul"" but subsequently unused. Two other songs recorded for ""Help!"", ""If You've Got Trouble"" and ""That Means a Lot"", were abandoned and never returned to again by the band. The former was originally slated to be the usual vocal spot for Ringo Starr on ""Help!"", and the latter was eventually given to singer P.J. Proby. The"
"to be recorded was George Harrison's ""Only a Northern Song"", taped in February 1967 but rejected for inclusion on ""Sgt. Pepper"". The group performed overdubs on this basic track in April, immediately after completing the stereo mixes for that album. Among the sounds added during what Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn describes as ""a curious session"", were trumpet, glockenspiel and spoken voices. Harrison's lyrics reflect his displeasure at being merely a contracted songwriter to the Beatles' publishing company, Northern Songs. ""All Together Now"" was recorded in a single session on 12 May 1967, specifically for the film project. The title came"
"bill, Starr was impressed with the response Orbison still commanded. Starr recalled, ""We would be backstage, listening to the tremendous applause he was getting. He was just doing it by his voice. Just standing there singing, not moving or anything."" The tour had a duration of three weeks, and ended on 9 June. From April to October 1963, when the Beatles starred on Val Parnell's ""Sunday Night at the London Palladium"", the UK's top variety show, the band had two further UK hit singles, ""From Me to You"" and ""She Loves You"", each successively building the excitement of Britain's teenagers."
"of the original London production was released. In 1967, RCA Victor released a recording of the all-black Broadway replacement cast, featuring Pearl Bailey, who also starred in the unrecorded 1975 revival. The movie soundtrack was released in 1969. On November 15, 1994, the 1994 revival cast recording was released. The 2017 Broadway Revival cast recording was released on May 12, 2017, featuring the songs now sung by Bette Midler, David Hyde Pierce, Kate Baldwin, and Gavin Creel. Hello, Dolly! (musical) Hello, Dolly! is a 1964 musical with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart. Based"
"model. At another point on the recording, the trumpets play part of Jeremiah Clarke's ""Prince of Denmark's March"". The Beatles' use of musical and lyrical quotations here pre-dates ""All You Need Is Love"", which was written by Lennon and recorded in June 1967 for the group's appearance on the ""Our World"" television broadcast. While noting the similar ideological theme behind the two compositions, Inglis writes of Harrison and Lennon ""presenting alternative accounts of the same subject"" in the manner of French Impressionists such as Monet, Renoir and Manet, each of whom painted their own interpretations of sites in Paris and"
"several productions in Europe in the 1990s. The 2009 Broadway revival included the ten-second ""Sheila Franklin"" and ""O Great God of Power"", two songs that were cut from the original production. The first recording of ""Hair"" was made in 1967 featuring the off-Broadway cast. The original Broadway cast recording received a Grammy Award in 1969 for Best Score from an Original Cast Show Album and sold nearly 3 million copies in the U.S. by December 1969. It charted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, the last Broadway cast album to do so (as of 2016). It stayed at No."
"of Honey"" was coincidentally recorded less than three weeks later by the Beatles for their 1963 debut album, ""Please Please Me"". ""Happy Days Are Here Again"" was released as Columbia single 42631 with ""When the Sun Comes Out"" on the b-side, but it did not chart. Notwithstanding, at the 1964 Grammy Awards, ""The Barbra Streisand Album"" won awards in the categories of Album of the Year, Best Female Vocal Performance, and Best Album Cover - Other Than Classical, the latter presented to art director John Berg. The only song recorded but not included on this album was ""Bewitched, Bothered and"
"UK, such as ""Eight Days a Week"" and ""Yesterday""). The UK version of the album comprised all 19 tracks from the 17 Beatles singles to top the UK Singles Chart (including both sides of the double A-sides ""Day Tripper""/""We Can Work It Out"" and ""Yellow Submarine""/""Eleanor Rigby"") plus the Beatles' first chart hit ""Love Me Do"", which peaked at number 17 in the UK. The versions of ""Love Me Do"" and ""She Loves You"" on the album were produced in ""simulated stereo"", leaving ""From Me to You"" as the only mono track on the compilation. Although many documentaries state that"