Noel Coward - Noel Coward At Las Vegas (1955) (Vinyl Lp) - €7,00

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Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

Coward attended a dance academy in London as a child, making his professional stage début at the age of eleven. 

As a teenager he was introduced into the high society in which most of his plays would be set. 

Coward achieved enduring success as a playwright, publishing more than 50 plays from his teens onwards. 

Many of his works, such as Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Present Laughter, and Blithe Spirit, have remained in the regular theatre repertoire. 

He composed hundreds of songs, in addition to well over a dozen musical theatre works (including the operetta Bitter Sweet and comic revues), screenplays, poetry, several volumes of short stories, the novel Pomp and Circumstance, and a three-volume autobiography. 

Coward's stage and film acting and directing career spanned six decades, during which he starred in many of his own works, as well as those of others.

During the summer of 1955, Noel Coward, that doyen of English style, made a splash in Las Vegas, that flashiest of resort towns. 

Coward's one-month engagement at Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn sparked a mass exodus from Hollywood to his standing-room-only performances, by celebrities ranging from Humphrey Bogart to Frank Sinatra. 

Columbia head Goddard Lieberson soon headed to Nevada as well (with recording equipment in tow), and Coward, while fighting a touch of flu in the 116-degree heat, delivered one of his finest performances in front of the microphones. 

What amazes about Coward's show is his ability to convey with no detectable effort all of the nimble diction and convivial grace necessary to perform these intricate songs in a live setting -- not a syllable out of place, not a line delivered but with ease and precision. 

And contrary to assumption, Coward did in fact share much with his audience; he leaves his audience absolutely cackling in glee at the English stuffed shirts who populate his comic pieces "Uncle Harry," "A Bar on the Piccola Marina" (written quite recently), and, of course, his classic "Mad Dogs and Englishmen." 

A vocal masterpiece, Noel Coward at Las Vegas is without doubt the master's finest appearance on record.

Side one

1. Medley

    (a) I’ll See You Again

    (b) Dance, Little Lady

    (c) Poor Little Rich Girl

    (d) A Room With A View

    (e) Someday I’ll Find You

    (f) I’ll Follow My Secret Heart

    (g) If Love Were All

    (h) Play, Orchestra, Play

2.  Uncle Harry

3.  Loch Lomond

4.  A Bar On The Piccola Marina

5.  World Weary

6.  Nina

Side two

1.  Mad Dogs And Englishmen

2.  Matelot

3.  Alice Is At It Again

4.  A Room With A View

5.  Let’s Do It

6.  The Party’s Over Now

Companies, etc.

• Copyright © – Columbia Records
• Recorded At – The Desert Inn

Credits

• Conductor – Carlton Hayes
• Liner Notes, Producer – Goddard Lieberson
• Orchestra – Carlton Hayes And His Orchestra
• Piano, Arranged By – Peter Matz
• Written-By – Cole Porter (tracks: B5), Noel Coward (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to B4, B6)

© 1955 Columbia Records

Recorded in actual performance at Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn

Made In USA

Notes

Released:  Oct 1955

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album

Genre:  Stage & Screen

Style:  Music Hall

Label:  Philips ‎

Catalog#  BBL.7108

Vinyl:  Goed (Excellent)

Cover:  Lichte Gebruikerssporen (VG)

Prijs: €7,00