Down With Love a la Audra McDonald...Sheet music??

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Down With Love a la Audra McDonald...Sheet music??

Posted: 3/1/07 at 12:42am

Does anyone know of how or where I can get a copy of the version of Arlen's "Down with Love" that Audra McDOnald does on the Broadway Leading Ladies dvd?

I am extremely interested in doing it.

And any information on the show it's from "Hooray for What?" would ALSO be helpful!

thank you...and please help all you super awesome people!!
_Stephanie

and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...

re: Down With Love a la Audra McDonald...Sheet music??

Posted: 3/1/07 at 12:48am

That version she did was first done by Barbra Streisand on one of her early TV Specials. If I remember which one I'll let you know. That might help in tracking down music for it?

<-- Tevye, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, March 2018

re: Down With Love a la Audra McDonald...Sheet music??

Posted: 3/1/07 at 12:58am

ahh, thank you.

I know Kristy Cates did it recently as well...

ahh, this would be better if I didn't need it by Friday!! lol.

and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...

re: Down With Love a la Audra McDonald...Sheet music??

Posted: 3/1/07 at 1:10am

i don't actually know if the sheet music for it in that specific form is in print (at least for purchase).

All the people I know that have performed it have transcribed it (and usually from Bab's original recording).

The sheet music for the song Down With Love in it's original form shouldn't be too hard to find, then it's juat a matter of peicing it together with all the musical quotes from other songs/musicals.

re: Down With Love a la Audra McDonald...Sheet music??

Posted: 3/1/07 at 8:31am

The song itself is available in a Harold Arlen songbook and pretty easily available. If you need it in that key/arrangement, you're going to have to have it transcribed. I seriously doubt that it's published.

re: Down With Love a la Audra McDonald...Sheet music??

Posted: 3/1/07 at 9:08am

Babs sang it at her Central Park concert...

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

re: Down With Love a la Audra McDonald...Sheet music??

Posted: 3/1/07 at 10:32am

Barbra sang her arrangement of Down with Love on the Judy Garland show in 1964 (the same episode that featured Judy, Ethel Merman, and Barbra singing "There no Business).

Barbra also recorded this on "The Second Barbra Streisand Album."

It is far superior to Audra's.

re: Down With Love a la Audra McDonald...Sheet music??

Posted: 3/1/07 at 2:14pm

"It is far superior to Audra's."

In your opinion.

"This ocean runs more dark and deep than you may think you know...I'll be the fear of the fire at sea." -Marie Christine

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