Ultimate Follies Playlist?

[Boredathome]

Posted: 11/24/11 at 7:51pm

So let's say I wanted to make a playlist with every piece from Follies that has been recorded including any incidental music/dialogue (which we have a lot of now thanks to PS Classics) and a full appendix (even more extensive than the Papermill recording.
Anyone want to take a stab at an Ultimate Follies Playlist? Off the top of my head I think the OLC has a few pieces that can't be found on any other recording, such as Country House, Social Dancing, and Make the Most of your Music.

[lizabombs]

Posted: 11/25/11 at 6:02pm

Here goes:

Prologue (Papermill)
Beautiful Girls (Concert)
Don't Look at Me (OBC)
Waiting for the Girls Upstairs (OBC)
Rain on the Roof/Ah Paris/Broadway Baby (2011)
The Road you Didn't Take (OBC)
Bolero D'Amour (Papermill)
In Buddy's Eyes (OBC)
Who's That Woman (2011)
I'm Still Here (OBC/Soundboard -- I've never really loved anyone else doing this but Yvonne DeCarlo)
Too Many Mornings (OBC)
The Right Girl (OBC/Soundboard)
One More Kiss (OBC)
Could I Leave You? (OBC)
Loveland (BBC concert)
You're Gonna Love Tomorrow/Love Will See Us Through (Concert)
Buddy's Blues (2011)
Losing My Mind (OBC)
The Story of Lucy and Jessie (2011)
Live, Laugh, Love (2011)

The extras:
Bring on the Girls (Papermill)
Can That Boy Foxtrot! (Papermill)
All Things Bright and Beautiful (I'm going with the "Marry Me a Little" one here, minus the "Bang!" interlude, because I find the singing on the Papermill totally grating)
Pleasant Little Kingdom (Scrabble album)
That Old Piano Roll (Papermill)
Who Could Be Blue/Little White House (Papermill)
Uptown/Downtown (Papermill)
It Wasn't Meant to Happen ("Marry Me a Little")
Country House ("Putting it Together")
Social Dancing (London)
Loveland (London)
Ah, But Underneath (London)
Make the Most of Your Music (London)

Instrumentals:
The World is Full of Boys/The World's Full of Girls (aka Operetta) ("Stavinsky")

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/25/11 at 6:12pm

Impossible. How could any two people agree?

Besides, no ultimate list could be truly ultimate without Nancy Walker's definitive "I'm Still Here" from the Scrabble album, which topped Yvonne DeCarlo's rendition, even to people (like me) who saw Yvonne DeCarlo:

http://youtu.be/l3CwCpwrV8M

[theeatah]

Posted: 11/25/11 at 6:22pm

Don't forget Brent Barrett's Make The Most Of Your Music and Michelle Pawk's It Wasn't Meant To Happen from The Stephen Sondheim album.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 11/25/11 at 6:59pm

Any list missing Donna McKechnie's "Losing My Mind" and "Lucy and Jessie" is an incorrect list.

[lizabombs]

Posted: 11/25/11 at 7:04pm

Don't forget Brent Barrett's Make The Most Of Your Music and Michelle Pawk's It Wasn't Meant To Happen from The Stephen Sondheim album.

I didn't forget them. I find the orchestrations on that album almost entirely intolerable.

[Boredathome]

Posted: 11/25/11 at 7:37pm

Wow. Great discussion guys. Now just for the poops and giggles here's a ridic question. If you were to put the songs from the appendix in the running order of the show as listed so well and completely by lizabombs, where would you put them?

[justoldbill]

Posted: 11/25/11 at 7:53pm

On a different playlist.

Here's my playlist-
1- Winter Garden soundboard- 1971.
2- Boston bootleg- 1971.
3- Los Angeles bootleg w/replacements Janet Blair and Edward Winter- 1972.

(That's it.)

Updated On: 11/25/11 at 07:53 PM

[wiggum2]

Posted: 11/26/11 at 6:28pm

after seeing Follies last weekend, I was thinking of making an ultimate playlist as well! Someone else mentioned the NYC and Boston soundboard and bootleg. If anyone knows more info about how to find them, could you PM me?

Gracias!

[binau]

Posted: 11/26/11 at 9:21pm

"Any list missing Donna McKechnie's "Losing My Mind" and "Lucy and Jessie" is an incorrect list."

Her Lucy and Jessie :S?

[ljay889]

Posted: 11/26/11 at 10:03pm

McKechnie actually played Phyllis in the BBC concert production that was aired on the radio.

[SondheimFan5]

Posted: 11/27/11 at 12:39am

Was "It Wasn't Meant to Happen" written for Phyllis? Do give some background.

[lizabombs]

Posted: 11/27/11 at 8:12pm

"It Wasn't Meant to Happen" was written for Sally. That's as much as I know.

[darreyl102]

Posted: 4/16/14 at 12:29am

Definitive? Really?

[FishermanBob]

Posted: 4/16/14 at 1:06am

You bumped a discussion that ended 3 years ago to post a silly GIF? Really?

[darreyl102]

Posted: 4/16/14 at 1:45am

Yep, just discovered the thread- and what's it to you?

[FishermanBob]

Posted: 4/16/14 at 2:41am

Thought it was kind of odd to revive a discussion that ended so long ago. But if you've got that kind of time and an insightful comment that enriches the discussion, have at it.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 4/16/14 at 7:04am

LOL @ FishemanBob...at first I thought you were "Losing Your Mind" (pun intended), but then I realized when I was replying to this message that I've blocked the poster you're questioning.

[FishermanBob]

Posted: 4/16/14 at 10:51am

Carlos, of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.