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HOUSE OF FLOWERS [musical show]
- Title
- HOUSE OF FLOWERS [musical show]
- Opening Date
- December 30, 1954
- Genre
- musical show
- Production and Recordings Information
- Orig prod. MUSIC: Harold Arlen. WORDS: Truman Capote, Harold Arlen. ORCH: Ted Royal. COND: Jerry Arlen. CAST: Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll, Juanita Hall, Rawn Spearman, Ada Moore, Enid Mosier, Dolores Harper, Miriam Burton. (Col OL-4969; CD/Col SK-86857, with addl material (ALB-2107); CD/CBS A-2320. Excerpts: Mosier, Moore: "Two Ladies in de Shade of de Banana Tree" (ALB-830) Carroll, Harper, Moore, Mosier: "A Sleepin' Bee" (ALB-1119, ALB-1180) Bailey: "Don't Like Goodbyes" (ALB-1502) "What Is a Friend for?" Carroll: "I Never Has Seen Snow" (ALB-1488).)
- 1955 "premium" record of Truman Capote (book & lyrics) reading his short story "House of Flowers." (Col 10" mx 12508/9. Excerpt: "Ottilie and the Bee" (ALB-2107).)
- 1968 prod. ORCH & COND: Joseph Raposo. CAST: Josephine Premice, Yolande Bavan, Robert Jackson, Thelma Oliver, Hope Clarke, Charles Moore, Novella Nelson, Tom Helmore, Carla Pinza. (United Artists 5180; CD/Kritzerland 20012-6.)
- Album. COND: Fred Waring. VOCALS: Gordon Goodman, Frank Davis, chorus. (45/Dec album ED-2182)
- Records by Harold Arlen, composer. "Two Ladies in de Shade of de Banana Tree" (1955, vocal: ALB-101) "A Sleepin' Bee" (Demo record made for Truman Capote: ALB-2107) (1966, vocal: ALB-60, ALB-563) "I Never Has Seen Snow" (1955, piano & vocal: ALB-192, ALB-2203) "House of Flowers Waltz" (1955, piano: ALB-192) "Can I Leave Off Wearin' My Shoes?" (1955, vocal with June Ericson: ALB-59, ALB-352)
- Records by members of orig prod. Pearl Bailey: "House of Flowers," "A Sleepin' Bee," "Two Ladies in de Shade of de Banana Tree" (1961: ALB-260) Enid Mosier: "Two Ladies in de Shade of de Banana Tree" (1956: ALB-2107, ALB-2319) Diahann Carroll: "A Sleepin' Bee" (1956: ALB-1502)
- Note
- From: Show Music on Record by Jack Raymond
- DigitalID
- loc.natlib.smor.19541230
Last Updated: 08-23-2012