YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER [film]

Title

YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER [film]

Release Date

1942

Genre

film

Production and Recordings Information

1942 album by Fred Astaire of orig cast. MUSIC: Jerome Kern. WORDS: Johnny Mercer. COND: John Scott Trotter. (78/Dec album 346; ALB-344; ALB-1687. Incomplete: ALB-22, ALB-871. Excerpts: "Dearly Beloved" (ALB-1573, ALB-2300) "You Were Never Lovelier," "I'm Old Fashioned" (ALB-1573).)

1974 record sung by Johnny Mercer, lyricist. "You Were Never Lovelier" (ALB-1845)

Records by members of orig prod. Fred Astaire: "Dearly Beloved" (1959: ALB-481) Rita Hayworth: "I'm Old Fashioned" (1971 TV, with Merv Griffin: ALB-403, ALB-1463) Xavier Cugat Orch: "I'm Old Fashioned," "Dearly Beloved" (1942: 78/Col 36637) "You Were Never Lovelier" (1942: 78/Col 36660) "Chiu-Chiu" (1942: 78/Col 36651) Lina Romay: "Chiu-Chiu" (1951, with Guy Lombardo Orch: 45/Dec 9-27744)

Soundtrack. MUSIC & WORDS: mostly Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer. ORCH & COND: Leigh Harline. CAST: Fred Astaire, Nan Wynn (for Rita Hayworth), Lina Romay, Xavier Cugat Orch. (Curtain Calls 100/24; CD/Hollywood Soundstage 4005; both with Cover Girl. Excerpts: Wynn: "Dearly Beloved" Astaire, Wynn: "I'm Old Fashioned," "The Shorty George" (ALB-1463).)

Note

From: Show Music on Record by Jack Raymond

DigitalID

loc.natlib.smor.1942-3

Last Updated: 08-23-2012