A Damsel in Distress > Film Soundtrack


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Show
A Damsel in Distress (3)
Music
George Gershwin (857)
Lyrics
Ira Gershwin (709)
Book
S.K. Lauren, Ernest Pagano (5), P.G. Wodehouse [1] (62)

Recording Details

Date
1937
Type
Audio / Film Cast
Language
English
Group/Studio
RKO Radio Pictures
Director
George Stevens (4)
Conductor
Alfred Newman (82)
Performer
Gracie Allen (11), Fred Astaire (346), Mario Berini (2)
Notes
Mario Berini dubs Reginald Gardiner
Shortcode
[r3493]

Tracks also appear on these releases / recordings

George and Ira Gershwin in Hollywood - 1996 Soundtrack Anthology A Foggy Day, I Can't Be Bothered Now, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Things Are Looking Up

Releases (5)

Format
8-CD
Label
History 203200
Released
2000-04-04
Barcode
4011222032003
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Also Contains
George Gershwin - Various Artists
Shall We Dance - 1937 Film Soundtrack
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim - 1947 Film Soundtrack
# Tracks
115
Length
401:39
Lists
9 collectors / 1 wish list
Shortcode
[rl17661]
Disc: 1
1. Variations on Fascinating Rhythm/Variations on Liza - George Gershwin
2. Second Prelude - George Gershwin
3. Interview - George Gershwin
4. I Got Rhythm - George Gershwin
5. Signature - George Gershwin
6. Of Thee I Sing (Overture) - George Gershwin
7. Man I Love - George Gershwin
8. I Got Rhythm - George Gershwin
9. Commercial - George Gershwin
10. Swanee/Sign-Off - George Gershwin
11. Signature - George Gershwin
12. Mine - George Gershwin
13. Variations on "I Got Rhythm" - George Gershwin
14. Love Is Sweeping the Country - George Gershwin
15. Commercial - George Gershwin
16. Wintergreen for President/Sign-Off - George Gershwin
17. Introduction/Summertime - George Gershwin, Abbie Mitchell
18. Woman Is a Sometime Thing - George Gershwin, Edward Matthews
19. Act I, Scene 1: Finale - George Gershwin
20. My Man's Gone Now - Ruby Elzy, George Gershwin
21. Bess, You Is My Woman Now - Anne Brown, Todd Duncan, George Gershwin
Disc: 2
1. Rhapsody in Blue - George Gershwin, Paul Whiteman Orchestra
2. Prelude, No. 1 - George Gershwin
3. Prelude, No. 2 - George Gershwin
4. Prelude, No. 3 - George Gershwin
5. Andante from Rhapsody in Blue - George Gershwin
6. American in Paris - Victor Symphony Orchestra
7. Second Rhapsody Rehearsal Performance - George Gershwin, The Orchestra
Disc: 3
1. You've Got What Gets Me [From Girl Crazy] - Mitzi Green, Dixie Lee, Eddie Quillan, RKO Studio Orchestra
2. Fascinating Rhythm [From Girl Crazy] - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Mickey Rooney
3. Embraceable You - Ralph Blane, Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Judy Garland, Henry Kruze
4. Boy! Look What Love Has Done to Me [Extended Version] - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra
5. Treat Me Rough [Extended Version] - June Allyson, Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, The Music Maids, Mickey Rooney
6. I Got Rhythm - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Trudy Erwin, Judy Garland, Hal Hopper, The Music Maids, Mickey Rooney, Six Hits and a Miss
7. Could You Use Me? - Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney
8. Ouverture Medley: Swanee/Somebody Loves Me/Fascinating Rhythm/Embr ... - Warner Bros. Orchestra
9. Swanee - Al Jolson
10. 135th Street Blues (Blue Monday) - John B. Hughes, Warner Bros. Studio Chorus
11. Summertime [Extended Version] - Ann Brown
12. Delishious [Extended Version] - Sally Sweetland
13. Third Prelude [Outtake] - Oscar Levant
Disc: 4
1. Shall We Dance (Ouverture) (Shall We Dance) - The Orchestra
2. Slap That Bass - Fred Astaire, , Chorus
3. (I've Got) Beginner's Luck - Fred Astaire, RKO Radio Orchestra, Nathaniel Shilkret
4. They All Laughed [With Extended Chorus] - Ginger Rogers
5. Let's Call the Whole Thing Off - Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
6. They Can't Take That Away from Me - Fred Astaire, RKO Radio Orchestra
7. Promenade (Walking the Dog) - RKO Radio Orchestra, Nathaniel Shilkret
8. Shall We Dance? - Fred Astaire
9. I Can't Be Bothered Now [From A Damsel in Distress] - Fred Astaire, RKO Radio Orchestra
10. Foggy Day - Fred Astaire, RKO Radio Orchestra
11. Nice Work If You Can Get It - Pearl Amatore, Fred Astaire, Mary Dean, Jan Duggen
12. Things Are Looking Up - Fred Astaire, Victor Baravalli, RKO Radio Orchestra
13. I Was Doing All Right [The Goldwyn Follies] - Ella Logan
14. Love Walked In [Artie Shaw Symphony in Swing][Outtake] - Samuel Goldwyn Studio Orchestra, Jon Hall, Edward B. Powell, Virginia Verrill
15. Oh, Lady Be Good - Artie Shaw & His Orchestra, Artie Shaw & His Orchestra
Disc: 5
1. Strike Up the Band [Broadway Rhythm] - Judy Garland, M-G-M Studio Chorus & Orchestra, Mickey Rooney, Six Hits and a Miss
2. Somebody Loves Me [Broadway Rhythm] - Lena Horne, MGM Studio Orchestra
3. Babbitt and the Bromide [Ziegfeld Follies of '46] - Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly
4. Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away) - Avon Long
5. Opening Music/Sweet Packard [The Shocking Miss Pilgrim]
6. Changing My Tune - Betty Grable
7. Stand Up and Fight - Chorus
8. Aren't You Kind of Glad We Did? - Betty Grable, Dick Haymes
9. Changing My Tune (Reprise) - Betty Grable
10. Back Bay Polka (But Not in Boston) - Betty Grable, Allyn Joslyn, Charles Kemper
11. One, Two, Three/Waltzing Is Better Sitting Down/Waltz Me No Waltzes - Betty Grable, Dick Haymes, Chorus
12. For You, For Me, For Evermore - Betty Grable, Dick Haymes
13. For You, For Me, For Evermore (Reprise) - Dick Haymes
14. Aren't You Kind of Glad We Did? (Finale) - Betty Grable, Dick Haymes
Disc: 6
1. Somebody Loves Me [From George White's Scandals of 1922] - Columbians [1]
2. I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise - Paul Whiteman Orchestra
3. Nashville Nightengale [Musical Nifties] - Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians
4. I Won't Say I Will (But I Won't Say I Won't) [The Frence Doll] - Irene Bordoni
5. Boy Wanted (The Rainbow Song) - Heather Thatcher
6. Song of the Flame [Oh, Kay!] - Tessa Kosta
7. Clap 'Yo Hands - Roger Wolfe Kahn & His Orchestra
8. Do, Do, Do - Gertrude Lawrence
9. Someone to Watch Over Me - Gertrude Lawrence
10. Fascinating Rhythm [Lady, Be Good!] - Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards, Paul Whiteman Orchestra
11. Oh, Lady Be Good [From Lady Be Good] - Paul Whiteman Orchestra
12. Funny Face - Adele Astaire, Fred Astaire
13. That Certain Feeling [Tip Toes] - Percival Mackey & His Band
14. Looking for a Boy - Roger Wolfe Kahn & His Orchestra
15. Sweet and Low-Down - Paul Whiteman Orchestra
16. Man I Love [From Strike Up the Band] - Vaughn DeLeath, Fred Rich and His Hotel Astor Orchestra
Disc: 7
1. My One and Only [From Funny Face] - Johnny Johnson and His Statler Pennsylvanians
2. 'S Wonderful [From Funny Face] - Victor Arden, Phil Ohman
3. Oh Gee! - Oh Joy! [From Strike Up the Band] - Ben Selvin Orchestra
4. Liza [From "Show Girl"] - Leo Reisman & His Orchestra
5. Soon [From Strike Up the Band] - Victor Arden, Phil Ohman and Their Orchestra
6. I Got Rhythm [From Girl Crazy] - Ethel Waters
7. Bidin' My Time [From Girl Crazy] - Blue Jeans
8. Sam and Delilah - Chick Bullock, Duke Ellington
9. My Cousin in Milwaukee - Lyda Roberti
10. Let 'Em Eat Cake [Let' Em Eat Cake] - Paul Whiteman Orchestra
11. Overture from of Thee I Sing - NBC Radio Orchestra
12. Who Cares? [Of Thee I Sing] - Victor Arden, Phil Ohman and Their Orchestra, Phil Ohman and Their Orchestra
13. Buzzard Song [From Porgy and Bess] - Lawrence Tibbett
14. I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' - Todd Duncan
15. Man I Love [From Strike Up the Band] - Lena Horne
Disc: 8
1. Somebody Loves Me [George White's Scandals of 1924] - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
2. I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise [From George White's Scandals of 1922 - Johnny Williams Swing Sextet
3. Summertime [From Porgy and Bess] - Billie Holiday
4. 'S Wonderful [From Funny Face] - Goodman Group, Benny Goodman Quartet
5. Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away) [From Show Girl][Version] - King Cole Trio
6. Who Cares? [Of Thee I Sing] - Fred Astaire
7. But Not for Me [From Girl Crazy] - Helen Forrest, Harry James & His Orchestra
8. Embraceable You - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Jo Stafford
9. But Not for Me - Ivan Ditmars, Judy Garland
10. Mine [Let 'Em Eat Cake] - Bing Crosby, Judy Garland
11. Aren't You Kind of Glad We Did? - Vaughn Monroe, Betty Norton
12. Man I Love [From Strike Up the Band] - Billie Holiday
13. Someone to Watch Over Me [Oh, Kay!][Live] - Frank Sinatra, Axel Stordahl & His Orchestra
14. Embraceable You [From Girl Crazy] - Charlie Parker Quintet
Title
The Sound Of The Movies: Ginger & Fred, Vol. 2
Format
2-CD
Label
Sound of the Movies 3105
Released
2000-04-04
Barcode
871163310523
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Also Contains
Carefree - 1938 Film Soundtrack
Flying Down to Rio - 1933 Film Soundtrack
Holiday Inn - 1942 Film Soundtrack
Roberta - 1935 Soundtrack
The Sky's The Limit - 1943 Film Soundtrack
Top Hat - 1935 Film Soundtrack
Lists
7 collectors / 0 wish lists
Shortcode
[rl17681]
Title
The Sound Of The Movies: Ginger & Fred, Vol. 2
Format
2-CD
Label
History 203105HI
Released
1999-08-23
Barcode
4011222031051
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Carefree - 1938 Film Soundtrack
Flying Down to Rio - 1933 Film Soundtrack
Holiday Inn - 1942 Film Soundtrack
Roberta - 1935 Soundtrack
The Sky's The Limit - 1943 Film Soundtrack
Top Hat - 1935 Film Soundtrack
Notes
Tracks from 'Dancing Lady'
# Tracks
29
Lists
6 collectors / 0 wish lists
Shortcode
[rl17650]
Disc 1: Flying Down To Rio
1. Music Makes Me
2. Carioca
3. Orchids In The Moonlight
4. Music Makes Me (Reprise)
5. Flying Down To Rio
6. End Titles
Roberta
7. Let's Begin
8. I'll Be Hard To Handle
9. I Won't Dance
Carefree
10. Overture
11. Since They Turned 'Loch Lomond' Into Swing
12. I Used To Be Color Blind
13. The Yam
14. Change Partners
15. Change Partners (Reprise)
16. Finale
Disc 2
Top Hat
1. No Strings
2. Isn't It A Lovely Day
3. Top Hat, White Tie And Tails
4. Cheek To Cheek
5. The Piccolino
6. Finale
A Damsel In Distress
7. I Can't Be Bothered Now
8. A Foggy Day
9. Nice Work If You Can Get It
10. Things Are Looking Up
Dancing Lady
11. Heigh-Ho
Holiday Inn
12. I Can't Tell A Lie
The Sky's The Limit
13. One For My Baby
Format
LP
Label
Curtain Calls 100/19
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The Sky's The Limit - 1943 Film Soundtrack
Lists
13 collectors / 2 wish lists
Shortcode
[rl3136]
Format
CD
Label
Past Perfect Vintage Music PPCD 76115
Released
1994
Country
UK
Barcode
5026554201156
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Also Contains
Follow the Fleet - 1936 Film Soundtrack
Fred Astaire: Songs From The Movies - Fred Astaire
Shall We Dance - 1937 Film Soundtrack
Swing Time - 1936 Film Soundtrack
Top Hat - 1935 Film Soundtrack
# Tracks
25
Lists
3 collectors / 0 wish lists
History
3 Revisions
Shortcode
[rl39519]
TOP HAT
1. No Strings
2. Isn't It A Lovely Day?
3. Top Hat, White Tie & Tails
4. Cheek To Cheek
5. The Piccolino
FOLLOW THE FLEET
6. We Saw The Sea
7. Let Yourself Go
8. I'd Rather Lead A Band
9. I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket
10. Let's Face The Music And Dance
SWING TIME
11. Pick Yourself Up
12. The Way You Look Tonight
13. A Fine Romance
14. Bojangles Of Harlem
15. Never Gonna Dance
SHALL WE DANCE
16. Beginner's Luck
17. Slap That Bass
18. They All Laughed
19. Let's Call The Whole thing Off
20. They Can't take That Away From Me
21. Shall We Dance?
A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS
22. I Can't Be Bothered Now
23. Things Are looking Up
24. A Foggy Day
25. Nice Work If You Can Get It

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