Funny Face > Original London Cast

Show Details

Show: Funny Face (6)
Music: George Gershwin (859)
Lyrics: Ira Gershwin (709)
Book: Paul Gerard Smith (5), Fred Thompson (27)

Recording Details

Date: 1928
Type: Audio / Stage Cast
Language: English
Location: UK / England / London
Theatre/Venue: Prince's Theatre
Conductor: Julian Jones (5)
Performer: Adele Astaire (28), Fred Astaire (346), Bernard Clifton (5), Leslie Henson (17), Sydney Howard (4), James Melton (18)
Shortcode: [r1516]

Releases (3)

Format: LP
Label: Monmouth Evergreen MES/7037
Released: 1971-10
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Also Contains: My One and Only / Funny Face/'S Wonderful - 1928 George Gershwin
Oh Gee! Oh Gosh! / The Whichness of the Whatness - 1923 Fred & Adele Astaire
Producer: Bill Borden (12)
Mastering: Fred Christie (3) -- Remastering Engineer
Package Design: Norman Batley -- Cover Design
Liner Notes: Peter Orchard (5)
Lists: 10 collectors / 0 wish lists
History: 2 Revisions
Shortcode: [rl29088]

Format: LP
Label: World Record Club SH 144
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Also Contains: My One and Only / Funny Face/'S Wonderful - 1928 George Gershwin
Oh Gee! Oh Gosh! / The Whichness of the Whatness - 1923 Fred & Adele Astaire
Notes: Includes recordings of Gershwin playing his own works.
# Tracks: 16
Lists: 24 collectors / 0 wish lists
Shortcode: [rl12142]

Funny Face OLC
1. Funny Face
2. The Babbit And The Bromide
3. He Loves And She Loves
4. 'SWonderful
5. My One and Only
6. High Hat
7. A Few Drinks - Sketch
8. Tell The Doc
Gershwin Plays
9. Funny Face & 'SWonderful
10. My One and Only
11. Looking For A Boy
12. Sweet and Low Down
13. That Certain Feeling
14. When Do We Dance
'Stop Flirting' OLC 1923 (Daly & Lanin ) Fred & Adele Astaire
15. Oh Gee! Oh Gosh!
16. The Whichness of the Whatness

Format: LP
Label: Smithsonian R-019
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Lists: 22 collectors / 7 wish lists
Shortcode: [rl1165]

01. Prologue: 'S Wonderful / Funny Face -- Duo-pianists Victor Arden & Phil Ohman and Orchestra
02. Funny Face -- Fred and Adele Astaire
03. High Hat -- Fred Astaire and Chorus
04. 'S Wonderful -- Adele Astaire and Bernard Clifton
05. A Few Drinks (scene) -- Leslie Henson & Sydney Howard
06. Entr'acte medley -- Duo-pianists Victor Arden & Phil Ohman and Orchestra with The Revelers (Lewis James, James Melton, Elliott Shaw, Wilfred Glenn)
07. He Loves and She Loves -- Adele Astaire and Bernard Clifton
08. Tell the Doc -- Leslie Henson and Male Quartet
09. My One and Only -- George Gershwin, piano
10. My One and Only (reprise) -- Fred Astaire
11. The Babbitt and the Bromide -- Fred and Adele Astaire
12. Reprise: Funny Face / 'S Wonderful -- George Gershwin, piano