One Touch of Venus > Original Broadway Cast

Show Details

Show: One Touch of Venus (11)
Music: Kurt Weill (341)
Lyrics: Ogden Nash (59)
Book: Ogden Nash (59), S.J. Perelman (6)

Recording Details

Date: 1943
Type: Audio / Stage Cast
Language: English
Location: US / NY / New York
Director: Elia Kazan (2)
Choreography: Agnes de Mille (23)
Conductor: Maurice Abravanel (11)
Performer: Kenny Baker [1] (31) — Rodney Hatch, Mary Martin (179) — Venus
Shortcode: [r1366]

Tracks also appear on these releases / recordings

	Front Row Center - 1996 Compilation Album	Speak Low, That's Him
	American Songbook Series: Kurt Weill - 1995 Smithsonian Collection of Recordings	That's Him

Releases (2)

Format: CD
Label: MCA MCAD-11354
Released: 1996-03-12
Barcode: 0008811135423
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Also Contains: Lute Song - 1946 Mary Martin
Notes: Liner notes by Max O. Preeo
Lists: 94 collectors / 6 wish lists
Shortcode: [rl1015]

1. One Touch Of Venus: I'm A Stranger Here Myself
2. One Touch Of Venus: Forty Minutes For Lunch-Ballet
3. One Touch Of Venus: Westwind
4. One Touch Of Venus: Foolish Heart
5. One Touch Of Venus: The Trouble With Women
6. One Touch Of Venus: Speak Low ( When You Speak, Love)
7. One Touch Of Venus: That's Him Mary Martin
8. One Touch Of Venus: Wooden Wedding
9. One Touch Of Venus: Venus In Ozone Heights
10. One Touch Of Venus: Finaletto:Speak Low
11. Lute Song: Mountain High
12. Lute Song: Imperial March
13. Lute Song: See The Monkey
14. Lute Song: Where You Are
15. Lute Song: Vision Song/Bitter Harvest
16. Lute Song: Dirge

Title: Kurt Weill: From Berlin to Broadway, Volume 1
Format: 2-CD
Label: Pearl GEMM CDS 9189
Released: 1996-01-23
Barcode: 727031918929
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Also Contains: Die Dreigroschenoper - 1930 Studio Cast (Lotte Lenya)
Knickerbocker Holiday - 1938 Walter Huston
Lady in the Dark - 1941 Gertrude Lawrence
Notes: Also contains DIE DREIGROSCHENOPER (THE THREEPENNY OPERA) (1928-1931 recordings); HAPPY END (Lotte Lenya, 1929); THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY (1931-1932); DER SILBERSEE (1933); KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY (Walter Huston's 1938 studio recordings); ONE TOUCH OF VENUS (1943 Decca recordings); Six Kurt Weill songs sung by Lotte Lenya (1942/1943).
# Tracks: 54
Length: 2:35:27
Lists: 18 collectors / 3 wish lists
Shortcode: [rl6342]

CD 1
Die Dreigroschenoper
1. Ballade von angenehmen Leben
2. Zweiter Dreigroschenfinale: Ballade uber die frage "wovon lebt der Mensch?"
3. Die Songs der Dreigroschenoper
Die Dreigroschenoper
4. Overture
5. Moritat von Mackie Messer
6. Ballade von angenehmen Leben
7. Liebeslied
8. Kanonensong
9. Seerauber - Jenny
10. Ernster Dreigroschenfinale
11. Barbarasong
12. Eifersuchtsduett
13. Abschied . . . Zweiter Dreigro-schenfinale
14. Zuhalterballade
15. Lied von der Unzulanglichkeit menschlichen Strebens
16. Moritat
17. Schlusschoral
18. Moritat von Mackie Messer
19. Lied von der Unzulanglichkeit menslichen Strebens
Kleine Dreigroschenmusik
20. Moritat von Mackie Messer
21. Die Ballade vom angenehmen Leben
22. Tango - Ballade
23. Kanonensong
Happy End
24. Bilbao Song
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny
25. Alabama Song
26. Mahagonny
Der Silbersee
27. Das Lied von Schlaraffenland
28. Der Backer backt ums Morgenrot
Knickerbocker Holiday
29. September Song - Walter Huston (1938 - Brunswick 8272)
CD 2
Knickerbocker Holiday
1. The Scars Walter Huston (1938 - Brunswick 8272)
Lady in the Dark
2. Glamour Music Medley incl. Oh Fabulous One; Huxley; Girl of the Moment
3. One Life to Live
4. This Is New
5. The Princess of Pure Delight
6. It's Never Too Late to Mendelssohn
7. Tchaikovsky (and Other Russians)
8. The Saga of Jenny
9. My Ship
One Touch of Venus
10. I'm a Stranger Here Myself
11. Ballet: Forty Minutes for Lunch
12. Westwind
13. Foolish Heart
14. The Trouble with Women
15. Speak Low
16. That's Him
17. Wooden Wedding
18. Ballet: Venus in Ozone Heights
19. Finaletto: Speak Low
Six Songs by Kurt Weill Interpreted by Lotte Lenya
20. Ulysses Africanus: Lost in the Stars
21. Ulysses Africanus: Lover Man
22. Marie Galante: J'attends un navire
23. Complainte de la Seine
24. Happy End: Surabaya Johnny
25. Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny: Den wie man sich bettet