The Playwrights (Part 1): Shakespeare Dominant There are limited options when it comes to songs referring to individual playwrights from the Lost and Found era (with some early '80s thrown in)...at least until you get to Bill Shakespeare. He emerges here...and remains triumphant until the end of the series. But there are still three sets of "the others," with Oscar Wilde standing out. Which he would in any company anyway.
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REQ:Request
BED:Bed
NEW:New Release
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Background music, in order: (1) Dick Hyman - "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" ("Cole Porter: All Through The Night," Musicmasters 1991) (2) Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - "Backstage Sally" ("Buhaina's Delight," Blue Note 1963 (3) Tal Farlow Quartet - "Lover" ("Tai Farlow Quartet," Blue Note 1954) (4) Sonny Rollins - "There's No Business Like Show Business" ("Worktime," Prestige (US) / Esquire (UK) (5) George Wright - "There's No Business Like Show Business" ("George Wright's Showtime," HiFi (US) / Vogue (UK) 1956) (6) Enoch Light and His Orchestra - "There's No Business Like Show Business" ("Enoch Light And His Orchestra At Carnegie Hall Play Irving Berlin," Command 1962) (7) Jon Keating - "The Show Must Go On" ("Hit in Hi-Fi 1," EMI 1974)
Other playwrights mentioned besides Oscar Wilde: Brendan Behan, Sean O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Eugene O'Neill, Edna O'Brien and Laurence Sterne
[Recorded at "The Barn," Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 3/3/1979 / Original studio version on "Muswell Hillbillies," RCA Victor 1971] • (Arista, 1980)
