FREE AS AIR (Reynolds-Slade-Slade)
1. PIANO SELECTION from "Free As Air" - Julian Slade at the piano 6:17
2. I'M UP EARLY - Patricia Bredin 3:59
3. LET THE GRASS GROW - Roy Godfrey, Howard Goorney & Michael Aldridge 2:56
4. NOTHING BUT SEA AND SKY - Gillian Lewis 3:41
5. THE BOAT'S IN – Company 1:30
6. A MAN FROM THE MAINLAND - Patricia Bredin 3:58
7. FREE AS AIR - John Trevor, Gillian Lewis 2:55
8. HER MUMMY DOESN'T LIKE ME ANY MORE - Gerald Harper 3:01
9. THE GIRL FROM LONDON - Company 4:09
10. A MAN FROM THE MAINLAND (Reprise) - Company 1:02
11. I'D LIKE TO BE LIKE YOU - John Trevor & Gillian Lewis 3:27
12. TESTUDO - Roy Godfrey, Patricia Bredin, Vincent Charles 3:10
13. I'VE GOT MY FEET ON THE GROUND - Patricia Bredin & Gerald Harper 3:44
14. HOLIDAY ISLAND - Josephine Tewson, Gillian Lewis, Gerald Harper 4:46
15. GERALDINE - Malcolm Farquhar, Len Rossiter & Raymond Parks 2:06
16. WE'RE HOLDING HANDS - Howard Goorney & Dorothy Reynolds 2:26
17. TERHOU - Patricia Bredin 3:40
18. LET THE GRASS GROW (Reprise) – Company 1:01
Bonus Tracks:
19. ONE, TWO, THREE, ONE - Eleanor Drew & Harry Dawson 2:56
20. HE'S GOT ABSOLUTELY NOTHING - Eleanor Drew 3:57
21. DOH REH ME - Eleanor Drew & James Cairncross 3:28
22. (i) SHOULD HE UPBRAID - Jane Wenham
(ii) PACK CLOUDS AWAY - Harry Dawson, James Cairncross, Eleanor Drew & John Neville
(iii) COLD'S THE WIND - Eleanor Drew, James Cairncross, John Neville & Harry Dawson
(iv) HEY NONNY NO - Eleanor Drew, James Cairncross, Harry Dawson & John Neville 6:29
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Title:
Free
As
Air
Artist:
Original
London
Cast
-
Gerald
Harper,
Patricia
Bredin,
John
Trevor,
Gillian
Lewis
Catalogue
No:
SEPIA
1102
Barcode:
5055122111023
Release
Date:
5
November
2007
Free
As
Air
was
composer
Julian
Slade
and
Dorothy
Reynolds'
next
collaboration
following
the
enormous
success
of
Salad
Days.
Set
in
the
mythical
island
of
Terhou
in
the
Channel
Islands,
it
involved
a
runaway
heiress
who
arrives
on
the
island
to
flee
an
unwanted
suitor.
She
is
welcomed
by
the
islanders
who
crown
her
their
Queen
at
the
island's
Coronation
Ceremony
and
she
ends
up
falling
in
love
with
an
islander.
Free
As
Air
went
straight
into
London's
Savoy
Theatre
in
June
1957
where
it
played
for
417
performances.
The
London
cast
had
the
main
roles
performed
by
Gillian
Lewis,
Gerald
Harper,
John
Trevor,
Patricia
Bredin
and
Josephine
Tewson.
The
cast
recording
of
Free
As
Air
has
not
been
available
for
a
long
time
and
we
are
delighted
to
be
releasing
it
on
CD
for
the
first
time.
As
the
overture
was
not
recorded
for
the
cast
recording,
we
have
used
a
piano
selection
of
the
score
performed
by
Julian
Slade
as
an
introduction
on
this
CD
issue.
For
additional
bonus
tracks
we
have
chosen
other
Julian
Slade
songs
written
while
he
was
at
Cambridge
and
as
resident
composer
for
the
Bristol
Old
Vic
Company.
‘One,
Two
Three,
One'
was
the
first
waltz
song
written
by
the
young
Julian
Slade
while
‘He's
got
absolutely
nothing'
comes
from
Julian's
second
Musical
Lady
May.
‘Doh
Reh
Me'
was
originally
written
for
the
Bristol
Old
Vic
show
Christmas
in
King
Street
which
was
later
to
have
its
setting
altered
to
London
where
it
became
Follow
That
Girl
in
1960.
The
Comedy
of
Errors
from
which
we
hear
‘Should
he
upbraid',
was
originally
written
for
television
in
1954.
Keeping
with
Julian's
Shakespeare
compositions
we
have
two
songs
(‘Pack
clouds
away'
and
‘Hey
nonny
no')
from
his
settings
of
traditional
songs
for
the
Bristol
Old
Vic
production
of
Two
Gentlemen
of
Verona.
To
complete
our
bonus
tracks
we
have
‘Cold's
the
wind'
from
the
Bristol
Old
Vic's
production
of
Thomas
Dekker's
Elizabethan
classic
The
Shoemaker's
Holiday
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