On the town
By: Leonard Bernstein, music ; Betty Comden & Adolph Green, lyrics
Contributors: Comden, Betty, lyricist, performer; Green, Adolph, lyricist, performer; Walker, Nancy, 1922-1992, performer; Alexander, Cris, 1920-2012, performer; Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990, conductor; New York Philharmonic
Published: 1998
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] /
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Orchestral music; Excerpts; Musicals
Notes: Musical.

Originally released in 1959, 1961, 1964.

Compact disc.

Program notes inserted in container.

Goddard Lieberson, original album producer ; Irving Townsend, original producer (Overture) ; John McClure, original producer (Three dance episodes) ; Thomas Z. Shepard, reissue producer ; Joy Gilbert, product manager ; Eleanor Becker, editorial production.

Nancy Walker, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Cris Alexander, vocals ; with other cast members ; orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein.

Recorded May 31, 1960 at Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York, bonus tracks: Nov. 13 1958, at Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York and June 18, 1963, at Manhattan Center, New York.
Table of contents: title: Opening: New York, New York (11:27); title: Come up to my place (taxi number) (2:46); title: Carried away (3:00); title: Lonely town (6:44); title: Carnegie Hall (do-do-re-do) (2:36); title: I can cook, too (2:30); title: Lucky to be me (2:55); title: Dance : Times Square (4:03); title: Nightclub sequence (4:51); title: I understand (2:12); title: Ballet : the imaginary Coney Island (7:50); title: Some other time (4:22); title: Dance : the real Coney Island (5:27); title: Bonus tracks. Overture (orchestra conducted by Lehman Engel) (4:04); title: Three dance episodes from On the town. The great lover (1:45) ; Lonely town : pas de deux (3:23) ; Times Square : 1944 (4:38) (New York Philharmonic ; Leonard Bernstein, conductor).