This is the third volume of Rodgers and Hart we’ve released and it’s another complete delight, with a great cast including Nancy Andrews, Blossom Dearie, Johnny Desmond, Estelle Parsons, Anthony Perkins, Lynn Redgrave, and Arthur Siegel. The musical arrangements and musical direction are by long-time Bagley regular, Dennis Deal. There are, as always, lots of great Rodgers and Hart rarities, a treasure trove of great tunes with great lyrics. That is the joy of these albums, not hearing the tried and true, but hearing the neglected and unknown. Because Bagley did not add any extra songs for his original CD release, we’ve added an almost thirty-minute interview with composer Richard Rodgers (talking with Tony Thomas) – Rodgers is very candid, and also plays the piano several times. It’s an illuminating interview with one of the all-time greats of the musical theater and it fills out the running time to almost seventy-nine minutes.

As always, we’ve really spruced up the sound, and we of course give you the great Harvey Schmidt artwork. -KRITZERLAND

1 Nancy Andrews and the Men - It's a Lovely Day for a Murder / Mornings at Seven / How's Your Health (From Higher and Higher) 5:28
2 Lynn Redgrave & Anthony Perkins - Someone Should Tell Them (From A Connecticut Yankee) 3:14
3 Estelle Parsons & Nancy Andrews - Damsel Who Done All the Dirt (From The Girl Friend) 3:23
4 Anthony Perkins and the Men - Life Was Monotonous (From By Jupiter) 3:17
5 Arthur Siegel - Why Do I? (From The Girl Friend) 1:28
6 Estelle Parsons - I'm a Fool, Little One (From Present Arms) 2:19
7 Lynn Redgrave & Arthur Siegel - The Letter Song (Cut From the Film Love Me Tonight) 3:18
8 Blossom Dearie and the Men - We'll Be the Same (From America's Sweetheart) 3:39
9 Nancy Andrews and the Men - Where the Hudson River Flows / I'd Like to Hide It / The Hermits (From Dearest Enemy) 6:03
10 Johnny Desmond - Are You My Love? (From The Dancing Pirate) 2:55
11 Blossom Dearie and the Women - Nothing to Do But Relax (From By Jupiter) 4:00
12 Estelle Parsons - He Was Too Good for Me (Cut From Simple Simon) 2:31
13 Arthur Siegel - Women (From Jumbo) 1:52
14 Anthony Perkins - Who Are You? (From the Film Version of The Boys From Syracuse) 2:54
15 Lynn Redgrave and the Men - It's Just That Kind of Play (Cut From the Film Manhattan Melodrama) / Sky City (Cut From Heads Up) / I've Got to Get Back to New York (From the Film Hallelujah, I'm a Bum) 5:36
16 Richard Rodgers & Tony Thomas - Richard Rodgers Interviewed by Tony Thomas [bonus track] 25:24