1st RECORDING OF: A Taste Of Honey Bobby Scott (1960 3 instrumental tracks)
The LP cover reads: Bobby Scott plays his original music for A Taste Of Honey produced on Broadway by David Merrick. The 1960 Broadway version (starring Angela Lansbury) of the 1958 British play was embellished by a musical score written by musician, songwriter, record producer Scott. He won a Grammy for composing the song A Taste Of Honey, also cowrote He Aint Heavy, Hes My Brother, and had a vocal record hit in 1956 called Chain Gang (not the Sam Cooke here: ) On this 1960 Atlantic LP Bobby performed on piano and conducted the orchestra. Three separate tracks feature the famous theme and are included in this post: 1) First Act Theme at 0:00, 2) Refrain at 2:36, 3) Closing Theme at 5:33. First and third are slow stringladen versions, the middle track is a more jazzy mediumtempo treatment. Tracks first appeared on Atlantic LP 1355 A Taste Of Honey (Scott) by Bobby Scott, recorded October 1960 br, br,
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