Stop The World I Want To Get Off
Louise
Gold starred as: Evie, Anya, Ilse and Miss Ginnie Romain, recorded on
27 & 28 February & 1 March 1995 at Abbey Road Studios.
Catalogue number: (CD) CDTER 1226, (Musicals
Collection CD) MUS C N38
This album is also available on itunes
Cast
Little
Chap - Mike Holoway
Evie (also:
Anya, Ilse, and Ginnie Romain) - Louise Gold
Susan - Katrina
Murphy
Jane - Leigh-Ann
Regan
Girls - Danielle
Carson, Joanne Farrell, Michelle Fine and Lindsay Hamilton
with The
NSO Ensemble conducted by Martin Yates.
Production Team
Book,
Music and Lyrics - Leslie Bricusse and
Orchestrations
- Ian Fraser, David Lindup, Burt Rhondes and Gordon
Longford.
Produced
by - John Yap
Sleeve notes
- Rexton S Bunnet
Track Listing
CD: CDTER1226
1. Overture
-Orchestra
2. ABC Song - Chorus
3. I Wanna Be Rich
- Littlechap, Girls (Mike Holoway, with: Danielle Carson, Joanne
Farrell, Michelle Fine and Lindsay Hamilton)
4. Typically English
- Evie, Littlechap, Girls (Louise Gold and Mike Holoway, with Danielle
Carson, Joanne Farrell, Michelle Fine and Lindsay Hamilton)
5. Lumbered -
Littlechap (Mike Holoway)
6. Susan's Birth
- Chorus
7. Lumbered (Reprise)
- Littlechap, Evie (Mike Holoway and Louise Gold)
8. Welcome To Slugepool
- Chorus
9. Gonna Build A Mountain
- Littlechap, Girls (Mike Holoway, with: Danielle Carson, Joanne
Farrell, Michelle Fine and Lindsay Hamilton)
10. Jane's Birth
- Chorus
11.
12. Melinka Melchick
- Littlechap, Anya, Girls (Mike Holoway and Louise Gold, with: Danielle
Carson, Joanne Farrell, Michelle Fine and Lindsay Hamilton)
13. Family Fugue
- Littlechap, Evie, Susan (Mike Holoway, Louise Gold, and Katrina
Murphy)
14. Typiche Deutche
- Ilse, Chorus (Louise Gold)
15. Family Fugue (Reprise)
- Littlechap, Evie, Susan, Jane, Chorus (Mike Holoway, Louise Gold,
Katrina Murphy and Leigh-Ann Regan)
16. Nag, Nag, Nag
- Littlechap, Evie, Susan, Jane, Chorus (Mike Holoway, Louise Gold,
Katrina Murphy and Leigh-Ann Regan)
17. Typiche Deutche (Reprise)
- Ilse (Louise Gold)
18. Nag, Nag, Nag (Reprise)
- Littlechap, Evie, Susan, Jane, Chorus (Mike Holoway, Louise Gold,
Katrina Murphy and Leigh-Ann Regan)
19. Entr'acte -
Orchestra
20.
21. All American
- Ginnie (Louise Gold)
22. All American (Reprise)
- Ginnie (Louise Gold)
23. Once In A Lifetime
- Littlechap, Girl (Mike Holoway)
24. Mumbo Jumbo
- Littlechap, Chorus (Mike Holoway)
25. Once In A Lifetime (Reprise) -
Littlechap, Chorus (Mike Holoway)
26. Welcome To Sunvale
- Littlechap (Mike Holoway)
27. Someone Nice Like You
- Evie, Littlechap (Louise Gold and Mike Holoway)
28. What Kind Of Fool Am I?
- Littlechap, Chorus (Mike Holoway)
29. March Out Music
- Orchestra
It is worth noting that the track listing on the CD
sleeve notes are incorrect, it only lists 24 tracks, and putting several
numbers down as being on the same track when in fact they are on separate
tracks. The above listing is correct (at least with regards to songs on
tracks).
Musicals Collection CD: MUS C N38
1. ABC Song - Chorus
2. I Wanna Be Rich
- Littlechap, Girls (Mike Holoway, with: Danielle Carson, Joanne
Farrell, Michelle Fine and Lindsay Hamilton)
3. Typically English
- Evie, Littlechap, Girls (Louise Gold and Mike Holoway, with Danielle
Carson, Joanne Farrell, Michelle Fine and Lindsay Hamilton)
4. Lumbered -
Littlechap (Mike Holoway)
5. Gonna Build A Mountain
- Littlechap, Girls (Mike Holoway, with: Danielle Carson, Joanne
Farrell, Michelle Fine and Lindsay Hamilton)
6. Glorious Russian
- Orchestra / Anya, Chrous (Louise Gold)
7. Typiche Deutche
- Ilse, Chorus (Louise Gold)
8. Nag, Nag, Nag
- Littlechap, Evie, Susan, Jane, Chorus (Mike Holoway, Louise Gold,
Katrina Murphy and Leigh-Ann Regan)
9. All American
- Ginnie (Louise Gold)
10. Once In A Lifetime
- Littlechap, Girl (Mike Holoway)
11. Mumbo Jumbo
- Littlechap, Chorus (Mike Holoway)
12. What Kind Of Fool Am I?
- Littlechap, Chorus (Mike Holoway)
Louise Gold, and Mike Holoway’s recording of Typically English found
its way onto the album The Great
Musicals – Dashing Heroes, Blushing Maidens, which also features Danielle Carson, Lindsay Hamilton, and, Katrina
Murphy, and of course the National
Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martin
Yates.
An excerpt of Mike Holoway’s recording of What
Kind Of Fool Am I ? managed to find its way onto The History Of The Musical. The whole
of that song also appears on Simply Musicals.
While recording this album by day, Louise Gold
was appearing in Noel/Cole: Let's Do It at Richmond
Theatre by night. But from her performance in the album you would never
have known it.
Louise Gold and Mike Holoway
had previously both appeared in The Pirates Of Penzance.
Louise Gold and Michelle Fine
had previously appeared together in Merrily We Roll Along (Stage Production) and Assassins, and on the
Leicester Cast’s Merrily We Roll
Along (Recording)
Louise Gold and Katrina Murphy
also appeared with the NSO Ensemble on the JAY/TER recordings of On The
Town and Anything Goes (recording) - Website
Recommended Album.
Danielle Carson is a regular in The
Lost Musicals, appearing with Louise Gold in: By Jupiter, Du Barry Was A Lady (1993) and Red Hot & Blue. They have
also appeared together on the commercial stage in Anything Goes
Louise Gold had previously appeared
in a one night concert staging of Martin Yates’s musical The Soap Opera.
Martin Yates’s recording credits with
the NSO also include the JAY/TER recording, produced by John
Yap The Best Of Broadway Musicals , Encore The Very Best From The
Musicals , Great Duets From The
Musicals, Cole Porter - Night And
Day, Simply Musicals, The Greatest Musicals of
the 20th Century, The Great
Musicals - Wonderful Tales, The Great
Musicals – Glamour And Majesty, The Great
Musicals – Laughter And Tears, and, Centre
Stage Showtime!.
Katrina Murphy also features on Encore The Very Best From The
Musicals , Great Duets From The
Musicals, Cole Porter - Night And
Day, Simply Musicals, and, The Great Musicals – Glamour And Majesty.
Lindsay Hamilton also features on Encore The Very Best From The
Musicals, and, The Great Musicals –
Glamour And Majesty.
The NSO are also featured on the JAY/TER
recording of Cabaret produced by John Yap with
sleeve notes by Rexton S Bunnet.
Sleeve note writer Rexton S Bunnet was also the
researcher for Ned Sherrin’s Review Of Revue.
Michelle Fine may have
previously appeared in Dear Ralph.
Lyricist Anthony
Newley can be heard singing on The Great
Musicals – Laughter And Tears.
Some 5 years after recording the song, the singer
playing Anya went on the have a Melinka Melchick of her own.
Review
by Emma Shane
I
have to say that I am totally amazed, particularly by Evie’s accents. If I
hadn’t known who it was I wouldn’t even have recognised her!
Versatile
Louise Gold seems to be able to do as many different sorts of accents as
Irving Berlin could write different types of tunes! I know she’s good at
accents, but this is... Really UNBELIEVABLE !
The
English accent was done entirely without trace of any of her distinguishing
characteristics, especially when she sang Typically English. Someone
Nice Like You is a beautiful number and really is sung beautifully.
The
only reason I knew it had to be Louise Gold doing the Russian accent is
because she was singing so well in such a low key! She sang Glorious
Russian with much feeling, like as if she really meant it. The
beautifully Melinka Melchick was handled simply beautifully and
tenderly.
The
German accent, on Typiche Deutche, was another where I honestly
wouldn’t recognise Louise Gold! The creature sounded completely unlike
herself, a true mistress of vocal parody and disguise.
I
only recognised the American accent, on All American, as being Louise
Gold, because it sounded a little bit like a "cute" muppet.
Incidentally it was utterly unlike most of her other "American"
accents on Studio cast album recordings.
Critics Comments
"Few
artistes have the versatility of Louise Gold, who brings a perfect Evie and her
clones to the recording" Rexton S Bunnet, SLEEVE NOTES.
“There is the tender “Melinka Melchick”
beautifully sung by Louise Gold as Anya, the Russian incarnation of Evie. Ms
Gold also makes fine work of “Typically English”, “Glorious Russian” and
“Typisch Deutch”, three fine comic numbers” Terry Wardrope, WORDS AND
MUSIC, Issue 28, September 1997
Links about Stop The
World I Want To Get Off
JAY
Records page for Stop The World I Want To Get Off (includes link to itunes
download): http://www.jayrecords.com/jay/site/pages/recordings/stoptheworld/recording.htm
Cast
Album.org database’s entry for this album: http://www.castalbums.org/recordings/2477
FYE.com’s entry for
this album: http://www.fye.com/Stop-the-World--I-Want-to-Get-Off-Front-Page_stcVVproductId1648010VVcatId455366VVviewprod.htm
