About the songs on Pousse Café:
BIG SPENDER: Composed by Cy Coleman & Dorothy
Fields
From the musical, "Sweet Charity", first produced on Broadway in
1964. More
about this song
MUST BE CATCHIN': Composed by Merle Travis
ON A LITTLE STREET IN SINGAPORE: Lyrics by
Billy Hill, Music by Peter De Rose. Recorded by Frank Sinatra
on Columbia Records, October 1939.
WHATEVER LOLA WANTS, LOLA GETS: Composed
by Richard Adler & Jerry Ross. From the musical "Damn
Yankees". More
about this song
AT THE CROSSROADS: Composed by Ernesto Lecuona
Casado. Originally written in spanish, entitled "Malaguena".
Malaguena is part of the piano suite by Lecuona : "Andalucia,
Suite Espanola", a work dating from 1928.
ONCE UPON A SUMMERTIME: (La Valse Des Lilas
) English language lyric by Johnny Mercer, original French
Language by Eddie Marnay, music by Eddie Barclay and Michel
LeGrand. First recorded by Blossom Dearie in 1958
THE HOUSE IS HAUNTED BY THE ECHO OF YOUR LAST GOODBYE: Lyrics
by Billy Rose. Music by Basil Adlam. 1934.
BORN TO BE BLUE: Words & Music by Mel
Torme & Robert Wells, 1946.
POUSSE CAFÉ: Written by J P Jowett,
Chris Foster & Nigel Mullaney.
LUSH LIFE: Written by Billy Strayhorn, between
1933-36, originally recorded by Nat King Cole in 1949.
FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN: Words & Music
by Sammy Lerner & Frederick Hollander. Introduced by Marlene
Deitrich in the 1930 film "The Blue Angel".
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