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, (Musicals Collection Cassette)
MUS M N39.
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)
The Musicals Collection Cassette MUS M N38 follows the same track listing as the Musicals Collection CD MUS C N38, with Tracks 1 to 6 on Side 1, and, Tracks 7 to
12 on Side 2.
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, Centre
Stage Showtime!, Magic Of The Musicals,
The Best Of The Musicals, 100 Hits Musicals, and, The Great Musicals - From Broadway to
Hollywood.
Katrina
Murphy also features on Encore The Very Best From The
Musicals , Great Duets From The
Musicals, Cole Porter - Night And
Day, Simply Musicals, The Great Musicals – Glamour And Majesty, Magic Of The Musicals, The Best Of The Musicals, and, The Great Musicals - From Broadway to
Hollywood.
Lindsay
Hamilton also features on Encore The Very Best From The
Musicals, The Great Musicals – Glamour
And Majesty, and, Magic Of The Musicals.
Danielle Carson also features on Magic Of The Musicals, and, 100 Hits Musicals.
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,
and, The Great Musicals - From
Broadway to Hollywood.
Joanne Farrell went on to appear in Flaunt It 2008.
The National Symphony Orchestra also features on Let’s Go On With The Show – Hit Songs From
The West End & Broadway.
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
