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EVELYN LAYE

QUEEN OF MUSICAL COMEDY
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2 CD set. You are that rare and Holy Trinity of the stage, a great singer, a great actress and a great beauty'. Thus spoke legendary Austrian film director Max Reinhardt referring to the subject of Avid's latest tribute, Evelyn Laye Queen of Musical Comedy. During a career spanning nine decades she ran the gamut of 20th Century entertainment from operetta to variety via silent cinema, farce, pantomime and TV drama. Born into a small time theatrical family in 1900, ‘Boo' as she was known to all, began her theatrical career at the tender age of four when she sauntered on to the stage unexpectedly during a matinee and received 6d for her troubles! At the peak of her career she was earning £1000 a week, a huge amount in those days. Her final stage performance came in 1992 at London's Players Theatre and her final public performance two years later in 1994 when she appeared on Pat Kirkwood's This Is Your Life TV tribute show. Our splendid double CD set covers her 71 year career and includes many previously unreleased performances and liner notes by Daily Mail columnist Michael Thornton.
Songs: Personnel Details:
 I'll See You Again
 The Guards' Brigade
 Vilia (*)
 Maxim's (*)
 I Love You So (The Merry Widow Waltz) (*)
 Love Me Now
 Do I Do Wrong? (With Geoffrey Gwyther)
 Lover, Come Back To Me
 The Girl On The Prow
 Wanting You (With Howett Worster)
 One Kiss
 The Call Of Life
 Dear Little Cafe (*)
 Zigeuner
 Heavenly Night (With John Boles)
 A Glass Of Golden Bubbles (Champagne Song) (with George Baker)
 Butterfly Song
 The Princess's Awakening
 Near And Yet So Far
 Brave Hearts
 Love Is A Song
 My Home In Tralee
 I Wait For You
 Brindisi (Libiamo, Ne' Lieti Calici) (With Browning Mummery)
  The Night Is Young (With Ramon Novarro)
 When I Grow Too Old To Dream
 Land Of Hope And Glory (*)
 Let The People Sing
 I See Your Face Before Me (*)
 My Nicolo
 Love Never Comes Too Late (With Richard Tauber)
 Love Live For Ever (And Rule My Heart)
 Nobody Could Love You More (With Richard Tauber)
 Our Love
 My Life Belongs To You
 If I Should Fall In Love Again (With John McCormack)
 Only A Glass Of Champagne
 You've Done Something To My Heart
 I'm Going To See You Today (*)
 Love Is My Reason (*)
 Forever (The Second Waltz)
 How Can Words Content A Lover? (The Third Waltz)
 A Man Is A Man
 In The Pink
 They Don't Make Them Like That Anymore
 And You Like It (With Mark Wynter)
 Liaisons (*)
 I Remember It Well (*) (With Harry Secombe)
 If You Were The Only Girl In The World (*) (With Roy Hudd)
  Where Have I Put My Glasses? (*)
 Where Are The Songs We Sung? (*)
 Mrs Worthington (*)
 Thank You (*)
 When I Grow Too Old To Dream (Reprise)
 I'll See You Again (*)		 * Previously unissued
Label: AVID
Number: 977
Item Code: 64102
Format: 2-CD
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Dates: (1920-1991)
Price: $19.00  
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