If All The World's A Stage, Oh What A Son Of A Bitch I Am, Once Upon A Time-Anthony Newley

Can Heironymous Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? was a film by the late great Anthony Newley, starring his then wife Joan Collins and his daughter, Tara Newley. Fair to say it got slated on release, not least for the title, being voted in the top ten worst mopive titles ever...but, as a fan of the Newley, I love it! I'm not quite buying into all this Fellini stuff mind, but suffice to say it's a fun,colourful '60's' movie and if you like that kind of stuff, you'll probably love this. As for the song's, well, here are three (also check out Brucie's prophetic 'On The Boards' here http://singingasonginthemorning.blogspot.com/2009/05/on-boards-bruce-forsyth.html ) from the soundtrack and again,they're all great! If only musicals were like this now then I might actually go along to a few...and by the way, where would Bowie be without Newley!?

Re-Ups...

Not sure what's been going on...maybe divshare dumped some stuff...something got corrupted on their servers or some such but the upshot is that quite a few tracks on this blog no lnger work!
Shock horror gasp etc...so here's a few requested re-ups...I'm not going to go through and re-post all the tracks that are down, not yet anyhow, but will try and do requests as and when!
So we should have here:Lewis Collins-Take It Out On Time + When You Come Home Again(how could I have omitted this b-side!?) Rosemary Clooney-Little Red Monkey, Georgio Morordo-UNderdog+Lord Release Me, Delia Derbyshire/Anthony Newley-Mooglie Booglies...

Medley+Within You Without You-Beatles Forever TV Show 1977

Big US TV special celebrating the magic of The Beatles, featuring Anthony Newley,Ray Charles,Diahann Carol and Tony Randell amongst others.The first track is an epic ten minute medley so if you can't take that skip onto the second for a very special rendition of 'Within You Without You' from Newley.

On The Boards-Bruce Forsyth

Bruce Forsyth, (pictured here with Dora Bryan) certainly divides opinion and that's a good thing in my book.

This track is taken from the musical film 'Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?' by one of my favourite artistes, Anthony Newley.

Now I've never seen this film and have had a go at tracking it down with no luck, so if anyone knows where it can be found, let me know. If the film is half as good as the soundtrack then it will be great!

To get back to this track, I love the bit where Brucie goes on and on about being on the boards...particularly in light of his later 'classic' catchphrase...'What's on the boards..etc etc..'