Star! [Bonus Tracks] (1993)

About this title: Star!, a film biography of the British actress/singer Gertrude Lawrence (1898-1952), must have seemed like an excellent vehicle for Julie Andrews when it went into production in 1967 for a fall 1968 release. Andrews was, after all, the top female film star of the day, with a string of movie musical hits including Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music behind her, and she was steeped in the vaudeville/music hall tradition from which Lawrence had emerged. But the project was inherently less likely to be accepted by a mass audience than Andrews' earlier triumphs, since it would not appeal to ... read more

Tracks:

1. Twentieth Century Fox Fanfare with CinemaScope Extension [Newman]
2. Overture
3. Star! [Cahn/VanHeusen]
4. Piccadilly [Williams/Seiver/Mor]
5. Oh! It's a Lovely War [Long/Scott/Feldman]
6. In My Garden of Joy [Chaplin]
7. 'N' Everything [De Syla/Kahn/Jolson]
8. Burlington Bertie from Bow [Hargreaves]
9. Parisian Pierrot [Coward]
10. Limehouse Blues [Braham/Furber]
11. Someone to Watch Over Me [Gershwin/Gershwin]
12. Dear Little Boy (Dear Little Girl) [Gershwin/Gershwin]
13. Someday I'll Find You [Coward]
14. The Physician [Porter]
15. Do Do Do [Gershwin/Gershwin]
16. Has Anybody Seen Our Ship? [Coward]
17. My Ship [Weill/Gershwin]
18. The Saga of Jenny [Weill/Gershwin]
19. Forbidden Fruit [Extended Version] [Coward]
20. Star! [Extended Version]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.