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- Artist: Noel Coward
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- Release Date: 1991
- Total Time: 73:11
- Type: Compilation (best of), Live
- Genre: Vocal Music
Review
When Noel Coward Album was recorded in 1955 and 1956, Coward was well past his most creative period. In his mid-fifties and well into the fourth decade of his career, Coward was as much a persona as he was a playwright or songwriter by this point. This is basically a straight recording of Coward's cabaret show of this period, a double-album length collection of 29 songs spanning all of Coward's career. (A wry version of the traditional Scottish ballad "Loch Lomond" and a renowned Las Vegas-set reworking of Cole Porter's "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)"-- with the immortal couplet "Every man out there shooting craps does it/Davy Crockett in that dreadful cap does it" -- are the only non-originals.) The songs are brilliant, of course, and Coward's droll delivery is utterly note-perfect. Those unfamiliar with this style might at first find Coward's arch, clipped delivery a bit too droll, but a little persistence will uncover the pointed social commentary and often barbed satire behind songs like "What's Going to Happen to the Tots'" and "Mad Dogs and Englishmen." ~ Stewart Mason, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| I'll See You Again | Noël Coward | Noël Coward, |
(:50) |
| Dance, Little Lady | Noël Coward | Noël Coward, |
(:30) |
| Poor Little Rich Girl | Noël Coward | (:46) | |
| A Room with a View | Noël Coward | Noël Coward, |
(:32) |
| Someday I'll Find You | Noël Coward | Noël Coward, |
(:25) |
| I'll Follow My Secret Heart | Noël Coward | (:45) | |
| If Love Were All | Noël Coward | (:14) | |
| Play, Orchestra, Play | Noël Coward | Noël Coward, |
(1:00) |
| Uncle Harry | Noël Coward | (3:48) | |
| Loch Lomond | Traditional | (2:35) | |
| A Bar on the Piccola Marina | Noël Coward | (4:52) | |
| World Weary | Noël Coward | (3:17) | |
| Nina | Noël Coward | (3:52) | |
| Mad Dogs and Englishmen | Noël Coward | Noël Coward, |
(2:43) |
| Matelot (Lyrics) | Noël Coward | Noël Coward, |
(4:38) |
| Alice Is at It Again | Noël Coward | Noël Coward, |
(3:35) |
| A Room with a View | Noël Coward | (3:11) | |
| Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) | Cole Porter | Noël Coward, |
(3:58) |
| I Like America | Noël Coward | Noël Coward | (3:08) |
| Louisa | Noël Coward | Noël Coward | (3:38) |
| Half-Caste Woman | Noël Coward | Noël Coward | (3:32) |
| I Went to a Marvelous Party | Noël Coward | Noël Coward | (2:49) |
| Time and Again | Noël Coward | Noël Coward | (4:02) |
| Why Must the Show Go On? | Noël Coward | Noël Coward | (3:57) |
| What's Going to Happen to the Tots? | Noël Coward | Noël Coward | (3:29) |
| Sail Away | Noël Coward | Noël Coward | (2:24) |
| Wait a Bit, Joe | Noël Coward | Noël Coward | (2:48) |
| Twentieth Century Blues | Noël Coward | Noël Coward | (3:33) |
| The Party's Over Now | Noël Coward | Noël Coward | (:33) |
