The  Notables

An All-American Celebration

June 22, 1997

Old Town Music Hall, El Segundo

Music was my first love and it will be my last;
Music of the future, and music of the past;
To live without my music would be impossible to do,
And in this world of trouble my music pulls me through.

• America the Beautiful--arr. Joseph Joubert
• His Truth Is Marching On (medley of patriotic songs, 1985: arr. Carl J. Nygard, Jr)
• Yours, Yours, Yours (from 1776; wm. Sherman Edwards) [Mary Barbot, soprano; and Jerry Bennett, tenor]
• This Little Light o' Mine
• Two songs of Stephen Foster [Ralph]
  • Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
  • Why, No One to Love?
• Buddy's Blues (1971: from Follies: wm. Stephen Sondheim)
• Piano Solo: June Young
• I Got Rhythm (1930: from Girl Crazy; w. Ira Gershwin; m. George Gershwin)
• Will You Remember (Sweetheart) (1917: from Maytime; w. Rida Johnson Young; m. Sigmund Romberg) [Mary S, Gary C]
• Two selections from The Tender Land--Aaron Copland [piano: Barbara S]
• Stomp Your Feet
• The Promise of Living

INTERMISSION

• Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey?--Hughie Cannon
• SING ALONG TO THE MIGHTY WURLITZER [Bill Coffman and Bill Field]
• Ain't She Sweet--Milton Ager
• Star Dust (1929: w. Mitchell Parish; m. Hoagy Carmichael) [Brian G]
• The Folks Who Live on a Hill (1937: from High, Wide, and Handsome; w. Oscar Hammerstein II; m. Jerome Kern) [Mary Barbot]
• Stormy Weather (1933: W. Ted Koehler; m. Harold Arlen; arr. Kirby Shaw)
• Two Selections from Candide (1956: w. Richard Wilbur and Stephen Sondheim; m. Leonard Bernstein) [Ed; Pamela]
  • Life Is Happiness Indeed
  • O Happy We
• Three Selections from Oklahoma! (1943: m. Richard Rodgers; w. Oscar Hammerstein II)
  • I Cain't Say No [Amparo Lucero]
  • Out of My Dreams [Kathy Gardner]
  • Oklahoma [Ed Fletcher]
• Salute to George M. Cohan [Jerry]
  • Yankee Doodle Boy
  • Give My Regards to Broadway
  • You're a Grand Old Flag

The Notables would like to express their appreciation to "The Bills" for their hospitality and the use of their wonderful and unique theater.

Note:  These were the final three performances of The Hughes "Notables" choir; after this, on July 1, 1997, the group became an independent nonprofit organization, The Notables.