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Pages in category "Songs written by Noël Coward" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
Romney Brent sings "Mad Dogs and Englishmen", Words and Music, 1932 "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" is a song written by Noël Coward and first performed in The Third Little Show at the Music Box Theatre, New York, on 1 June 1931, by Beatrice Lillie. The following year it was used in the revue Words and Music and also released in a "studio version ...
Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Germans" is a satirical song composed by Noël Coward in 1943 during World War II. Although popular when performed live (British prime minister Winston Churchill demanded several encores when he first heard it) the humour did not translate well over the wireless and caused some fuss, leading the BBC to ban the song.
Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald in the 1940 film version, described by Coward as "dreadful" Bitter Sweet is an operetta in three acts, with book, music and lyrics by Noël Coward . The story, set in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century England and Austria-Hungary , centres on a young woman's elopement with her music teacher.
Coward wrote "London Pride" in the spring of 1941, during the Blitz.According to his own account, he was sitting on a seat on a platform in Paddington station, watching Londoners going about their business quite unfazed by the broken glass scattered around from the station's roof damaged by the previous night's bombing: in a moment of patriotic pride, he said that suddenly he recalled an old ...
Tim Rice said of Coward's songs, "The wit and wisdom of Noël Coward's lyrics will be as lively and contemporary in 100 years' time as they are today", [194] and many have been recorded by Damon Albarn, Ian Bostridge, The Divine Comedy, Elton John, Valerie Masterson, Paul McCartney, Michael Nyman, Pet Shop Boys, Vic Reeves, Sting, Joan ...
Noël Coward and Lilli Palmer in the original production of A Song at Twilight. A Song at Twilight is a play in two acts by Noël Coward. It is one of a trio of plays collectively titled Suite in Three Keys, all of which are set in the same suite in a luxury hotel in Switzerland. The play depicts an elderly writer confronted by his former ...
Playbill for original production. Cavalcade is a play by Noël Coward with songs by Coward and others. It focuses on three decades in the life of the Marryots, an upper-middle-class British family, and their servants, beginning in 1900 and ending in 1930, a year before the premiere.