NOEL COWARD'S
1955 TV SPECIAL

NOEL COWARD'S 1955 TV SPECIAL
I have a couple of Noel Coward's albums and they are a scream, especially the Live in Las Vegas LP recorded in the mid-fifties. The British cabaret performer and world renowned playright made a few appearances on American TV and I just discover this site called You Tube and they have clips!

In 1955 the CBS network broadcast a live, color(!) special starring Mr. Coward and Mary Martin. No doubt every queen with a TV set was glued to their seats and the performers must have been frantic - ninety minutes live in a new medium with millions watching?!? The audience that night was introduced to the eriodite musical maven with his bouncy tune 'Uncle Harry':

Coward's biggest hit (along with 'I'll See You Again') on this side of the pond and the other was probably 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen':

Another funny tune, 'Nina', again from the TV special. They way he tears through these songs you really have to listen to get the humor but it sure is worth it.

"There are probably greater painters than Noël, greater novelists than Noël, greater librettists, greater composers of music, greater singers, greater dancers, greater comedians, greater tragedians, greater stage producers, greater film directors, greater cabaret artists, greater TV stars. If there are, they are fourteen different people. Only one man combined all fourteen different labels – The Master." - Lord Mountbatten

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