About the Album: Illya Darling opened on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theater on April 11, 1967. It was based on the wildly popular Greek film Never On Sunday, which made an International star of Melina Mercouri. Illya Darling would have many of the same players, including Miss Mercouri, and film cast members Titos Vandis and Despo. The film's composer, the Oscar-winning Manos Hadjidakis (Oscar for Best Song - Never On Sunday), would write the score, with lyrics by Man Of La Mancha's Joe Darion. For this first-ever CD release, we have put the songs back in show order and have given the proper titles to any that were renamed for the LP. In going through the session tapes, we made the incredible discovery that two songs were recorded but not used on the LP - the show's opening number "Po, Po, Po" and a number called "Birthday Song." Both songs were transferred and mixed from the four-track session tapes and put where they belong in the show's song order. Hearing the show with those two numbers and everything in show order is something of a revelation. The CD has been mastered from the original album master tapes (and for the two added songs, from the original four-track session tapes). 1. Overture 2. Po, Po, Po 3. Piraeus, My Love 4. Golden Land 5. Yorgo's Dance (Zebekiko) 6. Love, Love, Love 7. I Think She Needs Me 8. I'll Never Lay Down Anymore 9. After Love 10. Birthday Song 11. Medea Tango 12. Illya Darling 13. Dear Mr. Shubert 14. Never On Sunday 15. Heaven Help The Sailors On A Night Like This 16. Taverna Dance 17. Ya Chara
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