Anthony Newley's THE GOOD OLD BAD OLD DAYS, Featuring Unreleased Recordings, Out Next Month

Stage Door Records are pleased to announce their third anthology of previously unissued Anthony Newley recordings will be released on January 26th, 2015. The CD release focuses on the Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse musical 'The Good Old Bad Old Days', and features 20 unreleased recordings of Anthony Newley interpreting the score.

'The Good Old Bad Old Days' was Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse's third musical written for the stage and originally intended as a Broadway comeback for Newley after several years of performing his one man show in Las Vegas. Written between 1971-1972, the musical conceived as "a simple little saga about Man, Life, Death, God, and the Devil, with the History of the World thrown in..." finally found a home at London's Prince Of Wales Theatre, opening on December 20th and running for a total of 309 performances.

Although the show received mixed reviews, the score is considered to be one of the most accomplished musical works Newley and Bricusse created during their illustrious writing partnership. Songs from the show were subsequently recorded by Sammy Davis Jnr, Tony Bennett, Frankie Vaughan and Petula Clark.

This fascinating collection compiles all of Anthony Newley's solo recordings made during the development of 'The Good Old Bad Old Days' (originally titled 'It's A Funny Old World That We Live In - But The World's Not Entirely To Blame') and includes several songs that were later cut from the final West End production. Produced in collaboration with the Anthony Newley Society, the recordings featured on this album are previously unreleased and have been restored from Newley's own private archive.

TRACKS
01. THE GOOD OLD BAD OLD DAYS
02. THE FOOL WHO DARED TO DREAM
03. THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD
04. A COTTON PICKIN' MOON
05. WE'VE GOT A CURE FOR EVERYTHING ON BROADWAY
06. AND WOMEN MUST WAIT
07. TODAY
08. TOMORROW
09. YESTERDAY
10. THANKSGIVING DAY
11. I DO NOT LOVE YOU
12. THE GOOD THINGS IN LIFE
13. THE PEOPLE TREE
14. IT'S A MUSICAL WORLD
15. THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD (ALTERNATE VERSION)
16. HELL OF A NIGHT
17. IT'S A FUNNY OLD WORLD
18. MUSN'T GRUMBLE CAN'T COMPLAIN
19. WHAT'S THE MATTER GOD? (LIVE) with Paul Bacon

BONUS TRACK
20. MISTER SNIFFLES