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Introduction
Noël's 'top twelve'
Recommended CDs
Recommended CDs 2
Soundtrack by Noël Coward composed of songs from Coward musicals. |
Noël Coward's 'top twelve.'
By way of an introduction to Noël Coward's music the list below shows the most popular of his songs as judged by the number of times they have been performed. The list reflects the number of performances of each song using criteria set out here in the NCMI.
Extracts are included that demonstrate a range of interpretations recorded by various performers and by Noël Coward himself.
| Mad About the Boy |
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Carmen McRae 'Mad About the Man' (Decca: DL 8662) Listen . . . |
| I'll See You Again |
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Maude Maggart CD 'Look for the Silver Lining' Listen . . . |
| Mad Dogs and Englishmen |
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Noël Coward ' Noël Coward at Las Vegas' (DRG: 19037) Listen . . . |
| The Grass is Greener (film score - I'll Follow My Secret Heart, Stately Homes of England and other songs) |
| If Love Were All |
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Daryl Sherman 'I'm a Dreamer, Aren't We All '(ASIN:B00002589E) Listen . . . |
| Someday I'll Find You |
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Noël Coward 'Coward Songs' (CD MCSR 3030) Listen . . . |
| I'll Follow My Secret Heart |
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Noël Coward 'Together With Music' Listen . . . |
| London Pride |
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Julie Andrews 'The Lass With the Delicate Air' (ASIN:B000XFRTTM) Listen . . . |
| A Room With a View |
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Heather Bambrick ' Those Were the Days' (iTunes) Listen . . . |
| Mrs Worthington |
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The Mastersingers 'Rhapsody' (iTunes) Listen . . . |
| Poor Little Rich Girl |
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Judy Garland ' The Best of Judy Garland' (ASIN: B000024VV8) Listen . . . |
| The Stately Homes of England |
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'Noel Coward - the Great Shows' (EMI 7243 5 21808 2) Listen . . . |
(The Music of Noël Coward is grateful to all the officers and staff of Warner/Chappell Music and the Performing Right Society who provided access to their records and shared a lot of useful information about their licensing operations with the authors of the NCMI. More detail on the research that led to these results together with a full listing of the results can be found in the NCMI).
Click on any cover below to hear an extract from the song . . . the artists are: Gertrude Lawrence and Noël Coward, Noël Coward and Yvonne Printemps . . .
  
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