Salad Days: Highlights From The Revival London Cast Recording (1982 Studio Cast) [Cast Recording]

Julian Slade (Composer, Performer), Christina Matthews (Performer), Adam Bareham (Performer), Barry Martin (Performer), Tricie George (Performer), Sheila Steafel (Performer), Osmond Bullock (Performer), Malcolm Rennie (Performer), Elizabeth Seal (Performer), Dorothy Reynolds (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Julian Slade, Christina Matthews, Adam Bareham, Barry Martin, Tricie George, et al.
• Composer: Julian Slade
• Audio CD (April 16, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording
• Label: Madacy Records
• ASIN: B000000KA9
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #469,541 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Things That Are Done By A Don - Company

2. We Said We Wouldn't Look Back - Christina Matthews/Adam Bareham

3. Find Yourself Something To Do - Sheila Steafel/Barry Martin/Tricie George

4. I Sit In The Sun - Christina Matthews

5. Oh, Look At Me! - Christina Matthews/Adam Bareham

6. Hush-Hush - Barry Martin/Osmond Bullock/Adam Bareham

7. Cleopatra - Malcolm Rennie

8. Sand In My Eyes - Sheila Steafel

9. It's Easy To Sing - Christina Matthews/Adam Bareham/Osmond Bullock

10. We're Looking For A Piano - Company

11. The Time Of My Life - Christina Matthes/Barry Martin

12. We Don't Understand Our Children - Elizabeth Seal/Sheila Steafel

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars the lovely Julian Slade musical in all it's glory, October 17, 2003

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This review is from: Salad Days: Highlights From The Revival London Cast Recording (1982 Studio Cast) (Audio CD)

SALAD DAYS was one of the longest-running musicals in London in the 1950s, featuring a lovely score by Julian Slade. The fanciful plot involves Timothy and Jane, who have just graduated from university before getting married. On a balmy summer's day, they meet an old man in the park who owns a magical piano that makes everyone dance. The old man says they may borrow the piano for 1 month and then bring it back. However, things hardly go as planned. Jane and Tim enjoy an eventful summer full of love and heartache, before the story rushes to it's inevitable happy ending.

This cast album features members from the acclaimed 1982 London revival of SALAD DAYS, with Julian Slade himself playing one of the pianos featured on the recording. Christina Matthews offers up a thrilling soprano voice as Jane and sings two of the score's choice numbers, "I Sit in the Sun" and "The Time of My Life".

Adam Bareham is good in the role of Tim, and sings wonderfully in "We Said We Wouldn't Look Back" and "The Saucer Song". Sheila Steafel is excellent in the dual-roles of Timothy's Mother and Asphinxia, the exotic cabaret diva who sings the comical "Sand in My Eyes". Elizabeth Seal (IRMA LA DOUCE) is criminally under-used as Jane's Mother.

Others in the cast include Barry Martin, Malcolm Rennie, Osmund Bullock, Tricia George, Sue Aldred and David Urwin.

A lovely cast album and very nice for the price!

4.0 out of 5 stars Nostalgia Lane!, March 5, 1999

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This review is from: Salad Days: Highlights From The Revival London Cast Recording (1982 Studio Cast) (Audio CD)

Nostalgia Lane! Happy memories of the 50s!Happy memories of the 50s,and this delightful musical seen any times on the stage in London.