Track Listing

CD 1 (77:59)
HIS MASTER’S VOICE
1. MANON: Je suis encore tout étourdie (Massenet) 3:47
  6 October 1924; (cc5181-1) DB800  
2. MANON: Allons! Il le faut…Adieu, notre petite table (Massenet) 3:57
  6 October 1924; (cc5182-3) DB800  
3. MANON: Suis-je gentille...Obéissons quand leur voix appelle (Massenet) 4:08
  7 January 1925; (cc5550-2) first published on HMB-176  
4. THAÏS: Dis-moi que je suis belle [Scène du miroir] (Massenet) 4:08
  7 January 1925; (cc5552-1) DB810  
5. THAÏS: Te souvient-il du lumineux voyage (Massenet) 4:14
  7 January 1925; (cc5551-2) DB810  
VICTOR TALKING MACHINE COMPANY
6. FAUST: Jewel Song (Gounod) 3:37
  12 September 1927; (BVE-40006-1) Unpublished  
7. THAÏS: Te souvient-il du lumineux voyage (Massenet) 4:30
  4 January 1926; (CVE-34255-1) 6578  
8. PAGLIACCI: Qual fiamma avea nel guardo...Che volo d’augelli (Leoncavallo) 4:42
  20 January 1926; (CVE-34161-9) 6578  
9. La danza (Rossini) 3:11
  26 March 1928; (CVE-42564-1) 6878  
10. Les filles de Cadiz (Delibes) 3:46
  26 March 1928; (CVE-42563-1) 6878  
11. Voci di primavera (J. Strauss) 4:30
  11 October 1927; (CVE-40297-3) Unpublished  
12. The Second Minuet (Dawdon/Besley) 2:45
  with Elmer Zoller, pianist; Raderman, violinist
23 September 1927; (BVE 43584-3) Unpublished		  
13. Little bit of a fellow (Norris) 2:54
  with Elmer Zoller, pianist; Raderman, violinist
18 April 1928; (BVE-43583-3) Unpublished		  
14. The hand of you (Carrie Jacobs-Bond) 2:37
  7 March 1927; (BVE-38209-1) Unpublished  
15. From the land of sky-blue water (Cadman) 2:23
  with Clement Barone, flutist
4 January 1926; (BVE-34250-6) 1140		  
16. Little grey home in the west (Löhr) 3:02
  4 January 1926; (BVE- 34249-7) 1140  
17. The old folks at home (Foster) 3:35
  12 September 1927; (BVE-40007-3) 1345  
18. Dixie (Emmett) 2:30
  26 March 1928; (BVE-42565-2) 1345  
THESAURUS
TWENTY-FIVE SELECTIONS TAKEN FROM TRANSCRIPTION DISCS, 1936-1939
19. EXULTATE JUBILATE: Alleluia (Mozart) 2:55
  (MS 102438) 363  
20. Ave Maria (Bach-Gounod) 3:03
  (MS 03544) 339  
21. The Holy Child (Easthope Martin) 3:19
  (MS 03574) 604  
22. Eili Eili {Traditional: Yiddish} (arranged Schindler) 4:13
  (MS 03542) 337  

CD 1:
Accompaniment: Tracks 1-11; 14, 16-18 with orchestra; Tracks 12-13 with piano and violin; Track 15 with orchestra and flute; Tracks 19-22 with chamber orchestra
Languages: French [1-7, 10]; English [12-18, 21]; Italian [8-9, 11]; Latin [19-20]; Yiddish with Hebrew [22]

 

CD 2 (77:33)
1. HAMLETO: Principe Hamleto (Franco Faccio) 3:43
  (MS 03539) 334  
2. LE COQ D’OR: Hymn to the Sun (Rimsky-Korsakov) 3:26
  (MS 03540) 334  
3. LE NOZZE DI FIGARO: Deh, vieni, non tardar (Mozart) 5:27
  (MS 03572) 430  
4. THAÏS: L’amour est une vertu rare (Massenet) 3:49
  (MS 11552) 561  
5. L’ENFANT ET LES SORTILÈGES: Toi, le coeur de la rose (Ravel) 2:02
  (MS 11551) 619  
6. Wohin? (Schubert) 2:28
  (MS 03540) 334  
7. Die Lorelei (Liszt) 7:17
  (MS 03574) 604  
8. Du bist wie eine Blume (Liszt) 2:08
  (MS 03572) 430  
9. Wiegenlied, op. 41, no. 1 (Richard Strauss) 4:25
  (MS 011634) 494  
10. Morgen, op. 27, no. 4 (Richard Strauss) 3:05
  (MS 03865) 357  
11. Ständchen, op. 17, no. 2 (Richard Strauss) 2:55
  (MS 11634) 494  
12. Si mes vers avaient des ailes (Hahn) 2:06
  (MS 03543) 363  
13. Clair de lune (Szulc) 3:12
  (MS 11634) 494  
14. Carmen Carmela (Hague-Ross) 2:40
  (MS 03866) 414  
15. Ay, ay, ay {Traditional} (arranged Pérez-Freire) 1:59
  (MS 03540) 334  
16. My lovely Celia (Monro) (arranged Wilson) 2:50
  (MS 03865) 357  
17. Annie Laurie {Traditional Scottish} (Douglass-Scott) 3:25
  (MS 03573) 355  
18. The Kerry Dance (Molloy) 2:08
  (MS 03544) 339  
19. Last rose of summer (Moore) 3:37
  (MS 03544) 339  
20. Danny Boy (Traditional: Irish) 3:44
  (MS 03542) 337  
21. Still wie die Nacht (Böhm) 3:12
  (MS 03866) 414  
22. Wien, Wien, nur du allein (Sieczynski) 2:30
  (MS 03539) 334  
23. Rain (Eugene Ford) 2:32
  (MS 11554) 552  
24. My old Kentucky home (Foster) 2:44
  (MS 03572) 430  

 

CD 2:
Accompaniment: All tracks with chamber orchestra
Languages: Italian [1, 3, 16]; French [2, 4-5, 12-13]; German [6-11, 21-22]; Spanish [14-15]; English [17-20, 23-24]

 

Producer: Michael B. Dougan

Production Coordinator: Jeffrey J. Miller

Audio Conservation: Ward Marston

Photographs: Girvice Archer, Lawrence F. Holdridge, and Charles Mintzer

Audio Sources: Lawrence F. Holdridge: CD 1, Track 6 and Michael Quinn: CD 1, Tracks 19-22; CD 2, Tracks 1-24

Booklet Design: Takeshi Takahashi

 

Marston would like to thank Ramona Fassio

 

Marston would also like to the Tom W. Dillard of The Arkansas Studies Institute and the Arkansas Arts Council for their support of this CD release

 

For a complete biography: Mary Lewis—The Golden Haired Beauty With The Golden Voice was published in June 2001. The book may be ordered from Rose Publishing Co., Inc., Little Rock, AR. This program is supported in part by the Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, and the National Endowment for the Arts.