David Baker

On stage 1 production

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Also credited on3 works

Come Summer
Two’s Company
Vintage ’60

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In the literature8 passages

• Music : David Baker, Baldwin Bergersen, George Engels, Dean Fuller, Charles Gaynor, Marie Gorden, Ronnie (Ronny) Graham, Norman Hackforth, John Jowitt, Peter Myers, Jack Pleis, Max Showalter, Arthur Siegel, and Charles Zwarebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Music : Vernon Duke, Sheldon Harnick (ballet music by Genevieve Pitot and David Baker)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• During the tryout, the following songs were deleted: “The Raft Song” (lyric by Hermione Gingold and Sheldon Harnick, music by David Baker); “Sweet Belinda” (lyric by Arthur Macrae, music by Richard Addinsell); “Summer” (lyric and music by Irwin Graham); “The Yogurt Sisters” (lyric by Dennis Fitzpatrick, music by Michael Grace); and “True”…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Music : David Baker, George Bauer, Irving Berlin, Peter Cadby, Buster Davis, Murray Grand, Alan Jeffreys, Leslie Julian Jones, John Jowitt, Lucille Kallen, J. McCarthy, Sherman Miles, Portia Nelson, Jack Strachey, and Allistair Thompsonebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Incidentally, David Craig was Nancy Walker’s husband, and he and David Baker had also written the songs for Walker’s previous New York musical Phoenix ’55 . Baker also wrote the charming and melodic score for the 1969 Broadway musical Come Summer .ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Cast : Alice Ghostley , Paul Lynde , Gerald Hiken, Eileen Rodgers, John Bartis, Bob Dishy, Evelyn Russell; John Morris and David Baker at the pianosebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

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