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BTC829 JOHNNY

Cabaret song for voice and piano
Composition date: 5 May 1937
First performance: 29 Jun 1949 >>
Type of performance: Radio broadcast
Location: BBC Third Programme
Performance details:

Hedli Anderson sop, Norman Franklin pf

Genre: Solo vocal
Text: W.H. Auden
Duration: 4'

Notes

Written for the singer Hedli Anderson and published as number 3 of Cabaret songs in 1980. The other cabaret songs are: 1 Tell me the truth about love (Jan 1938), 2 Funeral blues (Jun 1937) and 4 Calypso (summer 1939).

Two other cabaret songs were written around the same time, with text by W.H. Auden and also for Hedli Anderson, but the scores have been lost. These are: Give up love and I'm a jam tart both from May 1937.

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