Performance (Marti Webb album)
Performance is a 1989 studio album by Marti Webb with the Philharmonia Orchestra. Although originally released in 1989 on LP it has subsequently been released in 1993, 1994 and 1996 on CD.
The album was produced by Chris Walker for First Night Records and released by Telstar Records in the UK and by WEA records in Eire.
The album features songs from musical theatre. A number of tracks were from then new shows, and various others from productions that had recently been playing the West End. Webb's recording of "Memory" coincided with her return to play Grizabella in Cats, for the UK's first tour of the show.
"In One of My Weaker Moments" was released by Telstar as a single, with "Tell Me on a Sunday" as the B side. The song featured in a then new musical, Budgie, for which the lyrics were written by Webb's manager and collaborator Don Black. Anita Dobson, who starred in the stage version of the show, also released a single of the track around a similar time.
Black was also the lyricist for the musical Aspects of Love which opened in London in 1989 too, from which "Anything But Lonely" and "Love Changes Everything" are taken.
Track listing
Source:- "Intro"
- "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miserables
- "Almost Like Being in Love" from Brigadoon
- "The Music of the Night" from The Phantom of the Opera
- "Losing My Mind" from Follies
- "Anything But Lonely" from Aspects of Love
- "Only He" from Starlight Express
- "Memory" from Cats
- "Love Changes Everything" from Aspects of Love
- "Once You Lose Your Heart" from Me and My Girl
- "The Last Man in My Life" from Song and Dance
- "I Am What I Am" from La Cage aux Folles
- "In One of My Weaker Moments" from Budgie
- "Tell Me on a Sunday" from Tell Me on a Sunday and subsequently Song and Dance
- "Blow, Gabriel, Blow" from ''Anything Goes''
Personnel
Source:Musicians
- Andy Lynwood – keyboards
- Ian Hughes – keyboards
- Andy Pask – bass guitar
- Mitch Dalton – Guitars, banjo
- Graham Ward – drums
- Dave Hancock – trumpet
- John Franchi – clarinet
- John Lusher – trombone
- Keith Bragg – piccolo
- John Jenkins – tuba
- Kevin Fitzsimmons – piano
- George Ives – cello
- Jamie Talbot – alto saxophone
- Tim Payne – alto saxophone
- Bradley Creswick – violin
- John Barclay – trumpet
- Alan Downie – trumpet
Production Credits
Source:- Produced by Chris Walker
- Conceived and co-ordinated for First Night Records by John Craig
- Arranged and conducted by Ian Hughes
- Recorded at Angel Recording Studios, Islington, London
- Recording Engineer: Dave Hunt
- Thanks to David Whelton and The Philharmonia Orchestra
- Music copying by Ann Barnard Associates and Topscore Music Services
- Specialist musicians contracted by Quentin Williams on behalf of The Philharmonia Orchestra
- Management: Don Black Enterprises
- Hair: Richard at Michaeljohn
- Make-up: Mark Easton
- Thanks to Tom
- Design: The Indigo Design Company
- Photography: Peter Dazeley