BARRY BOOTH

SONGWRITER, COMPOSER, ARRANGER, PIANO PLAYER

a selection by Sam Booth

 
Photo: Sean Moorman
 

DIVERSIONS! (1968) is on Spotify and Apple Music

Live at Chelsea Arts Club, February 2020:

INVADE MY PRIVACY
Booth/Landesman
NOTHING SHALL BE GIVEN
Booth/Landesman
SHE USED TO SING
Booth/Landesman
I SHOULD HAVE BEEN DANCING
Booth/Landesman
SO SAYS MY SONG
Booth/Landesman

from COOJEEBEAR AND THE MONSTER:

LONDON
Booth

other recordings:

IT NEVER ENTERED MY MIND
Rodgers/Hart, arr. Booth
SONG OF SHAKESPEARE'S SISTER
Booth/Landesman
I'M SUPPOSED TO BE IN SOHO
Booth/Landesman

Live at Chelsea Arts Club, February 2012:

THE PLODDER SEAM - DOWN IN THE COALMINE - RAP HER TE BANK
McColl - Geoghegan - ?
NOW YOU'RE MY VALENTINE (vocal: FERGUS O'KELLY)
Booth/Brown
DO THAT AGAIN (vocal: NANCY TROTTER-LANDRY)
Booth/Joseph
TROTTIN' TO THE FAIR (vocal: FERGUS O'KELLY)
Stanford/Graves
MY FUNNY VALENTINE (saxophone: RAY WARLEIGH)
Rodgers/Hart

from BETTER THE WORLD WITH A SONG:

CHILDREN OF ENGLAND - SWEET THAMES
Booth/Booth
THE OLD DUN COW (vocal: CHRIS SANDFORD)
Wincott, arr. Booth

more from Chelsea Arts Club, February 2012

SPANISH LADY (vocal: FERGUS O'KELLY)
Traditional
WAIT TIL THE WORK COMES ROUND
Elen
YESTERDAY'S WINE - HER FATHER DIDN'T LIKE ME ANYWAY - DREAM GIRL
Okin - Rafferty - Booth/Landesman

and lastly:

FORGIVE ME
Gould/Jones
ANGEL (violin: GILL MORLEY)
Booth
I GUESS IT MUST BE SPRING AGAIN (vocal: SAM BOOTH)
Booth/McDowell
THE TIGERS OF PAIN
Booth/Landesman
ENDURING LOVE
Booth

Spotify links:

The Spotnicks: SHAMUS O’TOOLE (Booth/Baxter), 1964

from Roy Orbison: THE ORBISON WAY, 1965

IT WASN’T VERY LONG AGO (Booth/Joseph, arr. McElhiney)

from The Johnstons: GIVE A DAMN, 1969:

THE URGE FOR GOING (Mitchell, arr. Booth)
BOTH SIDES NOW (Mitchell, arr. Booth)
I DON’T MIND THE RAIN ON MONDAY (Carroll/Bowen, arr. Booth)

from JEROME KERN GOES TO HOLLYWOOD, 1985

Elaine Delmar: I’M OLD FASHIONED (Kern/Mercer, arr. Booth)
Elaine Delmar and Liz Robertson: PICK YOURSELF UP (Kern/Fields, arr. Booth)
David Kernan, Liz Robertson and Elaine Delmar: OL’ MAN RIVER (Kern/Hammerstein, arr. Booth)

from Terry Johns and Barry Booth: SOFT CORE HORN, 1998 (available on Spotify and Apple Music)

IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT (Porter, arr. Booth)

from Carol Jarvis: SMILE, 2010:

WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR (Harline/Washington, arr. Booth)
PRINCIPAL UNCERTAINTY (Booth)
ALFIE (Bacharach/David, arr. Booth)
HOW HIGH THE MOON (Lewis/Hamilton, arr. Booth)
POLKA DOTS AND MOONBEAMS (Van Heusen/Burke, arr. Booth)
NIGHT AND DAY (Porter, arr. Booth)


BYE, YUM, PUM, PUM (Sherman/Sherman)
Libby Morris

1967

SOUL FOOD (Baxter/Booth/Thompson)
The Soul Reps

1964

 
 

TWO MAN ONE MAN BAND (Booth/Barker)
The Two Ronnies

1985

 

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