Cook Celebrates New CD, "Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder," Nov. 13 at NYC Barnes & Noble

By Andrew Gans
13 Nov 2008

Cook Celebrates New CD, "Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder," Nov. 13 at NYC Barnes & Noble

Tony Award winner Barbara Cook celebrates the recent release of her new CD, "Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder," Nov. 13 with a free performance and autograph session at the Lincoln Triangle Barnes & Noble.

The afternoon event is scheduled to begin at 4 PM and will boast a performance by Cook as well as a discussion of her new DRG recording and a CD signing. Cook will be accompanied by music director Lee Musiker.

"Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder" marks Cook's 14th recording for the DRG label.

The Lincoln Triangle Barnes & Noble is located in Manhattan at 1972 Broadway at 66th Street.

The track list for "Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder" follows:
"Cookin Breakfast for the One I Love" (William Rose-Henry Tobias)
"For All We Know" (J. Fred Coots-Sam Lewis)
"Hallelujah, I Love Him So" (Ray Charles)
"Harbour" (Peter Allen)
"He Loves and She Loves" (George Gershwin-Ira Gershwin)
"I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter"/"I Wish I Could Forget You" (Fred Ahlert-Joe Young/Stephen Sondheim)
"I'm Through with Love"/"Smile" (Matty Malneck-Ray Livingston/David Raksin-Charles Chaplin)
"If I Ever Say I'm Over You" (John Bucchino)
"Lost in the Stars"/"No More" (Kurt Weill-Maxwell Anderson/Stephen Sondheim)
"Love Is Good for Anything That Ails You" (Cliff Friend-Matty Melneck)
"Old Devil Moon" (Burton Lane-E.Y. Harburg)
"Sooner or Later" (Charles Wolcott-Ray Gilbert)
"There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder" (Al Jolson-Billy Rose-Dave Dreyer)
"Where or When (Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart)
"Lucky to Be Me" (Leonard Bernstein-Betty Comden-Adolph Green)

Barbara Cook has starred on Broadway in Flahooley, Candide, The Gay Life, The Music Man and She Loves Me. She received a Best Featured Actress in a Musical Tony Award for her performance in The Music Man, and her one-woman show, Mostly Sondheim, was nominated for a Tony in the Best Special Theatrical Event category. Cook was most recently on the New York stage in Barbara Cook's Broadway. Both Mostly Sondheim and Barbara Cook's Broadway were recorded for DRG. Cook made her solo debut at the Metropolitan Opera, which was also released on DRG Records.

For more information visit www.drgrecords.com.