Tell Me on a Sunday was the first solo album released by Marti Webb

Marti Webb

Marti Webb is a musical actress from England, who appeared on stage in Evita, before starring in Andrew Lloyd Webber's one woman show Tell Me on a Sunday in 1980...

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All tracks were written by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...

 and Don Black and told the story of an English girl who has emigrated to the United States

United States

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 and embarks on a succession of romances. The music later formed the first half of a stage show called Song and Dance

Song and Dance

Song and Dance is a musical comprising two acts, one told entirely in "Song" and one entirely in "Dance", tied together by a love story.The first part is Tell Me On A Sunday, with lyrics by Don Black and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, about a young British woman's romantic misadventures in New York...

, in which Webb also starred.

Background

As well as composing the piece, Lloyd Webber also arranged and produced the album. Released in 1980, having been recorded in the latter part of 1979, it was one of his first pieces of work to be published by his own Really Useful Company

Really Useful Group

The Really Useful Group Ltd. is an international company set up in 1977 by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It is involved in theatre, film, television, video and concert productions, merchandising, magazine publishing, records and music publishing...

, which he had formed three years earlier.

The musicians were mainly those that had been involved with the Variations. American

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 musical theatre

Musical theatre

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 actress Elaine Stritch

Elaine Stritch

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 performed a cameo role as an answering service attendee on the track "Capped Teeth and Caesar Salad".

The first single to be released, "Take That Look Off Your Face

Take That Look Off Your Face

"Take That Look Off Your Face" is the title of a hit song by musical theatre composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. Collaborating with lyricist Don Black, it was written for the song cycle show Tell Me on a Sunday in 1978. It was sung and released by Marti Webb in 1980, and became a No.3 hit in the UK charts...

" reached No.3 in the UK chart in February 1980, while the title track was a minor hit some months later. The album itself was one of the biggest selling albums of the year, when it reached No.2, spending 23 weeks on the chart - 8 of them in the top 10. The album was re-issued on Compact disc in 1993.

The songs on the album were recorded live in 1982 and released as Song and Dance with some additions.

Track listing

Side One

1. "Take That Look Off Your Face"
2. "Let Me Finish"
3. "It's Not The End Of The World (If I Lose Him)"
4. "Letter Home To England"
5. "Sheldon Bloom"
6. "Capped Teeth And Caesar Salad"
7. "You Made Me Think You Were In Love"
8. "It's Not The End Of The World (If He's Younger)"
9. "Second Letter Home"

Side Two

1. "Come Back With The Same Look In Your Eyes"
2. "Let's Talk About You"
3. "Take That Look Off Your Face (Reprise)"
4. "Tell Me On A Sunday"
5. "It's Not The End Of The World (If He's Married)"
6. "I'm Very You, You're Very Me"
7. "Nothing Like You've Ever Known"
8. "Let Me Finish (Reprise)"

Personnel

• Marti Webb - lead and backing vocals
• Rod Argent
  Rod Argent
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   - keyboards
• Jon Hiseman
  Jon Hiseman
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   - drums
• Ricky Hitchcock - guitars
• Paul Jones
  Paul Jones (singer)
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   - harmonica
• Paul Keogh - guitars
• Julian Lloyd Webber
  Julian Lloyd Webber
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   - cello
• John Mole
  John Mole
  John Mole was an English bass guitar player.Mole was born in Stratford, London. A member of Jon Hiseman's reformed Colosseum II, he went on to work with fellow band members Gary Moore and Don Airey...
  
   - bass
• Morris Pert
  Morris Pert
  Morris David Brough Pert was a Scottish composer, drummer/percussionist, and pianist who composed in the fields of both contemporary classical and jazz-rock music...
  
   - percussion
• Barbara Thompson - flutes, saxophones

The London Philharmonic Orchestra

London Philharmonic Orchestra

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, conducted by Harry Rabinowitz

Harry Rabinowitz

Harry Rabinowitz MBE is a conductor and composer of film and television music.Harry Rabinowitz is the son of Israel Rabinowitz and Eva, née Kirkel...

, also performed on the tracks "Tell Me on a Sunday" and "It's Not the End of the World (If He's Married)".

Production credits

• Conductors - David Caddick and Paul Maguire
• Engineers - David Hamilton Smith, Martyn Webster, Nigel Green and Dave Harris