Song by Song by...

[John Green]

Several of these turned up last year at the BFI.Several more are there which aren't listed at Lost Shows,so I thought that they might be worth mentioning here.They are:
Song by Song by....

Johnny Mercer
Cole Porter
Dorothy Fields
Frank Loesser
Irving Berlin.
By British Lyricists.

And (not in the BFI) Sheldon Harnick.

www.lostshows.com/default.aspx?search=song+by+song

[Stephen Doran]

Wasn't there a Sondheim one with David Kernan/Millicent Martin?

[John Green]

Good question.There was the hugely successful stage musical,of course.('Send in the Clowns' and all that).
There was a (missing) 'Saturday Night at the Mill' in 1976 with Sondheim himself,David Kernan,and Millicent Martin: www.lostshows.com/default.aspx?search=sondheim

Lots of info in the BFI database,including that it started as a special
on the BBC,then moved to ITV,and that it was shown in amended form in the U.S.:
ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/32813

Leonard Rossiter as Groucho Marx singing 'Lydia,the Tattooed Lady' would be interesting: ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/690870
Time for the whole series to be released on DVD.