Barbara Cook

Barbara Cook Shankbone Metropolitan Opera 2009
Photo: David Shankbone · CC BY 3.0

About the artist

Barbara Cook (October 25, 1927 – August 7, 2017) was an American singer and actress who first came to prominence in the 1950s as the lead in the original Broadway musicals Plain and Fancy (1955), Candide (1956) and The Music Man (1957) among others, winning a Tony Award for the latter. She continued performing mostly in theatre until the mid-1970s, when she began a second career as a cabaret and concert singer. She also made numerous recordings.

Top songs

  1. Till There Was You
  2. Goodnight My Someone
  3. My White Knight
  4. Piano Lesson
  5. Candide, Act I: Glitter and Be Gay
  6. Glitter And Be Gay
  7. Losing My Mind
  8. I Whistle a Happy Tune
  9. Loving You
  10. It's Not Where You Start
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  1. Ice Cream
  2. Ice Cream (1963 Original Broadway Cast (1987 Remastered))
  3. What's The Use Of Wond'rin' (1987 Version)
  4. In Buddy's Eyes
  5. Will He Like Me?
  6. Take Me to the World
  7. After The Ball (Voice)
  8. Send In the Clowns
  9. This Is All Very New To Me
  10. I'll Show Him
  11. Dear Friend
  12. No More Candy
  13. After The Ball
  14. Magic Moment
  15. It's Better With A Band
  16. Soon (Reprise)
  17. Love Is In The Air
  18. Make Believe
  19. Where or When
  20. This Nearly Was Mine
  21. I Love a Piano
  22. No One Is Alone
  23. A Wonderful Guy
  24. Three Letters
  25. The Gentleman Is A Dope
  26. Remember/Come In From The Rain
  27. Losing My Mind (From "Follies")
  28. I Had Myself a True Love
  29. It Might as Well Be Spring
  30. Fosca's Entrance (I Read)
  31. My Funny Valentine
  32. Glad to Be Unhappy
  33. Good Night My Someone
  34. Don't Look At Me
  35. Why Do I Love You?
  36. He Was Too Good to Me
  37. It Never Entered My Mind
  38. I Didn't Know What Time It was
  39. White Christmas
  40. Some Other Time
  41. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
  42. Anyone Can Whistle
  43. You Could Drive A Person Crazy
  44. Overture - Act II
  45. You Have Cast Your Shadow On the Sea
  46. We'll Be Together Again
  47. Them There Eyes
  48. Beautiful
  49. Make Our Garden Grow
  50. Sweet Dreams
  51. Chain of Love
  52. He Loves Me
  53. Look What Happened To Mabel
  54. Sooner or Later
  55. The Surrey With The Fringe On Top
  56. Not While I'm Around
  57. Bojangles of Harlem
  58. Come Back, Little Genie
  59. Sweet Georgia Brown
  60. Everybody Says Don't
  61. Candide, Act II: Quiet
  62. Errol Flynn
  63. The Label On The Bottle
  64. Loverman
  65. All I Ask of You
  66. Mister Snow
  67. Little Girl Blue
  68. I Wish I Could Forget You
  69. Ship Without a Sail
  70. Make the Man Love Me
  71. Nobody's Heart Belongs to Me
  72. Dancing On the Ceiling
  73. A Perfect Relationship
  74. A Trip To The Library
  75. Happiness
  76. I Got Lost In His Arms
  77. If Love Were All
  78. On the Sunny Side of the Street
  79. What'll I Do? / Timeheals Everything
  80. Nobody Else but Me
  81. I Wonder What Became of Me
  82. The Trolley Song
  83. If They Could See Me Now
  84. There's a Small Hotel
  85. Not A Day Goes By / Losing My Mind
  86. Among My Yesterdays
  87. Something You Never Had Before
  88. Everyone Says Don't (From Anyone Can Whistle)
  89. The Party's Over
  90. Sing A Song With Me

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