In 1956 or 1957 I think Frank Music recorded demos of these seven songs with several singers. Sadly I don’t know who they were. The musical direction was a little more dated sounding than some of the demo recordings that TRO and Mills Music would later make, but I’m very glad to have them anyway. Songs used to have intros, and many of these recordings include them - sometimes long ones!

Lost – a very nice performance.
Lonelyville – Maybe a little slow, but she has lovely voice, and quite an active vibrato!
Blue Notes – Frank Loesser loved this song of hers and said it convinced him she should continue to do both music and lyrics. This version is less compelling than the spectacular two later versions by TRO. Its great to have three convincing versions of this song.
My Heart and I – A beautiful performance. She’s a pretty impressive a singer, whoever she is.
Sleepy But Happy – someone had an idea about a celeste here. The ‘arrangement’ is somewhere between early Disney and Bing Crosby and a little sappy. It made me laugh a lot to hear it. I hope the song deserves better. It was written for a show I was working on with my husband called Miss Seedless Raisin [1958]
The Time, The Place, The Girl – This was written for my very first show, Once In A Lifetime [1950]. There are some skips in beginning portion of the intro, but then it steadies down. The intro is nearly a third the length of the song, which begins around 0:39 !
How Would I know – This is from a very early show I wrote with my husband called Love From Sandy [1955].
It’ Commercial - During my years stalking the Brill Building I kept getting told by one publisher after another that they loved my songs, but that “its just not commercial”. In a business driven by the sale of individual songs on 45’s and increasingly focused on the youth market rather than music “for adults”, publishers were shifting from well-known vocalists singing standards and new material scored in lush orchestra or jazzy big-band arrangements by people like Nelson Riddle to teen-oriented pop songs for the boy and girl-groups that were taking over the recording industry. It was like the door was slowly being closed on a bunch of talented people and in my frustration I wrote this song, really for myself. Sometime between 1956 and 1960, Frank Music, my publisher at the time, recorded a demo of it. I wish I knew who the singer was, because he did a fantastic job. Its a great performance by a comic singer that sounds like he stepped out of a movie musical, or the Catskills in the late 50’s (he probably did!). Fabulous, right down to the NY inflections. Enjoy.