| Composers
who have worked with Fran include: |
|
Tommy
Wolf
Fran's
original collaborator. Composer of 'Spring Can Really
Hang You Up The Most'
|
Simon
Wallace
Fran’s
songwriting collaborator since 1994. They have produced a catalogue
of more than 300 songs. |
Bob
Dorough
friend and collaborator since the late 1950s. Composer of
'Small Day Tomorrow' and 'Nothing Like You'. |
Roy
Krall
championed the Landesman/Wolf output fromthe start as well as
writing some great songs with Fran himself. |
Alex
Wilder
set a number of Landesman lyrics in the early 1960s
|
John
Simon
wrote
songs with Fran in the 1970s including 'A Brontosaurus Called
Bert'. |
Jason
McAuliffe
wrote many songs with Fran in the 1980s |
Amanda
Mcbroom
set
the lyric Rhymes At Midnight in 1996 |
Steve
Allen
songwriter
and TV personality, wrote some memorable songs with Fran including
'Its Nice That Your Still Here' and 'A Man Who Used To
Be’ recorded Steve Laurance.
|
Georgie
Fame
wrote
songs with Fran in the 1970s. 'Eros Hotel' is still a
regular part of his set.
|
Dudley
Moore
set
Fran’s lyric 'Before Love Went Out Of Style' in
1965. It was recorded by Cleo Lane who sang it at the Carnegie
Hall concert of Dudley Moore’s music given in 2001 a few
months before his death. |
Fran’s
other collaboratorating composers over the years include:
Lee Pocriss, Tom Springfield, Hod O’Brien, Ann Hampton
Calloway, Pat Smyth and Richard Rodney Bennet. |
| Singers
who have been recording and performing Fran Landesman’s
more recent work include: |
Sarah
Moule
'A Lazy Kind Of Love' (Red Ram RAM001, Linn Records download, 2008), 'Something's Gotta Give' the lyrics of Johnny Mercer and Fran Landesman (Linn Records AKD239), 2004), 'It’s
A Nice Thought' 14 songs by Fran Landesman and Simon Wallace
(Linn Records AKD 192, 2002) |
Nicki
Lieghton-Thomas
'Forbidden
Games' 13 songs by Fran Landesman and Simon Wallace (Candid
Records CCD 79778) |
Susannah
Mccorkle
'Hearts and Minds' (Concord Jazz 4879-2) contains 3 Landesman
Wallace songs. |
Ian
Shaw
has know Fran for almost 20 years and continues to perform and
record her work. |
Jackie
and Roy Kral
...the original champions of Fran’s work. |
Other
singers who have performed and recorded Fran’s recent work
includes:
Howard Samuels who put together the 1992 show “Invade My
Privacy” Barb Jungr, Morag Mclaren, Imelda Staunton and
Jonathan Cairney. |
Any
list of singers who have performed and recorded Fran’s
earlier work would have to include:
Ella Fitzgerald, Barbra Streisand, Carmen McCrae, Bette Midler,
Mabel Mercer, Ricki Lee Jones, Anita O’Day, Shirley Bassey,
Anthony Newley, Cleo Laine and many, many more. |
