Mario Lanza: A Discography

English Recordings (S-Y)
by Derek McGovern
​

S

September Song

(from Knickerbocker Holiday) (Weill-Anderson)

• 1956 Lanza on Broadway album

Serenade

(Brodszky-Cahn)

• 1955 three versions for the soundtrack of Serenade,
  the best of which (by far) is sung softly in one of the "Mexican" scenes in the film.The Undiscovered Mario Lanza (Sepia, 2022) [Original acetate of the superior "soft" version]

Serenade

(Brodszky-Cahn) – different song

• 1955 two versions recorded for the film of the same name, but never used. One of these was released on the 2004 BMG UK CD Serenade/A Cavalcade of Show Tunes. The unreleased take is better in some respects (though the ending is superior on the released version).

Serenade

(from The Student Prince) (Romberg-Donnelly) (partially updated lyrics by P.F. Webster on 1952 MGM Version)

• 1946 live radio broadcast on Great Moments in Music
• 1952 two versions: one (immortal) rendition for
  the soundtrack of The Student Prince Two superior CD choices with completely different audio mixes (male chorus pushed back in the first instance, as in the film, and with a long orchestral intro; and chorus brought forward in the second, as on the RCA LP): Be My Love: Mario Lanza's Greatest Performances at MGM (Rhino, 1998); and Mario Lanza: Classics (Sepia, 2020)
  the other a much inferior Coca-Cola Radio rendition
• 1959 RCAThe Electrifying Mario Lanza (Sepia, 2022) [Original acetate: a revelation]

The Seven Hills of Rome

(Young-Adamson)

• 1957 two versions: Seven Hills of Rome
  soundtrackMario Lanza: Original Album Classics (SonyBMG, 2009)
  and an unreleased poorly sung outtake
• 1958 Royal Albert Hall recital

Siboney

(Lecuona-Morse)

• 1951 Coca-Cola Radio Show Serenade: A Mario Lanza Songbook (Sony 2009)

Silent Night

(Mohr-Gruber)

• 1951 Two fine versions:
  one for RCA;Christmas with Mario Lanza (RCA/BMG, 1987)
  and an arguably superior rendition from the tenor's Coca-Cola Radio ShowMario Lanza: The Best of Everything (Sony, 2017)
• 1959 RCAThe Electrifying Mario Lanza (Sepia, 2022) [Original acetate]

So In Love

(from Kiss Me Kate) (Porter)

• 1956 Lanza on Broadway album

Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise

(from New Moon) (Romberg-Hammerstein-Mandel-Schwab)

• 1951 Coca-Cola Radio Show (unreleased on CD),
• 1958 two live versions: Royal Albert Hall and Saturday Spectacular TV Show

Somebody Bigger Than You And I

(Lange-Heath-Burke)

• 1952 Coca-Cola Radio ShowYou'll Never Walk Alone (BMG, 1995)

Some Day

(from The Vagabond King) (Friml-Hooker)

• 1951 Coca-Cola Radio ShowMario Lanza: Classics (Sepia Records, 2020) OR Mario Lanza: Never Till Now (Sepia, 2016)
• 1954 Shower of Stars (CBS TV special): two renditions: an afternoon rehearsal (available on the 2021 Sepia Records CD The Immortal Voice of Mario Lanza: A Centennial Celebration) and a live performance in the evening (see our Multimedia section to watch the latter)
• 1959 RCA: The Vagabond King (with soprano Judith Raskin)

Someday I’ll Find You

(from Private Lives) (Coward)

• 1952 two (released) versions for Coca-Cola Radio Show; the rendition first released on the 1993 CD Don't Forget Me is marginally superior

Somewhere a Voice Is Calling

(Tate-Newton)

• 1952 Coca-Cola Radio Show You'll Never Walk Alone (BMG 1995)

The Song Angels Sing

(adapted from Brahms/Aaronson-Webster)

• 1951 soundtrack recording for Because You're Mine
• 1952 RCAThe Mario Lanza Collection (BMG, 1991)

The Song Is You

(from Music in the Air) (Kern-Hammerstein)

• 1951 Coca-Cola Radio ShowMy Romance (BMG, 2001)

Song of India

(adapted from Rimsky-Korsakov/new lyrics by J. Mercer)

• 1953 RCA Mario Lanza: Classics (Sepia, 2020)

Song of Songs

(Moya-Lucas)

• 1951 Coca-Cola Radio Show The Mario Lanza Collection (3-CD set, BMG 1991)

Song of the Vagabonds

(from The Vagabond King) (Friml-Hooker)

• 1959 RCA Mario! Lanza At His Best (Sony/BMG Super Audio CD, 2004)

Speak Low

(from One Touch of Venus) (Weill-Nash)

• 1956 Lanza on Broadway album

Strange Music

(from Song of Norway) (adapted from Grieg/Wright-Forrest)

• 1951 Coca-Cola Radio Show Mario Lanza: Original Album Classics (Sony 2009)

Summertime in Heidelberg

(Brodszky-Webster)

• 1952 MGM for the soundtrack of The Student Prince with soprano Ann BlythMario Lanza: All the Things You Are (Sepia, 2019)
  Note: On the RCA/BMG releases of this recording, Ann Blyth's voice is substituted by soprano Elizabeth Doubleday's vocals.
• 1959 RCA with soprano Norma Giusti (vocal contribution recorded separately)The Immortal Voice of Mario Lanza: A Centennial Celebration (Sepia, 2021)
  (Lanza's vocal only)

Sylvia

(Speaks-Scollard)

• 1951 Coca-Cola Radio ShowMario Lanza: One Alone (Sepia Records, 2017)

T

Tell Me, Oh Blue Blue Sky

(Giannini-Flaster)

• 1952 home recordingAvailable on the CD of private and public performances accompanying the biography Mario Lanza: An American Tragedy, by Armando Cesari (2nd. ed., 2008)and also on Mario Lanza: One Alone (Sepia Records, 2017)
• 1958 Albert Hall recital

Tell Me That You Love Me Tonight

(Bixio-English lyricist unknown)

• 1951 Coca-Cola Radio Show Mario Lanza: Don't Forget Me (BMG 1993)

Tell Me Tonight

(Spoliansky-Eyton)

• 1952 Coca-Cola Radio Show Mario Lanza: When Day Is Done (BMG 1998)

Temptation

(from Going Hollywood) (Brown-Freed)

• 1952 Coca-Cola Radio Show The Mario Lanza Collection (3-CD set, BMG 1991)

Then You Will Know

(from The Desert Song) (Romberg-Harbach-Hammerstein-Mandel)

• 1959 RCA Mario Lanza: The Student Prince and the Desert Song (BMG 1987)

There’s Gonna Be a Party Tonight

(Stoll)

• 1957 soundtrack recording for Seven Hills of Rome

They Didn’t Believe Me

(from The Girl from Utah) (Kern-Reynolds)

• 1948 (with Kathryn Grayson, sop.) soundtrack recording for That Midnight Kiss
• 1949 two versions:
  one for RCA;My Romance (BMG, 2001) and Mario Lanza: The Toast of Hollywood (2-CD set, Sony/TCM 2013)
  the other a radio broadcast
• 1951 Coca-Cola Radio Show

Thine Alone

(from Eileen) (Herbert-Blossom)

• 1948 two versions: one a radio performance, the other a Hollywood Bowl performance with Kathryn Grayson, sop.
• 1951 Coca-Cola radio version
• 1956 RCAMario Lanza: Serenade/A Cavalcade of Show Tunes (BMG UK, 2004)

This Land

(from The Lord Don't Play Favorites) (Stanley-Taylor)

• 1956 RCA The Mario Lanza Collection (3-CD set, BMG 1991)

T

• (continued)

This Nearly Was Mine

(from South Pacific) (Rodgers-Hammerstein)

• 1956 Lanza on Broadway album (arguably Lanza's worst recording)

Thoughts Will Come Back To Me

(from The Student Prince) (Romberg-Donnelly)

• 1959 RCA Mario Lanza: Poetry and Passion (Sepia, 2018)

The Thrill Is Gone

(Henderson-Brown)

• 1952 Coca-Cola Radio ShowWhen Day Is Done (BMG, 1998) OR Mario Lanza: Poetry and Passion (Sepia, 2018)

Through the Years

(Youmans-Heyman)

• 1951 Coca-Cola Radio ShowMario Lanza: Original Album Classics (5-CD set, Sony 2009)

Time On My Hands

(Adamson-Youmans-Gordon)

• 1952 Coca-Cola Radio ShowWhen Day Is Done (BMG, 1998)

The Tina-Lina

(Brodszky-Cahn)

• 1950 two versions:
  one for RCA,Mario Lanza in Hollywood (BMG 1999) OR The Mario Lanza Collection (3-CD set, BMG 1991)
  the other for Toast of New Orleans soundtrack
• 1951 (Coca-Cola Radio Show)

The Toast of New Orleans

(Brodszky-Cahn)

• 1950 two versions:
  one for RCA,Mario Lanza in Hollywood (BMG 1999)
  the other for the soundtrack of the film of the same name

Tomorrow

(from The Vagabond King) (Friml-Hooker)

• 1959 RCA Mario! Lanza At His Best (Sony/BMG Super Audio CD 2004) Note: duet with soprano Judith Raskin, whose contribution was recorded and overdubbed in 1960

The Touch of Your Hand

(from Roberta) (Kern-Harbach)

• 1951 Coca-Cola Radio Show Mario Lanza: Original Album Classics (Sony 2009)

Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!

(from Naughty Marietta) (Herbert-Young)

• 1956 RCAMario Lanza: Serenade/A Cavalcade of Show Tunes (BMG UK, 2004)

Trees

(Kilmer-Rasbach)

• 1951 Coca-Cola Radio ShowThe Immortal Voice of Mario Lanza: A Centennial Celebration (Sepia, 2021)

The Trembling of a Leaf

(Green-Lawrence)

• 1952 Coca-Cola Radio ShowYou'll Never Walk Alone (BMG, 1995)

V

Valencia

(Padilla-Grey)

• 1951 Coca-Cola Radio ShowWhen Day Is Done (BMG, 1998)

The Virgin’s Slumber Song

(Reger)

• 1950 RCA The Immortal Voice of Mario Lanza: A Centennial Celebration (Sepia, 2021)

W

Wanting You

(from New Moon) (Romberg-Hammerstein-Mandel-Schwab)

• 1951 two takes for Coca-Cola Radio Show;
  the released version is superiorMario Lanza: One Alone (Sepia Records, 2017)

We Three Kings of Orient Are

(Hopkins)

• 1956 RCA;Christmas with Mario Lanza (RCA/BMG, 1987)
• 1959 RCA

What Is This Thing Called Love?

(from Wake Up and Dream) (Porter)

• 1952 Coca-Cola Radio ShowMario Lanza: The Toast of Hollywood (2-CD set, Sony/TCM 2013)

When Day Is Done

(Katscher-DeSylva)

• 1952 Coca-Cola Radio ShowWhen Day Is Done (BMG, 1998)

When You’re In Love

(Laine-Fischer)

• 1952 Coca-Cola Radio ShowWhen Day Is Done (BMG, 1998)

Where Or When

(from Babes in Arms) (Rodgers-Hart)

• 1951 Coca-Cola Radio ShowThe Electrifying Mario Lanza (Sepia, 2022)

Why Was I Born?

(from Sweet Adeline) (Kern-Hammerstein)

• 1956 Lanza on Broadway album

Will You Remember?

(from Maytime) (Romberg-Young)

• 1956 RCAMario Lanza: One Alone (Sepia Records, 2017)

With a Song In My Heart

(from Spring Is Here) (Rodgers-Hart)

• 1951 Coca-Cola Radio Show Mario Lanza: Greatest Hits (BMG 1995)

Without a Song

(from Great Day) (Youmans-Rose-Eliscu)

• 1951 Coca-Cola Radio ShowThe Immortal Voice of Mario Lanza: A Centennial Celebration (Sepia, 2021)

Woman Is Fickle

(English version of the aria "La donna è mobile" from Rigoletto) (Verdi/English lyricist unknown)

• 1951 Coca-Cola Radio Show Mario Lanza: Don't Forget Me (BMG 1993)

Wonder Why

(Brodszky-Cahn)

• 1951 Coca-Cola Radio Show The Mario Lanza Collection (3-CD set, BMG 1991)

The World Is Mine Tonight

(Posford-Marvell)

• 1951 Coca-Cola Radio ShowMario Lanza: One Alone (Sepia Records, 2017)

Y

Yesterdays

(from Roberta) (Kern-Harbach)

• 1952 Coca-Cola Radio ShowWhen Day Is Done (BMG, 1998)

You and the Night and the Music

(Schwartz-Dietz)

• 1951 Coca-Cola Radio ShowMy Romance (BMG, 2001)

You Are Love

(from Show Boat) (Kern-Hammerstein)

• 1952 Coca-Cola Radio Show: two substandard takes Mario Lanza: Don't Forget Me (BMG 1993) and Mario Lanza: My Romance (BMG 2001)

You Are My Love

(Callinicos-Webster)

• 1953 RCA The Mario Lanza Collection (3-CD set, BMG 1991 OR Christmas Hymns and Carols/You Do Something to Me (BMG/Collectables 2004)

You Do Something To Me

(from Fifty Million Frenchmen) (Porter)

• 1952 RCAMario Lanza: Never Till Now (Sepia Records, 2016) OR Mario Lanza: Christmas Hymns and Carols/You Do Something to Me (RCA 2004)

You’ll Never Walk Alone

(from Carousel) (Rodgers-Hammerstein)

• 1952 two renditions for Coca-Cola Radio Show; the superior version of these is on the 1995 BMG CD of the same name
• 1956 Lanza on Broadway album

Younger Than Springtime

(from South Pacific) (Rodgers-Hammerstein)

• 1956 RCA Lanza on Broadway album
• 1957Mario Lanza: Greatest Hits (BMG 1995)

Your Eyes Have Told Me So

(Blaufuss-Kahn-Van Alstyne)

• 1951 two similarly rendered takes for the Coca-Cola Radio Show Mario Lanza: Don't Forget Me (BMG 1993) and Mario Lanza: My Romance (BMG 2001)

Yours Is My Heart Alone

(from The Land of Smiles) (Lehar-Smith)

• 1951 Coca-Cola Radio Show
• 1956 RCA Serenade/A Cavalcade of Show Tunes (BMG UK, 2004)

• << Previous