Complete Philips Recordings (2025 Reissue/Reprint of the 2022 Box Set)

~ Release by John Williams And The Boston Pops Orchestra (see all versions of this release, 2 available)

Annotation

A limited edition, 21-CD set of John Williams' complete recordings made for Philips during his first 10 years with the Boston Pops Orchestra.

Annotation last modified on 2026-02-18 20:54 UTC.

Tracklist

1▶CD: Pops on the March
2▶CD: Pops in Space
3▶CD: That's Entertainment (Pops on Broadway)
4▶CD: We Wish You a Merry Christmas
5▶CD: Pops Around the World
6▶CD: Aisle Seat
7▶CD: Out of This World
8▶CD: Peter and the Wolf / Nutcracker Suite
9▶CD: With a Song in My Heart
10▶CD: Swing, Swing, Swing
11▶CD: America, the Dream Goes On
12▼CD: On Stage
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1Annie Get Your Gun: There's No Business Like Showbusiness
producer:
John McClure (recording engineer and record producer)
orchestra:
Boston Pops Orchestra (in 1983)
conductor:
John Williams (American score composer) (in 1983)
arranger:
Morton Stevens
recorded at:
Symphony Hall (Boston) in Boston, Massachusetts, United States (in 1983)
instrumental recording of:
There’s No Business Like Show Business (from “Annie Get Your Gun”) (in 1983)
lyricist and composer:
Irving Berlin
publisher:
Irving Berlin Ltd., Irving Berlin Music Company and Warner/Chappell (Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.)
part of:
Annie Get Your Gun
Irving Berlin3:25
2A Chorus Line: Overture
producer:
John McClure (recording engineer and record producer)
orchestra:
Boston Pops Orchestra (in 1983)
conductor:
John Williams (American score composer) (in 1983)
arranger:
Marvin Hamlisch
recorded at:
Symphony Hall (Boston) in Boston, Massachusetts, United States (in 1983)
recording of:
A Chorus Line: Overture (in 1983)
composer:
Marvin Hamlisch
Marvin Hamlisch9:13
3Dancin': Here You Come Again
producer:
John McClure (recording engineer and record producer)
orchestra:
Boston Pops Orchestra (in 1983)
conductor:
John Williams (American score composer) (in 1983)
arranger:
Don Sebesky
recorded at:
Symphony Hall (Boston) in Boston, Massachusetts, United States (in 1983)
instrumental recording of:
Here You Come Again (in 1983)
lyricist:
Cynthia Weil
composer:
Barry Mann
publisher:
Dyad Music Ltd., EMI Music Publishing Australia Pty. Limited (not for release label use!), Screen Gems–EMI Music, Screen Gems–EMI Music, Inc. (USA, affiliated with BMI), Summerhill Music Songs and Summerhill Songs
Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil2:58
4Sophisticated Ladies (A Tribute to Duke Ellington): a. Sophisticated Lady / b. Take the “A” Train / c. Mood Indigo / d. It Don't Mean a Thing
producer:
John McClure (recording engineer and record producer)
orchestra:
Boston Pops Orchestra (in 1983)
conductor:
John Williams (American score composer) (in 1983)
arranger:
Ralph Burns
recorded at:
Symphony Hall (Boston) in Boston, Massachusetts, United States (in 1983)
medley including a recording of:
It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) (in 1983)
lyricist:
Irving Mills (in 1931)
composer:
Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington (Duke Ellington, US composer, pianist & jazz bandleader) (in 1931-08)
publisher:
Duke Ellington Music and EMI Mills Music (ASCAP-affiliated)
part of:
The Real Book (compilation of jazz standards, Volume I)
medley including a recording of:
Mood Indigo (1930 jazz composition and song) (in 1983)
lyricist:
Irving Mills (in 1930)
composer:
Barney Bigard (in 1930) and Duke Ellington (US composer, pianist & jazz bandleader) (in 1930)
publisher:
Duke Ellington Music, Famous Music Corporation (renamed since 2007‐05 as Sony/ATV Harmony/Melody), Indigo Mood Music, Mills Music, Inc., EMI Mills Music Inc. (ASCAP-affiliated) (in 1930), EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS‐affiliated) (in 1930) and Lawrence Wright Music Co., Ltd. (in 1930)
sub-publisher:
ソニー・ミュージックパブリッシング CMP外国事業部 (sub‐publisher for foreign (non‐Japanese) works) and ヤマハミュージックエンタテインメントホールディングス (Yamaha Music Entertainment Holdings, Inc., holding company – do not use as release label)
part of:
The Real Book (compilation of jazz standards, Volume I)
medley including a recording of:
Sophisticated Lady (in 1983)
lyricist:
Mitchell Parish and Irving Mills (in 1932)
composer:
Duke Ellington (US composer, pianist & jazz bandleader) (in 1932)
publisher:
Duke Ellington Music (ended), Mills Music, Inc. (ended), EMI Mills Music Inc. (ASCAP-affiliated), Famous Music Corporation (renamed since 2007‐05 as Sony/ATV Harmony/Melody) (until 2007-05) and Sony/ATV Harmony (from 2007-05 to present)
part of:
Sophisticated Ladies (1981 musical)
part of:
The Real Book (compilation of jazz standards, Volume I)
medley including a recording of:
Take the “A” Train (version with lyrics by Sherrill) (in 1983)
lyricist:
Joya Sherrill (in 1944)
composer:
Billy Strayhorn (in 1939)
publisher:
Music Sales Corporation (American copyright holder in both popular and classical music)
version of:
Take the “A” Train (original instrumental version)
Duke Ellington / Billy Strayhorn / Duke Ellington & Barney Bigard / Duke Ellington8:23
5Cats: Memory
producer:
John McClure (recording engineer and record producer)
orchestra:
Boston Pops Orchestra (in 1983)
conductor:
John Williams (American score composer) (in 1983)
arranger:
Eric Knight (Alternative Rock)
recorded at:
Symphony Hall (Boston) in Boston, Massachusetts, United States (in 1983)
instrumental recording of:
Memory (Cats) (in 1983)
lyricist:
T. S. Eliot and Trevor Nunn
additional writer:
Trevor Nunn
composer:
Andrew Lloyd Webber (English composer and impresario of musical theatre)
publisher:
Bike Music, Downtown DMP Songs, Faber Music, Faber Music Ltd., The Really Useful Music Co. Ltd. (not for release label use!) and Universal Music Publishing (use ONLY if no country‐specific information is available)
sub-publisher:
フジパシフィックミュージック (Fujipacific Music, Inc.) and ユニバーサル・ミュージック・パブリッシング Synch事業部 (Universal Music Publishing, Synch Division)
part of:
Cats (Andrew Lloyd Webber musical)
Andrew Lloyd Webber4:34
6A Salute to Fred Astaire: a. Top Hat, White Tie and Tails / b. The Carioca / c. Dancing in the Dark / d. I Won't Dance / e. The Continental
producer:
John McClure (recording engineer and record producer)
orchestra:
Boston Pops Orchestra (in 1983)
conductor:
John Williams (American score composer) (in 1983)
arranger:
Alexander Courage
recorded at:
Symphony Hall (Boston) in Boston, Massachusetts, United States (in 1983)
medley including a recording of:
Carioca (from "Flying Down to Rio") (in 1983)
lyricist:
Edward Eliscu and Gus Kahn
composer:
Vincent Youmans
part of:
Academy Award for Best Original Song (number: 1934 nominee)
medley including a recording of:
Dancing in the Dark (in 1983)
lyricist:
Howard Dietz (librettist)
composer:
Arthur Schwartz
publisher:
Arthur Schwartz Music Ltd., Chappell Music Ltd., Harms, Inc., Warner Bros., Inc. (Warner Bros. Music Division) and WC Music Corp.
sub-publisher:
ヤマハミュージックエンタテインメントホールディングス (Yamaha Music Entertainment Holdings, Inc., holding company – do not use as release label) and ワーナー・チャペル音楽出版 Synch事業部 (Warner/Chappell Music Japan K.K., Synch Division)
part of:
The Band Wagon (1953 film)
medley including a recording of:
I Won’t Dance (1935, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, from “Roberta”) (in 1983)
lyricist:
Jimmy McHugh (songwriter) and Dorothy Fields (American librettist and lyricist) (in 1935)
composer:
Jerome Kern
publisher:
Chappell Music Ltd., Cotton Club Publishing, EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS‐affiliated), Memory Lane Music Ltd., T.B. Harms Co. and Universal Music Publishing Ltd. (UK subsidiary of Universal Music Publishing Group)
is based on:
I Won’t Dance (1934, lyrics by Hammerstein/Harbach, from “Three Sisters”)
medley including a recording of:
The Continental (from the 1934 film "The Gay Divorcee") (in 1983)
lyricist:
Herb Magidson (in 1934)
composer:
Con Conrad (in 1934)
publisher:
Harms, Inc., Magidson Music, Inc., The Songwriters Guild and Warner Bros., Inc. (not for release label use!)
part of:
Academy Award for Best Original Song (number: 1934 winner)
medley including a recording of:
Top Hat, White Tie and Tails (from “Top Hat”) (in 1983)
lyricist and composer:
Irving Berlin (in 1935)
part of:
Top Hat (1935 film)
Irving Berlin / Vincent Youmans / Arthur Schwartz / Jerome Kern / Con Conrad8:29
7On Your Toes: Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
producer:
John McClure (recording engineer and record producer)
orchestra:
Boston Pops Orchestra (in 1983)
conductor:
John Williams (American score composer) (in 1983)
arranger:
Robert Russell Bennett (American composer and arranger)
recorded at:
Symphony Hall (Boston) in Boston, Massachusetts, United States (in 1983)
recording of:
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (in 1983)
orchestrator:
Robert Russell Bennett (American composer and arranger)
composer:
Richard Rodgers (composer)
arranger:
Sammy Nestico
part of:
On Your Toes
Richard Rodgers8:46
13▶CD: Bernstein by Boston
14▶CD: Pops in Love
15▶CD: Holst: The Planets
16▶CD: Digital Jukebox
17▶CD: Lucky to Be Me
18▶CD: Salute to Hollywood
19▶CD: Pops à la Russe
20▶CD: Pops by Gershwin
21▶CD: By Request… / Pops Britannia

Credits

Release group

includes:Aisle Seat: Great Film Music by John Williams (American score composer) & The Boston Pops Orchestra
America, The Dream Goes On by John Williams (American score composer) & The Boston Pops Orchestra
Bernstein by Boston by Bernstein (Leonard Bernstein, American conductor, composer, pianist); Boston Pops Orchestra, John Williams (American score composer)
By Request… The Best of John Williams and the Boston Pops by John Williams (American score composer) and the Boston Pops
Digital Jukebox by John Williams (American score composer) & The Boston Pops Orchestra
Lucky to Be Me by Jessye Norman (soprano) & John Williams (American score composer)
On Stage by John Williams (American score composer) & Boston Pops Orchestra
Out of This World by John Williams (American score composer) & Boston Pops Orchestra
Pops à la Russe by John Williams (American score composer) and the Boston Pops Orchestra
Pops Around the World by John Williams (American score composer) & Boston Pops Orchestra
Pops Britannia by Boston Pops Orchestra, John Williams (American score composer)
Pops by Gershwin by Boston Pops Orchestra
Pops in Love by John Williams (American score composer) & Boston Pops Orchestra
Pops in Space by John Williams (American score composer) & The Boston Pops Orchestra
Pops on the March by John Williams (American score composer) & The Boston Pops Orchestra
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 / Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a by Prokofiev (Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer), Tchaikovsky (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian romantic composer); Dudley Moore, John Williams (American score composer) & The Boston Pops
Salute to Hollywood by John Williams (American score composer) & The Boston Pops Orchestra
Swing, Swing, Swing by John Williams (American score composer) & The Boston Pops
That's Entertainment by John Williams (American score composer) & Boston Pops
The Planets by Gustav Holst (composer); Boston Pops, John Williams (American score composer)
We Wish You a Merry Christmas by John Williams (American score composer) & The Boston Pops Orchestra
With a Song in My Heart by Jessye Norman (soprano), Boston Pops Orchestra, John Williams (American score composer)
part of:Boston Pops conducted by John Williams compilations (order: 20)