Anastasia Barzee sings "Atlantic Blues" with the Fred Barton Orchestra, in "American Showstoppers: Richard Rodgers" at the Michael Schimmel Center, October 12, 2013.

Anastasia Barzee & The Fred Barton Orchestra

Fred Barton and Gail Cerulli in their high-school musical comedy act.

Past My Prime - FAB 1975

Fred Barton & Sue Scannell in their high school musical comedy act, 1976.

Baby, It's Cold Outside: Fred Barton & Sue Scannell

Tony DeSare sings Fred Barton's arrangement-orchestration of "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" with the Naples Philharmonic, December, 2013.

Tony DeSare sings a Fred Barton arrangement

"Devil May Care," music & lyrics by Fred Barton from the comedy "Haywire."

The show satirizes the Joan Crawford's late-career showbiz slasher movies.

Haywire

Devil May Care – music & lyrics by Fred Barton

Neva Small sings the title song from the Off-Broadway musical "Show Me Where The Good Times Are," with Fred Barton's arrangement and orchestration.

My Place In The World

Show Me Where The Good Times Are (from Show Me Where The Good Times Are)

Neva Small sings a song from HENRY, SWEET HENRY, in which she starred on Broadway, arranged and orchestrated by Fred Barton.

Here I Am (from Henry, Sweet Henry_

Karen Murphy sings "Stranger In Paradise," from her one-woman show TORCH GODDESS, a retrospective of the music of 1950's Hollywood, Broadway, and radio.  Arranged and accompanied by Fred Barton.

Karen Murphy - Stranger In Paradise

Fred Barton's first performance ever of his song "Pour Me A Man," from his one-man show MISS GULCH LIVES, later retitled MISS GULCH RETURNS!, Palsson's Supper Club, November 1983.

Pour Me A Man 1st Performance Nov 1983

Opening number of Harvard Hasty Pudding Theatricals 124, in 1972. The show was hailed at the time for its unprecedented professionalism and the high level of the writing. Set during the Revolutionary War, "The Wrongway Inn" featured book and lyrics by its star, future Broadway and TV writer Barry Harman (5 Tony nominations, 5 Outer Critics Circle Awards, 4 Drama Desk nominations, multiple Emmy Awards.) The songs were composed by prodigy and teacher Norman Siegel. Sung by Thomas Wells & Co.

The Wrongway Inn

Yuletide 2016

I'll Be Home For Christmas - Tony De Sare, arr./orch. Fred Barton

"I'm A Bitch," music & lyric by Fred Barton, performed by Toni DiBuono with Fred Barton's Kitchen Syncopators Electronic Orchestra.

I'm A Bitch

Patti Russo sings Fred Barton's "There Are Other Fish In The Sea," from Universal's "Creature From The Black Lagoon."  Arranged by Peter Fish & Fred Barton, produced by Peter Fish.

There Are Other Fish In The Sea

The Act One Finale of the Broadway-bound musical ONE FOR MY BABY, featuring Mary Bond Davis, Lauren Kennedy, Gavin Creel, Anika Noni Rose, Chester Gregory, Meredith Patterson, Kevin Earley, and Carolee Carmello.

Arranged & Conducted by Fred Barton
Directed & Choreographed by Scott Thompson
Book by Scott Thompson & Fred Barton

One For My Baby

Act 1 Finale

Anika Noni Rose sings "When The Sun Comes Out" from the Broadway-bound musical ONE FOR MY BABY.

Arranged & Conducted by Fred Barton
Directed & Choreographed by Scott Thompson
Book by Scott Thompson & Fred Barton

When The Sun Comes Out

Tari Kelly sings from the Broadway-bound musical ONE FOR MY BABY.

Arranged & Conducted by Fred Barton
Directed & Choreographed by Scott Thompson
Book by Scott Thompson & Fred Barton

He Loved Me Till The All-Clear Came

Carolee Carmello and Kevin Earley sing from the Broadway-bound musical ONE FOR MY BABY.

Arranged & Conducted by Fred Barton
Directed & Choreographed by Scott Thompson
Book by Scott Thompson & Fred Barton

Fun To Be Fooled/Come Rain Or Come Shine-CD

Joan Barber sings an little-known Wright-Forrest song from their nightclub days, which they transformed into the sole purely original song in KISMET.

A Bag of Popcorn and a Dream

I'm Going Moroccan for Johnny

Elena Bennett sings the opening track from her big band album "A Wrinkle In Swingtime," backed by the Fred Barton Orchestra.

A Wrinkle In Swingtime

The Lady From 29 Palms

Track created for Debbie Wileman, songstress extraordinaire, for her daily song performances during the pandemic – modeled after the Mort Lindsay original.

Debbie Wileman Track 1

Remix – Debbie Wileman sings with the Fred Barton Orchestra, in a recreation of Mort Lindsey's original arrangement.

Fred Barton

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