The Windows of the World three tracks cut for Warwick's precedent "On Stage and in the Movies" album which were omitted from the last-named album's finalized track listing: "What's Good About Goodbye", a Leo Robin/Harold Arlen composition introduced in the 1948 film "Casbah"; "Somewhere" composed by Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein for the stage musical "West Side Story"; and "You're Gonna Hear From Me" (writers: Dory Previn/André Previn) a song introduced in the film "Inside Daisy Clover" (1965). The back cover of the original album listed the song "Taking a Chance on Love" (writers: Vernon Duke/John La Touche and Ted Fetter), introduced in the all-black
Stephen Sondheim approached by Laurents and Robbins for a musical version of Gypsy Rose Lee's memoir after Irving Berlin and Cole Porter turned it down. Sondheim agreed, but Ethel Merman – cast as Mama Rose – had just finished "Happy Hunting" with an unknown composer (Harold Karr) and lyricist (Matt Dubey). Although Sondheim wanted to write the music and lyrics, Merman refused to let another first-time composer write for her and demanded that Jule Styne write the music. Sondheim, concerned that writing lyrics again would pigeonhole him as a lyricist, called his mentor for advice. Hammerstein told him he should take the