Sings the Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber American Songbook, but unlike Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and many other artists, she had never recorded a complete album of songs by one composer. The songs on the album are all taken from the popular musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber, that he wrote with various lyricists. The oldest song found on the album is from the 1971 musical "Jesus Christ Superstar" which originally opened on Broadway in October of that year. Bringing it up to date the album also includes two songs from "Sunset Boulevard" which had recently premiered on July 12, 1993 in London's West End. Four songs had
Our Kind of Love (Andrew Lloyd Webber song) Our Kind of Love (Andrew Lloyd Webber song) Our Kind of Love is a ballad from the 2000 musical "The Beautiful Game" by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The lyrics were written by Ben Elton. Lloyd Webber used a Giacomo Puccini aria as the melody for this song, which he had previously used for the song "The Heart is Slow to Learn" in the 1990s, part of an intended sequel to the Webber musical "Phantom of the Opera". The track was recorded by Kiri Te Kanawa in 1998. She performed it live the same year, as part of a concert to celebrate