LIFE DOES A MAN A FAVOR

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"Life does a man a favor, when it gives him simple joys".
From the 1958 Broadway Production, OH CAPTAIN!.

Jay Livingston & Ray Evans
COPYRIGHT 1958
Jay Livingston Music, Inc. (ASCAP)
St. Angelo Music (ASCAP)
Copyright Renewed

RECORDING HISTORY

Tony Randall, Jacquelyn McKeever, (When It Gives Him Simple Joys), OH
CAPTAIN! The Original Cast Album, Columbia Masterworks # OL 5280 (male female
duet)
Tony Randall Edward Platt, George Ritner, Bruce MacKay, Louis Polacek, Nolan Van Way, (When It Leads Him Down To The Sea), OH CAPTAIN! The Original Cast Album, Columbia Masterworks # OL 5280 (male chorus vocal)
Tony Randall, (When It Puts Him In Paree), OH CAPTAIN! The Original Cast Album,
Columbia Masterworks # OL 5280 (male vocal)
Rosemary Clooney and Jose Ferrer, The Ferrers Rosemary Clooney and Jose Ferrer Sing Selections From The Broadway Musical Comedy OH CAPTAIN!, MGM Records #E3687 (female male duet)
Quintet, Vocal by Marilyn Moore, (Life Does A Girl A Favor), The First Jazz Show-Tune Album With Vocals OH CAPTAIN! Played by The Leonard Feather Dick Hyman AllStars, MGM Records # E3650 (female vocal)
Vic Damone, Orchestra conducted by Percy Faith, Hits From OH CAPTAIN!
Columbia Records # CL 1167 # CO 60387 (male vocal)
The Bob Prince Quintet, Dancing With OH CAPTAIN!, Columbia Harmony Records #HL 7097 (instrumental)
Stan Freeman and his Quartet play OH CAPTAIN!, Columbia Records # CL 1126
(instrumental)

STAGE HISTORY

Howard Merrill and Theatre Corporation of America present The Jose Ferrer Production OH CAPTAIN! Broadway 1958

SONG CATEGORIES

Production Numbers, Serious Ballads, French Songs "LIFE DOES A MAN A
FAVOR (When It Puts Him In Paree)", Songs For Older People "LIFE DOES A MAN A
FAVOR (When It Gives Him Simple Joys)", Songs Of The Sea "LIFE DOES A MAN A
FAVOR (When It Leads Him Down To The Sea)"