Cindy-Ella began life as a BBC television production that was broadcast at Christmas 1957, with the well known Cinderella story being transplanted into the American Deep South. The success of the broadcast led to a book, which in turn was read on BBC by Cleo Laine and Elisabeth Welch and prompted calls for a stage production, which duly opened in the West End in 1962. Also appearing in the play (and subsequent cast recording) are Cy Grant and George Browne, although the team had little more than two weeks to rehearse. The end result was a remarkable piece of work, as the original sleevenotes indicated. ‘Setting the Cinderella story in the Deep South has given it a new and clement climate. It is a summer pantomime.’

1. I Gotta Shoe
2. Troubles Of The World
3. Motherless Child
4. Shine Shine Shoe
5. Li'l Ella Play On Yo' Harp
6. Round Like A Melon, Sweet Like A Peach
7. You Ain't-a Gonna Sit And Take Yo' Ease
8. Go 'Way F'om Mah Window
9. Man No Good For Nothin'
10. Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen
11. You're Worried Now
12. You Gotta Look Disdainful
13. Stranger
14. Git Along Home, Cindy, Cindy
15. High Summer Day
16. Look On Me With A Loving Eye
17. There's A Man Goin' Roun' Givin' Cards
18. Raise A Ruckus
19. Plenty Good Room
20. Bring A Little Pumpkin, Cindy
21. Cindy-Ellsa
22. Swing Low Sweet Chariot
23. Nobody's Business
24. Oh The First Time
25. Look At Me With A Loving Eye Reprise
26. De Midnight Special
27. Let Me Hold Your Hand
28. Hush-A-Bye
29. I Gotta Shoe Reprise
30. Stranger Reprise
31. Hush-A-Bye Reprise