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Music and Related Materials (continued)
See America First, 1916 (continued)
BOX-FOLDER 1/18 I've got an awful lot to learn
Printed piano-vocal score ; 8 p.
BOX-FOLDER 1/19 [Lady fair, lady fair] Act II. no 3. sextet : double trio
Manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil, lyric in ink ; [15] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1/20 [The lady I've vowed to wed] Announcement ensemble (entire cast) : no 18
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil, incomplete ; 14 p.
BOX-FOLDER 1/20 [Untitled]
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil, incomplete ; [10] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1/21 [The language of flowers] Duet (Huggins & Sarah) : no. 8
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil ; 7 p.
BOX-FOLDER 1/21 The language of flowers
Printed piano-vocal score ; 8 p.
Note: introduced in Paranoia (1914) as "Flower song"; it became "The language of flowers" in See America First
BOX-FOLDER 1/22 Lima
Printed piano-vocal score ; 6 p.
BOX-FOLDER 1/23 [Love came and crowned me] Act II no. 4 : Polly (solo)
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil, lyric in ink ; [4] p.
Note: this number was a revision of "Idyll" from Paranoia (1914)
BOX-FOLDER 1/24 [Mirror, mirror] Opening chorus act II : act II no. 1
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil ; [5] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1/25 Oh, bright, fair dream!
Printed piano-vocal score ; 5 p.
BOX-FOLDER 1/26 [Pity me, please] Song (Polly & footmen, Stick-in-the-mud & chorus of Indian maids) : no. 13
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil, incomplete ; p. [1-3], p. 5-7
BOX-FOLDER 1/26 Pity me, please
Printed piano-vocal score ; 7 p.
BOX-FOLDER 1/27 Prithee, come crusading with me
Printed piano-vocal score ; 8 p.
Note: this number was a revision of "Won't you come crusading withe me" from Paranoia (1914). In some programs for See America First the title was listed as "Damsel, Damsel."
BOX-FOLDER 2/1 [Revelation ensemble] Act II no. 6
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil, lyric in ink ; 23 p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/2 See America first [version 1]
Holograph piano-vocal score, incomplete ; 2 p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/2 Song (Huggins & chorus of Badmen) : no. 5
Ms. piano-vocal score in pencil ; 5 p.
Note: this version was discarded and an entirely new title song was substituted.
BOX-FOLDER 2/3 See America first [version 2]
Printed piano-vocal score ; 8 p.
Note: this item was found along with the music for High Society (1956); either Porter was considering it for interpolation into that film, or it was inadvertently mixed in with the materials for that show.
BOX-FOLDER 2/4 Slow sinks the sun
Printed piano-vocal score ; 7 p.
Note: dropped from See America First before the New York opening; introduced in Paranoia (1914)
BOX-FOLDER 2/5 Song (Indian maidens) : no. 13
Holograph piano score in pencil, incomplete ; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/6 [The social coach of all the fashionable future debutantes]
Ms. piano-vocal score in pencil, accompaniment not complete ; [6] p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/7 Something's got to be done
Printed piano-vocal score ; 9 p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/8 [Sweet simplicity]
Holograph piano-vocal sketch in pencil, incomplete ; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/8 [Unidentified]
Holograph sketch in pencil ; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/9 [To follow every fancy] Song (Cecil & chorus of Badmen) : no. 4
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil ; 4 p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/10 [Well it's good to be here again] Soliloquy (Huggins) : no. 6 ; Hold up ensemble & solos : no. 7
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil ; 1 p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/10 When a body's in love : Act II, no. 5, quartette
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil ; 16 p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/12 When I used to lead the ballet
Printed piano-vocal score ; 9 p.
Note: introduced in The Pot of Gold (1912)
BOX-FOLDER 2/13 [Younger sons of peers] No. 2
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil, incomplete ; p. 2-7
[See America First, miscellaneous parts]
BOX-FOLDER 2/14 Flute part: "No. 3"
BOX-FOLDER 2/14 Trombone and drum part: [Unidentified]
BOX-FOLDER 2/14 Violin parts: O verture; Finale act I; Opening chorus act II; Longing for dear old Broadway; When I used to lead the ballet
BOX-FOLDER 2/15 [See America First, unidentified fragments and sketches]
Holograph and ms. scores and sketches in pencil and ink ; approx. [40] leaves
BOX 2 Hitchy-Koo of 1919
BOX-FOLDER 2/16 Another sentimental song
Printed piano-vocal score ; 5 p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/17 Bring me back my butterfly
Printed piano-vocal score ; 7 p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/18 I introduced
Printed piano-vocal score ; 5 p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/19 In Hitchy's garden
Printed piano-vocal score ; 7 p.
Note: a.k.a. "Hitchy's garden of roses"
BOX-FOLDER 2/20 I've got somebody waiting
Printed piano-vocal score ; 5 p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/21 My cozy little corner in the Ritz
Printed piano-vocal score ; 7 p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/22 Old fashioned garden
Printed piano-vocal score ; 5 p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/23 Peter Piper ; [The sea is calling]
Printed piano-vocal score ; 7 p.
The sea is calling
See Peter Piper
BOX-FOLDER 2/24 That black and white baby of mine
Printed piano-vocal score ; 7 p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/25 When I had a uniform on
Printed piano-vocal score ; 9 p.
Note: a.k.a. "Demobilization song"
BOX 2 Hitchy-Koo of 1922
BOX-FOLDER 2/26 The American punch
Printed piano-vocal score ; 5 p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/27 The bandit band
Printed piano-vocal score ; 5 p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/28 The harbor deep down in my heart
Printed piano-vocal score ; 5 p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/29 The heart o' me
Printed piano-vocal score ; 5 p.
Note: music by Raymond Hubbell, lyric by Glen MacDonough
BOX-FOLDER 2/30 Love letter words
Printed piano-vocal score ; 5 p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/31 When my caravan comes home
Printed piano-vocal score ; 5 p.
BOX 3 The New Yorkers (1930)
BOX-FOLDER 3/1 Go into your dance
Copyist's ms. piano-vocal scores in ink (3) ; 4 p. each
BOX-FOLDER 3/2 The great indoors
Copyist's ms. piano-vocal score in ink ; 6 p.
Laid in: typed lyric sheets (2) and note re lyric given to Elsa Maxwell, 10/3/41
BOX-FOLDER 3/2 The great indoors
Printed piano-vocal scores (2) ; 5 p. each
BOX-FOLDER 3/3 I happen to like New York
Printed piano-vocal scores (2) ; 5 p. each
BOX-FOLDER 3/4 I'm getting myself ready for you
Printed piano-vocal scores (2) ; 5 p. each
BOX-FOLDER 3/5 Just one of those things [version 1]
Printed piano-vocal scores (2) ; 4 p. each
Note: the famous song of the same title, but with totally different music and lyrics, was written for Jubilee (1935)
BOX-FOLDER 3/6 Let's fly away
Copyist's ms. piano-vocal score in ink (2) ; 1 copy 4 p., 1 copy 7 p.
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