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Music and Related Materials (continued)
See America First, 1916 (continued)
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.
Note: holograph sketch in pencil for "I've got you on my mind" on back of 2nd copy, used in Gay Divorce (1932)
BOX-FOLDER 3/6 Let's fly away
Printed piano-vocal scores (2) ; 5 p. each
BOX-FOLDER 3/7 Love for sale
Printed piano-vocal score ; 7 p.
BOX-FOLDER 3/8 [Say it with gin] Opening chorus to bootleg scene
Copyist's ms. piano-vocal scores in ink (2), no lyric ; 8 p. each
BOX-FOLDER 3/9 Take me back to Manhattan
Printed piano-vocal scores (2) ; 7 p. each
BOX-FOLDER 3/10 [We've been spending the summers with our families] Opening scene I
Copyist's ms. piano-vocal scores in ink (2) ; 6 p. each
BOX-FOLDER 3/11 Where have you been?
Copyist's ms. piano-vocal score in ink, no lyric ; 4 p.
BOX-FOLDER 3/11 Where have you been?
Printed piano-vocal scores (2) ; 5 p. each
BOX-FOLDER 3/12 You're too far away
Copyist's ms. piano-vocal scores in ink (2) ; 5 p. each
Note: originally intended for The New Yorkers; it was sung in the Manchester performances of Nymph Errant (1933) under the title "I look at you." After it was dropped from Nymph Errant, it was published as an independent song.
BOX 3 Born to dance (film, 1936)
BOX-FOLDER 3/13 Easy to love
Ms. (Albert Sirmay) piano-vocal score in pencil ; 6 p.
Note: originally written for Anything Goes (1934). Rewritten for Born to Dance on 4/13/36.
BOX-FOLDER 3/14 Hey, babe, hey!
Ms. (Albert Sirmay) piano-vocal score in pencil ; 8 p.
BOX-FOLDER 3/15 I've got you under my skin
Ms. (Albert Sirmay) piano-vocal score in pencil ; [8] p.
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