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Music and Related Materials (continued)
Panama Hattie (1940) (continued)
[Panama Hattie lyrics] (continued)
Lyric sheets, 1 holograph, the rest typed, many with annotations by Porter, most versions are dated and some are on The Ritz Carlton, Boston and Waldorf-Astoria, New York stationary ; [120] leaves
Song titles:
  • All I've got to get now is my man
  • Americans all drink coffee
  • Fresh as a daisy
  • God bless the woman
  • Here's to Panama Hattie
  • I'm throwing a ball tonight
  • I've still got my health tonight
  • Join it right away
  • Let's be buddies
  • Make it another old-fashioned please
  • My mother would love you
  • One hundred years from today/now
  • A stroll on the plaza Sant' Ana
  • They ain't done right by our Nell
  • Visit Panama
  • We detest a fiesta
  • Welcome to Jerry
  • Who would have dreamed
  • You said it
BOX 8 Around the World in Eighty Days (1946)
BOX-FOLDER 8/1 Act II opening California scene
Ms. (Albert Sirmay) piano-vocal score in pencil ; 18 p.
Laid in: typed lyric sheets (2) for "If you smile (look) at me/vocal following Jota" ; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 8/2 If you smile (look) at me
Ms. piano-vocal score in pencil ; [5] p.
Laid in: typed lyric sheets (2) ; [1] p.
Note: verse in Albert Sirmay's hand
BOX-FOLDER 8/3 Storm at sea
Ms. (Albert Sirmay) condensed score in pencil ; 8 p.
BOX-FOLDER 8/4 Wherever they fly the flag of old England
Ms. (Albert Sirmay) piano-vocal score in pencil ; [6] p.
Note: "The halls of Montezuma" is sung as a counter-melody to the refrain
BOX-FOLDER 8/5 You can do no wrong
Ms. (Albert Sirmay) piano-vocal score in pencil, no lyric ; 4 p.
Note: song unused in Around the World; later used in The Pirate
BOX 8/11 Kiss Me Kate (1948)
BOX-FOLDER 8/6 [Always true to you in my fashion] Introduction & verse
Ms. piano-vocal score in pencil ; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 8/6 True to you in my fashion ; But I'm always true to you
Ozalids (2) of copyist's ms. piano-vocal scores ; 2 p. + 6 p. each
BOX-FOLDER 8/6 Always true to you in my fashion ; (But I'm) always true you in my fashion
Ozalid of copyist's ms. piano-vocal score ; 2 p. + 6 p.
BOX-FOLDER 8/6 True to you in my fashion ; But I'm always true to you : ro[a]d co[mpany] version
Ozalid of copyist's ms. piano-vocal scores, pencil annotations in Porter's hand ; 2 p. + 6 p.
Note: includes lyrics not in CLCP
BOX-FOLDER 8/7 Another op'nin', another show : (revised final ending)
Ozalids (2) of copyist's ms. piano-vocal scores ; 6 p. + [1] p. each
BOX-FOLDER 8/7 Another op'ning, another show
Ozalids (2) of copyist's ms. piano-vocal scores ; 6 p. each
Note on t.p. in Porter's hand: "change final ending"
BOX-FOLDER 8/7 Another op'ning, another show [revised final ending]
Ms. piano-vocal score in pencil ; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 8/8 Bianca
Ozalids (2) of copyist's ms. piano-vocal scores ; 5 p. each
Note: lyric for verses not in CLCP
BOX-FOLDER 8/9 Bianca's theme (incidental music)
Ms. piano score in pencil ; 2 p. + [1] p. crossed out
Note: previously unknown
BOX-FOLDER 8/10 Brush up your Shakespeare
Ms. piano-vocal score in pencil ; 7 p.
BOX-FOLDER 8/10 Brush up your Shakespeare
Ozalids (2) of copyist's ms. piano-vocal scores ; 7 p. each
BOX-FOLDER 8/10 Brush up your Shakespeare
Ozalids (3) of copyist's ms. piano-vocal scores, pencil annotations in Porter's hand ; 7 p. each
Note: includes lyrics not in CLCP
BOX-FOLDER 8/11 [Finale, act II] Second act Shrew finale
Ms. piano-vocal score in pencil ; 16 p. [p. 10-13 ozalid for "Were thine that special face" with annotations]
BOX-FOLDER 8/11 [Finale, act II] Second act Shrew finale
Ozalids (2) of copyist's ms. piano-vocal score ; 16 p. each
How simple life would be
See [Kiss Me Kate holograph lyrics]
BOX-FOLDER 8/12 I am ashamed that women are so simple
Holograph lead sheet in pencil ; [2] p.
Laid in: typed lyric sheet ; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 8/12 I am ashamed that women are so simple
Ms. piano-vocal score in pencil ; 4 p.
BOX-FOLDER 8/12 I am ashamed that women are so simple
Ozalids (2) of copyist's ms. piano-vocal score ; 4 p. each
BOX-FOLDER 8/13 I hate men
Ozalids (2) of copyist's ms. piano-vocal scores ; 4 p. each
BOX-FOLDER 8/14 I sing of love
Ozalids (3) of copyist's ms. piano-vocal scores ; 8 p.
If you love your job
See [Kiss Me Kate holograph lyrics]
BOX-FOLDER 8/15 I'm afraid, sweetheart, I love you
Ms. piano-vocal score ; [5] p.
Note: cut song
It was great fun the first time
See [Kiss Me Kate holograph lyrics]
BOX-FOLDER 8/16 I've become to wive it wealthily in Padua
Ozalids (2) of copyists ms. piano-vocal scores ; 8 p. each
BOX-FOLDER 8/17 Kate's theme
Ms. piano score in pencil ; [2] p.
Note: previously unknown
BOX-FOLDER 9/1 [Kiss me Kate] Finale act I : finale 1st act
Holograph sketch in pencil ; 2 p.
BOX-FOLDER 9/1 First act finale--Kiss me Kate
Ms. piano-vocal score in pencil ; 18 p.
Laid in: typed lyric sheet ; 4 p.
BOX-FOLDER 9/1 First act finale--Kiss me Kate
Ozalids (2) of copyist's ms. piano-vocal score ; 19 p. each
BOX-FOLDER 9/2 L[ove] is the only thing
Holograph sketch in pencil ; [1] p.
Note: previously unknown
BOX-FOLDER 9/3 Petruchio's theme
Ms. condensed score in pencil ; [3] p.
Note: previously unknown
Security or love
See [Kiss Me Kate holograph lyrics]
BOX-FOLDER 9/4 So in love
Ozalids (2) of copyist's ms. piano-vocal scores ; 5 p. each
To be or not to be
See [Kiss Me Kate holograph lyrics]
BOX-FOLDER 9/5 Tom, Dick or Harry
Ozalids (2) of copyist's ms. piano-vocal scores ; 10 p. each
BOX-FOLDER 9/6 Too darn hot
Ozalids (4) of copyist's ms. piano-vocal scores ; 10 p. each
Note: there are slight variations in some of the copies; one is marked "corrected Sirmay," another says "Road co. lyric" and includes lyric changes in pencil in Porter's hand
The trouble with me is
See [Kiss Me Kate holograph lyrics]
BOX-FOLDER 9/7 [We open in Venice] Opening Padua street scene
Ozalids (2) of copyist's ms. piano-vocal scores ; 5 p. each
BOX-FOLDER 9/8 Were thine that special face
Ozalids (2) of copyist's ms. piano-vocal scores ; 5 p. each
Note: one copy has a pencil note in Porter's hand "lyric of verse to be changed"
BOX-FOLDER 9/9 What does your servant dream about?
Ms. piano-vocal score in pencil ; 5 p.
Note: cut song
BOX-FOLDER 9/10 Where is the life that late I led?
Ozalids (3) of copyist's ms. piano-vocal scores ; 10 p. each
BOX-FOLDER 9/11 Why can't you behave?
Ozalids (3) of copyist's ms. piano-vocal scores ; 5 p. each
Note: one copy marked "corrected Sirmay" contains pencil corrections
A woman's career
See [Kiss Me Kate holograph lyrics]
BOX-FOLDER 9/12 Wunderbar
Ms. piano-vocal score of verse in pencil with annotated ozalid of the refrain, including a note from Albert Sirmay ; [2] p. + 5 p.
BOX-FOLDER 9/12 Wunderbar
Ozalids (3) of copyist's ms. piano-vocal score ; 6 p. each
Note: 2 copies include annotations, at least some lyric changes in Porter's hand in pencil
BOX-FOLDER 10/1-3 [Kiss Me Kate]
Ozalids of copyist's ms. piano-vocal scores for complete show, #1-47
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