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SOMETHING FOR THE BOYS [musical show]
- Title
- SOMETHING FOR THE BOYS [musical show]
- Opening Date
- January 07, 1943
- Genre
- musical show
- Production and Recordings Information
- 1943 radio performances by members of orig cast. Ethel Merman, chorus: "Something for the Boys" (ALB-182, ALB-301, ALB-1548, ALB-1619, ALB-2110) Bill Johnson: "Could It Be You?" (ALB-182, ALB-301, ALB-1374, ALB-2110) Merman, Johnson: "Hey, Good Lookin'" (ALB-182, ALB-301, ALB-1374, ALB-1559, ALB-1619, ALB-1929, ALB-2110) Merman: "He's a Right Guy" (ALB-182, ALB-301, ALB-1374, ALB-1548, ALB-1929, ALB-2110) "I'm in Love with a Soldier Boy" Merman, Betty Bruce: "By the Mississinewah" Merman, Bruce, Johnson, Allen Jenkins: "There's a Happy Land in the Sky" Johnson: "When My Baby Goes to Town" (ALB-2110) Chorus: "See That You're Born in Texas" (All of the above are on AEI Records 1157 & CD/AEI Records CD-004.)
- 1944 film soundtrack, with only one Porter song. MUSIC & WORDS: mostly Jimmy McHugh, Harold Adamson. COND: Emil Newman, Charles Henderson. CAST: Carmen Miranda, Vivian Blaine, Phil Silvers, Perry Como, Michael O'Shea. (Caliban 6030, with Las Vegas Nights. Excerpts: Blaine: "Something for the Boys" (ALB-655, ALB-1470) "Eighty Miles Outside of Atlanta" Como: "I Wish We Didn't Have to Say Goodnight" Blaine, O'Shea, Miranda, Silvers: "Wouldn't It Be Nice" (ALB-853).)
- 1944 records by Evelyn Dall of 1944 London cast. "Hey! Good Lookin'," "Something for the Boys" (78/Dec(E) F-8429, ALB-1132, ALB-2110, ALB-2214)
- 1945 record by Perry Como of 1944 film prod. "I Wish We Didn't Have to Say Goodnight" (78/Vic 20-1630)
- 1997 San Francisco concert prod. COND: Michael Horsley. CAST: Meg Mackay, Lesley Hamilton, Steven Patterson, Joseph Lustig, Dyan McBride, Stephanie Rhoads. (CD/Music Box MBR-42001)
- Records by members of orig cast. MUSIC & WORDS: Cole Porter. Paula Laurence: "Something for the Boys" Laurence, Betty Garrett: "By the Mississinewah" (1944: 78/Dec 23363, ALB-182, ALB-301, ALB-1703, ALB-1941, ALB-2110) Garrett: "I'm in Love with a Soldier Boy" (1977: ALB-551) Ethel Merman: "He's a Right Guy" (1955: ALB-36) "Something for the Boys" (1979: ALB-670)
- Note
- From: Show Music on Record by Jack Raymond
- DigitalID
- loc.natlib.smor.19430107
Last Updated: 08-23-2012