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Music from the New York Stage 1890-1920, Vol. 3: 1913-1917 [Box]

Various Artists
3 discs

0. DISC 1:
1. You Can't Play Every Instrument in the Band - Joseph Cawthorn (from "The Sunshine Girl")
2. You Made Me Love You - Al Jolson (from "Honeymoon Express")
3. My Yellow Jacket Girl - Al Jolson (from "Honeymoon Express")
4. Spaniard That Blighted My Life, The - Al Jolson (from "Honeymoon Express")
5. Just You and I and the Moon - Jose Collins (from "Ziegfeld Follies of 1913")
6. New York, What's the Matter With You? - Nat M. Wills (from "Ziegfeld Follies Of 1913")
7. Hello, Honey - Elizabeth Brice (from "Ziegfeld Follies Of 1913")
8. If a Table at Rector's Could Talk - Nat M. Wills (from "Ziegfeld Follies Of 1913")
9. Look in Her Eyes - George MacFarlane (from "Der Lieber Augustin")
10. Sweethearts - Christie MacDonald (from "Sweethearts")
11. Cricket on the Hearth, The - Christie MacDonald/Reinald Werrenrath (from "Sweethearts")
12. Angelus, The - Christie MacDonald/Reinald Werrenrath (from "Sweethearts")
13. Who Can Tell Me Where She Dwells? - Frank Pollock/Henrietta Wakefield (from "Rob Roy")
14. Tommy, Won't You Teach Me How to Tango? - George Grossmith (from "The Girl On The Film")
15. Follow the Crowd - Irving Berlin (from "The Queen Of The Movies")
16. Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ra - Chauncey Olcott (from "Shameen Dhu")
17. Dream Girl of Mine - Chauncey Olcott (from "Shameen Dhu")
18. My Little Dudeen - Chauncey Olcott (from "Shameen Dhu")
19. Oh! Gustave - Margaret Romaine (from "The Midnight Girl")
20. Your Eyes - George MacFarlane (from "The Midnight Girl")
21. Can't You Hear Me Calling, Caroline? - George MacFarlane (from "The Midnight Girl")
0. DISC 2:
1. When You're All Dressed up and No Place to Go - Raymond Hitchcock (from "The Beauty Shop")
2. Darktown Poker Club, The - Bert Williams (from "Ziegfeld Follies Of 1914")
3. Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts For Soldiers - Al Jolson (from "Dancing Around")
4. When the Grown-up Ladies Act Like Babies - Al Jolson (from "Dancing Around")
5. Pretty Baby/Chin Chin - Six Brown Brothers (from "Chin-Chin")
6. Lilac Domino, The - Eleanor Painter (from "The Lilac Donino")
7. I've Gotta Go Back to Texas - Charles King/Elizabeth Brice (from "Watch Your Step")
8. Murders - George Grossmith (from "Tonight's The Night")
9. Only Way, The - George Grossmith (from "Tonight's The Night")
10. Meet Me Around the Corner - Leslie Henson/Moya Mannering (from "Tonight's The Night")
11. Boots and Shoes - George Grossmith (from "Tonight's The Night")
12. To the Lass We Love, A Toast - George MacFarlane (from "Trilby")
13. Breath O' Blooming Heather - George MacFarlane (from "Trilby")
14. I'm Neutral - Bert Williams (from "Ziegfeld Follies Of 1915")
15. Love Is the Best of All - Eleanor Painter (from "The Princess Pat")
16. New York Hipprodrome March - Sousa's Band (from "Hip-Hip Hooray")
17. Ladder of Roses, The - Chorus Girls (from "Hip-Hip Hooray")
18. Some Little Bug Is Going to Find You - Roy Artwell (from "Alone At Last")
19. Thy Heart My Prize - John Charles Thomas (from "Alone At Last")
20. Rackety Coo - Sam Ash (from "Katinka")
21. Rackety Coo - May Naudain
22. I Can Dance With Everybody But My Wife - Joseph Cawthorn (from "Sybil")
0. DISC 3:
1. Yaaka, Hoola, Hickey Doola - Al Jolson (from "Robinson Crusoe, Jr.")
2. You're a Dangerous Girl - Al Jolson (from "Robinson Crusoe, Jr.")
3. Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday on Saturday Night? - Al Jolson (from "Robinson Crusoe, Jr.")
4. Tillie Titwillow - Al Jolson (from "Robinson Crusoe, Jr.")
5. Down Where the Swanee River Flows - Al Jolson (from "Robinson Crusoe, Jr.")
6. Now He's Got a Beautiful Girl - Al Jolson (from "Robinson Crusoe, Jr.")
7. Don't Believe All You Hear in the Moonlight - George MacFarlane (from "The Heart O' Th' Heather")
8. In Scotland - George MacFarlane (from "The Heart O' Th' Heather")
9. Evelyn - Mizzi Hajos (from "Pom-Pom")
10. In the Dark - Mizzi Hajos (from "Pom-Pom")
11. If I Knock the "L" Out of Kelly - Marguerite Farrell (from "Step This Way")
12. By the Sad Luana Shore - Marguerite Farrell (from "Step This Way")
13. My Castle in the Air - George MacFarlane (from "Miss Springtime")
14. Sometime - Raymond Hitchcock (from "Betty")
15. Here Comes the Groom - Raymond Hitchcock (from "Betty")
16. Patrick Henry Must Have Been a Married Man - Ben Linn (from "So Long, Letty")
17. Hawaiian Sunshine - Van & Schenck (from "The Century Girl")
18. Oh! Johnny Oh! Johnny Oh! - Henry Lewis (from "Follow Me")
19. Lily of the Valley - Henry Lewis (from "Follow Me")
20. What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For? - Henry Lewis (from "Follow Me")
21. Love Is a Wonderful Thing - Henry Lewis (from "Follow Me")
22. Where the Black-Eyed Susans Grow - Henry Lewis (from "Follow Me")
23. Napoleon, Part 1 - Billy B. Van (from "Have A Heart")
24. Napoleon, Part 2 - Billy B. Van (from "Have A Heart")
25. Dance and Grow Thin - Van & Schenck (from "Dance And Grow Thin")
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Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 9056
Credits

Producer Jack Raymond (Compilation)
Engineer
Principal cast: Al Jolson, Joseph Cawthorn, Jose Collins, Nat M. Wills, Elizabeth Brice, George MacFarlane, Christie MacDonald, Frank Pollack, Henrietta Wakefield, George Grossmith, Irving Berlin, Chauncey Olcott, Margaret Romaine, Raymond Hitchcock, Bert Williams, Eleanor Painter, Charles King, Leslie Henson, Sousa's Band, Roy Atwell, May Naudain, Mizzi Hajos, Marguerite Farrell, Ben Linn, Van & Schenk, Henry Lewis, Billy B. Van.
Contains early and rare stage performances, originally recorded on discs and cylinders and collected from various public and private libraries.
The third volume of British archive label Pearl Records' series of four three-CD sets compiling original cast recordings of Broadway shows from 1890-1920 covers only a four-year period, from the start of 1913 to the start of 1917. This was a period when imported and homegrown operettas competed with musical comedy revues. Composers Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, and Irving Berlin were in the ascendant, along with performers Al Jolson, Chauncey Olcott, and Bert Williams, and all are heard from here (Berlin even performs one of his own songs). Jolson, the first Broadway star also to be a major recording star, is especially dominant, being featured on 11 of the 68 tracks. But like its predecessors, this volume suffers from the lack of original cast recordings of some of the most popular songs to emerge from Broadway shows during the period. Of the ten songs introduced in Broadway musicals of the period that topped the charts (according to Joel Whitburn's book Pop Memories), only four are included here. It's not that the recordings exist and haven't been included; it's that with the exception of Jolson and several others, Broadway stars simply didn't make records, leaving popular recording stars to score hits with the songs they had introduced. In this sense, the album provides an accurate, exhaustive survey of the original cast recordings of Broadway shows of 1913-1917, it's just that the extant recordings themselves are inadequate to fully document the era. (Note that the sound quality, while good for unimproved tracks mastered from records from the era, does not remotely compare to 1990s standards.) ~ William Ruhlmann