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SHOW BOAT [musical show]
- Title
- SHOW BOAT [musical show]
- Opening Date
- December 27, 1927
- Genre
- musical show
- Production and Recordings Information
- 1928 medley by Paul Whiteman Orch of 1929 film prod. VOCALS: Olive Kline, Lambert Murphy, chorus. (78/Vic 35912, ALB-1940)
- 1928 medley with uncredited orchestra, soloists, & chorus. (78/Broadcast(E) 8" 261)
- 1928 records by members of 1928 London prod. COND: Herman Finck. Edith Day: "Dance Away the Night" Day, Howett Worster: "You Are Love" (78/Col(E) 9429, ALB-84, ALB-127, ALB-505, ALB-1565, ALB-2089) "Make Believe" (78/Col(E) 9428, ALB-84, ALB-127, ALB-505, ALB-1559, ALB-1565, ALB-2089) "Why Do I Love You?" (78/Col(E) 9428, ALB-84, ALB-127, ALB-505, ALB-1460, ALB-1565, ALB-1639, ALB-2089) Marie Burke: "Bill" (78/Col(E) 9427, ALB-505, ALB-1565, ALB-2089) "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" (78/Col(E) 9427, ALB-505, ALB-1565, ALB-1639, ALB-2089) Paul Robeson, Mississippi Chorus: "Ol' Man River" (78/Col(E) mx WAX-3624, ALB-505, ALB-1610, ALB-1639, ALB-2089) Norris Smith (Robeson's understudy), Mississippi Chorus: "Ol' Man River" (78/Col(E) 9426) Mississippi Chorus: "In Dahomey" (ALB-505, ALB-2089) "Cotton Blossom/Queenie's Ballyhoo/In Dahomey/Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" (78/Col(E) 9426. Incomplete: ALB-505, ALB-1565, ALB-2089.) Orchestra: Medley (78/Col(E) 9430, ALB-1416) (As "New Regina Orchestra": 78/Regal(E) G-9142)
- 1932 medley. ORGAN: Jesse Crawford. VOCALS: Frances Langford, Robert Simmons. (RCA 10" L-16014)
- 1932 studio prod. COND: Victor Young. CAST: Helen Morgan (of orig, 1932 New York, & 1936 film prods), Paul Robeson (of 1928 London, 1932 New York, & 1936 film prods), Frank Munn, Olga Albani, James Melton. (78/Bruns 12" album 38; Col AC-55; CD/CBS A-55; ALB-1940. Incomplete: ALB-1679. Excerpts: Overture (ALB-1428) Morgan: "Bill" (ALB-52, ALB-710, ALB-758, ALB-830, ALB-1426, ALB-1844, ALB-1985, ALB-2181) "Can't Help Lovin' That Man" (ALB-43, ALB-641, ALB-1844) Robeson: "Ol' Man River" (ALB-758, ALB-1146, ALB-1180, ALB-1426, ALB-1743, ALB-1849, ALB-2181) Melton: "You Are Love" (ALB-1261) "Make Believe" (ALB-2205).)
- 1933 medley by Grosvenor Light Opera Company. COND: Julian Hyman. (78/Eclipse(E) SC-84)
- 1936 film soundtrack. ORCH: Robert Russell Bennett. COND: Victor Baravelle. CAST: Irene Dunne (of 1929-30 touring prod), Allan Jones, Helen Morgan (of orig & 1932 New York prods), Paul Robeson (of 1928 London & 1932 New York prods), Hattie McDaniel, Sammy White, Queenie Smith. (Xeno XLP-251; Vertinge 2004, with Give Out Sisters. Excerpts: Robeson: "Ol' Man River" (ALB-710, ALB-1579) Robeson, Morgan, Dunne, McDaniel: "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" Robeson, McDaniel: "I Still Suits Me" (ALB-1579) Jones, Dunne: "Make Believe" Jones: "I Have the Room above Her," "You Are Love" (ALB-1880).)
- 1936 medley by Geraldo's Orchestra. VOCALS: Olive Groves, George Baker, Cyril Grantham, the Top Hatters, chorus. (78/Dec(E) K-824)
- 1937 medley by Gracie Fields, Lyle Evans, chorus. (78/Rex(E) 8967)
- 1938 medley by Victor Light Opera Company. COND: Leonard Joy. (ALB-306)
- 1940 radio prod. COND: Louis Silvers. VOCALS: Irene Dunne & Allan Jones of 1936 film cast, chorus. (Sunbeam P-501. Excerpt: Dunne: "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" (ALB-1940).)
- 1941 records by Allan Jones of 1934 St Louis, 1936 film, & 1956 Dallas prods. "Make Believe" (78/Vic 4555, ALB-126, ALB-874, ALB-1076, ALB-1148, ALB-1940, ALB-2001) "Why Do I Love You?" (78/Vic 4555, ALB-874, ALB-933, ALB-1076, ALB-1940, ALB-2001)
- 1946 prod, with one new Kern-Hammerstein song. COND: Edwin McArthur. CAST: Jan Clayton, Carol Bruce, Colette Lyons, Helen Dowdy, Charles Fredericks, Kenneth Spencer. (78/Col 12" album M-611; Col ML-4058; CD/Prism(E) PLATCD-733, with addl material (ALB-2089); ALB-1940. Excerpts: Clayton: "Nobody Else but Me" (ALB-538, ALB-1548, ALB-1985) Clayton, Fredericks: "Make Believe" (ALB-1119).)
- 1947 album. VOCALS: Bing Crosby, Kenny Baker, Frances Langford, Tony Martin, Lee Wiley. (78/Dec album A-619; Dec 10" 5060.)
- 1949 album by Dorothy Kirsten & Robert Merrill. COND: John Scott Trotter. Kirsten: "Bill," "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" Merrill: "Ol' Man River" Kirsten, Merrill: "Make Believe," "Why Do I Love You?," "You Are Love" (45/RCA album WDM-1341. Excerpt: "Why Do I Love You?" (ALB-435).)
- 1949 radio prod. ORCH & COND: Carmen Dragon. CAST: Dorothy Kirsten, Gordon MacRae, Lucille Norman. (CD/Nostalgia 837, with The New Moon)
- 1951 album. VOCALS: Patti Page, Sophie Tucker, Tony Martin, Tony Fontane, Louise Carlisle, Virginia Haskins, Felix Knight. (Mercury 10" 25104)
- 1951 film soundtrack. ORCH: Conrad Salinger. COND: Adolph Deutsch. CAST: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ava Gardner, Annette Warren (who sang for Ava Gardner in the released film), Marge & Gower Champion, William Warfield. (CD/CBS AK-45436; CD/Rhino R2-71998. Incomplete: MGM 10" 559; CD/CBS(E) 70281; CD/Hollywood Greats(I) HG-018, with Annie Get Your Gun & Pagan Love Song; CD/MGM(J) VDP-5174, with Lovely to Look At & The Merry Widow. Excerpts: Gardner: "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" (ALB-1577, ALB-1704) "Bill" (ALB-975, ALB-1417, ALB-2279) Grayson, Keel: "Make Believe" (ALB-975, ALB-1417, ALB-1772) Warfield: "Ol' Man River" (ALB-975, ALB-1417, ALB-1704). Excerpts edited into a medley, incl addl material from the film: ALB-252.)
- 1951 medley. COND: Philip Green. VOCALS: Lizbeth Webb, Steve Conway, Adelaide Hall, Bryan Johnson. (78/Col(E) DX-1771)
- 1951 radio broadcast with Kathryn Grayson of 1950 film prod; Evelyn Lynn, Larry Cotton. COND: Robert Armbruster. Grayson: "Make Believe" (from film soundtrack) Grayson, Cotton: "You Are Love" Cotton: "Why Do I Love You?" Lynn "Can't Help Lovin' dat Man" (CD/Nostalgia 3621, with Annie Get Your Gun)
- 1953 album. COND: Lehman Engel. VOCALS: Carol Bruce (of 1946 & 1948 prods), Helena Bliss (of 1954 prod), William C Smith (of 1948 & 1954 prods), John Tyers. (RCA 10" LPM-3151, with The Cat and the Fiddle)
- 1956 album from various sources, incl Todd Duncan (of 1944 Los Angeles Prod): "Old Man River" (rec 1947); Thelma Carpenter: "Bill," "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man;" uncredited tenor & soprano: "Make Believe." (Allegro 1649 (ALB-2126), with The New Moon)
- 1956 studio prod. COND: Lehman Engel. CAST: Robert Merrill, Patrice Munsel, Rise Stevens, Katherine Graves, Janet Pavek, Kevin Scott, chorus. (RCA LM-2008. Incomplete: ALB-435. Excerpts: Merrill: "Ol' Man River" Merrill, Munsel: "You Are Love" (ALB-874, ALB-2292) "Make Believe" Munsel: "After the Ball" (ALB-2292).)
- 1958 studio prod. ORCH & COND: Henri René. CAST: Howard Keel of 1951 film cast; Gogi Grant, Anne Jeffreys. (RCA LSO-1505; CD/Sepia(E) 1151, with Kiss Me Kate). Excerpts: Keel: "I Have the Room Above" Grant: "Nobody Else but Me" (ALB-435).)
- 1958 studio prod. ORCH & COND: Johnny Gregory. VOCALS: Bruce Trent, Doreen Hume, chorus. (Epic LN-3512, with No, No, Nanette)
- 1959 studio prod. COND: Hill Bowen. CAST: Barbara Leigh, Andy Cole, Bryan Johnson, Maxine Daniels, Patricia Clark, Denis Quilley, Ivor Emmanuel, chorus. (Camden 488; National Academy 3.)
- 1959 studio prod. ORCH: Brian Fahey. COND: Michael Collins. CAST: Inia Te Wiata (of 1963/64 South African prod); Shirley Bassey, Marlys Watters, Don McKay, Dora Bryan, Isabelle Lucas, Geoffrey Webb. (Odeon(E) CSD-1279; CD/Classics for Pleasure(E) 3359802, with Music in the Air & Roberta. Excerpts: "Ol' Man River," "Ah Still Suits Me" (ALB-1671).)
- 1962 studio prod. MUSIC: Jerome Kern. WORDS: Oscar Hammerstein II, P G Wodehouse. COND: Franz Allers. CAST: Barbara Cook (of 1966 prod), John Raitt, William Warfield, Anita Darian (of 1961 prod), Fay DeWitt, Louise Parker, Jack Dabdoub. (Col OS-2220; CD/Col CK-2220; CD/Sony SK-61877 (ALB-1985), with addl material. Excerpts: Cook, Raitt: "Where's the Mate for Me/Make Believe" Warfield: "Ol' Man River" Darian, Parker, chorus: "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" Darian: "Bill" (CD/Col AK-44060, with Annie Get Your Gun, Oklahoma!, & A Tree Grows in Brooklyn).)
- 1963 studio prod. COND: Fritz Wallberg. CAST: Frances Boyd, Rudy Cartier, Ann Gordon, Paul Mason. (Society(E) SOC-944)
- 1966 prod. ORCH: Robert Russell Bennett. COND: Franz Allers. CAST: Barbara Cook, William Warfield, Stephen Douglass, Constance Towers, David Wayne, Rosetta LeNoire, Allyn McLerie, Eddie Phillips. (RCA LSO-1126; CD/RCA 09026-61182-2.)
- 1971 London prod, with one interpolated Kern song. ORCH: Keith Amos. COND: Ray Cook. CAST: Lorna Dallas, André Jobin, Cleo Laine, Thomas Carey, Kenneth Nelson, Jan Hunt, Ena Cabayo. (Stanyan 2SR-10048; CD/Stanyan STZ-107-2.)
- 1971 studio prod. COND: Johnny Douglas. CAST: June Bronhill, Freddie Williams, Julie Dawn, Fred Lucas, Rita Williams, Joan Brown. (Contour(E) 2870-145)
- 1983 records by Karla Burns of 1983 prod, with ensemble. "Mis'ry's Comin' Aroun'" (dropped from this prod) "Hey, Feller!" (ALB-991, ALB-1274)
- 1983 records by Virginia O'Brien of 1984 Long Beach, CA prod. "Life upon the Wicked Stage," "Can't Help Lovin' That Man" (ALB-955)
- 1988 studio prod, incl all music written for the various prods. ORCH: Robert Russell Bennett. COND: John McGlinn. CAST: Frederica von Stade, Jerry Hadley, Teresa Stratas, Bruce Hubbard, Karla Burns, David Garrison, Paige O'Hara, Robert Nichols, Nancy Kulp, Lillian Gish. (CD/EMI CDS-749108. Excerpt: Stratas: "Bill" (ALB-2205).)
- 1993 album. ORCH: Various. COND: Matthew Freeman. VOCALS: Denis Quilley, Gemma Craven, Tracey Miller, David Kernan. (CD/Pickwick(E) PWKS-4161)
- 1993 studio prod based on the 1990 London prod, which was based on the 1946 prod. COND: John Owen Edwards. CAST: Jason Howard, Janis Kelly, Sally Burgess & Caroline O'Connor of 1990 prod; Willard White, Brian Greene, Fran Landesman, Shezwae Powell, Simon Green. (CD/TER(E) CDTER2-1199)
- 1993 Toronto prod. ORCH: Robert Russell Bennett, William David Brohn. COND: Jeffrey Huard. CAST: Robert Morse, Elaine Stritch, Rebecca Luker, Mark Jacoby, Lonette McKee, Michel Bell, Gretha Boston, Dorothy Stanley, Joel Blum, Tammy Amerson. (CD/Quality(C) RSPD-257. Excerpts: "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" (ALB-1755) On promo CD: Overture, "Ol' Man River" (CD/Quality(C) QSPD-765).)
- 1995 record by Kenneth Nichols, a 1995 replacement in New York prod. "Ol' Man River" (ALB-1674).
- Later record by Carol Bruce of 1946 prod. "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" (ALB-847)
- Later records by members of 1928 London prod. Edith Day: "Why Do I Love You?" (1934: 78/Dec(E) K-725, ALB-56) Marie Burke: "Bill," "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" (1933: 78/Col(E) DX-572)
- Orig prod, rec live for prologue of 1929 film. Tess Gardella, chorus: "Queenie's Ballyhoo" (ALB-773)
- Records by Jules Bledsoe of orig & 1929 film prods. "Ol' Man River" (1931: 78/Dec(E) K-631, ALB-1359, ALB-1565, ALB-1633, ALB-1940) "Lonesome Road" (from 1929 film) (1936: 78/Dec(E) F-5939) "Deep River" (from 1929 film) (Later: 78/Royale 1703)
- Records by members of 1951 film cast. Kathryn Grayson: "Make Believe" (Radio performance: ALB-346) "You Are Love" (ALB-364, ALB-886, ALB-1028, ALB-1230, ALB-1977) "Can't Help Lovin' That Man" (ALB-886) Howard Keel: "Why Do I Love You?/Make Believe/Old Man River" (1984: ALB-958)
- Records by members of orig cast. Helen Morgan: "Bill" (1928: 78/Vic 21238, ALB-32, ALB-37, ALB-44, ALB-148, ALB-229, ALB-426, ALB-435, ALB-542, ALB-711, ALB-784, ALB-933, ALB-1038, ALB-1146, ALB-1186, ALB-1247, ALB-1460, ALB-1633, ALB-1940) (1938, radio: ALB-1940, ALB-2300) "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" (1928: 78/Vic 21238, ALB-32, ALB-37, ALB-229, ALB-230, ALB-435, ALB-539, ALB-542, ALB-978, ALB-1038, ALB-1180, ALB-1444, ALB-1460, ALB-1633, ALB-1755, ALB-1825, ALB-2124) Tess Gardella ("Aunt Jemima"): "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" (1928: 78/Col 1304-D, ALB-52, ALB-710, ALB-1940, ALB-1985)
- Records by members of West Coast prods. Todd Duncan of 1944 Los Angeles prod: "Old Man River" (1947: ALB-744, ALB-1940, ALB-2126) Perry Askam of 1933 San Francisco prod: "Old Man River" (78/Freeman Lang L-0151)
- Records by Paul Robeson of 1928 London cast, 1932 New York cast, & 1936 film cast. (See also 19271227f, 19271227g, & 19271227o.) "Ol' Man River" (1928, with Austin Young, chorus, & Paul Whiteman Orch: 78/Vic 35912, ALB-435, ALB-711, ALB-933, ALB-1038, ALB-1186, ALB-1460, ALB-1496, ALB-1565, ALB-1940) (1928, with Drury Lane Theatre Orch: 78/Col(E) mx WAX-3624, ALB-505) (1930, with Ray Noble Orch: 78/HMV(E) B-3653) (1933: 78/HMV(E) C-2621) (1936: 78/HMV(E) B-8497, ALB-637, ALB-1101, ALB-1130, ALB-1211, ALB-1696, ALB-1940) (1947: ALB-1155, ALB-1940) (Unknown date: 78/USSR 5289-50) "Ah Still Suits Me" (1936, with Elisabeth Welch: 78/HMV(E) B-8497, ALB-638, ALB-712, ALB-933, ALB-1460, ALB-1679, ALB-1940, ALB-2089) (1947: ALB-921, ALB-1155, ALB-1579, ALB-1940, ALB-1985)
- Records sung by Joe Howard, composer of these interpolated songs. "Hello, Ma Baby" (dropped before opening) (1936: 78/Vocalion 3357, ALB-321, ALB-563, ALB-1940) (1938: 78/Bruns mx P-22447, ALB-1150) (1947: ALB-369) "Goodbye, My Lady Love" (1936: 78/Vocalion 3357, ALB-321, ALB-563, ALB-1940) (1940: ALB-869) (1941(?): ALB-1972) (1947: ALB-369)
- Studio prod. COND: Al Goodman. CAST: Richard Torigi, Lee Venora, Audrey Marsh. (Spin-o-rama MK-3044)
- Studio prod. COND: Johnny Douglas. CAST: Martin Lawrence, Isabelle Lucas, Stella Moray, Donald Scott, Janet Waters, Ian Humphris. (Cap SN-7514)
- Studio prod. ORCH: Henri René. COND: Lehman Engel. CAST: Anna Moffo, Mary Ellen Pracht, Rosalind Elias, Richard Fredericks, Valentine Pringle. (Reader's Digest 40-7, with The New Moon; ALB-1578.)
- Note
- From: Show Music on Record by Jack Raymond
- DigitalID
- loc.natlib.smor.19271227
Last Updated: 08-23-2012