BEGGAR'S HOLIDAY
Composer: Duke
Ellington
Lyricist: John Latouche
Opened: December 26, 1946, Broadway Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 111
Brown
Penny (with lyric based on a poem by W.B. Yeats) (dropped
during the run):
1. Beggar's Holiday, Blue
Pear (M) BP 1013 (Mildred Smith)
2. 78/Columbia G-32564 (Kay Davis with Duke Ellington and His
Orchestra) [reisued on The World of Duke Ellington, CD/Columbia
CG 33961]
3. Blues In Orbit, CD/Columbia CK 8704 (Kay Davis with Duke
Ellington and his Orchestra) (bonus track)
4. Jerry Dodgion & The Joy Of Sax, CD/Love & Smiles 101
(Jerry Dodgion)
5. Late Night: Live At Smalls, CD/Fresh Sounds 187 (Spike
Wilner) (unverified)
6. Everyone Else Revisited, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-146 (Nell
Carter)
But He So Charmed Me
(not in programs?):
1. Beggar's Holiday, CD/Disques DOM 1233 (Laetitia Ayres)
Elegy To An Honest Crook (not in programs?):
1. Beggar's Holiday, CD/Disques DOM 1233 (Isabelle Georges,
Gilles San Juan, Charlie Glad, Laetitia
Ayres, and Chiara di Bari)
Fol-de-rol-rol:
1. The Dutch Jazz
Orchestra Plays The Music Of Billy Strayhorn, CD/Challenge 70106
(The Dutch Jazz Orchestra led by Jerry Van Rooijen)
He Makes Me Believe He's Mine (cut):
1. 78/CBS 66607 (Dolores Parker
with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra) [reissued on The
Chronological Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: 1947,
CD/Classics 1086]
2. 45/MGM (France) 4021 (Lena Horne with orchestra
conducted by Luther Henderson)
3. Live At Click Restaurant Philadelphia 1948, Vol. 2
CD/Raretone 5003 (Duke Ellington and his Orchestra)
I Wanna Be Bad:
1. Beggar's Holiday, Blue
Pear (M) BP 1013 (Avon Long)
Girls Want A Hero (cut but reinstated for the Chicago tour):
1. Beggar's Holiday, CD/Disques DOM
1233 (Isabelle Georges) (as "I Want A Hero")
I've Got Me:
1. Beggar's Holiday, Blue
Pear (M) BP 1013 (Alfred Drake)
2. Take Love Easy: The Lyrics Of John Latouche, CD/Audiophile
ACD-206 (Richard Rodney Bennett)
3. Everyone Else Revisited, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-146 (Arthur
Siegel)
4. Beggar's
Holiday, CD/Disques DOM 1233 (Chiara di Bari)
5. Windflowers: The Songs Of Jerome Moross, CD/PS Classics 102
(Philip Chaffin with orchestra directed by Eric Stern) (from the
"Willie The Weeper" section of BALLET BALLADS with same lyric
but music by Jerome Moross).
See also Frankie And Johnny/Those Everlasting Blues/Willie The
Weeper, CD/Naxos 8.559086 (Melisa Barrick, Denise Edds, Diane
Kesling, John DeHaan, and the Hot Springs Music Festival Chamber
Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Richard Rosenberg). A private
acetate disc of excerpts from BALLET BALLADS with Betty Abbott,
Jerry Duane, Theodore Uppman, and the Buddy Cole Trio exists
that includes a rendition of the Moross-Latouche "I Got Me."
If I Knew Now (What I Knew Then) (L:
Marshall Barer):
1. Pousse Café,
CD/Audiophile ACD-263 (Marshall Barer with Ellis Larkins, piano,
with accompaniment)
2. The Time Has Come!: The Songs of Marshall Barer, CD/Painted
Smiles PSCD-123 (Marshall Barer with accompanied by David Ross)
This songs contains the same melody as "Maybe I Should Change My
Ways" but with new lyrics by Marshall Barer and was intended for
but not used in POUSSE CAFE.
Inbetween (dropped during the run):
1. Beggar's Holiday, Blue
Pear (M) BP 1013 (Alfred Drake)
2. Something To Remember Her By, Monmouth Evergreen (S) MES/7067
(Libby Holman with Gerald Cook) [also found on Beggar's Holiday,
Blue Pear (M) BP 1013 (Libby Holman)]
3. Beggar's Holiday, CD/Disques DOM 1233 (David Serero)
4. Beggar's
Holiday, CD/Disques DOM 1233 (David Serero) (reprise)
Live For The Moment (not
in programs?):
1. Beggar's Holiday,
CD/Disques DOM 1233 (David Serero)
Lullaby For Junior:
1. Beggar's Holiday, Blue
Pear (M) BP 1013 (Bernice Parks)
Maybe I Should Change My Ways (aka
Change My Ways):
1. 78/Columbia 38576 (Duke
Ellington and his Orchestra) [reissued on The Columbia Years:
1927-1962, CD/Sony 92684]
2. The Chronological Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: 1947,
CD/Classics 1086 (Duke Ellington and His Orchestra)
3. The Chronological Duke Ellington and His Orchestra:
1946-1947, CD/Classics 1051 (Duke Ellington and his Orchestra)
4. Cabu Collection, CD/Masters Of Jazz 8028 (Billy Strayhorn and
Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra)
5. The Alternate Takes, Vol. 9: 1942-1947, CD/Neatwork 2056
(Duke Ellington and his Orchestra)
6. Happy Birthday, Duke! April 29th Birthday Sessions, Vol. 4,
CD/Laserlight 15786 (Duke Ellington and his Orchestra)
7. Live At Click Restaurant Philadelphia 1949, Vol. 4,
CD/Raretone 5005 (Duke Ellington and his Orchestra)
8. Taking A Chance On Love, Original Cast OC-4444 (Jerry Dixon
and Terry Burrell with Jeffrey R. Smith & David Harris at
the pianos)
9. Beggar's
Holiday, CD/Disques DOM 1233 (David Serero)
10. Beggar's
Holiday, CD/Disques DOM 1233 (David Serero)
(reprise)
No One But You (not in programs?):
1. Beggar's Holiday, CD/Disques DOM
1233 (David Serero and Laetitia Ayres)
2. Beggar's Holiday, CD/Disques DOM
1233 (David Serero) (reprise)
Ore From A Gold Mine:
1. Beggar's Holiday, Blue
Pear (M) BP 1013 (Dorothy Johnson & Alfred Drake)
Quarrel For Three:
1. Beggar's Holiday, CD/Disques DOM
1233 (Laetitia Ayres, Isabelle Georges, and David Serero)
Rooster Man (dropped during the run):
1. Beggar's Holiday, CD/Disques DOM
1233 (Chiara di Bari)
The Scrimmage Of Life:
1. Beggar's Holiday, Blue
Pear (M) BP 1013 (Alfred Drake)
2. Beggar's Holiday, CD/Disques DOM 1233
(Gilles San Juan and Charlie Glad)
Take Love Easy:
1. Beggar's Holiday, Blue
Pear (M) BP 1013 (Bernice Parks)
2. 78/Columbia 38519 (Dolores Parker with Duke Ellington and His
Orchestra) [see also 45/Columbia 1-266; reissued on The World of
Duke Ellington, CD/Columbia CG 33961]
3. 78/MGM 10108 (Lena Horne with orchestra conducted by Luther
Henderson) [reissued on Deed I Do, 45EP/MGM x1027GM; Cocktail
Hour, CD/Columbia River 218009]
4. Serenade To Sweden, Reprise (S) RS-5024 (Alice Babs with Duke
Ellington and his Orchestra)
5. The Alternate Takes, CD/Neatwork 2061 (Duke Ellington and His
Orchestra)
6. Take Love Easy, Pablo (S) 2310-702 (Ella Fitzgerald with Joe
Pass, guitar) [reissued as CD/Pablo PACD-2310-702-2]
7. Love Letters From Ella, CD/Concord CCD 30213 (Ella Fitzgerald
with Joe Pass, guitar) (alternate take with the addition of the
London Symphony Orchestra)
8. Introducing Janice Mars, CD/Baq Room 2860 (Janice Mars with
orchestra conducted by Milton Rosenstock)
9. Dompan!, CD/Fresh Sounds 5032 (Arne Domnerus)
10. Duke's Sound Of Love, CD/Laika no number (Silvia Droste)
11. Earl Hines Plays Duke Ellington, CD/New World 361 (Earl
Hines)
12. May The Music Never End, CD/Verve 076028 (Shirley Horn)
13. Shouldn't I?, CD/Cambria 1124 (Carol Merrill)
14. I'm A Dreamer, Aren't We All, CD/Baldwin Street Music 204
(Daryl Sherman)
15. Romantic Ellington, CD/DRG 8480 (Carol Sloane with music
directed by Mike Renzi)
16. Swing That Music, CD/Telarc CD-83317 (Bobby Short with the
Howard Alden-Dan Barrett Quintet)
17. Turned To Blue, CD/Telarc 1022 (Nancy Wilson)
18. Pousse-Café, CD/Audiophile 263 (Marshall Barer with Ellis
Larkins)
19. Take Love Easy: The Lyrics Of John Latouche, CD/Audiophile
ACD-206 (Richard Rodney Bennett)
20. Taking A Chance On Love, Original Cast OC-4444 (Jerry Dixon
and Terry Burrell with Jeffrey R. Smith & David Harris at
the pianos)
21. Beggar's Holiday, CD/Disques DOM
1233 (David Serero)
22. Fine And Dandy, CD/Sepia 1132 (Jane Russell with orchestra
conducted by Joe Rotondi and Billy May)
Time To Take A Holiday (not in programs?):
1. Beggar's Holiday, CD/Disques DOM 1233 (Laetitia Ayres,
Chiara di Bari, and Isabelle Georges)
Tomorrow Mountain:
1. 78/Columbia 39597
(Frankie Laine with Paul Weston and his Orchestra) [reissued on
One For My Baby/Mr. Rhythm, CD/Collectables 6058]
2. 45EP/Victor EPA1-1315 (Lena Horne with orchestra conducted by
Lennie Hayton) [reissued on Stormy Weather, CD/RCA 63911]
3. Nobody Else But Me, Atlantic 1226 (Betty Bennett) [reissued
on Nobody Else But Me/Blue And Sentimental, CD/Collectables
6623]
4. Swingin' Down Broadway, Columbia (M) CL 1124 (Jo Stafford
with Paul Weston and his Orchestra) [reissued on Portrait
Edition, CD/Columbia Legacy 57836]
5. Voices In Song, Time (S) S/2003 (The Gene Lowell Singers with
orchestra conducted by Hal Mooney)
6. Gene DiNovi Plays Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn Live,
CD/Baldwin Street Music 205 (Gene DiNovi with Dave Young)
7. Something Cool, CD/Choice 71025 (Carol Sloane)
8. Beggar's Holiday, CD/Disques DOM 1233
(David Serero, Laetitia Ayres, Chiara di Bari,
Gilles San Juan, Charlie Glad, and Kathryn Frady)
9. Beggar's Holiday, CD/Disques DOM 1233
(David Serero and cast)
10. Live In London, 1959, CD/Sepia 1257 (Jo Stafford with Jack
Parnell and His Orchestra)
Tooth And Claw:
1. Beggar's Holiday, Blue
Pear (M) BP 1013 (Alfred Drake)
When I Walk With You:
1. Beggar's Holiday, Blue
Pear (M) BP 1013 (Alfred Drake & Jet MacDonald)
2. 78/WAX 11313 (The Jimmy Jones Trio) [reissued on The
Chronological Jimmy Jones 1946-1947, CD/Classics 1301]
Women, Women, Women (aka Women They'll
Get You):
1. 78/Columbia 38576 (Ray
Nanece with Duke Ellington and His Orchestra) [45/Columbia
1-331; reissued on The World of Duke Ellington, CD/Columbia CG
33961 (Duke Ellington and His Orchestra)
2. The Alternate Takes, Vol. 9: 1942-1947, CD/Neatwork 2056
(Duke Ellington and his Orchestra)
The Wrong Side Of The Railroad
Tracks:
1. Beggar's Holiday, Blue
Pear (M) BP 1013 (Marie Bryant and Avon Long)
2. The Doc Meets The Duke, CD/Blue Note 23220 (Dr. John)
3. The Dutch Jazz Orchestra Plays The Music Of Billy Strayhorn,
CD/Challenge 70106 (The Dutch Jazz Orchestra led by Jerry Van
Rooijen)
4. Everyone Else Revisited, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-146 (Arthur
Siegel)
Other Songs:
Ballet
The Chase
Chorus Of Citizens
Finaletto
The Hunted
TNT
Wedding Ballet (dance)
When You Go Down By Miss Jenny's
Reflections of Duke,
CD/Decca 460811 (Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano) contains a
"Beggar's Holiday Suite" of three unspecified songs.