CALLING ALL STARS

Composer: Harry Akst
Lyricist: Lew Brown

Opened: December 13, 1934, Hollywood Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 35

He Just Beats A Tom-Tom:

A radio transcription performed by Martha Raye is known to exist.


I Don't Want To Be President (If It Means Losing You):

1. 78/Columbia 2993 D (Little Jack Little, vocal, with Little Jack Little and His Orchestra) [reissued on You Oughta Be In Pictures: Film Songs of the 30s, Take Two 218]
2. 78/Brunswick 7343 (Skinny Ennis with Hal Kemp and His Orchestra) [reissued on Hal Kemp & His Orchestra 1934 & 1936, CD/Circle 25]
3. 78/Victor 24836 (The Country Gentlemen with The High Hatters directed by Ken McComber)
4. DeSylva, Brown And Henderson Revisited Volume II, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-145 (Ken Parks, Marcus Neville, Joe Calarco, Willard Beckham, Tom Anderson, and Bill Cantor)
Radio transcriptions performed by The Honeymooners and by Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra are also known to exist.


I'd Like To Dunk You In My Coffee:

1. 78/Columbia 2993 D (Little Jack Little, vocal, with Little Jack Little and His Orchestra) [reissued on You Oughta Be In Pictures: Film Songs of the 30s, Take Two 218]
2. 78/Victor 24807 (Lew Sherwood with Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra)
3. 78/Brunswick 7326 (Terry Shand with Freddy Martin and his Orchestra)
4. 78/Decca 321 (Bob Crosby with the Dorsey Brothers orchestra)
5. DeSylva, Brown And Henderson Revisited Volume I, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-144 (Arthur Siegel and Dorothy Loudon with Arthur Siegel, piano)
A radio transcription performed by Ethel Merman(?) with Jack Whiting, Ella Logan, and Martha Raye is also known to exist.


If It's Love:

1. 78/Victor 24807 (Lew Sherwood with Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra)
2. 78/Brunswick 7326 (Elmer Feldkamp with Freddy Martin and his Orchestra)
3. 78/Decca 321 (Bob Crosby with the Dorsey Brothers orchestra)
Radio transcriptions performed by Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra and by Jack Whiting, Ella Logan, and Martha Raye are also known to exist.


I'm Stepping Out Of The Picture:

A radio transcription performed by Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra is also known to exist.


Straw Hat In The Rain:

1. DeSylva, Brown And Henderson Revisited Volume II, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-145 (Ken Parks, Marcus Neville, Joe Calarco, Willard Beckham, Tom Anderson, and Bill Cantor)


Unrecorded Material:

Calling All Stars
I've Nothing To Offer
Just Mention Joe
My Old Hoss
Stepping Out Of The Picture (ASCAP only)
Thinking Out Loud
Wanna Buy A Duke? (cut)