THE
CO-OPTIMISTS (1923) (7th Programme)
Composer: Melville
Gideon
Lyricists: Davy Burnaby; Archibald De Bear
Opened: November 26, 1923, Prince Of Wales’ Theatre,
London
Performances: Unknown
1. 78/Columbia 3407
(Melville Gideon, piano and voice)
2. 78/HMV C1146 (Gilbert Childs and Stanley Holloway with Wolsey
Charles, piano) [reissued on The Co-Optimists, World SHB 25]
Almira:
1. 78/Columbia 3480
(Melville Gideon, piano and voice)
Battersea (L: Clifford Grey):
1. 78/Columbia 3480
(Melville Gideon, piano and voice)
Golfing Love (L: Clifford Grey):
1. 78/HMV B1725 (Melville
Gideon, piano and voice) [reissued on The Co-Optimists, World
SHB 25]
2. 78/Zonophone 2434 (Melville Gideon, piano and voice)
Lena (L: Clifford Seyler):
1. 78/Zonophone 2408
(Melville Gideon, piano and voice)
London Town (You Haunt Me) (L: A.E.
Illingworth):
1. 78/HMV B1725 (Melville
Gideon and Stanley Holloway) [reissued on The Co-Optimists,
World SHB 25]
2. 78/Columbia 3405 (Melville Gideon, piano and voice) [reissued
on The Co-Optimists, World SHB 25]
Memory Street (M: Elsa MacFarlane; L:
Clifford Seyler):
1. 78/HMV B1724 (Stanley
Holloway and Elsa MacFarlane) [reissued on The Co-Optimists,
World SHB 25]
Miss Lemon (M: Philip Braham):
1. 78/HMV B1724 (Davy
Burnaby, Stanley Holloway, Elsa MacFarlane, Austin Melford, and
Clifford Witley) [reissued on The Co-Optimists, World SHB 25]
Pirate Song (M: Henry F. Gilbert; L:
adapted from R.L. Stevenson):
1. 78/HMV C1131 (Stanley
Holloway) (as “The Pirate’s Song”)
2. 78/HMV B2269 (Melville Gideon with alto saxophone, violin,
and piano accompaniment) (as “The Pirate’s Lullaby”)
(unverified)
Prairie Moon (L: Reg. Low):
1. 78/Zonophone 2408
(Melville Gideon, piano and voice)
2. 78/HMV B2191 (Betty Chester)
Secrets:
1. 78/Zonophone 2367
(Melville Gideon)
Spare A Little Love (L: Clifford Grey):
1. 78/Zonophone 2434
(Melville Gideon, piano and voice)
2. 78/Columbia 3407 (Melville Gideon, piano and voice)
There May Be Days (L: Noel Coward):
1. 78/Columbia 3481
(Melville Gideon, piano and voice)
To Think Such Things Should Happen In
Old England (M/L: R.P. Weston; Bert Lee):
1. 78/HMV B1801 (Gilbert
Childs, Stanley Holloway, Elsa Macfarlane, and Austin Melford)
You’ve Such A Lot (M: Fred Astaire; L:
Austin Melford):
1. 78/HMV B1804 (Austin
Melford and Phyllis Monkman) [reissued on The Co-Optimists,
World SHB 25]
Unrecorded Material:
Along The Fairway (L:
Arthur Anderson) (added for the subsequent tour)
Autumn Leaves
Bill And Oliver
Bow-Wow!
Finale
Lackaday (M/L: Rex Newman; Wolseley Charles)
Old Wine In New Bottles (sketch? by Donovan Parsons)
A Rose I Offer
Wow! Wow!