DANCE AND GROW THIN

Composer: Irving Berlin
Lyricist: Irving Berlin

Opened: January 18, 1917, Cocoanut Grove, Century Theatre Roof, N.Y.C.
Performances: 117

Note: This show was also sometimes called MIDNIGHT REVUE.

Dance And Grow Thin (M: George W. Meyer):

1. 78/Victor 18258 (Gus Van and Joe Schenck with orchestra) [reissued on Music From The New York Stage Vol. 3: 1913-1917, CD/Pearl GEMM CDS 9056-8]
2. 78/Pathe 20147 (Wilbur Sweatman and His Jass Band) [reissued on Wilbur Sweatman: Recorded In New  York 1916-1935, CD/Jazz Oracle BDW 8046]
3. Irving Berlin Revisited, Painted Smiles (S) PS-1356 (Blossom Dearie and Bobby Short with musical direction by Norman Paris) [reissued as CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-118]
4. Under The Ragtime Moon, United Artists 021F (Ian Whitcomb) [reissued as CD/Vivid Sound RATCD-001]
5. She’s So Beautiful: Irving Berlin Songs For Florenz Ziegfeld 1910-1927 And Other Songs From 1919-1921, CD/Oakton ORCD0007 (Benjamin Sears with Bradford Conner, piano)


For Me And My Gal (M: George W. Meyer; L: Edgar Leslie; E. Ray Goetz) (not in programs):

I have not attempted to compile discographical information for this standard beyond original cast member performances.
1. 78/Victor 18258 (Gus Van and Joe Schenck with orchestra) [reissued on Pennant Winning Battery Of Songland, CD/Archeophone 5016]


The Kirchner Girl (possibly same song used in VANITY FAIR (1916)):

1. 78/HMV C767 (Palace Theatre Orchestra conducted by Herman Finck) (unverified)
2. 78/HMV 2-3218 (Teddie Gerard) (unverified) [reissued on Revue 1912-1918, Parlophone PMC7145]
3. 78/HMV C791 (Light Opera Company conducted by George W. Byng) (unverified)


Let’s All Be Americans Now (M/L: Irving Berlin; Edgar Leslie; George W. Meyer):

1. 78/Columbia A 2225 (Knickerbocker Male Quartette)
2. 78/Victor 18256 (American Quartet with orchestra) [reissued on The Great War: An American Musical Fantasy, CD/Archeophone 2001]
3. Your Father’s Moustache, Barbary Coast Records SLP 33002 (Gaslight Orchestra conducted by Albert White)

Way Down South (There’s Something Nice About The South):

1. 78/Victor 18269 (Gus Van and Joe Schenck) [reissued on Pennant Winning Battery Of Songland, CD/Archeophone 5016]
2. Legends Of The 20th Century, CD/EMI 522816 (Laurel & Hardy)
3. She’s So Beautiful: Irving Berlin Songs For Florenz Ziegfeld 1910-1927 And Other Songs From 1919-1921, CD/Oakton ORCD0007 (Benjamin Sears with Bradford Conner, piano)
4. Irving Berlin & Co., CD/Garrett Mountain Records GMRD CDP 715 (Jonah Barricklo and Chip Deffaa with music direction by Richard Danley)
5. Chip Deffaa’s An Irving Berlin Travelogue, Mountain CDP AD 0604 (Clark Kinkade with musical direction by Richard Danley)

Unrecorded Material:

Birdie (M/L: Unknown)
Cinderella Lost Her Slipper (M/L: Unknown) (not in program
Dance Blue Danube (dance)
The Dance Of Arabia (dance)
Don’t Look At Me (M/L: Unknown)
It Ruined Marc Anthony (M/L: Unknown) (added after opening)
Letter Boxes (Just Placed In New York) (M/L: Unknown)
(Don’t You Remember) Mary Brown (not in programs; no music survives; originally cut from STOP! LOOK! LISTEN!)