A DANGEROUS MAID (1921)
Composer: George
Gershwin
Lyricist: Ira Gershwin
Opened: March 21, 1921, Philadelphia, PA
Performances: Closed out of town
Anything For You:
1. Nice Work If You Can
Get It, CD/Atlantic 82833-2 (Michael Feinstein, piano and voice,
with orchestra conducted by Rob Fisher)
2. Pee Wee Russell: His Best Recordings 1927-1944, CD/Best Of
Jazz 4071 (Jack Bland and His The Rhythmakers with Pee Wee
Russell) (unverified)
Boy Wanted (used with revised lyric by
Ira Gershwin and Desmond Carter for PRIMROSE):
1. 78/Columbia 9002
(Heather Thatcher and Chorus with the Winter Garden Theatre
Orchestra conducted by John Ansell) (revised lyric) [reissued on
The Ultimate George Gershwin - Volume I, CD/Pearl GEM 0113; I
Got Rhythm: The Music Of George Gershwin, CD/Smithsonian RD
107-1/2/3/4]
2. 78/Columbia 9006 (Winter Garden Theatre Orchestra conducted
by John Ansell) [reissued on British Musical Comedies By
American Composers (1912-1935), JJA Records (M) 19794]
3. 78/HMV C-1180 (Mayfair Orchestra conducted by George W. Byng)
4. Ella Fitzgerald Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Songbook,
Verve MG V-4026 (Ella Fitzgeral with orchestra conducted by
Nelson Riddle) [reissued as CD/Verve 825 024-2]
5. Ira Gershwin Revisited, Painted Smiles (S) PS-1353 (Margaret
Whiting and Mary McCarty with musical direction by Dick Hyman)
[reissued as CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-135]
6. American Rhapsody: George Gershwin To The World,
CD/Jessisaraly Music JSD-0001 (KT Sullivan and Mark Nadler)
7. Kiri Sings Gershwin, CD/EMI CDC-7 47454 2 (Kiri Te Kanawa
with the New Princess Theater Orchestra conducted by John
McGlinn) (revised lyric)
8. Gershwin, CD/Metronome 1060 (Michael Finnissy)
9. My One And Only, CD/Altantic 7 80110-2 (Twiggy with orchestra
conducted by Jack Lee)
10. Making Beautiful Music Together, CD/Audiophile ACD-268
(Sanda King with Richard Rodney Bennett, piano, and Greg Cohen,
bass)
Just To Know You Are Mine:
1. Delishious: Lyrics By
Ira Gershwin, CD/Oakton ORCD0002 (Benjamin Sears with Bradford
Conner, piano)
2. George Gershwin Songs, CD/Primula (A.A.V.V.)
The Simple Life:
1. Lyrics By Ira Gershwin,
CD/Harbinger HCD 2502 (Nancy Walker with David Baker, piano)
The Sirens (later revised as “Four
Little Sirens” in PRIMROSE):
1. 78/Columbia 9006
(Winter Garden Theatre Orchestra conducted by John Ansell) (as
“Four Little Sirens”) [reissued on British Musical Comedies By
American Composers (1912-1935), JJA Records (M) 19794]
Some Rain Must Fall:
1. George & Ira
Gershwin: A Musical Celebration, CD/MCA MCAD2-10865 (Brian L.
Green with the S.T.A.G.E. Orchestra conducted by Ron Abel)
Unrecorded Material:
Dancing
Shoes
Every Girl Has A Way (Every Girl Has A Method Of Her Own)
Pidgee Woo
True Love