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