EVER
YOURS
(aka "Yours, Ever Yours" and "Once Upon A
Time")
Composer: Cole
Porter
Lyricist: Cole Porter
Opened: Unproduced
(written circa 1933-1934)
Auf
Wiederseh'n (same music as "The Old-Fashioned Waltz" from HITCHY-KOO OF 1922;
originally written for STAR DUST):
1. Unmined Cole: Unpublished Gems
Of Cole Porter, CD/Centaur CRC 2387 (Paulina Stark with Judy Brown,
piano)
Coffee (added to the 1997 42nd
Street Moon revival of SOMETHING FOR THE BOYS):
1. Something For The Boys,
CD/Music Box Recordings MBR 42001 (Lesley Hamilton and Steven Patterson with
music direction by Michael Horsley)
2. Cole Porter Revisited, CD/Painted
Smiles PSCD-121 (Ann Hampton Callaway with Arthur Siegel, duo-paiano; Faun
Stacy, bass; Matt "Chips" Patuto, drums)
Gypsy Song (aka "Gipsy Song" and "Beware, Gypsy, Beware")
(music later reused for "Adios, Argentina" in ADIOS, ARGENTINA; verse reused
for "Spring Love Is In The Air" in ROSALIE):
1. Unmined Cole: Unpublished
Gems Of Cole Porter, CD/Centaur CRC 2387 (Paulina Stark with Judy Brown,
piano)
2. Broadway Melody Of 1940, CD/Rhino Handmade RHM2 7601 (Ilona Massey
& Co. with the MGM Studio Orchestra conducted by Herbert Stothart) (bonus
track) (as "Spring Love Is In The Air")
It
All Seems So Long Ago:
1. Unmined Cole: Unpublished Gems
Of Cole Porter, CD/Centaur CRC 2387 (Paulina Stark with Judy Brown,
piano)
Once Upon A Time (subsequently used
in HAPPY NEW YEAR and in the 1998 Broadway production of HIGH
SOCIETY):
1. Happy New Year Demo, Private
LP (M) (unknown instrumental performance)
2. Bobby Short Loves Cole Porter,
Atlantic (S) SD2-606 (Bobby Short, piano and voice, with Beverly Peer, bass,
and Richard Sheridan, drums) [reissued on Bobby Short Loves Cole Porter/Guess
Who's In Town: The Songs Of Andy Razaf, CD/Collectables COL-CD-6844]
3.
Unmined Cole: Unpublished Gems Of Cole Porter, CD/Centaur CRC 2387(Paulina
Stark with Judy Brown, piano)
4. High Society, CD/DRG 19011 (Melissa Errico
with orchestra conducted by Paul Gemignani) (new lyrics by Susan
Birkenhead)
5. High Society, CD/DRG 19011 (Daniel McDonald with orchestra
conducted by Paul Gemignani) (new lyrics by Susan Birkenhead)
When Love Comes Your Way (cut from NYMPH ERRANT; later
used in JUBILEE):
1. 78/Victor 36175 (Ramona
Davis, Ken Darby, and Bambi Linn with Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra)
[reissued on From This Moment On: The Songs Of Cole Porter, CD/Smithsonian RD
047 AA-22481]
2. 78/Decca 570 (Kay Weber with Jimmy Dorsey and His
Orchestra)
3. 78/Brunswick 7522 (Jimmy Farrell with Johnny Green and His
Orchestra)
4. 78/Victor 25134 (Bud Lynn with Paul Whiteman and His
Orchestra)
5. 78/Liberty Music Shop L 187 (Berman and Baum, pianos)
6.
Cole, Columbia (M) KS 31456 (Cole Porter, piano and voice) [reissued on Cole
Sings Porter, CD/Koch International Classics 3-7171-2H1]
7. Mabel Mercer
Sings Cole Porter, Atlantic 1213 (Mabel Mercer with Stan Freeman and Cy Walter,
piano, and Frank Carroll, bass) [reissued as CD/Rhino R2 71690]
8. Cole
Porter Sung By Hubbell Pierce Played by William Roy, CD/Audiophile ACD-110
(William Roy, piano, with John Loehrke, bass)
9. Cole Porter Revisited Vol.
V, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-122 (Julie Wilson)
10. You Can't Put Ketchup On
The Moon: Broadway Flops & Roadkills 1925-1955, CD/Rialto SLRR-9201
(Douglas Sills and Joyce E. Greene with musical direction by David
Holcenberg)
11. It's De-Lovely!: The Music Of Cole Porter, CD/Pierian 0026
(Adam Carroll, piano)
When We Waltz Down
The Aisle (later revised as "Waltz Down The Aisle" for but cut from ANYTHING
GOES and JUBILEE):
1. 78/Victor 25133 (Don Reid with
Xavier Cugat and His Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra) (as "Waltz Down The Aisle")
[reissued on Let's Misbehave": A Cole Porter Collection 1927-1940, CD/Naxos
Nostalgia 8.120533]
2. Love And Marriage, Decca (M) DL-8787 (The Ray Charles
Singers) (as "Waltz Down The Aisle")
3. Anything Goes, CD/EMI CDC 7 49848
1/2/4 (Simon Green and Frederica Von Stade with the London Symphony Orchestra
conducted by John McGlinn) (as "Waltz Down The Aisle")
Yours (considered for use in JUBILEE):
1. The Complete RCA Recordings,
Vol. 1, CD/RCA International 78911 (Tito Puente)
2. Unmined Cole:
Unpublished Gems Of Cole Porter, CD/Centaur CRC 2387 (Paulina Stark with Judy
Brown, piano) (entitled "I'm Yours" combining "Yours" with "I'm Yours" from YOU
NEVER KNOW)
Unrecorded
Material:
Ballet Music (inst.) (same music
as "Fox Trot")
Fox Trot (same music as "Ballet Music"; no lyrics
survive)
Ilsa's Song (lost)
It's Probably Just As Well
Lead Me On (no
lyrics survive)
The Night Of The Ball
The Polka Mazurka (inst.) (no
music survives)
Success (no song survives)
Technique (no lyric
survives)
Thank You (no song survives)