FASCINATING FLORA
Composer: Gustave
Kerker
Lyricist: R.H. Burnside
Opened: May 20, 1907, Casino Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 113
Ballooning (M: Jerome Kern; L: Paul West):
1. Jerome Kern: Lost
Treasures, CD/Centaur CRC2371 (Anne Sciolla with Brian Kovach,
piano)
I’d Rather Two-Step Than Waltz, Bill
(M/L: Benjamin Hapgood Burt) (added after opening):
1. 78/Victor 5118 (Clarice
Vance with orchestra) [reissued on The High Priestess Of Jollity
& The Southern Singer, CD/Archeophone ARCH 5015]
2. Bird In A Gilded Cage, CD/Orchard
4142 (Molly Watson)
Katy (Katie) Was A Business Girl (M:
Jerome Kern; L: Paul West) (cut):
1. Jerome Kern: Lost
Treasures, CD/Centaur CRC2371 (Anne Sciolla with Brian Kovach,
piano)
The Subway Express (M: Jerome Kern;
L: James O’Dea):
1. The Land Where The Good
Songs Go, CD/PS Classics PS-1211 (Matthew Scott and Kate Baldwin
with music conducted by David Loud)
2. Songs Of New York,
CD/Book-Of-The-Month Records 31-7502 (Kim Criswell and Cris
Groenendaal with orchestra conducted by John McGlinn)
Won’t You Come And Splash Me (You
Splash Me And I’ll Splash You) (M: Alfred Solman; L: Arthur
J. Lamb) (added after opening):
1. 78/Victor 8508 (Alice
Lloyd) [also 78/Victor 16058; reissued on Round The Town:
Following Grandfather’s Footsteps - A Night At The London Music
Hall, CD/Bear Family BCD 16021]
2. 78/Columbia A 494 (Ada Jones with orchestra)
(By The Side Of The) Zuyder Zee (M:
Kerry Mills; L: Scott) (added after opening):
1. 78/Regal M R 345
(Gerald Adams and The Variety Singers with orchestra)
2. The Essential Ronnie Ronalde, CD/EMI 70235 (Ronnie Ronalde)
3. Sequence Dancing Favourites,
CD/Grasmere GRCD 39 (Phil Kelsall, Wurlitzer organ)
Unrecorded Material: