FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN
Composer: Cole
Porter
Lyricist: Cole Porter
Opened: November 27, 1929,
Lyric Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 254
Note: Only recordings of material not found on the 1991 studio cast album, Fifty Million Frenchmen, CD/New World Records 80417-2, are noted below.
The Emigrants (cut; used in WAKE UP AND DREAM as "Entrance Of Emigrants"):
1. Unmined Cole: Unpublished Gems
Of Cole Porter, CD/Centaur CRC 2387 (Paulina Stark with Judy Brown,
piano)
My Harlem Wench (cut):
1. Leave It To Me!, CD/Music Box
Recordings MBR42001 (Steve Rhyne, Bill Fahmer, and Richard Pardini with musical
direction by Dave Dobrusky) (as "My Yankee Wench")
The Snake In The Grass Ballet (cut):
1. Overtures And Ballet Music,
CD/EMI Classics CDC 7 54300 2 (London Sinfonietta conducted by John
McGlinn)
That's Why I Love You
(cut):
1. Cole Porter Revisited Vol. V,
CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-122 (Arthur Siegel and Sandy Stewart)
Why Don't We Try Staying Home (cut):
1. 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]
2. Cole, Stanyan (S) SR-10136 (Elaine Stritch with Richard
Leonard, piano) [reissued on You're Sensational: Cole Porter In The '20s, '40s,
& '50s, CD/Koch A-33714]
3. Easy To Love: The Songs Of Cole Porter,
CD/Concord Jazz CCD-4696 (Susannah McCorkle with music direction by Allen
Farnham)
4. It All Belongs To You: Unsung Cole Porter, CD/LML Music LML
CD-215 (Justin Hayford, piano and voice, with Jim Cox, bass, Phil Gratteau,
drums, and Jennet Ingle, oboe)
5. What A Swell Party This Is!: Songs By
Cole Porter, CD/Viva Cabaret 19981 03182 (Liz Keever with Richard Bower, piano)
Unrecorded
Material:
Down With Everybody But Us (cut)
Finale (Act 1)
The Happy Heaven Of Harlem
The Heaven Of Harlem
(unused; no music survives)
Let's Turn On The Love Interest (not used; no
lyric survives)
A Toast Of Volstead (aka "Opening, Ritz Bar") (dropped
after opening)
Watching The World Go By (cut)
Yankee Doodle